Music, Vespas, motorcycles, parrots, mynah birds, drumming, food (and dessert), old movies
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Night of the Iguana, Midnight Cowboy, A Place in the Sun, The Misfits. Many more. Old movies mainly. It seems to me that the movies made during the Hays Code were better than they are now.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time... By Mark Haddon