I'd like to meet:
Godzilla
Music:
If it's got notes in it, I'll probally like it
Movies:
Sky West and Crooked, The Honest Courtesan, Spinal Tap, Highlander, Mary Poppins, Sleepy Hollow, Velvet Goldmine, Rebecca, Random Harvest, Lady and The Tramp, Whistle Down the Wind, Ghost, American Beauty, Practical Magic, The Aristocats,The Last Waltz, The Big Easy, Benny and Joon, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Sound of Music, Wuthering Heights, Edward Scissorhands, Greencard, Blythe Spirit, 101 Dalmations, Arsenic and Old Lace, Moonstruck, The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Educating Rita, Tootsie, Wings of Desire, Chocolat, Amelie, Point Break, The Jungle Book, Hound of the Baskervilles, Lust For Life, Too Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar.
Television:
Off whenever possible! (Although I'll admit to one or two obsessions)! I will confess at least, to Highlander (the Aidrian Paul series), Charmed (yes, I know, tragic isn't it????), Black Books (one of the best things to ever come out of TV), The Green Wing, Blackadder (another best thing), Monty Python's Flying Circus, Dragons Den, The Wooden Tops, and - probably the best thing to come out of TV in the history of mankind - : The Magic Roundabout!
Books:
If Amazon, Abe, Barnes and Noble, Waterstones, Dillons, Blackwells and their counter-parts have got it, then I'll probably want it!
Heroes:
In the Divine realms: Isis, Hathor, Bast, Sehkmet, Artemis, Athene, Demeter, Persephone, Hecate, Kali, Durga, Ceridwen, Rhiannon, the Morrigan, Brigit, Morgan of Avalon. Osiris, Horus, Ptah, Pan, Dyonisus, Hermes, Herne, Cernunus, Lugh, Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Ganesh, Buddha, Jesus. In the human realms: Ghandi, Lao Tse, Grey Owl, Sitting-Bull, Crazy-Horse, Red-Cloud, Spotted-Tail, Germaine Greer, Veronica Franco, Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear), Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Ploughwright, Victoria Wood. Painters: William Morris, the pre-raphelites in general, Gustav Klimt, Erte, Van Gough, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Brian Froud. Philosophers: Plato, Imanuel Kant, Heraclitus, Kierkegard, John Locke, Jean Paul Satre: Authors: E. M. Forster, Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Storm Constantine, Charles de Lint, Tanith Lee, Mary Shelly, Kit Berry, Richard Bach, Robert Holdstock, Terry Windling, Emma Bull, Andrew Harvey, Peter Quiller, Lois Bourne, Sybil Leek ........ as below, the full list would be endless! Other humans: Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst, Dick Turpin and Sixteen Strings Jack, Margaret Rutherford, Joyce Grenfell, Alistair Sim, Sophia Loren, Katherine Hepburn, Stephen Fry, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Michael Bentine, Richard Curtis, Bill Bailey. In the musical realms: Adam Faith (what can I tell you? I was in love with him when I was 3)! Peter Noone (replaced Adam Faith when I was 5)! Marc Bolan, (ousted both of them when I was 11)! David Bowie, Alice Cooper (stopped the clocks when I was twelve, and been in love with him ever since!) Bruce Springsteen (still gorgeous), Paul Weller (fantastic musician), Joe Strummer (ditto), Depeche Mode, Chris Rea (another favourite), Donovan (love of my life), Bob Dylan, Damh the Bard, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchel, Lesley Duncan, Debbie Harry, Kate Bush, Shakespear's Sister (remember them??), Shakira, (all sublime: which just goes to show men aren't the only ones with talent)!! But really, the list of musicians just goes on and on ............... there would never be enough room for them all!! Miscellaneous oddities: Baloo the Bear, Toad of Toad Hall, Spotty Dog (that would be Spotty Dog as in the Wooden Tops, not Spot the Dog - ugh! Dreadful creature)! Little Weed, Archie and Mehitabel, Thomas O'Malley, Eyeore, tigger, Winnie the Pooh, and Dylan the Rabbit, (the most brilliant 'stoned' rabbit of all time! EVER! God only knows what Florence and Zeberdee were on though)!!!
