Likes:
Gilbert & Sullivan, Colin Wilson, Jerry Cornelius, Zen
& the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence, Three Men in a
Boat, Lucky Jim, The Diary of a Nobody, Mike Oldfield,
Truly, Madly, Deeply, Gregory's Girl, Woody Allen, The Day
Today, John Betjemen, Leftfield, Prince, Dexys Midnight
Runners, Marillion, David Bowie, Brian Tranceau,
Northumbrian Saints, XTC, Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Fist
of Fun, Marston's Pedigree, cats, aromatic crispy duck,
mince pie suppers with salt and sauce, Vouvray, secondhand
bookshops, Civilisation, Victorian advertising, The
Beiderbecke Trilogy, trains, Walden, Finite and Infinite
Games, flirting, Durham Cathedral, Don Cupitt, Trad Jazz,
Underworld, Father Ted, The Fast Show, Akenfield, The
Divine Comedy, DJ Shadow, The Aloof, 32 Short Films about
Glenn Gould, Ford Ka's, The Propellerheads, Time Team,
Brian Eno, The Last Days of Disco, Steve Winwood, James
Bond films, The Ascent of Man, The League of Gentlemen,
Stephen Caudel, Hypercard, Courage Director's bitter,
Arcam, Widescreen TV, Dr. Who, Beth Orton, Tristram Shandy,
Stop Making Sense, Rossini's overtures, Edwardian Musicals,
Berwick upon Tweed, Northern Exposure, Seinfeld, P.G.
Wodehouse, Robert Morley, proper cider, mp3's, Robertson
Davies, Romanthony, BBC Microcomputers, Jerome K. Jerome,
Louis Theroux, Jame/Blue Jam, Blakes 7, Hamburg, digital
photography, Wendy Carlos, Scritti Politti, Moby,
blackboards......
Dislikes:
The French, Birds of a Feather, single issue politics,
pain, ITV sitcoms, Gloustershire, cornish curmudgeonly
people, Blind Date, sprouts, lager, washing powder adverts,
exercise, loud music in pubs, films that are too long,
Bowdlerising films on telly, cleaning cookers, commuting,
sequencing, yappy dogs, most other dogs, on-call, most
adverts for cars, the Welsh, centralisation, rep's, small
portions in restaurants, internet spam, real spam, mobile
phones, quality assurance, almost everything else with the
word 'quality' in the title, Evidence Based Medicine (with
capitals, note), audit, the Research Assessment Exercise,
Counselling, most Alternative Medicine (particularly if the
word 'toxin' is ever used), beggars (particularly those in
Oxford), hangovers, screening slides, the
de-professionalisation of Medicine, roadworks, gameshows,
docu-soaps, Millennium Projects, Teaching Quality
Assessment, loud music in pubs, stage designers with too
much power in operas...