Cricket (Surrey CCC), Football (Tottenham Hotspur, Barnet and SL Southsea), Reading, Music, Politics, Literature, Debate, Ales, Defending English Cooking, Fresh Fruit and Veg, Philosophy, Mental Health (and policy reformations), discovering senses beyond our capacity, defining existence, infinity and whether it can ever be comprehended, never knowing whether life and the universe as we know it is merely an experiment by another life form or whether we truly are here alone
I'd like to meet:
George Orwell, Karl Marx, Franz Kafka, Chris Morris, Lenin, Ian Curtis, higher life forms, Martin Jol, Steffen Freund, Danny Blanchflower, Jimmy Greaves, Sean Devine, Darren Currie, Ali Brown, David Howells, Alan Cork, Carl Hoddle, Lee Harrison (I actually met him), Paul Kossoff,
Music:
British Sea Power, Kraftwerk, I am Kloot, Maximo Park, Broken Social Scene, The Fall, Sunshine Underground, Deathcopter, Levy, Joy Division, Stone Roses, the Smiths, Morrisey, VU, New Order, Interpol, the Stones, the Kinks, the Black Keys, Free (incorporating Jewish Guitar Heroes), the Walkmen, Violent Femmes, Nirvana, the Tiger Lilies, Ian Brown, the Charlatans, Pulp, Pixies, Primal Scream, Ramones, Lou Reed, the Clash, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Mercury Rev, the Who, the Eels, The Postal Service, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Zombies, Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Scumbo, Donovan, Israel Vibration, Toots & the Maytals, Cornell Campbell, Gong, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Can, The Legendary Pink Dots, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Jefferson Airplane, Irving, Vitalie, Sujan Stevens, Beck, Flying Saucer Attack, Spaceman 3, Loop, Bardo Pond, Yo La Tengo, Galaxie 500, Stereolab, Silver Apples, John Fahey, Kingbathmat, Of Montreal, Shpongle, Comets on Fire, Dirty Three, Mission of Burma, Six Organs of Admittance, 13th Floor Elevators, The United States of America, Faust, Os Mutantes, The Raincoats, Amon Dual II
Movies:
Bicycle Thief, Midnight Express, When the Wind Blows, The Snowman, Great Western Railways finest station waiting rooms 1968-1983, the Producers, Deerhunter, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Open your Eyes
Television:
Brass Eye, The Day Today, Peep Show, Father Ted, Once Upon Time Life, Spongebob Squarepants, Question Time, The Best of Great Western Railway Journeys - 1974-1982, Cutting Edge, Horizon, Oz, Time Trumpet, Nathan Barley, City of Gold, Stoppit and Tidyup, Dogtanian, Channel 4 news, River Cottage, This Life
Books:
1984, Coming up for Air, Burmese Days, Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, America, 100 Years of Solitude, Orwell's England (a selection of essays, stories and letters), Orwell's Victory (not by him), Death in the Afternoon, Down and Out in Paris in London, If This is a Man, The Outsider, The Man Who was Thursday, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Philip K Dick
Heroes:
Chris Morris, George Orwell, Ian Curtis, Stephane Dalmat, Bob Taylor,
