Anything from big band jazz, classical, early blues and country but enjoy Mozart, Beethoven, Elgar, R Strauss, Vaughan-Williams, Lloyd Cole, New Order, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Springsteen, The Smiths, Dusty

 Anything from big band jazz, classical, early blues and country but enjoy Mozart, Beethoven, Elgar, R Strauss, Vaughan-Williams, Lloyd Cole, New Order, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Springsteen, The Smiths, Dusty

Ovid's Metamorphoses, anything by John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, J K Baxter, Sargeson, Velikovsky. Non fiction, esp. alternative science, history, biographies.

 Ovid's Metamorphoses, anything by John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, J K Baxter, Sargeson, Velikovsky. Non fiction, esp. alternative science, history, biographies.

NZ (esp. Wellington), Australia, UK/Scotland, Germany, Austria, South Africa, USA

 NZ (esp. Wellington), Australia, UK/Scotland, Germany, Austria, South Africa, USA

More of Australasia, Paris, Rome, St Petersburg, Prague, Wales, Eastern US, Buenos Aires, Florence, Venice, Italian Lakes, South of France, Spain/Portugal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Sikkim, Canada, Petra, Giza, Malta, Easter Is., Galapagos Is., Greece, Grand Canyon (again), Antarctica, London's museums, The Himalayas

 More of Australasia, Paris, Rome, St Petersburg, Prague, Wales, Eastern US, Buenos Aires, Florence, Venice, Italian Lakes, South of France, Spain/Portugal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Sikkim, Canada, Petra, Giza, Malta, Easter Is., Galapagos Is., Greece, Grand Canyon (again), Antarctica, London's museums, The Himalayas

Reading, gardening, movies, painting, writing, horology, travelling - anything creative.

 Reading, gardening, movies, painting, writing, horology, travelling - anything creative.

Anything spontaneous

 Anything spontaneous

Not a big sports fan - perhaps watching World Cup rugby

 Not a big sports fan - perhaps watching World Cup rugby

By no means exhaustive: The Last Picture Show, Days of Heaven, The Grapes of Wrath, What's Eating Gilbert Grape,The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, The Blair Witch Project, Cinema Paradiso, The Tin Drum, Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco, Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Jackie Brown, The Conformist, Almost Famous, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Beauty, Muriel's Wedding, Smash Palace, The Duellists. Chinatown, Slaughterhouse 5, Being There, Trainspotting, Gladiator, The World According to Garp, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, All Quiet on the Western Front, Vertigo, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, A Clockwork Orange, Sleuth, Deliverance, Rebel Without a Cause, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, Tampopo, Dodeskadan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon, Five Easy Pieces, Terms of Endearment, The Cider House Rules, Oliver!, Dead Man, End of the Golden Weather, Once Were Warriors, Paris Texas, Mask, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Aguirre Wrath of God, Barry Lyndon, A Streetcar named Desire, Pulp Fiction, Elizabeth. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, LA Confidential, Metropolis, Donnie Darko, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels, Heat, Cabaret, The Colour Purple, Waiting for Guffman, Withnail & I, Wah Wah, Billy Elliot, The Sound of Music, The Red Violin, High Fidelity, Ryan's Daughter, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, great expectations, Kes, Gregory's Girl, Gandhi, Local hero, Secrets and Lies, Harold and Maude, Midnight Cowboy, Focus, Little Miss Sunshine, The Breakfast Club, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Billy Liar, Some Like it Hot, Tootsie, The Meaning of Life, Toy Story, Dr Strangelove, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Godzilla vs the Smog Monster, Enemy Mine, A.I, Minority Report, Gattaca, Baraka, Roger and Me, Get Real, To Be and To Have, My Beautiful Laundrette

 By no means exhaustive: The Last Picture Show, Days of Heaven, The Grapes of Wrath, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, The Blair Witch Project, Cinema Paradiso, The Tin Drum, Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco, Fargo, O Brother Where art Thou?, Jackie Brown, The Conformist, Almost Famous, Glengarry Glen Ross, American Beauty, Muriel's Wedding, Smash Palace, The Duellists. Chinatown, Slaughterhouse 5, Being There, Trainspotting, Gladiator, The World According to Garp, The Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, All Quiet on the Western Front, Vertigo, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, A Clockwork Orange, Sleuth, Deliverance, Rebel Without a Cause, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate, Tampopo, Dodeskadan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon, Five Easy Pieces, Terms of Endearment, The Cider House Rules, Oliver!, Dead Man, End of the Golden Weather, Once Were Warriors, Paris Texas, Mask, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Aguirre Wrath of God, Barry Lyndon, A Streetcar named Desire, Pulp Fiction, Elizabeth. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, LA Confidential, Metropolis, Donnie Darko, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels, Heat, Cabaret, The Colour Purple, Waiting for Guffman, Withnail & I, Wah Wah, Billy Elliot, The Sound of Music, The Red Violin, High Fidelity, Ryan's Daughter, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone With the Wind, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, great expectations, Kes, Gregory's Girl, Gandhi, Local hero, Secrets and Lies, Harold and Maude, Midnight Cowboy, Focus, Little Miss Sunshine, The Breakfast Club, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Billy Liar, Some Like it Hot, Tootsie, The Meaning of Life, Toy Story, Dr Strangelove, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Godzilla vs the Smog Monster, Enemy Mine, A.I, Minority Report, Gattaca, Baraka, Roger and Me, Get Real, To Be and To Have, My Beautiful Laundrette

Shameless, The Royle Family

 Shameless, The Royle Family

Deso, my family and friends and of course, myself.

 Deso, my family and friends and of course, myself.

Anyone who has experienced the complete spectrum of life and remained reasonably sane

 Anyone who has experienced the complete spectrum of life and remained reasonably sane