Music:
The Shins, Silver Jews, CSS, Gossip, Jamie T, LCD Soundsystem, Modest Mouse, TV On The Radio, Sufjan Stevens, Midlake, Neil Young, Blur, Willy Mason, The Magnificents, Detroit Cobras, Gang of Four, The Young Knives, The Cribs, Television, Bob Dylan, Beatles, The Byrds, The Bees, Juliette & The Licks, The Kooks, Duke Special, Flying Burrito Brothers, Richard Hawley, The View, The Good The Bad & The Queen, Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, Delgados, Sleater Kinney, Belle & Sebastian, White Stripes, Bloc Party, Michael Jackson (as in Off The Wall and not Earth Song), I Am Kloot, Talking Heads, The The, Pixies, British Sea Power, Kings of Leon, Jamie T, Walkmen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Kills, Little Barrie, Lamb Chop, Rufus Wainwright, Crosby Stills Nash & Young (and all incarnations of them), Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Stephen Stills, Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Burning Spear, Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, David Bowie, Morrissey, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Parliament, Tobacco Road by Nashville Teens, Wilco, Neil Diamond, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam, Calexico, Jimi Tenor, Cold War Kids, Damian Marley, Raconteurs, Interpol, Urusei Yatsura, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Devendra Banhart, Willy Mason, Mr Hudson & The Library, Smiths, The Aluminum Group, Postal Service, Iron & Wine, Klaxons, some rockabilly (Gene Vincent, Vern Pullen, Carl Perkins, George Jones etc), Howling Bells, Taj Mahal, Boz Scaggs, Marvin Gaye, Ry Cooder, Dr John, Frank Wilson, Robert Parker, The Incredible String Band,
Movies:
The Shining, Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton is an underrated acting genius. Just watch Multiplicity for evidence of this!), Witches of Eastwick, Ben Hur, The Third Man, Mystic River, Casino Royale, The Magnificent Butcher, Goodfellas, Once Upon A Time In China, Million Dollar Baby, Burning Paradise, Dawn of the Dead (the original), Day of the Dead, Full Metal Jacket, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shaun Of The Dead, The Wizard of Oz, 12 Angry Men, Back to the Future (1 & 2), Casino, Platoon, American Werewolf in London, Seven Samurai, Empire Strikes Back, Night of the Hunter, They Live, Blood Feast, Mean Streets, Iron Monkey, Magnolia, Alien, Apocalypse Now, Spartacus, Citizen Kane, Key Largo,
Television:
Peep Show, F*ck off I'm Ginger, 24, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, anything with an audience full of pikeys/trailer trash/freaks, Alan Partridge, Spaced, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, The Office, Brass Eye, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Man to Man With Dean Learner, Extras, Fawlty Towers, Spaced, Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, poncey news review programmes, nature programmes, stuff about war (preferably an ancient one), Balls of Steel (kind of candid camera show on C4 but the perpetrator of each sketch was subject to an audience vote to see if they had BALLS OF STEEL), Family Guy, American Dad, Dr Terror's House of Horrors, Jools Holland sometimes (although better without the sycophantic interviews and squawky segways...), Futurama,
Books:
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Saturday by Ian McEwan, A Child In Time by Ian McEwan, His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman, The Outsider by Albert Camus, Time's Arrow by Martin Amis, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, The Catcher In The Rye by J D Salinger, Non-Stop by Brian Aldiss, Last Night: Stories by James Salter, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne, Our House In The Last World by Oscar Hijuelos, Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck,
Heroes:
Fifi, Chris Morris, Kurt Vonnegut, The Marquis of Bath, Dean Learner, Jack Bauer, all of the cast of Heroes, Matt Berry, Jeremy Paxman, Russell Brand.