learning useless languages, dead and almost-dead musicians, fun-size twix, coffee that doesn't taste like water, hemp hand and foot cream, icecream vans that play the twinkly music, good 'craic, winter coats, britpop, coopers red, melbourne, big jewellery, my tattered copy of europe on a shoestring, correct grammar, trams, singing karaoke sober, guinness, filing my cds in autobiographical order, soda bread, modern art, indie clubs, anyone who is not shallow or selfish, being a hermit, paris, dreaming of becoming political correspondent for the age, red wine, pesto, irish history, street press, hugs, extravagance, my friends.
the shins, the panics, holly throsby, david bowie, radiohead, yeah yeah yeahs, the killers, the beatles, paul kelly, crowded house, fiona apple, john lennon, the pogues, oasis, pj harvey, nick cave, the cure, prince, garbage, george harrison, elliot smith, tegan and sara, sinead o'connor, the lucksmiths, the arcade fire, something for kate, jane's addiction, the doors, tom waits, pulp, lou reed, velvet underground, neil finn, blur, the whitlams, split enz, tv on the radio, rolling stones, tori amos, hole, john frusciante, manic street preachers, ani difranco, eskimo joe, john butler trio, blondie, the smiths, new order, chili peppers (before they went shite), frente!, the doves, darren hanlon, the dandy warhols, lily allen, madonna, gorillaz, placebo, scissor sisters, the rapture, the drones, sarah blasko, u2, guns'n'roses, franz ferdinand, bloc party, muse, martha wainwright, massive attack, badly drawn boy, the dubliners, belle and sebastian, the eels, ella fitzgerald, the good the bad and the queen, lady sovereign, primal scream, hard-fi, basement jaxx, the sundays, mazzy star, the audreys
annie hall, high fidelity, live forever: the rise and fall of britpop, anne of green gables, pulp fiction, sound of music, love actually, about a boy, bridget jones, fight club, mulholland drive, (almost) anything with jack black and/or kate winslet
neighbours, seinfeld, absolutely fabulous, sex and the city, spicks and specks, rockwiz, chartbustin' 80s, the brittas empire, four corners, enough rope, the micallef program, the l word (in my trashier moments...)
charlotte's web by eb white, the bell jar by sylvia plath, catcher in the rye by jd salinger, high fidelity by nick hornby.
gough and margaret, my mum, maxine mckew, neil finn, rob gordon, ed & pats, beth ditto from the gossip