I have no interest in music. It's too loud for me. Except...
Geese
General faves - first, examples of more current stuff: Ray La Montagne,FO Machete, Willy Mason, Micah P Hinson, Joan As Policewoman, Cat Power, CSS, Booka Shade, Junior Boys, Radioslave; Kiki; Gabriel Ananda; Claude Von Stroke; Simian Mobile Disco; Campag Velocet ... Staple faves and saviours: Jimi Hendrix; Nick Drake, Beth Orton, Massive Attack, Beth Gibbons/Portishead, Tricky (that "West Country" era was a MAJOR inspiration for me and still is); Roni Size; Goldie; Luke Vibert; Rolling Stones; Marc Bolan; The Kinks; Janis Joplin; Dusty Springfield; PJ Harvey; The Doors; Bob Marley & the Wailers; The Beatles/John Lennon; Jon Spencer Blues Explosion; John Coltrane; Alice Coltrane; Miles Davis; Charles Mingus; Roland Kirk; Art Blakey; Dizzy Gillespie; Duke Ellington; Thelonious Monk; Herbie Hancock; Pharoah Sanders; Leon Thomas; Lalo Schifrin; Ennio Morricone; Mozart; Beethoven; anyone on Catskills Recs (in partic. Black Grass/Mex; Carl Faure; Husky Rescue; Pepe Deluxe; Bushy) Mr.Scruff; Nightmares on Wax; Daft Punk; The Orb; British hip-hop: Blapps Posse, Silver Bullet (way back!), Roots Manuva, Rodney P, Skinnyman, Blak Twang, Ty, Dizzee Rascal... Cinematic Orchestra; Boards of Canada; Kate Bush; Siouxsie Soux; Squeeze; Blondie; Suzy Q; Sex Pistols; Elvis Costello; Leonard Cohen; Serge Gainsbourg; Tom Waitts; Rufus Wainwright; Elvis Presley (to an extent...); Jonny Cash; Jim White; Dolly Parton; Godspeed You! Black Emperor (they are amazing live); Bob Dylan; Gary Numan; Nirvana; Counting Crows (first album pleasy); Led Zep; Tiga, Miss Kittin; DJ Shadow; Masters at Work; Bob Sinclair; The Wu's (partic. Ghostface, Method Man and ODB); Pharcyde; Fu Shnicks; Young MC; Public Enemy; NWA; BDP; Jurassic 5; Ben Harper; Bjork; John Martyn; Jeff Buckley; Gang Starr, The Fugees; Mos; Nas; Kelis; Jill Scott; Missy Elliot; Beverely Knight; Mary J Blige; Erykah Badu; Alicia Keys;Aretha Franklin; Gwen McCrae; Talib Kweli; Dre; Snoop; Beatnuts; Etta James; Frank Sinatra; Dean Martin; Tony Bennett; Spanky Wilson; Betty Carter; Peggy Lee; Ella Fitzgerald; Nina Simone; Otis Redding; James Brown; Lyn Collins; Marva Whitney; Kid Creole; Cymande; Parliament; Bootsy Collins; Rick James, bitch! Maceo and the Macs; Fatback Band; Curtis Mayfield; Betty Davis; Ohio Players; Sly & Family Stone; Isaac Hayes; Stevie Wonder; Quincy Jones; Roy Ayres; Lonnie Liston Smith; Michael Jackson; Joe Tex; Syl Johnson; John Lee Hooker; Muddy Waters; Howlin' Wolf; Robert Johnson; Little Richard; Dr.Alimantado; Horace Andy; King Tubby; Burning Spear; Jimmy Cliff; Gregory Isaacs; Augustus Pablo; The Bees; Gomez; Odetta; Joni Mitchell; Mazzy Star; John Prine; Arlo Guthrie; Woody Guthrie; LFO; some ELO; Joy Division/New Order; The Cure; Ian Dury and the Blockheads; Madness; The Speacials; The Clash; Roxy Music; Iggy Pop; Robert Palmer; Lou Reed; David Bowie; Pink Floyd; The Jam; Oasis; Blur; Stone Roses; old bleepy acid stuff;"old skool" Detroit house and techno and loads of other old house classics from the "1989" era...etcetcetcetc...
I'll go for Withnail & I; Amadeus; Scarface; Enter the Dragon; Spinal Tap; Some Like it Hot; Pulp Fiction; Paris Texas; Desperately Seeking Susan; Dirty Dancing; Ususal Suspects; Carlito's Way (maybe? Might be getting muddled up); Millers Crossing; The Birds; Star Wars; Saw Little Miss Sunshine and thought that was brilliant; It's a Wonderful Life; Laurel and Hardy films (Oh My God, they have me in stitches), Team America; Pink Panther films; loads of those low-key foreign films wiv subtitles; Badlands; Zatoichi; Crouching Tiger, errrrm ...there's more.
(More comedy than TV): South Park, Little Brit, The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mighty Boosh, Family Guy, Fawlty Towers, Ab Fab, QI, Rising Damp, Butterflies, Early Star Trek, Alan Partridge, Nighty-Night, Peep Show, Buzzcocks, Chapelle's Show; Chris Rock; Richard Pryor; Reeves and Mortimer, nature programmes narrated by David Attenbrough, Bill Oddie and David Bellamy.
Great Gatsby; Alice in Wonderland; On the Road; Big Sur; Catcher in the Rye; Catch 22; Jack London (sorry forgotten which book was my fave - White Fang is good tho); To Kill a Mockingbird; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Scoop; Vernon God Little; I'm sure there's more.