Burlesque, Tribal Belly Dance, Japanese rope bondage, corsets, sideshows, alternative lifestyles, adopting stray geeks, getting ready for the rubber ball (yes, it does take all year), Singing self indulgently at every opportunity, writing bad poetry and then tearing it up, reading reading reading til my eyes dry up, World domination, shoes, pirates, shoes, ninjas and shoes.
The husband:
I would love to spend all my time on my arse reading comic books, but then my arse would expand to take over the universe and I suspect it would try to do it without me! I think I can hear it planning something, so I do have to go to the gym, but I wouldn't call it interesting. I have discovered that you can read whilst riding on a stationary bike though, so that's my new favourite!
I'd like to meet:
Anyone who knows how to tie the perfect knot, sideshow freaks, gimps, the heavily tattooed, dancers, exhibitionists, Finns (I need to learn your crazy language!), Pirates, Tattoists, old friends, odd friends and everything in between!
The Yard Dogs Roadshow:
the Indigo:
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Music:
TOOL (seen em live thrice, they rule), Perfect Circle, The Horrorpops and other psychobilly types, NIN, MCR, Gogol Bordello, Nü folk, Pentaphobe, Solace, Natacha Atlas, Regina Spektor, Audioslave, Danny Elfman, Marilyn Manson, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Pearl Jam, Massive Attack, Amon Tobin (great to dance to!), circus contraption, Portishead, Tori Amos, Jill Tracy, The Toids, Boxcar Saints, Imogen Heap, Blacq Audio, the sound of children weeping... I'm fickle this list will change tomorrow I expect.
Movies:
Nightmare Before Christmas, Serenity, Night Watch, Hackers (I know, it's lame), Once Upon a Time in China, Secretary, anything by Tim Burton (except planet of the apes, why Tim why?), Kill Bill, anything by Kevin Smith, La Reine Margot, 8 Women (who doesn't like french crime musicals?), Shaun of the Dead, Preaching to the Perverted, Baise Moi, Bound, Batman Begins, Hot Fuzz, 300, I am Dina, Porn - especially hentai or those big budget movie adaptations (my current favourite being the Pirates - the acting is truly class).
Television:
The cool list: Firefly!!! My Name is Earl, Miami Ink, The IT Crowd, The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, QI, Family Guy, Faking it, Carnivale, Deadwood, House, The Museum, anything clever/funny...with an unnecessary amount of boobs.
The embarrasing list: America's next top model (watch those bitches squeal), Sharpe (Sean Bean in britches, nuff said), MADE, Strictly come dancing, So you think you can dance, Living TV in general, anything where Americans throw huge amounts of money at a problem a few licks of paint and some counselling would have solved!!
Books:
Far too many to name, I'm a bookseller for christ's sake!! Ok, if you twist my arm: Neuromancer - William Gibson, American Gods (anything by Neil Gaiman in fact), Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier, Tank Girl, The Plucker - Brom, Night Watch- Sergei Lukyanenko, The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova, Preacher, Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden, anything by Jon Courtenay Grimwood, The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson, Sabriel-Lirael-Abhorsen - Garth Nix, Empress Orchid - Anchee Min, The Religion - Tim Willocks, whatever I last read.
Heroes:
The husband, Dita Von Teese, Gypsy Rose Lee, Teh Moley for putting up with my crap: , Immodesty Blaize, Edward Gorey, Brom, Mark Ryden, Trevor Brown, Rachel Brice: Masuimi Max, Tim Burton, Little Egypt, Catherine de Medici, Patricia from the Horrorpops, Lucrezia Borgia, The powerpuff girls, Kevin Smith, Jessica Rabbit:
all a y'all!
