F1 and any kind of motorsport, music - gigs and records, cinema, animals, travelling to weird places - the usual kind of guff. My interests do not include shopping, sitting around in pubs with people I don't really like, sitting on beaches, rugby, reality TV, soaps, people who say "Grow up", people who say "Whatever", people who only hang out with good-looking people - stop me before I go on all night :o)
People who add without taking away. People who are complementary, not compromising. People who don't write pretentious stuff like that on MySpace. I could list actual people I'd like to meet, but would they want to meet me? I'll only say I want to meet the Queen when she mentions me in this section on her MySpace page. Can I list the people I don't want to meet? Dammit :o(I don't want to meet people who just can't manage more than 4 seconds without their mobiles - I mostly like people who drop their mobiles in buckets of water whilst washing the car, then take 3 months to get round to buying another one. There are exceptions though... I don't want to meet people who say things like, "Oh, just get over it and move on!" or "That is just soooo yesterday!" Those people would say things like that in any circumstances, e.g. My entire family has been taken to Guantanamo Bay and tortured to within an inch of their lives - "Oh, just get over it! Move on!" In an ideal world I'd have those people walled up with some killer bees. Is this you? Sod off then :oI
Early Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green and Danny Kirwan, Thin Lizzy, Free, AC/DC, Beatles / Stones / Kinks, Sabbath, Steve Miller, Big Star / Alex Chilton, Captain Beefheart, Fernando Arbex / Inaki Egana, early Judas Priest, Bukka White, Bob Weston, Stranglers, The Who, Fountains of Wayne - For a small girl, Barbara sure has got a big crush, the kind that makes you wanna break stuff, and blame it on a man you don't know - the list goes on. And on.
Almost anything - as long as it didn't start life as a comic book. Disaster films are a favourite. I also like foreign films. No films for children thinly disguised as films that all humanity must must must see. No films with goblins, wizards or people with pointed ears.
Almost nothing - Green Wing and similar things, some American imports like CSI and Lost, but not much else. No programmes in which people who should know better pretend they can entertain humanity with their dubious talents, only to be publicly humiliated for our enjoyment. No programmes in which a dozen or so of the most obnoxious freaks in the country are rounded up and locked in a house for a few weeks, while their hideous antics are recorded for posterity. I'd prefer a programme in which the aforementioned freaks were left in the house to rot and/or eat each other - I realise this is no doubt in the pipeline for next season.
Ancient sci-fi/dystopian stuff, biographies. It's always better to read a book that no-one's ever heard of, that way it's clear that you discovered it yourself, and you're not reading it just because every other sod is reading it.
Can't go round having heroes - they get involved in scandal and make you look stupid. Dead heroes are OK - they can't embarrass themselves further.