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Pizza Dragon

Renegade Actor/Poet/Writer/Philosopher

About Me

I am a romantic idealist grounded by concerns of ethics and pragmatism, an explorer of the multiverse, student of life, death, and everything else. I seek to learn all I can and impart the same in equal doses. I am unfettered by conservative apologist notions, rather I give any argument or proposition due consideration. I am a merchant of ideas sailing down the river of dreams, wary of river pirates, hostile natives, and dangerous flora and fauna, navigating new waterways and trading in every port I come across in my journeys. Join me and live a little!..

My Interests

Love, Aesthetics, Art, Theatre, Drama, Music, Poetry, Literature, Film, Philosophy, Religion, Politics, Ideas, Games, Roleplaying, Dungeons and Dragons (gasp), People, Places, Things, Dreams, Fantasies, Realities, Possible Worlds, Parallel Universes, Magic, Science, The Ineffable, Metaphysics, Ethics, Society, the Individual, anything on a random whim...

I'd like to meet:

People, preferably living, fictional or otherwise, animals too, some more than others (that goes for all the above)...

Music:

Queen, Madonna, Metallica, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, They Might Be Giants, Type O Negative, Garbage, Counting Crows, Crash Test Dummies, Cake, Nine Inch Nails, Billy Joel, Elton John, Musicals, Scores, Sheryl Crow, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Bic Runga, Stellar, Tool, The Prodigy, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, The Offspring, The Presidents of the United States of America, No Doubt, Bush, Everclear, Alanis Morisette, The Foo Fighters, Fiona Apple, PJ Harvey, The Cranberries, Neil Diamond, Elastica, Dave Dobbyn, Crowded House, Neil Finn, Split Enz, The Ink Spots, The Beatles, Gorillaz, Roxette, Jordan Reyne AKA Dr Kevorkian, Luke Hurley, R.E.M, Marilyn Manson, The Wallflowers, Laurie Anderson, Clannad, ROd Stewart, Enya, The Corrs, Phil Collins, Harry Connick Jr, Radiohead, Natalie Merchant, Republica, Seal, Bush, Live, Simply Red, UB40, The Smashing Pumpkins, Coldplay, U2, TISM, Elvis Presley, Eminem, Green Day, The Dresden Dolls, The Kidneythieves, A Perfect Circle, Evanescence, Storm Large (and Her Dirty Mouth, and The Balls), Patrice Pike, Ginger Leigh, Grinderman, Mika, Feist, Flight of the Conchords, Muse and more...

Movies:

Akira Kurosawa's Samurai films and his Shakespeare adaptations, Monty Python's Quest For The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Highlander, Dune, Blade Runner, The Princess Bride, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Fight Club, The Matrix Trilogy, Harry Potter (all), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Tombstone, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, From Dusk Til Dawn, Evil Dead 2, Evil Dead 3 : Army of Darkness, The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe, Star Wars (all), Star Trek (all), The Usual Suspects, James Bond (all, especially Casino Royale), Akira, Ghost In The Shell, Spirited Away, Pirates of The Caribbean : Curse of the Black Pearl, anything by Pixar, V for Vendetta, The Proposition, anything by Hayao Miyazaki, The Royal Tenenbaums, I 3 Huckabees, Equilibrium, A Scanner Darkly, The Fountain, The Prestige, The Illusionist, Bridge to Terabithia, Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle, Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and many more besides...

Television:

Blackadder, The Young Ones, Six Feet Under, The Family Guy, Futurama, Clone High, American Dad, Bottom, Black Books, Border Cafe, Noir, Star Trek, (all, esp TNG and DS9), Red Dwarf, Father Ted, The Vicar of Dibley, Fawlty Towers, Boston Legal, My Name Is Earl, House, Flight of the Conchords, Space Ghost from Coast to Coast and more to come as I think of them... Oh, and Anime series : Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist, Noir, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and more as I get to see them :P

Books:

Foucault's Pendulum, The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, the Otherland Series, The Eternal Champion series, anything by Chuck Palahniuk (ie Fight Club), The House of Leaves, The Chronicles Of Narnia, The Dark is Rising Sequence, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy of Five Parts, the Dirk Gently novels, the Dune series, and prequels, anything by William Gibson (ie Neuromancer), The Princess Bride, anything by Ben Elton, anything by Haruki Murakami, The Compleat Enchanter and still more to come as I recall...

Heroes:

Some real life ones : M. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jnr, Freddie Mercury, Sir Edmond Hillary (for his work in Nepal, not climbing a mountain, though that's impressive). And fictional (for the most part) characters : Pa Ubu, Blackadder (the second onward), Arnold Judas Rimmer, Alan B'Stard, Bernard Black, Allen Shore, Denny Crane, Earl Hickey, Han Solo, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Tyler Durden, Agent Smith, Merry Brandybuck, Captain Jack Sparrow, The Bride (of Bill), Mad Eye Moody, V (for Vendetta), Jack Skellington (The Pumpkin King), Tigger, Eeyore, Bender, Stewie, Minsc & Boo, Xan, Strong Bad, August Strindberg (& Helium), Paul Atreides AKA Muad'dib AKA The Prophet, Leto II (the God Emperor of Dune), The Avatar of Britannia, Corak, Kane of the Brotherhood of Nod, CABAL of the Brotherhood of Nod, Kain and Raziel, Garret, JC Denton, Solid Snake, Cecil the Dark Knight/Paladin, King Galuf, Locke the Treasure Hunter, Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, Steiner, Auron, Tarnum the Immortal Hero, Elric of Melnibone, Prince Corum, Hawkmoon, Graf Ulrik von Bek, Corwyn of the Nine Princes in Amber, Pug of Crydee, Edward Elric (The Full Metal Alchemist), Kakashi the Copy Ninja, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun (Zilong), Zhuge Liang (Kongming), Pang Tong, Cao Cao, Lu Xun, and I'm sure there's more...

My Blog

Spectrum 4 Online Purchases

 For those of you who have expressed interest in getting a copy of this short story collection from University of Auckland Creative Writing students from the class of Witi Ihimaera, writer of Wha...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:10:00 PST

Solace in Music...

 I think I've hit on the best outlet for my blues whilst whiling away my time at home... music :) Largely ignored since my return home, my neglected cd collection is starting to look like my most...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:57:00 PST

Spectrum 4 Book Launch...

 I'm published! (again) - Spectrum 4 Book Launch - I'm one of the editors and have a story in the collection, from Witi Ihimaera's Stage 3 Creative Writing Class, so come along and maybe come par...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:54:00 PST

Home Again

 And now I'm back home again, later than anticipated, but it meant I got to have a longer holiday, albeit at the cost of my job... oh well, you can't have everything, now, can you?  Upside i...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:55:00 PST

Leaving on a jet plane...

 Yes, it's true, I'm winging my way over to Canada for six weeks, crossing the world's largest ocean and crossing a sub-continent to get to my destination... whee!
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:20:00 PST

I suck.

 Yep, that officially confirms it. Love sucks, I am a fool, and these are two universal truths in my life. Why do I never learn?
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:42:00 PST

Life Goes On...

 Argh, I think I'm going mad with love and longing for someone who remains silent. And there I was thinking that this Valentine's Day might break the trend of a lifetime and actually be a good on...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:07:00 PST

Officially Removing Myself From the Market

 OK, so I was going to write a poem about pizza. And then maybe post some other ones on here, new or old. But I got distracted by other things and haven't done either yet. So so much for that :P&...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:46:00 PST

Battered Angel

Artificial sprite on your solitary perchHaunted eyes spy the mortals' drunken lurchStained glass caged bird, from your window flySpreading tattered wings crippled by the lies Turn your bruises from th...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:16:00 PST

I'm a magic man, I got magic hands...

You are The MagicianSkill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.The Ma...
Posted by Pizza Dragon on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:59:00 PST