So here’s a nice little introductory thing about some of the things I like. Mostly film and music stuff.

Music

Collective Soul, The Strokes, Cat Stevens, The Blood Brothers, New Order, David Bowie, Band of Horses, The Radio Dept., The Arcade Fire, M83, Blonde Redhead, Lady Gaga, The Dead Weather, Wilco, Elton John, A Perfect Circle, St. Vincent, Oasis, Real Estate, Beck, DeVotchKa, Phoenix, Joy Division, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Coheed and Cambria, Foo Fighters, Nick Drake, John Mayer, The Beatles, Coldplay, AFI, Roy Orbison, Madonna, The National, Rooney, The Killers, Radiohead, Michael Buble, Pedro the Lion, The Rolling Stones, Weezer, U2, The White Stripes, Air, Stevie Nicks, Gorillaz, The Morning Benders, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Tallest Man on Earth

Film

Seven, Moulin Rouge!, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Zodiac, Inception, When Harry Met Sally…, Donnie Darko, Sense and Sensibility, The Wedding Singer, Rushmore, Requiem for a Dream, Walk the Line, Blue Velvet, Brokeback Mountain, The Shawshank Redemption, Sweeney Todd, Dogville, Amelie, Quills, Cache, Mulholland Drive, Stay, Vanilla Sky, Collateral, To Kill a Mockingbird, American Psycho, Velvet Goldmine, Sex, Lies and Videotape, Little Children, Marie Antoinette, In Good Company, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, In Bruges, Pride & Prejudice (both 1995 and 2005), In a Lonely Place, Changeling, Inglourious Basterds, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Bright Star, Naked, North & South, Jane Eyre, The Vicious Kind

Directors

David Lynch, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, Eli Roth, Steven Spielberg, Todd Haynes, Pedro Almodovar, Hayao Miyazaki, Danny Boyle, Darren Aronofsky

Actors

Morgan Freeman, Kevin Corrigan, Sam Rockwell, Colin Firth, Johnny Depp, GAEL GARCIA BERNAL, Ewan McGregor, Robert Downey Jr., Brad Pitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Schwartzman, Jason Lee, Daniel Bruhl, Michael Caine, August Diehl, Timothy Olyphant, Leonardo DiCaprio, Steve Buscemi, CILLIAN MURPHY, Jackie Earle Haley, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Paul Schneider, Wes Bentley, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Renner, Will Smith, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Martin Freeman, John Hawkes, Matthew Macfadyen, Michael Shannon, Edward Norton, Brad Dourif, Nick Stahl, Mark Ruffalo, Adrien Brody, Michael Sheen, Idris Elba, James Frain, Richard Ayoade, DAVID TENNANT, James McAvoy, MICHAEL FASSBENDER, Benedict Cumberbatch, ADAM SCOTT, RICHARD ARMITAGE (in even bigger letters)

Actresses

Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Audrey Tautou, Emma Thompson, Jennifer Aniston, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, Sarah Jessica Parker, Frances McDormand, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rosario Dawson, Marion Cotillard, Scarlett Johansson, Winona Ryder, Virginia Madsen, Carey Mulligan, Eva Green, Tilda Swinton, Melanie Laurent, Mary-Louise Parker, Romola Garai, Anna Friel

Series

The X-Files, The Wire, Deadwood, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Game of Thrones, The Hour, Spooks, Carnivale, Sherlock, The Office (UK), Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls, Mystery Science Theater 3000, John Adams, Prime Suspect, Seinfeld, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Weeds, Lost, Parks and Recreation, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Vicar of Dibley, Freaks and Geeks, Modern Family, Fringe, Wire in the Blood, Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development, Miranda, Luther, Downton Abbey, Party Down, Murphy’s Law, The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh, Blackpool, Merlin, Misfits,

Books

North and South, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, The Monster of Florence, The Marquis De Sade, Alfred Hitchcock’s selections of short stories, Dante’s Inferno, The Catcher in the Rye