Music:
changes with the day and the mood...things i like most to come up on my random: Roots Manuva, Sage Francis, Anticon, The Shins, Beck, De La Soul, The White Stripes, M.I.A, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jose Gonzales, The Herd, The Dandy Warhols, The Easybeats, The Zombies, The Kinks, Violent Femmes, The Pixies, Mudhoney, Gonzales, Peaches, The Necks, Amon Tobin, Split Enz, Destiny's Child (don't knock it till you've shaken your booty to it), Beastie Boys (pre-Hello Nasty)...pretty much anything except country (a few exceptions) or house (solid and continuous four/four beats make me lose my rhythm)
Movies:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Donnie Darko, Virgin Suicides, High Fidelity, Better Off Dead, Queen Margot, The Spanish Apartment, Clueless, Pretty in Pink, Capote, Pecker, Hairspray, Edward Scissorhands
Television:
don't own one...do enjoy dvds of Six Feet Under, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Family Guy
Books:
Patrick Suskind 'Perfume'; Primo Levi 'If This is a Man', 'The Periodic Table'; Tom Robbins 'Half Asleep in Frog Pyjamas', 'Jitterbug Perfume'; Anna Funder 'Stasiland'; Roland Barthes (for slow consumption only) 'Camera Lucida', 'A Lovers Discourse'; Emily Bronte 'Wuthering Heights'; Nick Hornby '31 songs'; Oliver Sacks 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'; anything by Jane Austen (see above - she's my tv replacement); biographies, non-fiction and history...or funny trash if i can find it...
Heroes:
Nan Goldin, Willem Dafoe, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondre (did i spell that right?), David Bailey, Cecil Beaton, Dame Judi Dench