Music, radio, art, fasion, football and running. And I have been known to be partial to the odd ale on occasion... Books, French, German, NewcastleGateshead, crying at films (not girly films), being in Paris, rummaging in chazza shops, talking about Paris, dreaming, Emma Bridgewater pottery, looking at curious things.
Passionate people with similar interests!
Anything and everything, from the Pogues to Teenage Fanclub, Spiritualized to the Chemical Brothers. Current favourites include Rufus and Martha Wainwright, The Killers, Sigur Ros, The Shins, Broken Family Band, Hothouse Flowers, Kubichek, Richard Hawley, The Young Knives, Death Cab, Ray Lamontagne, Joy Division, The Smiths, Nirvana, Grandaddy, The Waterboys, The Kooks, Spacemen 3, We Are Scientists, Maximo Park, The New Pornographers, Camera Obscura, The Futureheads, Arctic Monkeys, Belle and Sebastian, The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Jimmy Hendrix, Love, Blondie, The Clash, Mylo, The Sex Pistols, Pavement, Teddy Thompson, The Lemonheads, The Stone Roses, anything on the Mackem Music album (particularly "Simply Red and White"'s version of Daydream Believer [Cheer up Peter Reid] - which incidentally reached number 41 in the charts. One more place up and we'd have got on TOTP), Stephen Malkmus, Sigur Ros, Anthony and the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, Leftfield, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Mogwai, Devandra Banhart, so many more...
Amelie, Withnail and I, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Pirates of the Carribean, Delicatessen, Y Tu Mama Tambien, L'Auberge Espagnole, Les Poupees Russes, Goodbye Lenin, Cache, Volver, Les Quatre Cents Coups, Jules et Jim (in fact, any Francois Truffaut), Fahrenheit 451 (see before).
British Comedy - Father Ted, Phoenix Nights, The Office, Peep Show, Only fools and horses, Porridge, Allo Allo, the Likely Lads... Also a huge fan of the Apprentice and the soon-to-be-defunct Grandstand!
American Psycho, Die Ermittlung, Les Fleurs du Mal, A L'Ami qui ne m'a pas sauve la vie, Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Of Mice and Men, The Age of Reason, A Moveable Feast
Louis Theroux, Rufus Wainwright, all of Sunderland AFC, Jason Pierce, Father Dougal Maguire, Andre Breton, Amelie Poulin (the character), Teenage Fanclub, Vic Reeves