First and foremost I am an artist...a creative. I love the theatre, design, animation, all things that require any sort of creativity. I'm also a big computer geek. I've been neck-deep in technology since 1995 and can't see myself slowing down. I enjoy being outdoors, but it's difficult in Texas where it's almost dangerous to be outside several months of the year. I love skiing, biking, and climbing. I'm also very passionate about driving. It's my chill place...my thinking zone...where around the bend, anything might just be possible.
Anyone who's interesting or interested in all things organic, digital, mind-altering, body-moving, soul-shaking, and otherwise tangible. In other words, those who take care of themselves, enjoy their digital lifestyle, don't mind the occasional trip to a high-er level, love music and couldn't imagine life without it, love to love the people closest to them, and just love (or want to love) the world they live in.
All types of Electronic Music. Lately I've been really getting into breakbeat artists such as DJ Baby Anne, Afterlife, DJ Doboy, Babble, Johnny Breaks Chicago, Cafe del Mar, Hybrid, BT, etc. etc. I also really dig a lot of industrial dance such as Assemblage 23, Frontline Assembly, Front242, old Ministry, as well as ambient/industrial projects like Delerium and Conjure One...pretty much anything the Canadian industrial crews get their claws into. I have a list of synth acts that I love that could take this entire page up, but at the top my list generally starts with Iris, Seven Red Seven, Cosmicity, The Echoing Green, Electronic/NewOrder, Mesh, and the standard Depeche Mode and Cure fixes that I require semi-annually. :)
Well, the first 5 are in order...after that it's all stream of consciousness: Apocalypse Now (REDUX is long, but worth it). Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Heat, and Eyes Wide Shut. From there, in no order, there's The Fountain, Miami Vice (wonderful!), Better Off Dead, Say Anything, Friday the 13th 1,2 and 6, Halloween 1, 4 and the Producer's Cut of 6, all of the new Horrorfest films (good job everyone!), Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Black Christmas (the original), Hostel, The Goonies, Ski School (if you've seen this, we need to talk), anything by Larry Clark, especially Bully (most brilliant filmmaker of our time, if only for his courage), Irreversible by Gaspar Noe (SEE THIS!!! IT'LL BLOW YOUR MIND), Suicide Club, Marebito, Kairo, Ju-On, Ringu...the list goes on and will go on as soon as I sober up.
Don't watch TV. That big, bad, evil box! Wait...do Twin Peaks episodes on DVD count?
Anything by Douglas Coupland. Also generally into anything my wife reads first. :) My favorite this year has been "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote Fight Club. Since I'm here in 'Books', I have to mention "The Beach" by Alex Garland, which was brilliant on so many levels then completely drilled by Hollywood into a DiCaprio suck-job. Forget you saw the movie, buy the book, and prepare to be taken on a real strange trip...
Anyone who pushes themselves to the limit...then pushes the limit even further.