I must say that I do live in ignorance of what is new when it comes to film, music, literature and so on these days. I just think that the past is so rich as the quality has been allowed to rise up and the shit be generally ignored and I like that. You can watch a film like '12 angry men' and it saves you having to bother with 'The grey' or a dozen other Hollywood by numbers films from today.

Sometimes something special and new comes along and I will make an effort to see or hear it, but generally speaking I am quite happy searching through old stuff that I haven't bothered with in the past. For instance, Dickens is ancient, but I had only read the well known books such as Oliver Twist and Great Expectations so am now going to read all the other books. It is old, but to me it is completely new. I am quite comfortable like that.

A film from the '60's, an album from the 70's or a book from the 1840's. If it is new to me then it is new. It doesn't need to be latest or hip. I have no radio, don't watch much TV and only get crappy action imports at the flicks and so I kind of make my own agenda as to what I need to be viewing or hearing.

A bit fuddy duddy, but that's just me.