music, theatre, travel, cooking, eating, clothes, jewlery, shoes, dancing, samba drumming, taking terrible photos, Skiing badly.
In no particular order: Nina Simone, Nick Drake, Boards of Canada, The Pixies, The Rapture, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Prince, Toots & the Maytails, Jimmy Cliff, Manu Chao, Croft No Five, Aberfeldy, The Cinematics, BabyGod, Basement Jaxx, Soulwax, The Ravonettes, The Go Team, Bic Runga, DJ Shadow, Unkle, Aphex Twin, mum,
Monsoon Wedding, Donnie Darko, The Graduate,The Philadelphia Story, Mullholland Drive, Waking Life, Rebecca, Memento, City of God,
No that fussed to be honest - Desperate Housewives and other American trash usually passes the time.
Lanark, Midnight's Children, The House of the Spirits, A Fine Balance, Crime & Punishment, Imagined Corners, Open the Door,The Wind up Bird Chronicle, Wild Swans, Cat's Eye, The Secret Garden,Carol Ann Duffy's poetry, The Bell Jar, Edwin Morgan's poetry,