science, spirituality, occult, active dreaming, magi, net and world cultures, jedi mind shit, meaningful dialogue, body language, empathy, ethnopharmacology, anomalies, cats, reading, writing, music, movies, tech geeking, obsessive online gaming, cycling, free climbing, dancing, dumpster diving, people watching, experimental sex, awareness, experience, investigation, doubting, questioning, exploration, acceptance, rejection, sharing, understanding.
Show me, or shut the fuck up.
"Finite games are played within boundaries. Infinite games play with boundaries."
James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
Reality deviants: hyperspace hippies, shapeshifters, mad scientists, seers, oracles, misanthropes, misfits, geeks, artists, musicians, writers, aliens, gamers, dreamers, outsiders, prophets, pagans, predators posing as housepets.
Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Juno Reactor, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Portishead, Underworld, Sub6, digitallyimported.com, Eon, VnV Nation, Love and Rockets, Peter Gabriel, Sarah Mclachlan, Delerium, lots of soundracks, goa trance, synth, 80's, classical, just about anything with orchestral and/or ethereal qualities. The language of music moves me more than lyrics.
Almost every popular band out there consists of: a dude on drums, a dude on bass, one or more dudes on guitars, maybe a dude ..board, and one or all of them yelling into microphones. They perform endless variations of the same shit with the same instruments. Ok, I'll give them respect for having musical talent, and because being in any band is a tough gig. But don't expect me to like them.
A Beautiful Mind, Akira, Aliens, American Beauty, American History X, American Psycho, An American Werewolf in London, Apocalypse Now, Baraka, Battle Royale, Blade Runner, Boiler Room, The Bourne-Identity, Brazil, The Butterfly Effect, Catch Me If You Can, The City Of Lost Children, Close Encounters of the Thrid Kind, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Cypher, Dark City, The Dark Crystal, Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within, Dead Poet's Society, Dead Man, Death to Smoochy, The Devil's Advocate, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Drunken Master, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Finding Neverland, Finding Nemo, Full Metal Jacket, Garden State, Gattaca, Ghost Dog, Ghost In the Shell, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Good Will Hunting, Grosse Pointe Blank, Hero, I Robot, Ichi The Killer, Identity, Intacto, Kill Bill, Labyrinth, The Last Temptation of Christ, Layer Cake, Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Magnolia, Memento, Musa the Warrior, The Name Of The Rose, Neo-Tokyo, The Ninth Gate, Office Space, One Hour Photo, The Order, Pi, The Princess Blade, Requiem For A Dream, The Secret of NIMH, Seven, Shakes the Clown, The Sixth Sense, Slacker, SLC Punk, Smoke Signals, Strange Days, The Thing (John Carpenter), Training Day, Trainspotting, Twelve Monkeys, Unbreakable, Underworld, Vanilla Sky, The Village, Waking Life, Watership Down, Wolfen, What The Bleep Do We Know, Zatoichi, Zero Effect...
Anything Kurosawa, Johnny Depp, Kubrick, Monty Python, old skool Jackie Chan. Trilogies (these i'll watch all night in order): LOTR, Matrix, Potter, Star Wars. (I keep hearing there were more SW movies made, but I think I blocked them out)
I'm actually keeping up with a number of shows, but I still can't stand to watch them on tv because the commercials are atrocious and cause an alarming drop in IQ. So instead I download them. Note: subliminal advertising has been banned in the UK but is still perfectly legal in the US.Recent addictions: House, West Wing, BG2K, Heroes, BBC Horizon... several others I need to catch up on like Six Feet Under, Sorpranos, Bullshit... and a few more I'll still watch again even though they've been cancelled or concluded: Carnivale, Rome, Bab5.
I read a lot, but mostly online. I don't have that many books around but the ones I do have are precious to me. Most of them have to do with theoretical and fringe science, sci-fi and fantasy, various occult subjects, world religions, tons of old gaming manuals, outdated computer crap, and a few classics. I didn't acquire a taste for reading for pleasure until after college, and by then I had an entire world of material available on the Net. But I admit that lounging around with a good old book in hand and warm/cold coffee for hours (sometimes days) is much better than doing the same in front of a computer.
Some fav authors: Neal Stephenson, Uncle Terence, K. Eric Drexler, Terry Pratchett, Nigel Pennick, and dozens more who wrote one or two phenomenal books, yet hardly anyone has ever heard of them.Recently I've been eyeing Chuck Palahniuk's stuff (Fight club, Survivor, Diary, Choke...)
Sequoiah. Terence McKenna. Pythagoras. Jacques Cousteau. My grandmother. That guy who pied Bill Gates.