I'd like to meet:
I'm still in denial about the internet being a socially acceptable way to meet people.
Music:
Ah, there's plenty...
Go check my LastFM: http://www.lastfm.com/user/rowsbette
Favourites at the moment include The Pipettes, Bjork, Tom Waits, the Smiths, 65daysofstatic, Kyuss, The Velvet Underground and Squarepusher. Aside from that, I'm loving:
Rock: Led Zeppelin, Faith No More, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Guns N Roses, Aerosmith, QOTSA, AC/DC, Ministry, Audioslave, Mr Bungle, Tomahawk, the Cure, Pop Will Eat Itself, Buckcherry, Dream Theater, A Perfect Circle, the Rolling Stones, Ugly Kid Joe, Therapy?, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Wildhearts.
Electro: Aphex Twin, Felix Da Housecat, Miss Kittin, Erol Alkan, Chicks on Speed, DJ Shadow, Peaches, Motormark, 2manyDjs, Andrew Weatherall, Jacques Lu Cont, the Glimmers, Hot Chip, Radioactive Man, Underworld, Ladytron, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Fat Truckers, Goldfrapp, the Rapture.
Girl Rock: PJ Harvey, the Noisettes, Betty Blowtorch, Gravy Train!!!, Le Tigre, Sleater Kinney, the Gossip, the Slits, Bikini Kill, Lennon, the Breeders, the Runaways, The Organ, the Long Blondes, Bis, Halfcocked, Skunk Anansie, Elastica, Republica, Sleeper.
Post-Rock: A Silver Mt Zion, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Pelican, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, We Followed Tigers, Esmerine, Les Georges Leningrad.
Punk.. sorta: Fishbone, Dead Kennedys, The Clash, Gang of Four, Sublime, Operation Ivy, Iggy and the Stooges, the Ramones.
Grunge: L7, the Melvins, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Tad, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Temple of the Dog, Mother Love Bone, Mark Lanegan, Dinosaur Jr, Mad Season, Sonic Youth, Stone Temple Pilots.
Softer Girl Stuff: Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Ani Difranco, Cat Power, Bic Runga, Leona Naess, Tracy Chapman, Poe, Nouvelle Vague.
Other: Jeff Buckley, eels, Joy Division, Morrissey, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers (the older stuff), Soul Coughing, The Pixies, Cake.
I hate trying to categorise stuff, it just seemed necessary here. I still favour CDs over mp3s, old-fashioned maid that I am.
Movies:
Favourite films include Withnail and I, Memento, Abres Los Ojors and Human Traffic. Mean Girls will always have a special place in my heart though.
Television:
Twin Peaks, Lost, Peep Show and Family Guy are the only shows to which I'll admit being addicted.
Neighbours and Eastenders both got rubbish, so I'm warming towards River City nowadays.
Books:
Kate Atkinson, Angela Carter, Paul Auster, Milan Kundera, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland...
Favourite book of all time? Toss up between Kundera's Immortality and Laura Hird's Born Free.
Heroes:
This makes me wanna start singing the Stranglers...