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Comedy and satire, film, television, theatre and literature, philosophy, ecology, ancient history, ethical living, popular science, golf, vintage clothes, hats (I collect them), recycling, BBC Radio 4, a properly made cup of tea, occult and hermetic philosophy, fine food and drink, chivalry, good manners, gentlemanly conduct and following the greatest football team in the world, namely Liverpool Football Club. I also enjoy painting and drawing (especially watercolours and grotesque cartoons of my friends), playing the guitar, riding my "retro" scooter, looking ridiculous, pontificating, and obsessing over technology, gadgets, computers and videogames (Xbox 360 Gamertag: Gretch). To my shame and private glee, I can almost never resist the lure of karaoke.
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Varied music tastes, including Indie & Alternative, Prog Rock, Classical, Jazz & British Folk. Now playing on my pocket gramophone: Arcade Fire, Midlake, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Snow Patrol, Super Furry Animals, Modest Mouse, Crimea, Kooks, Peter Gabriel, John Lennon, Muse, Rufus Wainwright, Beck, Bjork, Bowie, Doves, Elbow, Coldplay, Led Zeppellin, Imogen Heap, Seth Lakeman, Jim Moray, Jake Thackray, Bob Dylan, Freddie Stevenson, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Kings of Convenience, Jack Johnson, Morrissey, The Beatles, early Genesis, King Crimson, The Bees, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Joseph Topping (my brother), The Tom Topping Band (my Dad).
Too many to list, but here in no particular order are some all time favourites: V for Vendetta, The English Patient, The Big Lebowski, Withnail & I, Waiting for Guffman, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Lion In Winter, A Matter Of Life And Death, Annie Hall, Anchorman, Garden State, Russian Ark, All About Eve, The Matrix, Etre Et Avoir, Manhattan, This Is Spinal Tap, The Ladykillers (original), Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, It's A Wonderful Life, The Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended versions), the original Star Wars trilogy, James Bond movies, Mike Leigh's films, especially Naked, Donnie Darko, The Day The Earth Stood Still, What The Bleep, Contact, most Sci Fi, all Ealing Comedies, and I also derive guilty pleasure from almost all Superhero movies, especially Batman Begins. I do not include the movie "Condorman" starring Michael Crawford in this, even though it had a fantastic theme tune.
Question Time, Extras, 24, Jeeves and Wooster, University Challenge, Horizon, State of Play, The Day Today, Brasseye, Shameless, Heroes, Life on Mars, Spaced, I'm Alan Partridge, Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet, The Office, Morcambe and Wise, My Name is Earl, The West Wing, Yes Minister, Shameless, Scrubs, The Thick of It, Dead Like Me, The Mighty Boosh, Reeves and Mortimer, People Like Us, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Carnivale, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, The 4400, Doctor Who, Frasier, House, The Simpsons, Futurama, Stand-Up Comedy.
Everything; novels, biographies, science fiction, history, science, philosophy, "comics" etc. Favourite writers: Shakespeare, JRR Tolkein, Kyril Bonfiglioli, P.G. Wodehouse, Alan Moore, David Mamet, Douglas Adams, David Mitchell, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Jordan, Charles Dickens, e.e. cummings, Ken Kesey, John Irving, Iain Banks, Charles Bukowski, Sir Noel Coward, Patrick Hamilton, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Craig Brown, Woody Allen, George Orwell, Wayne Dyer, Abraham-Hicks, Gary R. Renard, William Congreve, Deepak Chopra, Frank Miller, Robert Anton Wilson, The occasional Terry Pratchett novel, metaphysical poetry. From my newsagent I take The Independent, The Ecologist and What Is Enlightenment? and I am an avid reader of The Chap.
Bill Shakespeare, Bill Murray, Bill Hicks, Billy Connolly, Billie Piper, Peter Cook, Peter Sellers, P.G. Wodehouse, Stephen Fry, Douglas Adams, Cary Grant, Alec Guinness, Terry Thomas, David Niven, Alastair Sim, Spike Milligan, Richard Pryor, John Lennon, Nelson Mandela, Avatars.