I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet with my friends a lot more often than I do. Particularly those who have drifted out of my life. Recently I have reconnected with a few old friends and have had more fun than I have in a long time. I suspect that much of the disconnect is my own fault and really hope to remedy that.
Music:
Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a host of other post rock is in high rotation at the moment. Lifelong fan of Depeche Mode. Equally enjoy angry industrial, spooky goth, mid 90s techno-rave, classical, good opera, older EBM darkwave stuff. Have a much longer list of guilty pleaures from the 80s than I'd like to admit to.
Movies:
Top movies in no particular order: Blade Runner, Akira, The Mission, Clue, To Catch a Thief, The Party, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Spirited Away, Heat, Vertigo, Aliens, Boondock Saints, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Sin City. Hype and the lowest common denominator are in and here I am stuck going to art house movies with bad projectors and worse sound looking for someone with something to say.
Television:
I haven't watched TV in some time since the death of Dead Like Me. The shows I loved are dead and gone and I have to wait for them to come out on DVD. Fortunately some have already started: Fawlty Towers, Allo Allo, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Night Court, Looney Toons, Twin Peaks, and Firefly. The only show worth watching now is the Simpsons.
Books:
Love Shakespeare. I re-read at least 3 plays a year with at least 1 tragedy in the rotation at all times. Old horror stories by Poe and Lovecraft. Perfume by Patrick Suskind was given to me by a dear friend some years ago and has quickly become a favorite. William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, Douglas Adams, the works of Tolkien, Eco, Joyce, Hugo, Sartre and Twain. I love old Norse epics and Greek mythology. I read tons of non-fiction history books And yet I freely confess that like millions of others I too anxiously await the next Harry Potter.
Heroes:
It's kind of a strange thing to ask. There is something heroic in every single person I have ever called a friend. Something I greatly admire, usually because it's something I myself lack, but not always. To avoid really going waaayyy too far with this topic I will simply say that my hero is my wife, if for no other reason than that she puts up with me.