When I'm older I want to be a Samurai warrior.
I like 50s/60s Japanese cinema, Derby County Football Club, Wikipedia, 80s British Indie and 90s American indie music, The Legend Of Zelda, learing Japanese, The Criterion Collection, Guinness, making lists, writing my novel, retro video games, Teletext, Sushi, Hardback books, Star Wars, classic literature and sitcoms.
A Certain Ratio, Adem, Air, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, The Auteurs, The Avalanches, Baader Meinhof, Band Of Horse, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Belle And Sebastian, Ben Kweller, The Besnard Lakes, Beta Band, Bjork, Black Angels, Black Mountain, Blondie, Blur, Bob Dylan, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Boy Least Likely Too, Brian Eno, British Sea Power, Buena Vista Social Club, Vashti Bunyan, Captain Beefheart, Cast, Cat Power, Charlotte Hatherley, Chemical Brothers, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Clash, Cocteau Twins, John Coltrane, The Coral, The Darkness, David Bowie, De La Soul, The Dears, Decemberists, Deerhoof, Delays, Denim, Department Of Eagles, DJ Shadow, Doves, Dresden Dolls, Earlies, Early Years, Echo And The Bunnymen, Editors, Elasitca, Elbow, Electric Soft Parade, Eminem, Ennio Morricone (especially Spagetti Westerns work), Erin McKeown, Felt, Flaming Lips, Aretha Franklin, Franz Ferdinand, Funkadelic, Futureheads, Gang Of Four, Girls Aloud, Go! Team, Go Kart Motzart, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Gravenhurst, Guided By Voices, Happy Mondays, Hidden Cameras, Hold Steady, Hood, Hope Of The States, Hours, House Of Love, Interpool, Islands, Jam, James, Jeff Buckley, Jesus And Mary Chain, Jim Noir, Joanna Newsom, Joy Division, Kanye West, Kate Bush, Keane, Keren Ann, Kings Of Leon, Kinks, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Kylie Minogue, La's, Libertines (first album), Little Ones, Loretta Lynn, Love Is All, Low, M.I.A., M83, Malcolm Middleton, Manic Street Preachers, Maria Taylor, Mark Lanegan, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Maximo Park, Michael Jackson, Moby, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Morrissey, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, My Life Story, My Morning Jacket, The National, Nellie McKay, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, New Pornographers, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Nirvana, Oasis, Open, Orange Juice, Organ, Pavement, Pink Floyd, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prodigy, Pulp, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machines, Rapture, Redskins, Reindeer Section, Richard Hawley, Rilo Kiley, Rolling Stones, Sage Francis, Saint Etienne, Scissor Sisters, Sex Pistols, Shack, Shins, Sigur Ros, Simon And Garfunkel, Sleepy Jackson, Sly And The Family Stone, Small Faces, Smashing Pumpkins, Smiths, Snow Patrol, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Stones Roses, Streets, Style Council, Sugababes, Sugarcubes, Sufjan Stevens, Supergrass, Talking Heads, Tapes n' Tapes, Teenage Fanclub, Television Personalities, Tori Amos, V-Twin, Velvet Underground, Verve, Vitalic, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Wedding Present, The Who, Why, Wilco, Wire, Wolf Parade, World Of Twist, The Wrens.
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Video Games
I love RPGs and 2-D platform games the most. Also pretty much anything that has come from that delightful Kyoto residence that we call Nintendo, mid to late 90s Rare, pre-Saturn Sega, Ico, Pro Evo, Football Manager 07 (even if it does keep screwing me over). The SNES will forever be the ultimate gaming machine. The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will almost certainly forever be the ultimate game
Movies I consider must-see-all-time-classics are
12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Akira (1988)
Akahige (1969)
Alien (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
American History X (1998)
Back to the Future (1985)
Batoru rowaiaru (2000)
Being There (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Boot, Das (1981)
Brazil (1985)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il (1966)
C'era una volta il West (1968)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Clerks. (1994)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Early Summer (1951)
Eraserhead (1976)
Fargo (1996)
Fight Club (1999)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Godfather (1972)
Goodfellas (1990)
The Graduate (1967)
Hotaru no haka (1988)
Ikiru (1952)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Laberinto del Fauno, El (2006)
Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Late Spring (1949)
Leben der Anderen, Das (2006)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Memento (2000)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Mononoke-hime (1997)
Network (1976)
North by Northwest (1959)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
Persona (1966)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Ran (1985)
Rashômon (1950)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Schindler's List (1993)
Se7en (1995)
Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (2001)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Shichinin no samurai (1954)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Taxi Driver (1976) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) The Terminator (1984)
The Third Man (1949)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Trainspotting (1996)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
Untergang, Der (2004)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Vertigo (1958)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
Winchester '73 (1950)
Yojimbo (1961)
Yoidore tenshi (1948)
Highly recommended films are
About Schmidt (2002)
Aliens (1986)
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Angel Heart (1987)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Awakenings (1990)
Bakushû (1951)
Bambi (1942)
Bas-fonds, Les (1936)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Bloodsport (1988)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Bubba Ho-tep (2002)
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das (1920)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Clerks II (2006)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Crash (2004/I)
The Departed (2006)
Die Hard (1988)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Dumbo (1941)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Enforcer (1976/I)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Fantasia (1940)
First Blood (1982)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Fugitive (1993)
Garden State (2004)
Giù la testa (1971)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Gojira (1954)
Goldfinger (1964)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Haine, La (1995)
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Heat (1995)
Heisei tanuki gassen pompoko (1994)
The Hitcher (1986)
Honogurai mizu no soko kara (2002)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Jaws (1975)
Ju-on: The Grudge (2003)
The Jungle Book (1967/I)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Kagemusha (1980)
Kaijû sôshingeki (1968)
Kakushi-toride no san-akunin (1958)
Kaze no tani no Naushika (1984)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
King Kong (1933)
The King of Comedy (1983)
Kurenai no buta (1992)
Léon (1994)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lady and the Tramp (1955)
The Land Before Time (1988)
Life of Brian (1979)
The Lion King (1994)
Magnum Force (1973)
Majo no takkyûbin (1989)
Man on the Moon (1999)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
The Matrix (1999)
Mean Streets (1973)
Men in Black (1997)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Mystic River (2003)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Nora inu (1949)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Office Space (1999)
Oldboy (2003)
On the Waterfront (1954)
One Hour Photo (2002)
Overnight (2003)
Per un pugno di dollari (1964)
Perfect Blue (1998)
Platoon (1986)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Predator (1987)
The Prestige (2006)
The Producers (1968)
Pumping Iron (1977)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
Rear Window (1954)
Ringu (1998)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Saw (2004)
Scarface (1983)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
The School of Rock (2003)
Science des rêves, La (2006)
Serpico (1973)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
The Shining (1980)
Shrek (2001)
Signs (2002)
Sin City (2005)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)
Spartacus (1960)
Stand by Me (1986)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
The Stranger (1946)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta (1986)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Tonari no Totoro (1988)
Total Recall (1990)
Toy Story (1995)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
True Romance (1993)
Tsubaki Sanjûrô (1962)
Ugetsu monogatari (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Withnail & I (1987)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wo hu cang long (2000)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
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I don't watch much tele any more, it's pretty much all shit. I am partial to 'Deal Or No Deal', 'The Championship', '8 Simple Rules' and 'Hollyoaks' though. Generally, when not watching films I'll watch DVD's. Here what I watch:
Blackadder, Brass Eye, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Day Today, Darkplace, Extras, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, The League Of Gentlemen, The Office, Peep Show, Pheonix Nights, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Red Dwarf, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park.
Fiction - 1984 (George Orwell), American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis), Animal Farm (George Orwell), Battle Royale (Koushun Takami), Catch 22 (Joseph Heller), The Chronicles Of Narnia series (CS Lewis), Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess), Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Phillip K. Dick), Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), Dubliners (James Joyce), Homage To Catalonia (George Orwell), Master And The Margherita (Mikhail Bulgakov), Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut), Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck), Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man (James Joyce), To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Ulysses (James Joyce)
Non Fiction -
Down And Out In Paris And London (George Orwell), The Autobiography Of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
Malcolm X, Akira Kurosawa, John Lennon
Links To My Favourite Websites