Anyone who knows me will tell you that I find most things interesting, sometimes frighteningly so, which has lead to an addiction to Wikipedia. I admit I have a problem and am currently attending support groups in an attempt to curtail my insatiable curiosity.
Mae West- I need to understand why Sextette was ever made.
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The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Coral, The Cure, Pulp, The Jam, The Undertones, QOTSA, The Stranglers, Small Faces, Rolling Stones, Cat Stevens, Joy Division, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Belle & Sebastian, The Strokes, James, Dexy's Midnight Runners, RHCP, The Kinks, The Zutons, The Clash, David Bowie, ELO, William Shatner (you just haven't lived until you've heard his rendition of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds), Leonard Nimoy (ditto with his incredible cover of I'd Love Making Love To You- I haven't seen the world in the same way since), Thin Lizzy, Radiohead, The Smiths, Nirvana, countless 60s and 70s compilations...I like lots of random songs, particularly those that the ill informed would class as abysmal (Cliff 'God' Richard, the Hoff, Men Without Hats, Russ Abbott etc etc...)
Though others may shake their heads incredulously, I am not ashamed to admit that I am a connoiseur of B Movies: films like the Abominable Doctor Phibes and Evil Dead II can keep me cackling for hours. Apart from these dubious choices, my other chosen titles are a bit more mainstream. Favourites include Edward Scissorhands, The Shining, Being There, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Wicker Man, The Producers (the original), Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dougal and the Blue Cat, Don't Look Now, Donnie Darko, The Birds, Back to the Future, Harold and Maude, Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Life Of Brian, Hercules in New York, There's Something About Mary, Ma Vie En Rose, classic Disney, Naked Gun, Little Miss Sunshine, Back to the Future, Sextette etc...
The Fast Show, Peep Show, Green Wing, the Office, Father Ted, Phoenix Nights, Frasier, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Brass Eye, Blackadder, Have I Got News For You, QI, classic kids tv shows (they were so much better in my day...), Big Cook Little Cook (thanks Pench!), retro gameshows (in the vein of Bullseye, the Krypton Factor, Takeshi's Castle, The Adventure Game and the Crystal Maze), obscure shock docs that no one else would admit to watching, A Place in Greece/ Spain, Greg and Max's Cookabout, the daytime tv Bermuda Triangle (namely Neighbours, Doctors, Diagnosis Murder/Murder, She Wrote- so many hours have been lost this way),Desperate Housewives, 24, Lost, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Mr Rogers' Neighborhood, Krtek (the Little Mole), Raven etc...
To Kill A Mockingbird, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid's Tale, Cain, Moby Dick, Waterland, Notes From a Small Island, Being There, White Teeth, Roadside America, Gullible's Travels, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Fly Fishing by J.R Hartley...
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