Music - playing, writing, listening to. I play bass and guitar mostly, and various other things if I can get my mittens on 'em. I listen to most types of music, depending on my mood it can be anything from big band jazz to angry metal to funky breaks. There's likely a big list of things I like further down the page! I write music when I'm feeling a bit down, usually, so if I'm not productive its coz I'm fairly cheery.
Books - I read most things, except for chick-lit. I prefer fiction to non, and I quite like reading a series of books (but I like it when I can read the whole lot at one go). I can normally be spotted reading horror or fantasy (that's the Tolkeiny kind, not the naughty kind), but I do branch out into pulpy crap like Tom Clancy, or the odd bit of actual literature. Not often though. Again, see the list further down for examples.
Films - much like books, I'll watch almost any old crap. I tend to avoid rom-coms, but that's because most of them are bloomin awful. I can't be bothered writing much more here, see the list for examples yet again!
Those things take up most of my non-work life. I play the odd computer game, head out on the booze and dance badly to various forms of music, I take pictures of ducks for some reason, I go on long walks when I'm really bored, and I think about holidays I can't go on.
I'd like to meet:
Interesting, nice, funny, great, gorgeous, cool, geeky, daft, people-y people!
Music:
A Perfect Circle, ABBA, A-Ha, American Head Charge, Amon Tobin, Audioslave, Basement Jaxx, Beck, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, BT, Chemical Brothers, Chimaira, China Drum, Dan the Automator, Dashboard Confessional, David Bowie, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Diana Krall, Dire Straits, Disturbed, DJ Shadow, Dream Theater, Eminem, Ennio Morricone, Eurythmics, Fear Factory, Foo Fighters, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Garbage, George Clinton, George Michael, Goldie Lookin' Chain, Holst, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ill Nino, Incubus, James Brown, Jamiroquai, Joe Satriani, John Patitucci, Killswitch Engage, Lacuna Coil, Lalo Schifrin, Mary J. Blige, Metallica, Mozart, Mudvayne, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, NWA, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Queen, Rob Zombie, Slipknot, Snot, Spineshank, Steve Vai, Stevie Wonder, System of a Down, Taproot, Tenacious D, The Brand New Heavies, The Who, Therapy?, Tool, Turin Brakes, White Zombie, Zakk Wylde, Zero 7
Movies:
The Godfather, The Shawshank Redemption, Dune, Delicatessen, Hard Boiled, The Replacement Killers, The Lord of the Rings, Labyrinth, Dead Poets Society, Collateral, Total Recall, War Games, Dodgeball, Back to the Future, Aliens, The Incredibles, Gridlock'd, The Bourne Identity, Grosse Point Blank, Dirty Harry, Rumble in the Bronx, Highlander, The Goonies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Mask, Donnie Brasco, Ronin, Amelie, Pirates of the Caribbean, Excalibur, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Goodfellas, Full Metal Jacket, Zoolander, Napoleon Dynamite, Die Hard
Television:
CSI, Spaced, Black Books, Smallville
Books:
Clive Barker, Robert Jordan, JRR Tolkien, Robert Zelazny, Tom Clancy, Terry Brooks, Mark Anthony, Elizabeth Haydon, Mark Billingham, Karin Slaughter, Isaac Asimov, China Mieville, Guy Gavriel Kay, Terry Pratchett, Friedrich Nietzsche. Horror, fantasy, sci-fi, crime.
Heroes:
Stuart Hamm, Stuart Zender.
