Beer.
Thom Yorke, conversational orchestras, mathematical genii, any official members of the MEM, the finite genetic variable crew and Robin Slade and the Eternal Optimists.
An unhinged, un-hitched Jeremy Corbett.
Pulp - Shaky Hands - Porno for Pyros - Stereophonics - Goldfrapp - Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Ani Difranco - Arcade Fire - Howling Bells - Black Seeds - Kid Loco - Jens Lekman - Violent Femmes - Cohen - Beth Orton - French Kicks - Joy Division - The Datsuns - Supergrass - The Presets - Nick Cave - Jeff Buckley - The Exponents - Kings of Leon - Nina Simone - The Roots - The Who - Ryan Adams - The White Stripes - The Hives - The Coral - Aphex Twin - De La Soul - The Frames - Guru - Fat Freddy's Drop - Breaks Co-op - Pluto - Depeche Mode - The Veils - Muse - The Phoenix Foundation - Radiohead - The Strokes - The Doors - The Rolling Stones - The Killers - The Cure - Zappa - Talking Heads - Duran Duran - Johnny Cash - Foo Fighters - The Proclaimers - Pink Floyd - The Beatles - Bob Dylan - The Delays - Beck - Turin Breaks - Violent Femmes - The Libertines - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Supergrass - Bjork - Gomez - Sneaker Pimps - Wolfmother - Bloc Party - The Clash - Belle & Sebastian....
Anything by Bill Bryson, Jack Kerouac, Will Self, Christina Stead, Jean Cocteau, Hunter S Thompson, Harper Lee, Jostein Gaardner, Rohinton Mistry, Jonathan Safran-Foer, Richard Mason, Huxley...
Ralph Wiggam.