| General | Writing, reading, music, film, Manchester United | | Music | Sigur Ros, Cougar, Sufjan Stevens, The Cocteau Twins, Mr. Scruff, Low, Ratatat, The Beach Boys, Jape, Dead Can Dance, Fourtet, The Specials, Coldcut, Bonnie Prince Billy, Devo, Halfset, John Coltrane, Jurassic Five, Fleet Foxes, Coco Rosie, Kraftwerk, Low, Nick Cave, Jape, Tortoise, Minotaur Shock, Kate Bush, Boards of Canada, Charles Mingus, Notwist, David Grubbs, Jeff Martin, Jim O'Rourke, Arvo Part, Telefon Tel Aviv, David Bowie, Siouxsie, The Slits, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, Luke Vibert, Miles Davis, Air, PJ Harvey, Kelley Stoltz, The Creatures, Steve Reich, The Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, Daft Punk, Juana Molina, Dolly Parton, Frida Hyvonen, old REM (only the pre-Automatic for the People stuff), The Fall, Bonobo, LCD Soundsystem, St. Vincent... and about a million others. | | Movies | Paris Texas, The Year My Voice Broke, Wings of Desire, Sideways, Goodfellas, any Pedro Almodovar, Don't Look Now, The Sound of Music, Baraka, any Coen brothers, Brief Encounter, The Deerhunter, All About Eve, Hana-Bi, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, Chungking Express, Alfie (Michael Caine version) Mulholland Drive, Grease, Happiness, Vertigo (any Hitchcock actually), Chinatown, Jaws, Being John Malkovich, Sunset Boulevard, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, lots of old Hollywood stuff | | Television | Film 4, TCM, The Sopranos, Life on Mars, Heroes, Dr. Who | | Books | The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by Lorrie Moore, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, The Visitor by Maeve Brennan, Selected Stories by Katherine Mansfield, any John Steinbeck, Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Book of Evidence by John Banville, Amongst Women by John McGahern, Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and a mountain of others... | | Heroes | |
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