Friends whether they are near or far, in touch every day, or only occasionally, are an important part of my life. It takes a while for me to fully trust a new acquantance, but once I do I plan on keeping them as a friend for life. (OK, that sounds a little freaky, but I'm sure you get the general idea!)
Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Richard E Grant, Joss Whedon, Andy Hallett (again), Nuno Bettencourt, my friends, new bands...
Favourite band of all time is Kiss (and by association the number 1 european kiss tribute band Dressed to Kill ), but do have a fairly eclectic taste in music, have a real mixture of 70's rock, 80's pop and rock, 90's rock, well you get the idea. Favourite new band are Red Star Rebels - super cool and very talented bunch of sleazy assed musicians who had me hooked within 30 seconds of seeing them live for the first time.
Other musical likes are many and varied.
a-ha and Wet Wet Wet are the loves of my early teenage years.
Then came Extreme, and from there we go to Aerosmith, Guns N Roses, Motley Crue, Skid Row, Queen, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Terrorvision, Iron Maiden, Type O Negative and Pink Floyd.
Then there is Harry Connick Jnr. Beautiful music sung with a lot of passion, great for relaxing to.
By no means an exhaustive list, but one that may give an insight into the weird and wonderful thing that is my CD collection...
Aliens, American Pie, Batman Begins, Benny & Joon, Bugsy Malone, Calendar Girls, Chasing Amy, Clue, The Corpse Bride, Coyote Ugly, Cube, Detroit Rock City, Dogma, Donnie Darko, The Fisher King, The Green Mile, Harry Potter, Kinky Boots, K-Pax, Lord of The Rings Trilogy, The Lost Boys, Mallrats, Monsters Inc, Once Upon a Time In Mexico, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Preaching To The Perverted, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Serenity, Shaun Of The Dead, Shrek (1 & 2), Singin' In The Rain, Star Wars (Episodes IV, V and VI), Still Crazy, The Sixth Sense, Spiderman, Watership Down, Wah-Wah, Withnail & I, X-Men (1 & 2), Yellow Submarine
Joss Whedon is a god. From that you'll realise that I am a bit of a Buffy and Angel fan. I also love his western in space series Firefly which was cruelly axed before it's time.
Other TV faves are Lost, Doctor Who (David Tennent grew up 5 miles from where I live!), Life On Mars, Hustle, Sea of Souls, Smallville, Battlestar Galactica (new one), Desparate Housewives, Farscape, Twin Peaks.
I love reading. Favourite authors include (but not limited to) Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Jasper Fforde, Iain (M) Banks, Lauren Henderson and Tad Williams.
Comics - I adore the X-Men, but only recently started reading any X-Men comics. Once again Joss Whedon is god and the story arc he is developing in Astonishing X-Men is fab.
And then there is Mike Kunkel's nostalgic view of childhood in the wonderful Hero Bear and The Kid
Joss Whedon is god - nuff said!
Also Richard E Grant is not only a talented actor and writer, but also a rather fantastic director. His directorial (and film writing debut) is Wah-Wah and it is fabulous.
My mum was a wonderful person who never found life easy to understand, but never gave up - she fought right to the end - I love you mum - RIP