| General | Music, mainly indie - serial gig goer, writing, films, art, reading, travelling, dancing, swimming, theatre. When time allows sporadic bursts of gardening and cooking. | | Music | Elbow, The Charlatans, Arctic Monkeys, Billy Bragg, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nirvana, Joy Division, New Order, Arcade Fire, The Libertines, Midlake, P J Harvey, The Weddoes, Teenage Fanclub, Smashing Pumpkins, Grandaddy, The National, Tokyo Police Club, Cherry Ghost, Fleet Foxes, The Teardrop Explodes, The Lemonheads, Jeff Buckley, The Pixies, Elliott Smith, Foo Fighters, Larrikin Love, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Interpol, Julian Cope, Blur, Graham Coxon, The Clash, The Verve, Richard Ashcroft, The Jam, Morrissey, Pavement, The Shins, Half Man Half Biscuit, Death Cab for Cutie, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, Mazzy Star, Bon Iver, Kings of Leon, Art Brut, Arabstrap, Dogs die in hot cars, Lightspeed Champion, Bromhead's Jacket, Josh Rouse, Prefab Sprout, Polytechnic, Fountains of Wayne, Doves, Band of Horses, Sons and Daughters, They Might be Giants, Violent Femmes, Gang of Four, Weezer, Kings of Convenience, Nick Cave, The White Stripes, Roddy Frame, Aztec Camera, The House of Love, Eugene McGuinness, The Delgados, The Strokes, Richard Hawley, Fields, The Blood Arm, The Dears, Devendra Banhart, Elle S'Appelle, Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell, The Go! Team, The Young Knives, Go Faster, The Bravery, Scott Matthews, The Killers, The Stoneroses, Vampire Weekend, The Magic Numbers, Happy Mondays, Bloc Party, The Futureheads, Maximo Park, The Pale Fountains, I am Kloot, Belle and Sebastian, Turin Brakes, The Fall, Hot Chip, Foals, The Postal Service, Tim Burgess, Sonic Youth, The Presidents of the USA, British Sea Power, And you will know us by the trail of dead, The Duke Spirit, Orange Juice, The Buzzcocks, The Editors, The Kooks, CSS, The Ting Tings, Malcolm Middleton, MGMT, Stephen Malkmus, Squeeze, Joyzipper, Everything but the Girl, The Rascals, The Raconteurs, The Raveonettes, Supergrass, The Guillemots, Dead Sixties, The Go Betweens, Shout out Louds, Field Music, We are Scientists, Hot Hot Heat, Phoenix, Hot Club De Paris, Matafix, The Delays, The Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, The Crimea, The Cribs, Muse, Primal Scream, The Dresden Dolls, The Little Flames, Band of Horses, Iron and Wine, The Answering Machine, Milburn
| | Movies | Goodbye Lenin, Me You and Everyone We Know, The Sea Inside, The Edukators, Cinema Paradiso, Ealing Comedies, All about Eve, Annie Hall, Wings of Desire, Betty Blue, Almost Famous, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Dig, Withnail and I, City of God, Amores Perres, Pedro Almodovar movies, Clerks, Breakfast at Tiffanys, My Own Private Idaho, Sunset Boulevard, Rebecca, Carlitos Way, The Wonderboys, American Beauty, Jean de Florette, Shortcuts, Sideways, Life is Beautiful, Being John Malkovich, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. | | Television | Six Feet Under, Scrubs, Twin Peaks, Sex and the City, Sensitive Skin, Jonathan Creek, The Culture Show, rock biographies and loads of really bad detective shows. | | Books | Englands Dreaming - Jon Savage, Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Head On/Repossessed - Julian Cope, Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin,
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel, Easy Riders Raging Bulls - Peter Biskind, Cider with Roadies - Stuart MacConie, Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels | | Heroes | All of the above but Stephen Fry, Ken Loach, Armistead Maupin, John Peel, Joe Strummer, Jools Holland and Billy Bragg spring immediately to mind. |
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