Ideas, reason, music, film, record collecting, military history, anti-theism, cats (especially Chitose), duvets, hot sake, BBQ steak marinated in garlic and soy sauce, researching what makes the geek tick, radios appearing, trading mixes, Iraq, PC chocolate fudge crackle ice cream, running, ravioli and red wine.
Stuff I dislike: Winter, veganism, religion, hip hop, mushrooms, eggplant, liver, hippies, bongo drums, rain, influenza, being broke, drum machines, drug culture, riding the bus, being awake before 11 AM
I'd like to meet:
Please don't add me if I don't know you. Unless you're a cat, of course.
No hippies, obviously.
Music:
In general, effective expressions of sadness, violence, heartbreak and wonder.
Motorhead, Slayer, Iron Angel, Accept, Cliff-era Metallica, Venom, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, Judas Priest, Hellhammer, Grave Digger, Boris, Angel Witch, Metal Church, Exciter, Poison Idea, Discharge, GISM, Anti-Cimex, Bastard, Black Flag, DOA, Life's Blood, Al Green, Ann Peebles, Etta James, Otis Clay, Syl Johnson, Percy Sledge, Otis Redding, Buzzcocks, Real Kids, Clash, Ramones, Saints, Kids, Radio Birdman, Rocket From The Tombs, Undertones, Wire, X, Pagans, Homosexuals, Gang of Four, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, CCR, The Who, Creation, Gram Parsons and the Pipettes.
Fast, loud and stupid. Slow, pretty and literate. Nothing with a drum machine.
Movies:
I like movies with scenes in which TV newscasters describe various disasters and disorder around the world as part of the narrative. I also like scenes that are shot in a movie theatre during a movie.
Recent: The Queen, Notes On A Scandal, Letter From Iwo Jima, Pan's Labyrinth, Half Nelson, Volver.
All-time:
Seven Samurai, Rear Window, The Seventh Seal, Taxi Driver, Das Boot, Nights of Cabiria, Yojimbo, Onibaba, Naked, All Or Nothing, Talk To Her, Fires on the Plain, Roman Holiday, The Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, Man Without a Past, Night of the Hunter, City of God, Withnail and I, Belle Epoque, Stalingrad, various z-grade horror/monster flicks.
Television:
Right now, I'm totally into Peep Show. The Office (UK, of course-- although the American one really isn't so bad either), Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Ali G and Law & Order.
Books:
Military history, music history/criticism, 20th century British fiction, classics. Recently: George Packer, Paul Berman, Richard Dawkins, George Orwell, Jules Verne, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, PG Wodehouse, early Kingsley and Martin Amis, John Keegan, Ian Buruma, Peter Guralnik, Dumas, Richard Meltzer, Albert Camus, Joe Carducci, Michael Herr, Christopher Hitchens, Kazuo Ishiguro. I don't deliberately read male authors exclusively, although it seems to work out that way. Women, please write more books about armoured warfare and heavy metal.
Heroes:
The guy who invented pizza. People who are nice to cats.
