Music:
Matt Costa, Bright Eyes, Jack Johnson, The Kooks, Ray Lamontagne, Kings Of Leon, Xavier Rudd, Mason Jennings, The Strokes, White Stripes, Gorillaz, The Arctic Monkeys, Iron and Wine, The Flaming Lips, The Libertines, Razorlight, Stephen Fretwell, Calexico, The Killers, Goldfrapp, Kings of Convenience, The Smiths, Ted Lennon, The White Buffalo, The Kinks, Johnny Cash, ALO, Cat Power, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Ryan Adams, Elliot Smith, Beck,
Movies:
Twelve Monkeys, The Big Lebowski, Delicatessan, Napolean Dynamite, Crash, Citizen Kane, Amelie, Fargo, The Shining, Lost In Translation, Sean Of the Dead, Lost In La Mancha, Belle View Rendez Vous, Spirited Away, Ma Vie En Rose, Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrman version), Ghost World, Stand By Me (all time film of my youthdom along with The Lost Boys, for pure celebration of that teenage 'moment'), Pulp Fiction, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Memento, Matrix, Apocalypse Now, Leon, The Third Man, Wizard of Oz, City of God, High Noon, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Jaws (can't ever look at a yellow lilo in quite the same way) Nightmare Before Christmas, The Straight Story, L'Homme Du Train, Bonnie And Clyde, Brokeback Mountain, E.T, The 400 Blows, Etre Et Avoir, Oh Brother Where art thou? Life Is Beautiful, Jean de Florette, Cinema Paradiso
Television:
Used to work in it and so can rarely be bothered to watch it these days. Music is always the first option on walking through the door.However, to keep in the spirit of things . All time best are: Green Wing, Spaced, Six Feet Under, 24, Alan Partridge, Extras, Black Adder, Bodies, Peep Show, The Office, Jossy's Giants (for the childhood memory, despite on retrospection it being utter dross) continuing the child vibe Grange Hill deserves a mention, (late Tucker to Zammo era)
Books:
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Love In The Time Of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The God of Very Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Atonement by Ian McEwan, (wait for the film to spoil it) Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl, The Peculiar Memoirs of Thomas Penman, by Bruce Robinson, (children pooing in drawers, excellent!) Nights At the Circus and Wise Children by Angela Carter, The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Neffenegger (my friend lent it me, I thought it was going to be chick-lit, I was very wrong. A sumptuous book on love and time, whatever your gender) Book of Illusions by Paul Auster, The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Perfume by Patrick Suskind and many more I can't quite think of now, tbc