Live gigs mainly rock and occasionally electronic. Wine and beer. Video jukebox with the following songs: Come On Eileen, Rock Lobster, And She Was. I like homely pubs with fireplaces, couches, and stuff to look at on the walls.
Pixies (best band ever), The B-52s, Dexys Midnight Runners, Pulp (Jarvis Cocker), Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, New Order, Devo, TV On The Radio, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Bob Dylan, The Shadows, The Byrds, The Who, Pink Floyd, Dion, The Sonics, Fats Domino, Neil Young, The Velvet Underground, The Cure, The Clash, Arcade Fire, You Am I, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, The Animals (Eric Burdon), Roxymusic, Talking Heads, The Fall, The Replacements, Blondie, Portishead, Ultravox, Split Enz, Crowded House, Jeff Buckley, Beck, Tom Waits, Gang of Four, Television, New York Dolls, The Raincoats, Adam and The Ants, The Cars, Tears for Fears, The Magnetic Fields, The Doors, The Stranglers, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Violent Femmes, Queens of the Stoneage, Modest Mouse, Les Savy Fav, Mogwai, Broken Social Scene, The Strokes, Gerling, The Panda Band, The Avalanches, DJ Shadow, Sigur Ros, Dungen, The Avalanches, Arctic Monkeys, Liars, The Strange Death of Liberal England, Architecture in Helsinki, Jeff Lang, Bob Brozman, Ash Grunwald, Dave Miller, Devendra Banhart, Martha Wainwright, Eels, Gomez, Decoder Ring, Lamb, The Mess Hall, Mark Lanegan Band, Ryan Adams, Spoon, Faker, Sufjan Stevens, The Panics, The White Stripes, The Shins, UNKLE, Wolf and Cub, Cocorosie, Yo La Tengo, Tapes N Tapes, Snowman, The Mules, Archie Bronson Outfit, Peter Bjorn and John, Patrick Wolf, LCD Soundsystem,
The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Resevoir Dogs, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, One Who Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Silence of the Lambs, Lost in Translation, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, American Beauty ...
Family Guy, Black Books, The Office, Project Runway, Teachers, Lateline with Tony "lemon sucking squinty eyed" Jones, Spicks and Specks, Chasers War on Everything, The Honeymooners ...
Anything by Tim Winton, Alexander McCall Smith and Ben Elton. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart (sickeningly disturbing and wrong on so many levels yet fascinating). I should read more ... damn uni!
Charles Thompson a.k.a. Black Francis a.k.a. Frank Black