Music, politics, football, It geekery, playing guitar, playing guitar hero, films, philosophy, science, nature, a spot of physics and a dash of chemistry, baking, sleeping, amateur radio, planning how I'll save the world, armchair megalomania, humanity.
Bitter cynics, outspoken agitators, the terminally wasted and the fatally flawed, movie buffs and Hitchcock blondes, apathetic left wingers, unwilling corporate whores, fans of Das Boot, femme fatales, people with post millenial tension, cultural snobs, armchair psychiatrists, karmic debtors, and people good in the event of a zombie apocalypse.
Shit bands and people whoring webcams need not go to the effort of befriending me. And by shit bands I mean any bands - I've yet to be approached by a good one, and I've been approached by a lot.
The Smiths, Radio 4, Ladytron, The Egg, Infadels, Goldfrapp, The Dresden Dolls, Half Man Half Biscuit, Belle and Sebastian, The Walkmen, The Rapture, Massive Attack, The Faint, The Moldy Peaches, Primal Scream, New Order, Chk Chk Chk, Skinny, Kasabian, Raveonettes, Tiefschwarz, The Juan MacClean, Stone Roses, The Fall, Happy Mondays, The Music, Interpol, The Go! Team, AlpineStars, Cansei de ser Sexy, Totok vs Soffy O, Monkey Swallows the Universe, New Young Pony Club, Chk Chk Chk, Metric, Sage Francis, Mr Lif, J-Live, good dance music - anything with beeps and dirty basslines, bit of soul, funk and reggae...
Oldboy, Audition, Clerks, Dead Mans Shoes, The Descent, Amelie, Annie Hall, Big Trouble in Little China, Space Mutiny, The Revolution will not be Televised, Punishment Park, The War Game, Suspiria, Airplane! Manos The Hands of Fate, Ichi the Killer, Haute Tension, Audition, Tattoo, Das Experiment, Versus, Aliens, The Poseidon Adventure, Das Boot, Mallrats, Visitor Q, Spring Summer Autumn Winter and Spring, Pans Labyrinth, Children of Men, Lost in Translation, Ghost World, Versus, Dawn of the Dead, Meet the Feebles, The Isle, Wilderness, Hard Candy, Idiocracy, La Calvaire, 13 Tzameti, Bad Guy.
No Hollywood crap.
Newsnight, Arrested Development, The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, MST3K, Absolute Power, Family Guy, Simpsons, Football, Brass Eye, any good doucmentary esp Unreported World, Peep Show, Twin Peaks, Day Today, Partridge, Time Trumpet, Bad Lads Army: Extreme, Garth Merenghi, Man to Man with Dean Learner,
Catch 22 (Jospeh Heller), Pirates and Emperors: Old and New (Noam CHomsky), The Witches of Chiswick (robert Rankin), Chaos (James Gleick), Crossing the Rubicon (Michael Ruppert), Dark Alliance Gary Webb - a fascinating expose of CIA complicity in huge coke deals, the profits of which were used to fund the Contra army in Nicaragua. The author later committed suicide by shooting himself in the head twice. Ghost Wars. Fun with Paedophiles - the Best of Baiting - Doug Stanhope (its so wrong).
Bill Hicks.... he died before he had a chance to fuck things up...