spending time with family and friends, music, reading (crime, thrillers, fantasy mainly), crafts, photography, travelling, philosophy, law, films, art, drinking tea, watching the sun set
Ultimately someone who inspires me...someone who makes me think. Generally someone like Terry Pratchett, Carl Hiaasen, Ben Elton or Stephen Fry. Someone with brains who can form a well reasoned argument or just make me laugh! If it could be possible Lord Denning would be high on my list too!! Maybe even Thatcher (!)
( a work in progress ) ~*~ 50’s ~*~ : Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Vera Lynn, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, The McGuire Sisters, Chuck Berry, The Fontane Sisters, Little Richard, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Everly Brothers, Johnny Mathis, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Peggy Lee, The Drifters, Miles Davis~*~ 60’s ~*~: Monkees, Nancy Sinatra, Seekers, The Who, Mama’s and Papa’s, Beatles, Righteous Brothers, Supremes, Searchers, Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, The Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, The Hollies, Shadows, Gerry and the Pace Makers, Manfred Man, The Kinks, Herman’s Hermits, Moody Blues, Dusty Springfield, Small Faces, Beach Boys, Sandie Shaw, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Fleetwood Mac, Rolf Harris~*~ 70’s ~*~: Edison Lighthouse, Simon and Garfunkel, Mungo Jerry, T Rex, Alice Cooper, Sweet, Gary Glitter, Mud, ABBA, Bay City Rollers, Johnny Nash, Queen, Wurzels, Showaddywaddy, Kate Bush, Village People, Boomtown Rats, Police, Pink Floyd~*~ 80’s ~*~: Pretenders, David Bowie, Adam and the Ants, Soft Cell, Madness, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, KC and the Sunshine Band, Billy Joel, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Eurythmics, Michael Jackson, Wet Wet Wet, U2, Enya, Simple Minds, New Kids on the Block, Bangles,~*~ 90’s ~*~: Beautiful South, Bryan Adams, Wonder Stuff, 2 Unlimited, Ace of Base, Shaggy, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, East 17, Oasis, Blur, Prodigy, Babylon Zoo, Fugees, Spice Girls, Tori Amos, No Doubt, The Verve, All Saints, B*Witched, Jamiroquai, Another Level, Fat Boy Slim, Lenny Kravitz, ATB, Robbie Williams, Crowded House, Smashing Pumpkins, Spin Doctors,00’s: Madison Avenue, Corrs, Eminem, Daniel Beddingfield, Pink, Evanescence, James Blunt, Arctic Monkeys, Sandi Thom, Razorlight, My Chemical Romance, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Goo Goo dolls, Allister, Box Car Racer, Killswitch Engage, New Disease, Hidden in Plain View, Dropkick Murphys, Further Seems Forever, Death Cab for Cutie, Lost Prophets, Regina Spektor, Michelle Branch, Sugarcult, Enter Shakari
Peter Pan (and anything related, Finding Neverland etc), Dirty Dancing, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Being John Malcovich, City of Angels, Labyrinth, Possession, Matrix, Snatch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Machinest, Butterfly Effect, Everafter, Notting Hill, Truely Madly Deeply, Four Weddings and a Funeral, I 3 Huckabees, Some Like it Hot...
LOST, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, Angel, Firefly, OC, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Robin Hood, Scrubs, Shameless, Eastenders, Diagnosis Murder, Murder She Wrote, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Without a Trace, Waking the Dead, One Tree Hill
I read and love so many books, my favourite authors are Harlen Coben, Robert Rankin, Ben Elton, and Mary Higgins Clark to name but a few! So here's how this works, all the books i've read this year will be written here as I read them (if I remember!): Harlen Coben - Fade Away 27/12/06 - 03/1/07 Tess Gerritsen - Never Say Die 04/01/07 - 07/01/07 Tess Gerritsen - Vanish 15/01/07 - 31/01/07 (fantastic book, only took me forever to read because of coming back to uni! READ IT!) George Orwell - 1984 31/01/07 (lent this to a friend so not actually going to have finished it for a while!!!) Harlen Coben - Back Spin 22/02/07 - 05/3/07 Harlen Coben - Once False Move 23/03/07 -26/03/07 Harlen Coben - The Final Detail 26/03/07 - 29/03/07 (exams are my excuse for NOT reading) Harlen Coben - Darkest Fear 22/05/07 - 25/05/07 Harlen Coben - Promise Me 25/05/07 - 11/06/07 (can i blame this on a combination of work and festivals?) Lee Child - Persuader 11/06/07 - 13/06/07 Michael Collins - Lost Souls 07/07/07 - 18/07/07 Jennifer Egan - The Keep 20/07/07 - 23/07/07 Christopher Brookmyer - All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye 28/07/07 - 07/09/07 Augusten Burroughs - Running with Scissors 08/09/07-09/09/07 Jane Fallon - Getting Rid of Matthew 17/12/07 - 23/12/07
My Grandma - she's amazing and does so much for everyone. She doesn't get anywhere near the appreciation she deserves. Jim Henson - without him the world would be a much duller place (or at least my childhood would). Just shows what can be done with some fabric and a good imagination. Harlen Coben - if it wasn't for his fabulous writing I would never have discovered a world of my own My Mum - cuz lets face it, without her I wouldn't be here!! ..