Oh, what to say? British. Muso. Singer. Pagan. Straightedge. DJ. Bassist. Writer. Ex-student (technically an archaeologist, but we'll ignore that). This may make me sound more interesting than I in fact am.
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Music (playing, listening and creating), writing (prose, poetry and lyrics), spirituality (mainly pagan styles but I am also extremely interested in most of the religions I've read about), theology, philosophy, archaeology, reading, films, metaphysics, psychology (especially Jungian), evolutionary theory, palaeontology. Oh, and porn.
Anyone, really. As long as they're not completely insufferable socially or some kind of ridiculously bigoted idiot.
Deep breath here. Tool, The Cure, VNV Nation, Godflesh, Therapy?, Ministry, Front Line Assembly, Jesu, Assemblage 23, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Alkaline Trio, Coheed And Cambria, Neurosis, Combichrist, The Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Eat World, Will Haven, Iron Monkey, Raging Speedhorn, Meshuggah, Covenant, The Smiths, Tori Amos, Swans, Rammstein, Shellac, Pig Destroyer, Big Black, Nine Inch Nails, Mastodon, Earthtone9, Atari Teenage Riot, Echo Image, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Cubic Space Division, Bleeding Through, Joy Division, Hundred Reasons, Hot Water Music, Icon Of Coil, Killing Joke, Funeral For A Friend, Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Glassjaw, Helmet, Droom, The Birthday Massacre, Glassjaw, Skinny Puppy, Sikth, Queen, The Psychedelic Furs, Cult Of Luna, Clutch, REM, Cold, Rival Schools, Pitchshifter, Mogwai, Neuroticfish, Sigur Ros, KMFDM, Life Of Agony, System Of A Down, Placebo, Type O Negative, The Sisters Of Mercy, Bauhaus, A Perfect Circle, AFI, Depeche Mode, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, The Blueprint, Brand New, Downset, Cypress Hill, The Black Heart Procession, Faith No More, Deicide, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Cyclefly, Head Automatica, Fear Factory, Katatonia, Far, Interpol, Mazzy Star, Fugazi, Idle Hands, Hopesfall, Time In Malta, VAST, Today Is The Day, Psycore, Thursday, Seabound, Thrice, Devin Townsend, Static-X, Suicide Commando, Pist*on, Strapping Young Lad, Shai Hulud, Poison The Well, Onedice, Miocene, Misery Loves Co., One Minute Silence, Longview, Lacuna Coil, Marcy Playground, and many many others.
Anything directed by Terry Gilliam or Kevin Smith, plus Donnie Darko, Labyrinth, Lord Of The Rings, Event Horizon, High Fidelity, The Matrix, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal, X-Men, Ravenous, Predator, Alien, The Mummy, Highlander, Elizabeth, Plunkett And Macleane, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Princess Bride, Cube, Pi, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice, Being John Malkovich, Equilibrium, The Frighteners, The Goonies, Gremlins, Pitch Black, Dog Soldiers, Deathwatch, The Blair Witch Project, The Brotherhood Of The Wolf, 28 Days Later, Team America... That enough?
I don't really watch much television, but - Lost, Firefly, Futurama, Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The League Of Gentlemen, Spaced, The X Files, The Day Today, Nathan Barley.
My favourite book is 'The Thief Of Always' by Clive Barker. My reading aside from that is fairly varied, and includes a lot of comics - mmm, geeky. So other stuff by Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Dave Sim, David Eddings, Robin Hobb, Tad Williams, Umberto Eco, H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Chris Claremont, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Bernard Cornwell, Stephen Jay Gould, Terry Pratchett, Robert Rankin, M.R. James.
Well for a start see my list of writers. Musically - Maynard James Keenan, Tori Amos, Justin Broadrick, Burton C Bell, Trent Reznor, Karl Middleton, Andy Cairns, Robert Smith, Ian Curtis, Daryl Palumbo. In the real world - the Comte St.Germain, Martin Luther King, Kofi Annan and various others willing to stand against the tide of history.