Reading, writing, cooking, drinking wine, cooking while drinking wine, music, movies, news, shopping, walking, talking, eating, breathing... Also travel, journalism, travel journalism, the cooking channel (mmm Nigella...) taking photos, watching birds fly, drinking tea, reading poems, long car trips, ukuleles, going to the Warehouse (mmm consumerism...) wandering aimlessly. And paintings - paintings are good. Like Picasso, Matisse, Klimt, Kandinsky, Marc, Miro, Chagall, Mark Rothko, Modigliani, Vlaminck, Joanna Paul, Jane Evans, John Drawbridge, Gretchen Albrecht and lots of others.
Other journalists or writers. Anyone funny and interesting who’s interested in the world around them. People in general.
Beatles
Beck
Bright Eyes
David Bowie
Dave Matthews Band
Jackson Five
Bjork
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Radiohead
Nina Simone
NOFX
NIN
Coldplay
Ben Folds Five
Ben Lee
Bill Withers
Dandy Warhols
Finlay Quaye
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra
Black Seeds
Hollie Smith
Dave Dobbyn
EGGS
Recloose
Goodshirt
Paul McLaney
Salmonella Dub
Phoenix Foundation
Zero 7
Nightmares on Wax
Jose Gonzales
Portishead
R.E.M
Bach
Chopin
Pachelbel
Colin Hay
Foo Fighters
David Gray
Jeff Buckley
The Goonies
Tremors
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Office Space
The Graduate
Vertigo
Lost in Translation
Much Ado About Nothing
The Insider
Out of Africa
Life as a House
American Beauty
American Psycho
American History X
Grosse Pointe Blank
Flirting with Disaster
House of Sand and Fog
In My Father's Den
Godfather Part 1
Goodfellas
L.A. Confidential
Almost Famous
Being John Malkovich
Truman Show
Donnie Darko
Quiz Show
To Die For
Rushmore
Say Anything
Quiet American
Room with a View
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice (BBC version)
Corrina Corrina
Memento
Vertigo
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Magnolia
Sling Blade
My Wife is an Actress
The Empire Strikes Back
Rainman
Killing Fields
This is Spinal Tap
Some Like it Hot
Fargo
Freaks and Geeks
The Color Purple
To the Lighthouse
Island of the Blue Dolphins
My Heart goes Swimming
Danny Champion of the World
The Twits
The Great Gatsby
Franny and Zooey
Catcher in the Rye
Song of Solomon
The Great Shark Hunt
A Walk in the Woods
Made in America
Just William books
Poisonwood Bible
Life of Pi
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Jane Eyre
To Kill a Mockingbird
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
If Only they could Talk
In the Night Kitchen
Where the Wild Things Are
Penguin History of New Zealand
Nigella Lawson cookbooks
And poetry:
Big Weather Poems
My Heart Goes Swimming
e. e. cummings
Hone Tuwhare
William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost
Wallace Steven
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
W.H. Auden
Ezra Pound
Dylan Thomas
Mum.