Learning new stuff, reading books, listening to music, watching comedy, attending live gigs, football and various other sports, drinking and some more drinking, laughing with people, trying hard not to laugh at some people, acting like a twat, eating.Oh and nicola, oh and sex, oh and being kind to animals!
I like an awful lot of music. Punk, indie, rock, reggae, dub, ska, bit of hip hop and a bit of old fashioned rhythm and blues.
Main influences:
Kinks,The Who, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Led Zep,David Bowie, The Clash, Ramones, The Smiths, Joy Division, Bob Marley, Stone Roses, RHCP, Public Enemy, Pixies, Manics, Supergrass, Blur, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, QOTSA, Maximo Park, Dogs, Cribs, Nine Black Alps Massive Attack, Libertines, Strokes, Artic Monkeys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfmother, Jose Gonzalez, Kasabian, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Young Knives. More recently a bit of Smashing Pumkins, Interpol, Kanye West and Jay Z.
Even more recently....
The Gossip
Nirvana
1990s
Larrikin Love
The Holloways
Cold War Kids
Tiny Dancers
The Maccabees
CSS
Klaxons
Joan As Policewoman
Regina Spektor
Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Fight Club, Lord Of The Rings, Walk The Line, V For Vendetta, Anchorman, Sex Lives Of The Potato Men, A Boy, The Bench and His Book.
Have I Got News For You, Top Gear, Deal Or No Deal, The Apprentice, Peep Show, Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, The Office, Scrubs, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Dirty Sanchez, 8 out of 10 cats, Match Of The Day, Newsnight Reveiw.
Anything by Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Will Self, The Clash: Passion is a fashion, Radiohead: Hysterical and useless, IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE by Tim O'Brien is one of the best books i've ever read!.
Joe Strummer, John Peel, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Oscar Wilde, Noel Fielding, John Cleese, Peter Cook.