taking Lush baths, reading comics, wondering what the dumple is, keeping my bamboo alive, being slowly smothered by the weight of my own failures, freebasing vivarin, exposing my friends to terrible slash, spending way too much time on the internet, having a mediocre time
A boy who can swim faster than a shark.
The Magnetic Fields, Common Rotation, Manic Street Preachers, Blur, The Mountain Goats, Brendan Benson, Suede, Johnny Cash, Blanche, Kenickie, Clearlake, Magazine, Pulp, Mansun, The Stone Roses, The Beatles, Charlotte Hatherley, Elvis Costello, Franz Ferdinand, Lily Allen, John Coltrane, Oasis, Kylie Minogue, Future Bible Heroes, Scott Walker, Sons & Daughters, The Ditty Bops, The Extra Glenns, The Handsome Family, Momus, Half Man Half Biscuit, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, The Shins, Charlotte Martin, Belle and Sebastian, Black Box Recorder, Dan Bern, Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, Radiohead, Super Furry Animals... um, I like music.
Heavenly Creatures, Shaun of the Dead, Re-Animator, Braindead/Dead Alive, Purple Noon/Plein Soleil, Sleepy Hollow, Closer, The Rutles, Serenity, Ghost World, Rope
Doctor Who, Heroes, Strangers with Candy, Torchwood, Arrested Development, The Office, Spaced, The Colbert Report, 30 Rock, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Daily Show, Firefly, Judge Judy, Law & Order, My Name is Earl. That's not a fraction of the amount of TV I watch; I'll watch pretty much anything that starts with someone's death, and I enjoy those medical shows on cable with titles like "Born Without Knees" or "Living With Leprosy".
Things I read that can't be bought at the supermarket checkout: The Basic Eight, Geek Love, Hellblazer, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Vurt, Harry Potter, H.P. Lovecraft, Good Omens, Jeff Noon, Alias, Torso, Ghost World, Promethea, Sandman, America: A Guide to Democracy Inaction, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Invisibles, Kill Your Boyfriend, Hellboy, Runaways, an Ultimate book or two, Everything Is Illuminated
That grand list of people I look up to (to whom I look up) includes: Howard Devoto, Stephin Merritt, Grant Morrison, Jeff Noon, Peter Jackson, Daniel Handler.