FAVOURITE THINGS

Colours: Burnt orange, sky blue and golden yellow.

Number: 9.

Drinks: Good wine and champagne, fresh coffee, still mineral water and freshly squeezed orange juice.

Food: Roast lamb and vegetables, salads and anything Italian.

Season: Autumn.

Bands: Chicane, TLC, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Travis, Everything But The Girl, Faithless, Underworld, Propellerheads, Destiny's Child, Coldplay, Massive Attack, All Saints and Air.

Solo: Sinatra, Mary J Blige, Jhelisa, Lauren Hill, Gil Scott Heron, Nitin Sawhney, Moby and Dido.

Favourite Artists: Gustav Klinnt, Stephen Conroy, Jenny Saville, Dali, Munch, Francis Bacon, Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, Gilbert and George, Ashley Cook and Gered Mankowitz.

Films that have had a profound effect: Come and See, Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan, Happiness, Festen and Breaking The Waves.

Comedy Films: Sunshine Boys, Withnail and I, Swingers, any Laurel and Hardy, Monty Pythons - Life of Brian, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Dirty Rotten Scoundrals and The Producers.

Feel Good Films: It's a Wonderful Life, An Affair to Remember, Some Like it Hot and Breakfast at Tiffanys.

Musical Films: Guys and Dolls, Singing in the Rain, Fiddler on the Roof, Sweet Charity and Grease.

Horror Films: The Exorsist.

European Films: Les Enfants du Paradis, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, Betty Blue, Babettes Feast, Like Water for Chocolate, All About my Mother, Three Colours Red (white and blue), My Life as a Dog, Les Amants du Pont Neuf, Cyrano de Bergerac, Toto the Hero, The Seventh Seal, Life is Wonderful and La Belle et La Bette.

Actresses: Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Susan Sarandon, Chloë Sevigny, Angelina Jolie....Emily Watson Patricia Arquette, Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Kate Winslet and Kathy Burke

Actors: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Gerard Depardieu, Richard Burton, Montgomery Cliff, Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Spencer Tracy, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Oldman, Robert Downey Jnr., Steve Buscemi and Anthony Hopkins.

TV Shows: ER, Friends, Frasier, Ally MacBeal, Sex in the City, Cold Feet and Spaced.

Animated Shows: The Simpsons and South Park.

Comedians: Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly, Bill Hicks, Lee Evans, Ali G, Jack Dee and Ryan Stiles

Composers: Mozart, Michael Nyman, John Barry, Burt Baccharach, Gabriel Yared and Ennio Morricone.

Opera: La Traviata.

Opera Singer: Maria Callas.

Books: An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin, The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan, The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Therese Raquin by Zola, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupei and Perfume by Patrick Suskind.

Other Authors: James Joyce, Zola, Knut Hamsun,Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

Currently Reading: Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K Rowling and Adventures In The Screen Trade by William Goldman.

Pass-Times: Travelling, reading, eating out or in, dancing, massage, yoga, driving, chilling with friends or family, good conversation and laughing.

Pets: No, but I've 4 frogs (so far) in the pond in the garden & a hedgehog that comes to visit.

Words Of Inspiration: 1994 Inaugural Speech by Nelson Mandela.

 

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