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I have the misfortune of sharing some of my musical interests with my dad who owns boths the 'Fat of the Land' album by The Prodigy and 'The best of the Vengaboys'. If you don't remember the Vengaboys, they were a bad quartet from the 90's producing such hits as 'Boom boom boom boom' and 'We're going to Ibiza'. Perhaps it can be said that I share my dad's style in choosing music, being as I like The Killers and The black eyed peas. However, in order to redeem myself from the pit of black eyed peas (I'm not kidding myself, you are allowed to like the BEP's, you just don't admit it - its like being a Prince fan apparently) I will admit to liking the following: Elvis, U2, Sting, Van Morrison, Damien Rice, Eric Clapton, Counting Crows, Dire Straits, John Mayer, Stereophonics, Jack Johnson, THe Magic Numbers, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, Crowded House, Gorillaz, Beach Boys, Coldplay, Foo Fighter, Goo Goo dolls, The Flaming Lips and David Gray. This list is by no means exhaustive and is in no particular order with the possible exception of placing Elvis near the top. I listen to XFM so you can guess my day to day listen (The Fratellis, Snow Patrol, The Zutons, Radiohead, etc). There are a few other people who have influenced my musical taste. One of these being my brother who has introduced me to Eminem, Wu-Tang Clan and other well known groups like Dead can dance and Manu Chao. The other person is a friend with whom I share the joy of listening to Jazz music, including: Eva Cassidy, India Arie, Ahmad Jamal, Bireli Lagrene, Madeleine Peyroux, Joss Stone/Alicia Keyes (although not massive fan) Miles Davies, Herbie Hancock to name but a few. Then I should say something about my alternative taste in music, this includes artists like Compay Segundo, Buena Vista Social Club, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Nickelcreek, Royksopp and Bedouin Soundclash.
When you begin making a list of favourite movies I think it should always take you back to the films you watched and loved as a child. So, I start with the Princess Bride, the original (because there are few people funnier than Peter Sellers) Pink Panther films, the original Star Wars trilogy with Return of the Jedi being the best of these, Back to the Future, Grease, The Lion King, Singing in the Rain (one of my personal favourites) ET, Indiana Jones and James Bond (both of which have fuelled my desire to be a super cool spy). Then you can move to movies of the teenage years: My Girl, Pulp Fiction,Taxi Driver, Romeo and Juliet, Robin Hood Prince of Thiefs, The Godfather I,II & III, Dead Poet's Society, JFK and Pride and Prejudice BBC series. I am a huge Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers fan - so you can assume that I would love to be a good tap dancer. We can then move on to my more recent favourites: The Three Colours Trilogy (French art movies - highly recommended) Gladiator, Das Boot, Goodbye Lenin, House of Flying Daggers, City of God, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, any Pixar film but I feel the best of these was Monsters Inc, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Breakfast at Tifffany's, Black Hawk Down (although it is American through and through) Three Kings and Gallipoli. There are a number of movies which I think I would like but as yet have not watched: the English Patient, Ben Huir, the Motorcycle Diaries and the documentary type film about the Buena Vista Social Club in Cuba.
There are few things I "follow" on TV, but I am a fan of 24, House and ER. I have the joy of not getting sucked into Lost or Desperate Housewives.
The Bible (goes without saying - the book that has everything) As a child we would take family trips to Scotland. My parents would play my brother and I the audio tape of Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea'. I recently rediscovered this classic and it firmly placed on my favourites list. Along side that I put: Che Guevara - A revolutionary life (Jon Lee Anderson) Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) The Testament (John Grisham) No Compromise (Melody Green) and anything by Shakespeare with my favourite of his plays being Henry V. Once again this list is not exhaustive - although I have be told that after reading this it certainly feels like an exhaustive list.