The Crankies and Mark Kermode, together if possible."Whenever I watch TV and I see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I would love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." Miss Mariah Carey I salute your utter stupidity...!
Radiohead, Pixies, Pavement, Weezer, Supergrass, The Buzzcocks, Sonic Youth, Blur, REM, Ash, Modest Mouse, Trail of the Dead, Arcade Fire, Elbow, Doves, DJ Shadow, Distophia, Tricky, The Strokes, I am Zeitgeist, Massive Attack, Jeff Buckley, Ben Kweller, The White Stripes, Chemical Brothers, Mogwai, Pulp, Stellastarr*, PJ Harvey, Super Fury Animals, The Velvet Underground, Smashing Pumpkins, Grandaddy, Queens of the Stoneage, The Futureheads, Kings of Leon, At the Drive in, Eels, Portishead, Fu Manchu, Kyuss, Guns ‘n’ Roses, The Walkmen, Ween, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Magic Numbers, Ben Folds Five, Deftones, Primal Scream (Exterminator only), Hope of the States, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Aphex Twin, Mercury Rev, The Electric Soft Parade, Air, The Cooper Temple Clause, The Flaming Lips, UNKLE.
The Goonies, Avalon, Pulp Fiction, Wild at Heart, Pie, Mallrats, Die Hard, Y tu mama tambien, Clerks, True Romance, Wall Street, Home Alone, Blade Runner, Lost Highway, Fargo, Bad Taste, Brazil, Angel Heart, The Truman Show, Lethal Weapon (actually, pretty much any Richard Donner film), City of God, Repo Man, Oldboy, Fight Club, Aliens, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future, Magnolia, Heat, The Thing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Breakfeast Club, Groundhog Day, Howard the Duck (fuck off, its good okay: subversive and featuring a duck having sex with a lady-what else could you ask for in a mainstream film?Indeed), Battle Royal, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters, Waynes World, Suture, Terminator 2, Batman, Amelie, El Mariachi, Audition, Dark City, Blue Velve
Eerie Indiana, Alan Partridge, Peep Show, Phoenix Nights, Father Ted, South Park, League of Gentlemen, Everybody Loves Raymond, Twin Peaks, Wild Palms (no one ever remebers it but it was ace), Geordie Racer, Badger Girl, Father Dowling Investigates (yes I was once an ironic student), Neighbors, Hollyoaks
Ninety Eighty Four; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Walk in the Woods; Vernon God Little; The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep; Dilly the Dinosaur; Down and Out in Paris and London
I had to choose 5 utter geniuses: Jonny Greenwood, George Orwell, Joey Santiago, Hunter S Thompson and David Lynch...