Japan -Language,culture, cinema, music. Cooking - coming second to Japanese I just LOVE it, Kitty, Making stuff - either with purpose as in D.I.Y or random crap, Useless facts and trivia - how things work, People or rather their brains.
Chefs, comedians and musicians who can teach me how to cook better, be more funny and entertain me with sweet sweet melodies :)
Quite an array spanning anything from Rawk to Noize and featuring ambient, pop, folk, classical and loung along the way. If it's got a tune and it makes me wiggle it gets in. Here are just a few: System:FX, Samantha Whates, Feindflug, Orbital, Nine Inch Nails, Noisex, Welle Erdball, God Module, Negative Format, Oil 10, Manufactura, Das Ich, Velvet acid christ, Amduscia, Hocico, De/vision, Diva destruction, Grendel, Kiew, Melotron, xotox, Marilyn manson [antichrist superstar/Portrait of.. day], And one, Dismantled , Gravity Kills , Mesh, Depeche Mode, Neuroticfish , Prodigy, Razed In black, Stromkern, Wolfsheim, Faith No More, Knife, Bjork, Daft Punk, Android Lust, Fetish 69, Wai pi Wai, Aphex Twin, Postal service, Emilie Autumn, Shiny toy guns Richard Cheese, Comodore 64 tunes, Amy Whinehouse, Sergio mendes, Blue-rose-code [well the flute part really impresses me ;)], Jingles, good-hooks and la la la's... many many !
Like Music my love of films cannot be contained with pesky genres. Although I generally can be found mingling amongst cult classics [or at least a classic to me!] and indie films. I am not one for girlie weepers it has to have some "cojones". Or a rather large amount of cheese. Some of my favourites include: Severence, Ichi The Killer, Sky High [Anything by Ryuhei Kitamura], From Dusk Till dawn, Lost boys, Charlie & the chocolate Factory [original], Wizard Of Oz [original], Shaun of the dead, Devils, Labyrinth, Requiem for a dream, Napolion Dynamite, Constantine, Terminator, Predator, Alien, Day of the dead [and subsequent sequels/prequels], Watership down :(, Howl's Moving Castle, Night of the living dead[s], Evil dead trilogy, Oldboy, Last life in the universe, Ashura, Lady Vengeance, 15, Reanimator series, Demonic toys, basketcase, Zatoichi, Goonies, Reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, true romance, Doberman, Man bites dog and a whole host of others.
Not much TV is watched at 'our gaff' however these wee beaties can be added: Masterchef, Gordon ramsey, Two fat blokes on a bike, Never mind the buzzcocks, I'm alan partridge (ahh haaa), Nighty night - but only the first series, Mighty boosh, scrubs, ugly betty.
The Nice & Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Black Dhalia, Hannibal, American Psycho, Filth, Learning Japanese the manga way, Cookbooks - Japanese, Mediterannean.
People who can make those around them smile and laugh whatever the situation.