charles

I'd like to meet:

Kirstie Allsopp. God, I love The Kirstie.

Mrs Doyle.

Music:

18 Wheeler, Abba, ABC, AC/DC, Acid House Kings, Air, Altered Images, Aqualung, Arab Strap, Aretha Franklin, Ash, The Arrogants, Au Revoir Simone, BBC 6 Music, The Be Good Tanyas, Beastie Boys, Belle and Sebastian, Beta Band, Beth Orton, Billie the Vision & The Dancers, Blondie, BMX Bandits, Bob Marley, La Buena Vida, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, The Chantelles, The Charlatans, Cherryholmes, Clap Hands Say Yeah, Cocteau Twins, Colin Hay, The Cure, Cyndi Lauper, Cypress Hill, Daft Punk, Dali's Car, David Bowie, Del Amitri, Delays, Dinosaur Jr., Dirty Three, Django Reinhardt, Ed Greene, Elizabeth Frazer, Envelopes, Eugene Kelly, Eugenius, The Faces, Feeder, The Flaming Lips, Garbage, The Go-Betweens, The Go! Team, Great Lake Swimmers, Happy Mondays, Hem, Herman Dune, The Hives, Human League, Glasvegas, Green Peppers, Great Lake Swimmers, I'm From Barcelona, Indie 103.1, The Inkspots, James Brown, Jesus and Mary Chain, Joanna Newsom, John Holt, Justice, Kate Bush, Kate Nash, Kath Bloom, Kathryn Williams, Kid Loco, The Killers, "Kissing With Confidence", The La's, Leftfield, The Lemonheads, LL Cool J, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Loney, Dear, Malcolm Middleton, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Masters at Work, Matt and Kim, Men at Work, Mogwai, Morning Becomes Eclectic, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nice Man and the Bad Boys, Nick Drake, Nightmares on Wax, NWA, Oppenheimer, Otis Redding, The Pastels, Pelle Carlberg, Pietra Montecorvino, Placebo, PM Dawn, Po' Girl, The Pogues, The Police, Portishead, Pretenders, The Primary 5, The Proclaimers, Propaganda, Psychedelic Furs, Queen, Regina Spektor, Ride, Rod Stewart, Rodrigo y Gabriella, Ruben Gonzalez, Run DMC, Sambassadeur, Scritti Politti, The Secret Goldfish, Sex Pistols, Shed Seven, Shout Out Louds, Sly and the Family Stone, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Stars, The Stone Roses, The Sound of the Shebeen, The Swedish Polar Bears, Taken By Trees, Talk Talk, Teenage Fanclub, Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair, Toots and the Maytals, Trespassers William, Ulrich Schnauss, Vicarious Bliss, The View, The Waifs, The Wannadies, Was (Not Was), Weezer, YeonGene, Young Galaxy.

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, Adaptation, Airplane!, The Apartment, Arthur, Babe, Beetlejuice, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Best In Show, The Big Lebowski, Big Night, Bladerunner, Blazing Saddles, Boogie Nights, The Bourne Identity, The Breakfast Club, Broadway Danny Rose, Bugsy Malone, Brazil, Casablanca, Chacun Cherche Son Chat, Cidade De Deus, Clueless, Le Conseguenze dell'amore, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dazed and Confused, Diner, Doc Hollywood, Dog Day Afternoon, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb, Edward Scissorhands, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Fargo, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Festen, The Fifth Element, Garden State, Get Carter, The Godfather Part II, Ghost Dog Way of the Samuri, Le Grand Bleu, The Great Escape, Grosse Point Blank, Hable Con Ella, The Hard Way, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Fidelity, Der Himmel über Berlin, Hot Fuzz, The Italian Job, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Jamón jamón, Leon, Local Hero, The Long Goodbye, Lost in Translation, The Man Who Would Be King, Mars Attacks, My Name is Joe, Mr Reliable, The Night of the Hunter, Miami Rhapsody, Nuovo cinema Paradiso, The Odd Couple, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Pretty in Pink, Pulp Fiction, Richard Linklater, Romeo and Juliet, Ronin, Shaun of the Dead, Singles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Some Like it Hot, Star Wars, The Sting, The Straight Story, Strictly Ballroom, The Third Man, This is Spinal Tap, Todo sobre mi madre, The Usual Suspects, Wallace and Gromit, Wayne's World, When We Were Kings, Woody Allen, Y Tu Mama Tambien.

Television:

15 Storeys High, 24, The Adam and Joe Show, Arena, Blackadder, Black Books, Book Group, Brideshead Revisited, Cheers, Creature Comforts, Cribs, Das Boot, Edge of Darkness, Father Ted, Frasier, Futurama, The Garry Sandling Show, The Goodies, Green Wing, Henry's Cat, Homicide Life on the Street, Jeeves and Wooster, The Larry Sanders Show, Location Location Location, Minder, The Mighty Boosh, The Morecombe and Wise Show, Mr Ben, The Muppet Show, Not the Nine O'Clock News, NYPD Blue, Peep Show, People Like Us, Pimp My Ride, The Professionals, Rex the Runt, Rhubarb and Custard, River Cottage, The Rockford Files, Scrubs, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Shameless, The Sopranos, Spaced, Spin City, That 70's Show, Top Gear, Twin Peaks, Will and Grace. Guilty pleasure: Lovejoy.

Books:

Alexander McCall Smith, Armistead Maupin, Anthony Bourdain, Auberon Waugh, Bob Rotella, Catcher in the Rye, Claire Tomalin, Colonel Standfast: The Memoirs of WA Tilney 1868-1947, The Dictionary of National Biography, Donna Tartt, EF Benson, Emily the Strange, Emma Delves-Broughton, Evelyn Waugh, Fast and Louche, Flashman, George MacDonald Fraser, George Orwell, Grahame Greene, Harden's UK Restaurants, Harry Potter, Henry Root, How to be a Domestic Goddess, Dr Hunter S Thompson, Jane Austen, JG Farrell, Jonathan Rendall, Kinky Friedman, Lemony Snicket, The Master and Margarita, Nigel Slater, Norman Parkinson, Patricia Highsmith, Peter Carey, Perry McCarthy, PG Wodehouse, PJ O'Rourke, Posy Simmonds, Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout, Richard's Bicycle Book, Richard Brautigan, Roy Stuart, Roz Chast, Scotland the Best, Sea Room, SE Hinton, The Talented Mr Ripley, The Thirty Nine Steps, William Donaldson, William Gibson, William Hickey, The Wind in the Willows.

Heroes:

Alexander McCall Smith, Alistair McAlpine, Allen Carr, Anthony Hopkins, Auberon Waugh, Barry Humphreys, Bertie Wooster, Brian Keenan, Christopher Marlowe, David Hemmings, Dean Martin, Dita Von Teese, Mrs Doyle, Dudley Moore, Dame Edna Everage, Elliot Gould, Eric Morecombe, Evelyn Waugh, Father Fintan Stack, Father Ted, Flashman, Garth Algar, Geordie Mouse, Captain Haddock, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Humphrey Littleton, Dr Hunter S. Thompson, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ile Nastase, Isabella Blow, Isobel Marion, James Brown, Jennifer Paterson, Jeremy Clarke, John Cazale, John MacEnroe, Johnny Morris, Julie Delpy, Keith Floyd, Kirstie Allsopp, Lee Marvin, Les Dawson, LJK Setright, Michael J Fox, Oliver Reed, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Newman, Peter Cook, Peter Kay, Peter O'Toole, Peter Sellers, The Proclaimers, Raquel Welch, Rod Stewart, Roger Cooper, Ronald Searle, Rossy de Palma, Ruben Gonzalez, Samuel Pepys, Shirley Manson, Sofia Coppola, Steve McQueen, Teenage Fanclub, Tom Jones, Tony Hart, Tony Roberts, Walter Matthau, W.F. Deedes, William Donaldson, William Shakespeare, Willie Rushton, Winston Churchill, Woody Allen.