Mainly Planet Mu, Rephlex, 90s Warp Records... plus J-Pop, Tangerine Dream, Acker Bilk, Morricone. Eno Rock side King Crimson, Manc acts the La's, Smiths, and Stone Roses, also Joy Division through to New Order, and over on the Mersey it's got to be the Fab Four. Listened The Doors to death in teens; should have been listening to The Cure. If I had a time machine I would go back in time and give my teenage self a copy of Disintegration. He would say 'what's this' and I would go 'no time to explain, I'm late to kill Hitler.'
Go see the new Blade Runner cut out in cinemas! It knocks the socks off Jesus. Generally, 70s italian exploitation flicks, Lone Wolf & Cub, Zatoichi (Katsu series), anything by 'Beat' Takeshi' including his entry into the Blind Masseur series, all Takeshi Miike's work, and . And everything Tarantino touches - he's the best director working today, even if his writing is no longer as fine as it once was. Still, he not as good as Chan-Wook Park, the best director on the planet. Big fan of the New Korean cinema; now that's how to run a film industry - tax foreign films and give the money to domestic producers. The top five grossing films in American-occupied Korea have all been home-produced.
The Thick of It, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Adam Curtis docs, The Bill, Brookside, 80s Grange Hill (Oi, Zammo!), Minder, The Incredible Hulk, Newsnight (sorry), Heimat, Das Boot, Hancock, Partridge, The Graham Norton Show, The Apprentice, Ken Stott's Rebus, McCoy-era Dr. Who,
Currently reading No County For Old Men (Cormac McCarthy), Woken Furies (Richard Morgan) and Money (Martin Amis).
Joe Eszterhas, Alex Cox, Penn & Teller, Noam Chomsky, Takeshi Kitano, the two Davids behind Medialens, Robert Forster