Reading, watching films, ju jitsu, politics and drinking. Not necessarily in that order though.
If theres anyone who I knew in the past and who i'm no longer in contact with, drop me a line - i'm always up for a drink. Likewise, anyone who is intrigued by this page and wants a chat.
See Heroes section. Otherwise...well, idolatry's not really my style - people are usually disappointingly fallible in the flesh (especially singers, footballers, and other such icons of pop culture.)
Homer Simpson, Dilbert, this rabbit:
Aladdin's genie.
(What could I waste three wishes on...?)
I've got fairly eclectic tastes, although pretty much anything as long as its not too commercialised. Bruce Springsteen, Meat Loaf, Billy Bragg, Guns and Roses, the Smiths, Bob Dylan...
Apocalypse Now (not the redux version,) Ghost in the Shell, Gattaca, Audition, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Fight Club, Strike, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbour Totoro, Hidden Agenda, Fist of Fury, Tokyo Godfathers, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Labyrinth, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, La Haine, Grave of the Fireflies, Once Upon a Time in the West, Lord of War, The Crucible, Twelve Monkeys, It Happened Here, The Killing Fields, Hotel Rwanda, Jacobs Ladder, Metropolis, Twilight Samurai, The Scent of Green Papaya, Beautiful Boxer, Kagemusha, Hoffa, Hearts and Minds, McLibel, Mirrormask.
To be honest I don't watch much TV. Good DVD Series include Noir, Cowboy Beebop, GiTS: SAC, Haibane Renmei, Serial Experiments Lain, Shogun, X-files (before it went rubbish,) Futurama, Band of Brothers, Bleak House, A Very British Coup, Brass Eye, Not the Nine O Clock News, Blackadder, Mr Bean, Spaced, Xena, Black Books. Also, documentaries such as The Power of Nightmares, and anything by John Pilger.
Would recommend anything by Terry Pratchett, Heroes by John Pilger, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, Shogun by James Clavell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tresell, If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? by G.A Cohen, United We Stand by Alastair Reid, Karl Marx by Francis Wheen, The Grundrisse, The German Ideology, Street Fighting Years by Tariq Ali, Anything by Eric Hobsbawm, The Vote by Paul Foot, Twilight of the Idols (or anything else) by Nietzsche (would also strongly recommend the Antichrist and Gay Science,) Isaac Deutschers three volume biography of Trotsky, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Dead Souls, Whinnie the Pooh (reminds me of my childhood,) David Eddings's earlier series (also for nostalgic reasons,) American Psyco, Gore Vidal's essays (especially his ones on the American presidency and the American Empire,) Myra Breckinbridge & Myron, also by Gore Vidal, The Natural History of Religion by David Hume, Becoming a Woman by Sally Alexander, Nasser; the last Arab by Said Aburish, On Liberty by JS Mill, anything by George Orwell (but would especially recommend Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Homage to Catalonia, and his collected essays,) Frankenstein, The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov, Collapse by Jared Diamond, the Prince by Machiavelli...and many more. I like reading.
Paul Foot, John Pilger, Karl Marx, Nelson Mandela, Bruce Lee, Rosa Luxemburg, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Che Guevara, Thomas Paine, Aung San Sui Kui, Father Christmas.