Recommended Films:
Withnail and I
The Seventh Seal
Wings of Desire
American Beauty
The Usual Suspects
State and Main
The Rutles
Night on Earth
Life is Beautiful
Bedazzled (Peter Cook & Dudley Moore)
Anchorman
Recommended Music:
Cocteau Twins
Saint Etienne
Liz Phair
Lush
Triffids
Go Betweens
Killjoys
The Honeys
Velvet Underground
Matthew Sweet
Kirsty MacColl
Jonathan Richman
Echo & the Bunnymen
Astrud Gilberto
John Coltrane
Iggy and the Stooges
Yes (early)
Genesis (early)
Everything but the Girl (early)
Would-be-Goods
Sade
Radiohead
Pink Floyd
Recommended Books:
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Stars Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry
Barcelona Plates by Alexei Sale
Gridlock by Ben Elton
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Odyssey by Homer
The Illiad by Homer
Candide by Voltaire
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Eco
The Catcher in the Rye by J.P. Sallinger
Tartuffe by Moliere
Candide by Voltaire
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama Surya Das
Recommended Radio/Audio Comedy:
I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue
Hancock's Half Hour
Round the Horne
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
On The Hour
Radio Active
Martin/Molloy
Ben Elton
Rowan Atkinson
Sean Hughes
On The Town With The League Of Gentlemen
Knowing Me, Knowing You
The Navy Lark
Recommended Television:
The Prisoner
Department S
Firefly
Arrested Development
The League of Gentlemen
Blackadder
The Young Ones
Filthy, Rich and Catflap
Bottom
Red Dwarf
Smith & Jones
Fry & Laurie
The Fast Show
KYTV
The Day Today
The Goodies
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Not the Nine O'Clock News
Sean's Show
Seinfeld
The Late Show (Australian)
D-Generation
The Mighty Boosh
Snuff Box
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Recommended Documentaries:
McLibel
A History of Britain
Carl Sagan's Cosmos
The Greeks
The Civil War
Rock around the World
Farenheit 9/11
The Thin Blue Line
Cane Toads
Rats in the Ranks
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