Favorite bands :
Check the blog and rateyourmusic - the latter displays more diversity but the former may introduce you to something new.
Favorite guitarists :
Tetuzi Akiyama - Ben Barnett - Eric Roche - Rick Tomlinson - James Blackshaw - Sir Richard Bishop - Mat Sweet - Ilyas Ahmed - John Renbourn - Mike Einziger - Victor Villareal
Favorite bassists :
I don't have any specific favourites, so long as they're not trying to do something unnecessary within the music I'm happy.
Favorite books :
Some books that get the thumbs up: Heart of Darkness (Conrad) - Empire of the Sun (Ballard) - Plot Against America (Roth) - Heart of a Dog (Bulgakov) - The Fall (Camus) - Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World (Murakami) - the Death of Bunny Munroe (Cave) - The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (Mishima) - War of the End of the World (Vargas Llosa) ----- Never again reading anything by Kafka
Favorite tv :
Arrested Development - Lost - Andy Richter Controls the Universe - World Stands Up - Scrapheap Challenge - Jericho - Top Gear - Mock the Week - Ninja Warrior - The Lost Room - Transworld Sport - almost any late night sports programme...
Favorite movies :
Battle Royale - The Proposition - - Harakiri - The Godfather (pt. 2) - Easy Rider - Apocalypse Now - Goodfellas - Interview - Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring - King of Kong - Vertigo - Rear Window - Woman in the Dunes - Seven Samurai - Taxi Driver - Duel - The Young Poisoner's Handbook - The Woodsman - Red Road - Maria Full of Grace - Dead Man's Shoes - Kontroll... Usually happy watching most films, but XXX2, Club Dread, Adrift and Gerry are all terrible and I wouldn't dare recommend them to anyone.
Done with school forever, want to travel, can't afford it, love the music, don't really respect people that say they love music yet download everything off the internet for free - by all means sample some but support artists because they all need it.
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