music, clothes, gigs, lager, whiskey, scotch eggs.
Liam and Noel, Peter Kay, Alan Partridge, Charlotte Church (moan the steamers!), Vic n Bob, Phillip Schofield ( he's my teenage crush ), Bjork, Ian Brown and the maker of the Bombay bad boy Pot Noodle - Wanker ! Myspace Graphics
Yo La Tengo, Amy Winehouse, Goldfrapp, The Coral, The Prodigy, Jonathan Richman, The La's, Love, Pyschedelia, Freakbeat, 60's ska, The Sonics, Shack, Jefferson Airplane, Shocking Blue, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pretty Things, Aretha Franklin, Marlena Shaw, The Zutons, The Rolling Stones, Beastie Boys,The Charlatans, Portishead, NWA, Talking Heads, 60's beat, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Pavement, Figure 5, Beck, Stone Roses, Air, Supergrass, Neil Young, Sam Cooke, The Five Aces, Dusty Springfield, How to Swim, Rod Stewart, Northern Soul, The Jam, Paul Weller, The 88's, The Velvet Underground, Primal Scream, Blur, Uncle John and Whitelock, The Beatles, Jackie Wilson, The Dead 6o's, Mogwai, P.P.Arnold, Massive Attack, Happy Mondays, The Verve, Led Zep, Chemical Brothers, LCD Soundsystem, Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis, Ian Brown, Small Faces, Daft Punk, The Who, Bowie, The Proclaimers, The Editors, The Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Death In Vegas, Jurassic 5, Donovan, The Beta Band, David Holmes, Motown, The Futureheads, The Skatalites, The Bees, James Brown, Prince Buster, Nightmares on Wax, Soulwax.
Full Metal Jacket, This is England, In The Name Of The Father, The Shining, Jaws, Indiana Jones trilogy, The Wind that Shakes The Barley, The 39 Steps, La Haine, Blow Up!, The Lost Boys, High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich, Raging Bull, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Excorcist, Pyscho, E.T. , Amelie, The Goonies, Finding Nemo, American History X, Withnail and I.
The Sopranos,Peep Show,programmes about fat people losing weight, This Morning (if I've pulled a sickie ), Never mind the Buzzcocks, Question Time, Countdown, Everyone Hates Chris, River City, Phoenix Nights, Quantum Leap, Knight Ryder, Rab C Nesbitt and, when I was younger, Sesame Street.
Bolivian Diary - Che Guevara, Journals; early fifties/ sixties - Allen Ginsberg, The Shining - Stephen King, The Periodic Table - Primo Levi, The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis.
Martin Luther King, Tony Benn, Gerry Conlon, Charlotte Church, Vic n Bob, Audrey Hepburn.