à bout de souffle; brazil; rumble fish; harold & maude; whitnail & i; wonder boys; le grand bleu

the shawshank redemption (doesn't everybody); dead poets society

i've never left the cinema during a film; but i fell asleep during je vous salue, marie, protesters outside the cinema notwithstanding

tim burton, jean-luc godard, pedro almodovar, peter greenaway, gus van sant

too numerous to mention

anyone who respects language and can make it their own

i'll have an ipod with my collection on it, thanks: it features everything from bach to bacharach and from damien rice to the libertines, with david gray a permanent favourite, as are, lateral thinkers would be able to guess, the turin brakes.

i seem to be giving 'a prayer for owen meany' by john irving over and over again, and, more recently, my own novel to long-suffering relatives and friends...

breakfast (it's going to be an exhausting day)

the mac. though it owns me quite as much as i own it.

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