The Telewest 'this-channel-is-off-air' theme tune. En Vogue. Homemade Reason drumbeats. SMD. Blood Red Shoes. God Is An Astronaut. Infadels - if it gets me free drinks.
Weird Science, Time After Time
Booze Britain, Costa Del Street Crime, Britain's Next Top Model, America's Next Top Model, The Apprentice USA, Beauty & The Geek, Dragon's Den
The Proud Highway, Steppenwolf, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Trial, A Scanner Darkly (like Burroughs but readable) -anything by Fielding, Proust, Orwell, Murakami, Houellebecq, Wilde, Wolfe, Kesey or Hunter S.
whoever wrote this classic. simile of the week: "...but pinning a description on them is like trying to pin the tail on a live, cocaine-fuelled donkey with ADD"