Short films, long films, documentaries, animation, super-8, the digital future, the analogue past, knitting square things (and I'd quilt too if I had the patience!), music, books, BBC Radio 4, walking, running, looking, art, bicycles, photography, straight roads, staring out to sea, travelling, organic food, good coffee, fine wine, baking bread, birdwatching in South Africa, thinking, dancing like a drunk aunt at a wedding, community, wild places, camping near hippos, recycling, sustainable development, jumping up and down, independence, making things, pulling things apart.
Filmmakers, rich people with good connections, poor people with great record collections, wild bears, meercats, renegades. Oh and Werner Herzog.
Yeasayer, The Beatles are rather good aren't they, Mucca Pazza, Miriam Makeba, weird folkie stuff, compilations found in thrift stores
The Squid and the Whale, Together, The Lives of Others, Once Upon a Time in the West, Junebug, Salesman, Medium Cool, Sherman's March, Jaws, Grey Gardens, Burden of Dreams, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Errol Morris First Person, Raising Victor Vargas, How's Your News?, All the Real Girls, Harlan County USA, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Paperboys, Wisconsin Death Trip, Whitnail and I, The Thin Blue Line, Little Miss Sunshine
Channel 4 News (in the UK), Shameless, Six Feet Under, The Daily Show, documentaries (viva documentaries!), The Simpsons (always!), I don't like the Antiques Roadshow as much as Anna does but sometimes it's sublime
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, What a Carve Up, The Tipping Point, Shelter, Foucault for Beginners, I'm also developing a worrying fascination with books on marketing, management, and self-help: Getting to Yes, The Power of Now, that kinda thing. It's a slippery slope and I'm on it! Also all the bollocks I had to read for my Critical Theory Masters. I love it. I hate it. I love it. I hate it.
Nelson Mandela, Maya Deren, The Suffragettes, Dolly Parton, Georgia O'Keefe, Marge Simpson