Car design, music, motorsport and cars in general, architecture (Hadid, Calatrava, Saarinen, Tange), design in general, graphics, rugby (watching more than playing...), food
Nice people, Steve McQueen, llamas
Blur, Bloc Party, Editors, Bjork, The Music, New Order, Blondie, The Cure, The Clash, Ladytron, Interpol, The Arcade Fire, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Rapture, Oasis, The Stone Roses, The Who, Pink Floyd, LCD Soundsystem, New Young Pony Club, Hot Chip, David Bowie, The Sugarcubes, Gorillaz, Eels, The Police, Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Royksopp, Ambulance Ltd, Cut Copy, Metric, The Longcut, Simian, MSTRKRFT, Tuung, Broken Social Scene, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Ordinary Boys, The Automatic, The Go! Team, Coldplay, Chili Peppers, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Graham Coxon, Dire Straits, The Roots, Common, The Libertines, Ash, Hendrix, The Raconteurs, Beastie Boys, Daft Punk, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, The Human League, Groove Armada, Massive Attack, Jose Gonzalez, The Killers, Kasabian, Michael Jackson, Prince, Miles Davis, Sigur Ros, Koop, Skalpel
Back to the Future (the first one's the best), Ghostbusters (ditto), Flight of the Navigator, Short Circuit, Le Mans, Bullitt, Belleville Rendez-vous, Kill Bill Parts 1 & 2, Catch Me If You Can, Dodgeball, Zoolander, Happy Gilmour, Shrek 1 & 2, The Lord Of The Rings, Edward Scissorhands,
The Mighty Boosh, Father Ted, Black Books, I'm Alan Partridge, Green Wing, The Simpsons, Big Train, Jools Holland, Planet Earth (amazing), any Palin series, Lost, Formula One (can't miss it or the world will explode), Rugby, Moto GP, and I get drawn into the Olympics or World Cup when they are on
On The Beach (Nevil Shute), Dr. Zhivago, August 1916 (Solzhenitsyn), oh and Are You Dave Gorman?
Not necessarily total heroes, but people I look up to or inspire me in various ways...Damon Hill - he's a bloody gent isn't he? And he shares my birthday. As does Stirling Moss. Steve McQueen was cool but apparently he was also slightly a bastard. Hmm...Senna, Villeneuve, Damon Albarn (his songwriting, not his interview techniques, he can come across as a wally), Paul Merton, little Shane Williams (as opposed to Gavin Henson, who is a numpty), Michael Palin, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding