Writing and directing. And video games. I wish I could draw. Soupy twist.
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Music:
Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Bjork, Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Killing Joke, Bauhaus, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees...Goth and EMB basically, but my "various" playlist freaks people out in comparison. I like one opera, Lakme by Leo Delibes, and I hate country and rap (sorry, Jer...) Always have.
Movies:
It would be too long a list to actually list all of my favourites. So I'll list genres and subgenres.
I love horror movies. I don't mind, and tend to even enjoy, the occassional stupid horror movie, but I'm a believer that "well-written" and "horror film" are not mutually exclusive.
My favourite horror film, the truly life-changing one, was A Nightmare on Elm Street. It's the Good vs. Evil, Freddy vs. Nancy dynamic that I admire the most from this film; a strong female protagonist and strong male antagonist. I love it. Freddy's an interesting character, but Nancy is amazing.
Zombie movies are my favourite subgenre, with an emphasis on Romero's zombies and a special inclusion for Fulci's zombies because zombie vs. shark? Priceless.
Asian horror films are fantastic. My favourites come from Japan, but Korea is really catching up. A Tale of Two Sisters is brilliant.
Martial arts films are another favourite... I LOVE Michelle Yeoh and Jackie Chan and we must all keep an eye out for Tony Jaa. That man is insane, but amazingly talented.
If I watch a comedy, it has to be really special. I love clever, well-written comedies and loathe the painfully obvious, over-the-top ones. And that's most of them. Makes me sad... My favourite recent comedy would be Tropic Thunder.
Favourite films from my childhood include: The Last Starfighter, The NeverEnding Story, Legend, Labyrinth, D.A.R.Y.L., The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Explorers, Ferris Bueller, Tron, and WarGames.
Favourite directors include: Jodie Foster, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Spike Jonze, Tony and Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, George A. Romero, Kevin Smith (including Jersey Girl...I thought it was cute), Wes Craven (ignoring Cursed), Park Chan-Wook, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Hideo Nakata, Asia Argento, Akira Kurosawa, Luc Besson, Tim Burton, John Carpenter, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez (not the kid films he's made, but pretty much everything else), Takashi Miike, Terry Gilliam, Mel Brooks, and Danny Boyle.
Favourite actors and actresses include: Susan Sarandon, Madeline Kahn, Asia Argento, Jodie Foster, Hiroyuki Sanada, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Delroy Lindo, Emma Thompson, Joan Cusack, Michael Palin, Michelle Yeoh, Heather Langenkamp, Angela Bassett, Matthew Broderick, Ken Foree, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Duchovny, Bruce Campbell, Meryl Streep, Tracie Thoms, Gillian Anderson, Carrie and Joely Fisher, Shirley MacLaine, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Don Cheadle, Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant, Maggie Cheung Man Yuk, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Uma Thurman, Rosario Dawson, and Catherine Keener. Whew.
I have favourite effects make-up artists, too. The usual suspects, though: Dick Smith (Little Big Man, The Exorcist), Tom Savini (everything not done by KNB up until a few years ago), Greg Nicotero & Howard Berger (KNB baby, yeah! They've done nearly everything else...), and David LeRoy Anderson (he's a Stan Winston/Rick Baker protege whose work I first noticed in Pet Sematary and Alien3. He did the Dawn of the Dead remake make-up, too. Fantastic work there.) The exclusion of Stan Winston and Rick Baker isn't to say that I don't like their work, I just like the work of those whom I've listed more.
Television:
Just the Ten of Us, C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation (Las Vegas, man, not the others), M*A*S*H, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, House M.D., Iron Chef, The X-Files, Azumanga Daioh, Red Dwarf, Firefly, Mythbusters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, 'Til Death (the sitcom not that Paris Hilton crap), Ghost Hunters, and The Daily Show (when I catch it.) In spite of the length of this list, I don't really watch a whole lot of television...I'm usually working, writing, reading, playing a video game, or on the computer.
Books:
The Dune Chronicles by Frank Herbert, The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende, everything Oscar Wilde ever wrote, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Michael Palin's Diaries: The Python Years 1969-1979, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie, everything ever written by Stephen Fry, pretty much everything Shakespeare ever wrote, the Divine Comedy, Postcards from the Edge and The Best Awful, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels...so many more...
Heroes:
My mom, my brother, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Carrie Fisher, Stevie Nicks, Jodie Foster, Emma Thompson, Heather Langenkamp, Samuel L. Jackson, George A. Romero, and Michelle Yeoh among others...
