Cooking big cosy meals; Going on adventures with Nick; diving in Thailand (or anywhere); Dreaming about Ko Lanta; Newcastle United FC; Northumberland; Dancing like a fool too late for too long; making long lists of things I like; Southern Africa; pretending I know how to garden; new music; old music; live music; my ipod; vinyl; Television (waaay too much!); dressing up; Films - Classics, foreign films, silent films, indie films, brand new shiny blockbusters, 80s brat pack, leftfield, old cheesy ones with songs, avant-garde, silly comedies etc etc; Losing track of time in second hand book shops; Being shameless; Giving a damn
old friends, good friends, new friends
Nina Simone; Blondie; Massive Attack; Candi Staton; Dusty Springfield; Groove Armada; Prince ; Dean Martin; Har Mar Superstar; Johnny Cash; Aretha Franklin; White Stripes; Supergrass; Van Morrison; Jeff Buckley; Kate Aumonier; Billie Holiday; Beastie Boys; Rae & Christian ; The Stone Roses; Chromeo; Zero 7; Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band; Peggy Lee; Hot Chip; Gorillaz; Etta James; Carla Bruni; Rolling Stones; Goldfrapp; Dolly Parton; Ian Brown; The Killers; Sugababes; David Kitt; Guns n Roses ; Sly & the Family Stone; James Brown; Jimi Hendricks; Gorillaz; Stevie Wonder; Beck; Stanton Warriors; Audio Bullys; Death in Vegas; Al Green; Basement Jaxx; De La Soul; Bob Dylan; Benny Benassi; David Bowie; Marvin Gaye; Primal Scream;
Walk the Line - New Favourite!!; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Some Like It Hot; The Jungle Book; True Romance; The Blues Brothers; Bullitt; Frankie and Johnny; Weird Science; The Godfather I & II; Farewell My Concubine; Red Dust; Back to the Future; Modern Times; The Bourne Identity; Swingers; Bullitt; Ghost Busters; Ferris Bueller's Day Off; The Fifth Element; Rebel Without a Cause; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Cool Hand Luke; Pulp Fiction; Goodfellas; Run Lola Run; Moulin Rouge; Carliot's Way; Y tu mam tambin; Motorcycle Diaries; The Graduate; Now, Voyager; The Thin Red Line; Badlands; Dirty Harry; Monsoon Wedding;
BBC's Planet Earth; Champions League; any over produced big buget American drama with unlikely beautiful people i.e. ER, OC, Lost etc etc; TCM;
Beloved (Morrison); THe Black Album (kurishi); Stark (Ben Elton); Persuasion; THe Lighthouse (Woolfe); Harry Potter; Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera); On the Road (Karouc); THe Lond Walk to Freedom (Mandela); All Families are Psycotic (Coupland); Any Human Heart; THe Beach; THe House of Spirits (Allande); Pat Barker Regeneration Trilogy; Nigel Slater's Cook Books; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kasey); The Rum Diaries (Hunter S THomson); Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galexy (D.Adams); Notes From a Small Island (Bryson); In Xanadu (William Dalrymple)
Dolly Parton; Nelson Mandela; Spike Jones; Johnny Cash; Bobby Robson; John Huston; Jack Nickolson; my sister Daisy (she saves lives and makes people feel better!); Jane Austin; Ian Brown; Jean Harlow; Alan Shearer; Toni Morrison; Billy Connolly; Sir David Attenborough;