Favourite Things
Artists
Goya, Bosch, HR Giger, Dali, Blake and Monet.
Authors
Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Douglas Adams and Jasper Fforde.
Bookshelf
Television
Blackadder, Bottom, Father Ted, League of Gentlemen, Fawlty Towers, Little Britain, Not the Nine O'Clock News, The Goodies, Goodness Gracious Me, Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army, Only Fools and Horses, Dinnerladies, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Sapphire and Steel, Lost, Buffy, Angel, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Twin Peaks, Neverwhere, The Office, Dangermouse, Rhubard and Custard, Morse, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Salem's Lot, The Omega Factor, Sea of Souls, Afterlife, Star Cops, LA Law, StarGate, Ultraviolet, This Life, Wallace and Gromit, Farscape, Life on Mars, Spitting Image, Waking the Dead, Red Dwarf, Columbo, Miss Marple, Heroes and Hustle. Particularly drawn to dark / black comedies and satire.
Drinks
Southern Comfort - This is my all time favourite. Though I do like Bailey's (a close second), Archers, Malibu, Vodka. I don't really drink beers or lagers that much. Occasionally I will have a pint of Guinness with a pub lunch.
Food
Indian, Mexican, Italian, Greek and Thai. Particularly like a Sunday roast dinner with all the trimings. Have a very sweet tooth too...Tiramisu and Bread and Butter pudding go down as my favourite desserts.
Games
I like Cluedo, Connect 4, Snakes and Ladders, Chess, Uno, Game of Life, Trivial Pursuit and Draughts. In fact, I will play most board and card games. In my teems, I use to be quite heavily into role playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Call of Cthulhu.
Holidays
Mexico, Peru, China, India, More of the USA (New York, San Francisco, New Orleans), New Zealand, Australia, Italy.
Films
Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Memento, The Green Mile, The Omen, The Exorcist, Chicago, The Rocky Horror Show, The Full Monty, Pleasantville, Brief Encounter, Hellraiser, Donnie Darko, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Edward Scissorhands, JFK, Galaxy Quest, Educating Rita, Gosford Park, Bridget Jones' Diary, Monsters Inc, Dune, Shrek, Interview with a Vampire, From Dawn to Disk, Pulp Fiction, The X-Men, Casablanca, Hero, Memento, A Very Long Engagement, The Incredibles, The Fastest Indian in the World, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Downfall, The Machinist, An Inspector Calls, The League of Gentlemen, The Crying Game, The Third Man, Dog Soldiers, North by North-West, The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts and Coronets, A Canterbury Tale, The Curse of the Were-rabbit, Dogma, The Fifth Element, Serenity, Malefique, A History of Violence, Batman, James Bond, Razor Blade Smile, Chocolat, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Lair of the White Worm, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Brazil, The Silence of the Lambs, Reservoir Dogs, Get Shorty, Road to Perdition, Seven, The Italian Job, Layer Cake, The Nightmare before Christmas, Psycho, The Birds, Ring, Some Like it Hot, StarGate, 28 Days Later, Perfume, Flushed Away, Mirrormask, Capote, The Prestige, Metropolis, Lady in the Water, The Da Vinci Code, Hellboy, V for Vendetta, Crash, Night Watch, Blue Velvet, The Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Jaws, Nosferatu, Withnail and I, Last Orders, The Fountain, The Dark Knight and Moulin Rouge.
Music
Keane, Anastacia, Athlete, Madonna, The Corrs, Enya, ColdPlay, Muse, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Kate Rogers, Annie Lennox, Morcheeba, Tears For Fears, David Bowie, Moby, Evanescence, The Divine Comedy, Snow Patrol, U2, Scissor Sisters, David Gray, Kaiser Chiefs, New Order, kd lang, KT Tunstall, Oasis, Athlete and R.E.M. At the other end of the spectrum, I like classicals by such composers as Beethoven, Mozart, Lizst, Vivaldi and Puccini.
Newspapers
Not a great newspaper reader, but will flick through either "The Guardian" or "The Independent".
Websites
BBC Online, Outpost Gallifrey, The Internet Movie Database, Tachyon TV, Google UK, Play.com, Encyclopedia Mythica, Social Science Information Gateway, BUBL Link, Flickr, Twitter, Wikipedia and the sublime Savage Chickens.
Quotations
"Exploration and play are the building blocks of learning..."
