What silly arse only gave us 24hours in a day!?! if it had been 48 then i might have a chance to engage in what i enjoy. I have far too many hobbies, many of which you won't understand.
ROBOTS!, ROBOTS!, BIG SODDING JAPANESE ROBOTS RULE MY LIFE!!!!!
I collect Henshin Cyborgs and Microman action figures from Japan and have done for the last 30 years. Transformers are driving me out of the damn house, 650+ of the quick change buggers currently live with me. I write scripts and illustrate, I was into anime and manga before YOU! Which from the age of 5 has been a huge influence on how i see things, think and draw.
I'm hugely into the military history of the Third Reich and the combat divisions of the Waffen SS. Which moves me swiftly on to World War 2 militaria - the eternal black hole which a large chunk of my money dissapears into, i collect Third Reich parade daggers, bayonets and swords, and yes the only way these leave me is when they're taken from my cold dead hands! and only then after i'm beheaded first..... or shot....or both.
For over 25 years i was as addicted to the Star Wars films as George Micheal is to public toilets but am now in de-tox and doing fine.
I based my life on Gi Joe and see no reason to change.
Other random but still active interests, skateboarding, photography, music, films, i'm always reading - mainly horror history and military autobiographies, HUGE FUCKING CONCRETE BUNKER ARCHITECTURE!!!, architecture in general, but mainly urban structures, the sculptures of Arno Brekor, the artwork of Masamune Shirow, the photography of Don McCullen, Tim Page and Joel Peter-Witkin, camoflage clothing (but only military issue), ballistic firepower technology, music and the eternal struggle to grab an extra half hour in bed.
Theres much more but thats the main contents of my frontal lobe. *
Music:
Why do people spend days filling in the 700 bands that they like when people only scan over the reams of band names. Guess what fucker? No one spends more than five seconds reading it. Seven words from me to you, metal, punk, stoner rock and some indie. There wasn't that easier?
Top ten bands of all time though (in no particular order) Janes Addiction, Swervedriver, Dinosaur Jr/ J Mascis and The Fog, Perfect Circle, Tool, Slayer, Black Flag, Deftones, Mudhoney and Nine Inch Nails. There, thats all you're getting here.
Movies:
War, gore and a double spatula helping of horror is what keeps my DVD player in work. Hollywood horror films, as anyone outside of the US will know are notoriously rubbish, either second rate remakes or MTV style shite (same goes for most action films) so the kings of horror and weirdness are undoubtly all east asian directed.
Favourites diectors and films include the lactating weirdness of Takeshi Miike (MPD Psycho, Visitor Q, Happiness of The Katakuris, Untold Story, Gozu), Ryuhei Kitamura (Azumi, Versus, Alive, Sword of the longinus, Godzilla final battles) John Woo (the GOD of gun fights Hard Boiled, Bullet in The head, The Killer, A Better Tomorrow) Takeshi "Beat" Kitano (hardest man alive!!! Sonatine, Violent Cop, Boiling point, Battle Royale, Bones and Blood,brother) Shinya Tsukamoto (tetsuo the iron man 1 and 2, Tokyo fist), Shimizu Takashi (Ju-on 1 and 2)
Other films i can't live without are Saving Private Ryan, Der untergang, Das Boot, the Star Wars sextrupology, Apocalypse Now, any anime by masamune Shirow (Appleseed and Ghost in The Shell) Uzumaki, Cursed, Evil Dead trilogy, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Brotherhood, anything with zombies in it, But mainly the Romero classics, Jin-roh and spin-offs and a hundred others which i can't be arsed to type but you get the gemeral idea!
Television:
Grrr!!! Satans widescreen box in the corner tries to suck the life out my spare time but it dosen't catch me with it's flashing allure. However when it does it's mainly the history or discovery channel or fly on the wall programmes. Lost is a must have exception though.
Books:
Yes i do read them! The real things as well! Hardback covers, loads of words and no pictures! About 30 a year. Mostly German military history and autobiographies. A bit of horror fiction and shedloads of comics and graphic novels ( no superhero shite though) and if anyone is reading this with NME, Loaded, Cosmopolitan etc on this section of their myspace, stop deluding yourself! Don't be so sodding lazy and illiterate and get off your arse and expand your mind a bit!
Heroes:
Some i've met, most are dead, a few i've saved for another day.
I wanted to meet Kurt Cobain when i was younger and then got to interview him on the nevermind tour 1991 for a magazine. As you're not meant to speak ill of the dead, i'll just say he was a miserable, junkie cunt and leave it at that. Dead heroes include Michael Wittman, Tim Page and my very own uncle Addy. I met ( and got pissed with ) most of my musical heroes but never got to meet Perry farrel or J Mascis (now just watch them both die in the next few weeks now i've typed this!) Lastly, the owner of Haribo jellies, the true living god on earth!
