Books, films, songs, bonfires, chainsaws, driving, chopping things down, playing the mandolin, walking my dogs, scary things, pubs, pizza, beer, whisky, the look on a person's face after they drop their mobile phone and realise it's fucked, book/record tokens, the Malvern Hills, France, Canterbury, San Sebastian, marzipan...
Les Dawson
Maximo Park, Mansun, Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Bowie, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, The Pogues, Johnny Cash, Guns n Roses, Placebo, Robert Johnson, Eric Bibb, The Smiths, Elvis...
The Exorcist, The Wicker Man, An American Werewolf in London, Jacob's Ladder, Pulp Fiction, Dead Man's Shoes, Scarface, A Clockwork Orange, The Big Lebowski, Calvaire, Stalker, Lost Highway, Seven, Eraserhead, Nightmare Alley...
Curb Your Enthusiasm
I did a list of my top ten reads a while back. Also there are these that I wrote myself:
Deadfolk
"Makes the insipid heroes of lad lit look like a bunch of big girls' blouses. The more politically correct among you can read this as social comment, the rest can just enjoy the ride." - The Guardian
Fags and Lager
"300-odd pages of squalor, f-, s- and c- words, extreme violence and drugs, the odd hint of perversity, monstrous sly humour and all with no redeeming social message whatsoever. Whilst through it all strides the probing intelligence of Royston Blake. What more could you possibly want?" - Tangled Web
King of the Road
"Royston Blake is a boastful, aggressive, foul-mouthed, psychopathic hard-man of the utmost political incorrectness, a failure at everything he does but an indomitable believer in his own cleverness and sex appeal. He’s also a careless multiple killer (though insistent that it was never his fault). In short, a thoroughly unpleasant and dislikeable character. Why, then — this is a great mystery — is it so enjoyable to read about him?" - The Times
Also Jim Thompson, Bernard Hopkins, Roger Bannister, Charles Willeford, Bill Hicks