I'm a 30-something Englander who lives on the south coast of Blighty but spends most of my time hanging from the wall of a Pennsylvania cellar. My favourite cheese is Danish Blue.

Filling in these things so cute Texans stop nagging me!

The Divine Comedy, Blur, Gorillaz, Air, The Waterboys, World Party, The Who, KT Tunstall, XTC, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Manic Street Preachers, The Pogues, Green Day, Jack Johnson, The Kinks, The Icicle Works, Billy Bragg, Scott Walker, Supergrass, Pulp, James, Barenaked Ladies, Neil Young, Suzanne Vega, Kirsty MacColl, Bruce Springsteen, Belle and Sebastian, The Beta Band, Kaiser Chiefs, Captain Beefheart, Ian Dury, Costello, The Clash, Faithless, The Stone Roses, Arcade Fire, Lily Allen, and many others...

Star Wars, Lord of The Rings, Ghost World, Shawshank Redemption, My Neighbor Totoro, Sin City, Blade Runner, High Fidelity, Close Encounters, Amelie, Serenity, Eternal Sunshine, Big Fish, Alien, old Bogart films, old Jimmy Stewart films, 50's B-movies, Studio Ghibli, Kevin Smith, Akira Kurasawa.

Simpsons, Family Guy, My Name Is Earl, Black Books, South Park, Buffy, Farscape, House, Firefly, Futurama, QI, Spaced, Monty Python, Heroes, Father Ted, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica. I'm a geek.

Nick Hornby, Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, Kingsley Amis, Iain Banks, Jasper Fford, Tony Hawks.