Cooking, family, collecting waddingtons boardgames, chess, Cormac McCarthy, 70's Fender guitars, low wattage amps that sound great when plugged straight into, my 1969 Gibson SG, stepping on my fuzz pedal at appropriate/inappropriate moments and launching into blistering coda/fade-out solo's that are always far too loud it would seem....
Someone who remembers the short lived (1978-1979) Hanna Barbera cartoon 'Fangface'.Manic Street Preachers live video for 'Motown Junk'. Brilliant! Must be watched with the volume WAY up.Snooker bad-boy Ronnie O'Sullivan with fastest official 147 (maximum possible) break ever! Clocks in at 5:20 I believe. From the crucible theatre, embassy world championship in 1997. He's just 21 years old here."Technique is the ability to translate your ideas into sound through your instrument. This is a comprehensive technique...a feeling for the keyboard that will allow you to transfer any emotional utterance into it. What has to happen is that you develop a comprehensive technique and then say, Forget that. I’m just going to be expressive through the piano." - Bill Evans
AC/DC-Powerage, Led Zeppelin II, T-Rex-Electric Warrior, Wilco-Summerteeth, Richard Hawley-Late Night Final, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers-A Hard Road, Neko Case-Blacklisted, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-Anthology (through the years), Chris Isaak-Forever Blue, REM-Up, Elvis Costello-Get Happy, John Coltrane-Coltranes Sound, Kenny Burrell-Midnight Blue, Grant Green-Idle Moments, Bill Evans-Portrait In Jazz, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists-The Tyranny of Distance, Jimi Hendrix-Blues, Big Star-Radio City/#1 Record, Mike Batt-Waves, Cyndi Lauper-She's So Unusual, Manic Street Preachers-Generation Terrorists, The Proclaimers-This is The Story, The Darkness-Permission to Land, Cat Stevens-Teaser and the Firecat, Simon and Garfunkel-greatest hits, Guns 'N' Roses-Use Your Illusion 1, The Band-The Band, Beck-Mutations, Cotton Mather-Kontiki, Elliott Smith-Figure 8, The Kinks-Are the village green society, Lambchop-awcmon/noyoucmon, Nicky Wire-I Killed the Zeitgeist, Warren Zevon-Excitable Boy, Neil Young-After the Goldrush, Outkast-Big Boi & Dr Dre present..., Pink Floyd-The Wall, Primal Scream-Riot City Blues, Queen-Sheer Heart Attack, The Police-Ghost In The Machine, Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet, Sparklehorse-Its a Wonderful Life, Supergrass-In It For The Money, Hole-Live Through This, Shihad-(the fish album).
The Thing, In the mouth of madness, JAWS, Empire of the Sun, Star Wars, Wallace and Gromit: curse of the were rabbit, An American Werewolf in London, Halloween, Poltergeist, Unforgiven, Full Metal Jacket, Wild at Heart, Clash of the Titans, Army of Darkness a.k.a Evil Dead III, Dog Soldiers, 28 Days Later, A History of Violence.
The IT crowd, Top Gear, League of gentlemen, Ann from Little Britain - "eh eh ehhhhh", Samurai Jack, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, The Simpsons.
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Success by Martin Amis, The Drowned World by J G Ballard, If I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien, One Train Later by Andy Summers, Everything: a book about Manic Street Preachers by Simon Price, True Adventures of The Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth, How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head by Bill Peet, Z for Zachariah by Robert O'Brien.
Stephen Hendry, Jimmy Page, John Carpenter, Mum, Mike Campbell, Me Missus...,