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Likes and dislikes

Soft Hearted Scientists love the following things and most of them get absorbed into their music:

FILMS: Midnight Cowboy, Stand By Me, My Life As A Dog, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks TV Pilot, Way Out West, O Brother Where Art Thou, Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Backbeat, IT, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Withnail and I, Hound of the Baskervilles, The 39 Steps, The Evil Dead, The Evil Dead 2, Forbidden Planet, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, Biloxi Blues, The Thing (John Carpenter version), The Lady From Shanghai, Citizen Kane, Carry on Camping, Night of the Demon, Night of the Hunter, Airplane, About Schmidt, Easy Rider (despite the crap dialogue), The Wicker Man.

TV DRAMA: Rome, 6 Feet Under, Dexter

BOOKS:Trout Fishing in America, Revenge of the Lawn, So the wind won't blow it all away, A Confederate General at Big Sur (Richard Brautigan) Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, Travels with Charley, Tortilla Flats (John Steinbeck), Big Sur (Jack Kerouac), Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas), Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald, London by Peter Ayckroyd

COMEDY: Alan Partridge, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Laurel and Hardy, Mighty Boosh, Look Around You

CREATURES: Dogs, Cats, Pigeons (especially wood pigeons), Ducks, Duck Billed Platypuses (or Platypi as Alan might say) Squirrels and Octopi, Giant Clams and Parrots (despite a horrible incident in the East End of London in 1989).

PLACES: Coffee Houses, Forests, Garwnant Forest Centre, Bethesda in the summer, Bakewell in Derbyshire, Mountains and Beaches like Llangennith, Newgale Sands and the walk from Llantwit Major to Nash Point on a blue sky day where the rabbits run wild and "the lonely bell rings out for ghosts and me"

MUSIC: Listen to ours then send your answers on a postcard!

SHS DISLIKE: Drunken malevolent townies, Hair trigger temper violent morons, Happy Hour, Stupid Mullets, Big Brother and most Reality TV, Political and Religious Extremists of all kinds, Bad people escaping justice, Unspeakable people who profit and take glee from the extreme misfortune and misery of others (Dexter! Help us out here!), Sports Bars, Big ugly stadiums in the middle of Cardiff, Billy Ray Cyrus, Planning permission corruption, Overpriced Novelty Irish Cider, British Gangster movies, Irvine Welsh, Gurning Dance Culture, Line Dancing, Smug people, Ringtones, Tabloid scumhawks, Paparazzi Vermin, War Criminal slime, and the spectacularly shite British Weather, Vile Boy Bands, Ludicrous Ballroom Dancing Shows, Noel Edmonds' beard, Noel Edmonds' hair, the word "pukka", the word "hearty", positive discrimination in favour of TV voiceover Geordies, and a surly "jobsworth" bus driver we encountered a few months ago (the voodoo doll is coming along nicely).