Gigs, festivals, metal, literature, late nights and lie-ins, alcohol, history, my cat, sleeping outdoors, cinema, natural beauty, interesting conversation, photography, travel, imagination.
Genuine people who are friendly and have something worthwhile to say.
I love metal, especially black, folk and doom. My absolute favourite bands are Moonsorrow, Windir, Catamenia and Dornenreich. Some other bands that I particularly enjoy are - Shape Of Despair, Falkenbach, Nokturnal Mortum, XIV Dark Centuries, Thy Serpent, Arkona, Thyrfing, Ashen Light, Fjoergyn, Reverend Bizarre, Vreid, Bathory, Primordial, Severnie Vrata, Kampfar, Taake, Seth, Mael Mordha, While Heaven Wept, Negura Bunget, Myrkgrav, Centurions Ghost, Alcest, Ruins Of Beverast, Cor Scorpii, Golden Dawn, Barathrum, Amon Amarth, Angantyr, Menhir, Burzum, Of The Wand And The Moon, Thiasos Dionysos, The Meads Of Asphodel, Drudkh, Immortal, Equilibrium, Summoning, Enslaved, Heidevolk, Isole, Eluveitie, Rapture, Sear Bliss, Ensiferum, Amorphis, Glorior Belli, Sabaton, Candlemass, Katatonia, Carpathian Forest, Amesoeurs, Emperor, Forefather, Manegarm, Black Messiah, Isengard - etc, etc, etc!
I have terrible taste in films - my favourite is Gone With The Wind - seriously...
Prison Break, Peep Show, Family Guy, Simpsons, Futurama and all that good stuff, Planet Earth
Georges Bataille, Viktor Frankl, J.M. Coetzee, Novalis, Laurence Sterne, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Spenser, Du Maurier (particularly her short stories), Shelley, Kafka, Susan Hill, T.S Eliot, Paul Theroux, Goethe, and many more - Always looking for good recommendations :)
Ray Smuckles