Music music music music. And the odd film. And a spot of literature never went amiss eh?
Messrs Bush & Blair for obvious reasons, Tom Waits to hear some of his stories, Billy Connolly to first worship him and then punch him for selling out, Matt Bellamy for a piano jam, and Shane MacGowan before it's too late.
The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Muse, System of a Down, Grandaddy, Nick Cave, The Mars Volta, Bob Marley, Blur, Tom Waits, Metallica, Rufus Wainwright, Beach Boys, Dave Van Ronk, Ben Folds, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, AC/DC, R.E.M., The Pogues, Rage Against The Machine, The Sensational Alex Harvey band, The Kinks, James Brown, Flogging Molly, Guns N Roses, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Mogwai, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Daft Punk, Oasis, Biffy Clyro, Randy Newman, Supergrass, Richard Cheese, Queen, The Strokes, Sex Pistols, Simon &; Garfunkel, Weezer, The White Stripes, Ocean Colour Scene, Libertines, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Gogol Bordello, Kings of Leon, Willy Mason, Primus, The Jam, Paul Weller, ugh can't think of any more the now.
Full Metal Jacket, Life Is Beautiful, Fear & Loathing, Withnail & I, Trainspotting, Chopper, Pulp Fiction
The Mighty Boosh...what else is there? Buzzcocks if its on...believe it or not I don't really watch the cursed thing...
Anything by Hunter S Thompson, Allen Ginsberg, gotta have some Shakespeare for balance, Orwell's good (he's right, too), ummm...don't really do as much reading as I should - world's worst English Lit student and all that. However, Jane Austen can quite frankly bite my shite.
Hunter S Thompson, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon (minus the wife-beating), Matt Bellamy, Tom Waits...dunno who else. Why does your memory desert you when you have to fill in these things?