| General | music, literature, fitba, the arts, sleeping, history, wishing I was precocious, exercise, pub, self indulgence, self denial, procrastination..... | | Music | house when it's still great, new or old, old (and occasionally new) hip hop, roots reggae, disco, soul, funk, prince, stevie, marvin, talking heads, pixies, murk back in the day, tribe called quest, dub along/lee scratch perry, ultragroove at its best, pe, donnie, lcd/dfa, bowie, the clash, eric b and rakim, donnie hathaway, kerri chandler, bugz in the attic, afrobeat, junior, unabombers, marlena shaw, speakerjunk, beck, elliot eastwick, jill scott live, beastie boys, green velvet, tom tom club, dennis ferrer, echo and the bunnymen, sunshine on leith, roots, mos def, grace jones, recloose, epmd, tortured soul, crazy p, buju, the faith crew, joey negro, roy ayers, frank tope, derrick carter (world's greatest), pharcyde, king britt, sfere, ibadan, q tip, wu, nas, faya combo, carl craig, krs one, mozart, miss honey dijon, roxy music, common, switch/ solid groove, aretha, miles, classical, outkast, my life in the bush of ghosts, grace jones, nerd, lynn collins, todd terry, metro area, big daddy kane, julian jabre, elbow, fela kuti, hall and oates, patrice rushen, the marley family-tuff gong to junior gong, herbie hancock, de la soul, BDP/ KRS, stones before they chucked it, mos def, miriam makeba, sinatra, brand nubian, black science, lauryn hill, slum village, pharcyde, sunburst band, white stripes, jay z, beth orton, dylan, pil, pete rock, beatles, tiga, biggie, maw, the cure, meth, red, beethoven's 7th, lamb, ghostface, woody guthrie, jazz, ballistics, daddy warbox in all his pseudonyms, eclectica, kid creole, strokes, johhny cash, velvet underground, nouvelle vague,willy mason, new order, joy division, kings of leon, arcade fire, jacking, the occasional poor vogue, imaginary walk offs, boompty, soulful and many spots in between...people who mean it | | Movies | apocalypse now, spinal tap, some like it hot, king of new york (what's in the cup?), stop making sense, glengarry glen ross, loads more cliches and art house pretentiousness... | | Television | seinfeld, simpsons, qi, sopranos, glen michael's cartoon cavalcade, curb your enthusiasm, arrested development, peep show, green wing, black books, brass eye, my name is earl, mighty boosh, the thick of it, sky sports news, armstrong and miller, football focus, entourage | | Books | gabriel garcia marquez, hunter s thompson, mario vargas llosa, oor wullie, f scott fitzgerald, mark twain, paul beatty, richard white, slotkin, flannery o'connor, pj o'rourke, francis wheen's 'how mumbo jumbo conquered the world', gore vidal, italo calvino, milan kundera, life of pi, dbc pierre, joseph conrad, umberto eco, don quixote, james joyce, noam chomsky, james robertson, john kennedy toole, rousseau, malcolm x, kazuo ishiguro, frederick douglass, henry james, herman melville, max weber, noah feldman, james kelman, katherine dunn, thomas paine, ovid, karen armstrong's a short history of myth, oscar wilde, alistair mcleod, eric hobsbawm, john updike, alan taylor, american history and politics, rich hall, bertrand russell, spike milligan, what's the matter with kansas, from the fallen tree, richard dawkins..... | | Heroes | those who aspire to be better than they already are, 'super' joe tortolano |
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