Tattooing, music, Gollies, archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, mythology, religion, magick, the gentle swastika... all the same thing really.
I'd like to meet:
Someone else from Sirius B
Music:
Extreme metal, doom, drone - Stephen O'Malley, Burning Witch, Teeth of Lions, Sunn O)), Boris, Melvins, Fantomas, Sleep, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Godflesh, Eyehategod, Iron Monkey, Electric Wizard, Upsidedown Cross - through reggae and Afrobeat (Fela Kuti!), with a touch of sleazy (Peaches)/minimalist (Autechre) electronica, Beefheart, Buttholes, Hendrix, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Iggy and the Stooges, Adam and the Ants, Marty Robbins, kwela, kwaito, mbaqanga, and Tibetan Buddhist horns and chanting
Movies:
Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Excorcist, Koyaanitsqatsi, Dark Star, Blade Runner, Team America: World Police, Shaolin Soccer, Babycart series (Shogun Assassin), Bruce Lee, anything and everything by Stanley Kubrick - 2001, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, among others - and David Cronenberg - Rabid, Shivers, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, etc. - and Jim Jarmusch - Ghost Dog, Mystery Train, Coffee and Cigarettes, etc. Apocalypse Now, the first two Star Wars, the first two Aliens, Battle Royale, Death Race 2000, The Nuns, everything by Akira Kurosawa, Japanese horror - Ring, The Grudge... need I go on?
Television:
Not usually into telly (prefer the computer), but watching quite a lot on satellite at the moment, stuck out here in the middle of nowhere! Alternative British comedy - The Office, Alan Partridge, League of Gentleman, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, Spaced, Black Books, Ab Fab - and some not so alternative Brit comedy like My Hero. American sitcoms like Malcolm in the Middle and War in the Home. Animated shows like Futurama and South Park. Adult Swim - Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, etc. News and current affairs, and documentaries - archaeology, military, science, the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic.
Books:
William Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, JG Ballard, Joseph Campbell, Aleister Crowley, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, Homer. I used to have a great reference library in Brighton, but I'm sadly pretty much book-free after my migration back to SA. Starting at the beginning again...
Heroes:
Fela Kuti, Jimi Hendrix, Tony Iommi & Geezer Butler, Stephen O'Malley, Slayer, Boris, Sourvein, Melvins, Darwin, Isembard Brunel, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Boudicca (sorry, I've been playing too much Rome Total War!), Flinders Petrie, NASA, ManWoman, Robert de Niro, Stanley Kubrick, the Great Omi, Tom Leppard, George Burchett, Christian Warlich, Sailor Jerry, Jourgen Christiansen, Rudy Fritsch, Amanda Toy, Chad Koeplinger, Jim Macairt, Jason Mosseri, Tas, Jondix, French Thomas, Mr X, Mr Benjamin, the Malaka Gang, and all the other GREAT tattooists and musicians in the world
