books... hmmm at the moment the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series And...
of course, The Little Prince
Aplin, Andrewes (Phil rather than Virginia), Brookmyre, Bateman,
Doyle, Heaney, Yeats, Joyce (not after a few though!), Le Carre,
Radcliffe, Sharp, Higson - comic thrillers and even thriller comics
(can't seem to find many of those these days mind). I did once read
the Big Book - under duress from the Penguins of Penguin Hall - one
of the crosses to bear from Irish schooldays.
films... pulp fiction, life of brian, rosy dixon night nurse &
monty python and the holy grail - in no particular order! I suppose
I should put all the arty ones and the old Ealing comedies, Will
Hay and musicals, but i wouldn't want you getting the wrong idea
now.
music... from the 60s to now, with a penchant for 1980 - 1988!
Beatles & Stones, Monkees, Manfred Mann (pre-Earth band),
Kaisers, Something Happens, A House, Light A Big Fire, Bankrobbers,
Audioweb, 60ft Dolls, InTuaNua, The Kings (before everyone else
honest... Joe's Head does something very strange), Tonys Christie
& Bennett, Elv occasionally, Elv Costello more regularly,
Frank, The Frank & Walters, eve a bit of FrankieGTH, PaperLace
(first record I ever, ever, ever bought), Lisa Hannigan, The
Frames, The Blades, Hue & Cry, The Blizzards, Little Man Tate,
early oo2, Pogues, Barracudas, Madness, Specials, The Beat, ABC,
Otis, Wilson, Sam & Smokey - even Plan B - the new Cee Lo album
is interesting...
My iPod is a walking music library with the cheesiest pap you could
imagine (and worse).
food...
anything as long as it's hot!!! can't overly be doing with sushi
though :-)
music (again)... ah jeez... I saw the beastie boys in 1987 (so i
must be ancient), the proclaimers, kings of leon, artics,
waterboys, simple plan, angels and airwaves, snow patrol, athlete,
jj72, love & money, river detectives, light a big fire, the
police, the jam, the who, dred zep, horslips, saw doctors, a house,
wonderstuff, transvision vamp, lou reed, the velvets, traffic,
small faces, rod the mod, frank, dean and sammy, aimee mann, beth
orton, sophie B, super furry animals, 60ft dolls, rialto, don
fardon, don mclean, pussycat, the sweet, mud, slade, the Lizzy!,
sugarhill gang, the smiths, grandmaster flash and the furious five,
ll cool j, asia, some dire, bragg, icicle works, pete wylie &
the mighty wah, echo, cast, communards, baez, ramones, pistols,
clash... are you bored yet cos I haven't even started on Beethoven,
Mozart, Briars, Barber...
And whereabouts do I start about
Father Ted?????