Music (collecting records, seeing live shows & performing it myself), supernatural fiction, comics, Eurogames, British comedy, ghost hunting, tennis. Some other things too.
Anyone worth knowing. We may never talk again, but I'm sure I'd be nice to meet you.I've had the pleasure to meet Mark E. Smith of The Fall, and a bloody nice bloke he is. It'd be a pleasure to meet Patrick McGoohan, Rainer Knizia, Reese Witherspoon, the Mighty Boosh, Joe Quesada, Peter Ackroyd and John Edwards as well.As for dead people, I'd have loved to meet G.K. Chesterton, Curt Boettcher, Tove Jannson, George Sanders, William Howard Taft, the guy who discovered cheese, and my great-great-great grandparents.Relationship-wise, I'm just looking for the Nora Charles to my Nick. Minus all the boozing. Or maybe the Daphne to my Shaggy. Minus all the toking up.
The Fall are, without a doubt, the best pop band of all time. But there are many other musicians worthy of your attention (and mine) - they include: Railroad Jerk, the High Strung, the Kinks, Bill Fay, Pavement, Slade, the Undertones, Lee Hazlewood, Shrimp Boat, Cardinal, Jennyanykind, David Bowie, the Zombies, Jim O'Rourke, the Millennium, Donovan, Talking Heads, the Nightingales, Ween, Home, many more.
The Prisoner, The Mighty Boosh, The X-Files, Kolchek: The Night Stalker, Lottery, The Twilight Zone, The Day Today, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, I'm Alan Partridge, and The Venture Brothers.
The Man Who Was Thursday (Chesterton), The Manticore (Davies), Flicker (Roszak), Finn Family Moomintroll (Jannson), Collected Ghost Stories (James).
Dr. Strange, Bobby Darin, George Sanders, John Peel, Stephen Keene, Manute Bol.