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Movies
Look At Me, anything by Woody Allen, Etre Et Avoir, Brazil, Slow Century, Big Lebowski, Spellbound, L'Homme du Train, Harold and Maude, The Rebel, Les Visiteurs, anything written by Austen or Dickens, Dodgeball, In The Mood For Love, This Is Spinal Tap, Rushmore, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Ghost World, Lost in Translation, Far From Heaven, Sideways, Roger Dodger, Missouri Breaks
Music
Wedding Present, The Young Knives, Pavement, Sonic Youth, De La Soul, Futureheads, Terry Riley, Blur, Aphex Twin, Stephen Malkmus, Bikini Kill, Leonard Cohen, Assistant, British Sea Power, !!!, The Fall, Happy Mondays, Graham Coxon, Huggy Bear, XTC, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Arvo Part, The Editors, Jackie Wilson, Steely Dan, Buzzcocks, New Order, Television, Clor, Can, Ghostface, Dub, Neu!, Roots Manuva, Wiley, Dizzee Rascal, Mylo, Kinks, Afuken, Style Council, Bjork, Mercury Rev, Gorillaz, Steve Reich, Field Music, Bratmobile, The Cribs, Sufjan Stevens, Magazine, Wire
Television
Dickens, Austen, State of Play, David Attenborough and Michael Palin documentaries, Mighty Boosh, Newsnight, The Young Ones, Simpsons, Eastenders, TOTP, Match of the Day, Jeeves and Wooster, Alan Partridge, Darcus Howe, Question Time
Books
Pamela Hansford-Johnson, Muriel Spark, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Philip Roth, Michael Frayn, Margaret Drabble, Kingsley Amis, PG Wodehouse, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Tim Parks, Salman Rushdie, Penelope Lively, Graham Green, Simon Reynolds, David Mitchell, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Atwood, George Orwell, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage, Jonathan Coe