Writing, reading, music, theatre, workshops, watching football- Tottenham Hotspur to be precise, running, computer games, Final Fantasy.
People who think for themselves. Writers, directors, spoken word artists, mcs, musicians. Any of my heroes. The Spurs team and management. Audrey Horne, Christina Aguilera, Winona Ryder, Zhang Zhiyi. And most of all, Aerith Gainsborough, for everyone who ever lost anyone.
Okay, I'm currently well into soundtracks, particularly Final Fantasy VII Piano Arrangements, Avenue Q (go and see it!), Rocky, Wicked, The Piano, and Rize. I'm learning to play some of that on the piano, with limited success. I'm also listening to lots of Nitin Sawhney, Prince, Chas'n'Dave, Seu Jorge, Madonna, Immortal Technique, The Rolling Stones, James Brown (RIP), The Prodigy and Jill Scott. Other music on my Ipod includes Michael Jackson, Public Enemy, Aim, The Stone Roses, Masta Killa, Masta Ace, Massive Attack, Maximo Park, Mobb Deep, Mos Def, De La Soul, The Doors, Talib Kweli, DJ Shadow, Genius/ GZA, Big L, Non-Phixion, Christina Aguilera, The Doors, Nick Drake, The Verve, Bjork, Blur, The Kooks, Rodrigo, Buena Vista Social Club, Miles Davis, REM and A-ha. Also, the soundtracks to The Nightmare Before Christmas, Bladerunner, Spirited Away, Star Wars and a whole lot of Spurs songs. .. width="425" height="350" ..
Rocky, Rize, Star Wars, City of God, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Spirited Away, Before Sunrise/ Sunset, Goodfellas, Lord of the Rings and ET. Also Amelie, 2046, The Piano, True Romance, Moulin Rouge, Bladerunner, The Godfather, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens and Whisper of the Heart... width="425" height="350" ..
Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, Doctor Who and football. Dungeons and Dragons, Monkey, Brass Eye.Youtube is the new television. Geriatric 1927 is it's reluctant star... width="425" height="350" ..
A Long Way Gone, His Dark Materials, Dragonlance, Lord of the Rings, The Secret History, Complete Works of William Blake, Huckleberry Finn, The Enchanted Wood, The Time Traveller's Wife, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Bleak House, The Famished Road, Candide.
Muhammad Ali, Pele, Ian Brown, Bill Nicholson, Chuck D, William Blake, Sylvester Stallone, Madonna, Jim Bird.