I'd like to meet:
People who wish to play drums, other drummers, Jackie Chan, Hulk Hogan, Bruce and Brandon Lee, (had they still been alive), Sammo Hung, Takeshi Kitano, Christian Bale, Johnny Depp, Michael Keaton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Terry Bozzio, and god knows who else.
Music:
Fave bands and artists include...
Meshuggah
Lost Horizon
Sonata Arctica
Manowar
The Haunted
Lamb of God
Decapitated
Guns and Roses
Motley Crue
Skid Row
Children of Bodom
At the Gates
Carcass
Pantera
Metallica
Megadeth
Suicidal Tendencies
Beethoven
J.S. Bach
Ennio Morricone
Martin Galway
Danny Elfman
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johnathan Dunn
Stan Bush
Joe Hisaishi
James Newton Howard
Lalo Schifrin
Vince DiCola
Return to Forever
Radiohead
Muse
Portishead
The Cardigans
Chick Corea.
Movies:
I am heavily into films. It is one of my great passions. Over 450 DVD's and many videos. Action, Comedy, Drama, Westerns, Horror, you name it, I've probably got it covered. I particularly like Film Noir, German Expressionist films, Universal and Hammer Horror, Hong Kong and other far east cinema, particularly the Japanese Jidai Geki epics, Chinese Kung-Fu and Wuxia Pian, as well as Japanese Anime. I am also a massive of fan of 80's and 90's action movies.
Fave movies include.
Batman Begins, Batman, Brick, Oldboy, Ichi The Killer, Children of Men, Big Trouble in Little China, Ghostbusters, The Maltese Falcon, Metropolis, The Man Who Laughed, American Psycho, Fahrenheit 451, Blade Runner, Pink Panther Series, Commando, Total Recall, Terminator, Mullholland Drive, Dark City, Princess Mononoke, The Big Sleep, White Heat, Lost Boys, The Running Man, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, Kagemusha, Police Story, Armour of God, The Young Master, Iron Monkey, Ninja in the Dragons Den, Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury, Fist of Legend, 30's Frankenstein, Akira, Nosferatu, Ed Wood, Violent Cop, Edward Scissorhands, Lengend, Scarface, Goodfellas, The Deer Hunter, Apocolypse Now, Rumble Fish, The Shining, Battle Royale, Sonatine, The Killer, A Chinese Ghost Story, Once Upon a Time in China, King of Comedy, The Thing, Hana-Bi, Escape from New York, Memento, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Yojimbo, The Warriors, Bubba Ho-Tep, National Lampoons Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Ghost in the Shell, Blue Velvet, Robocop, Alien series, The Life Aquatic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dogma, Clerks, Mallrats, Pulp Fiction, The Prestige, The Big Lebowski, Fargo and shitloads more....
Favourite directors include.
Kurosawa, The Coen Brothers, Sammo Hung, Tsui Hark, Yuen Woo Ping, Takashi Miike, Martin Scorcese, James Whale, Brian DePalma, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Kinji Funasaku, Hayao Miyazaki, Oliver Stone, Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Yoji Yamada, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Ridley and Tony Scott, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Alex Proyas, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, James Cameron, Ivan Reitman, John Hughes, Chan Wook Park.
Favourite actors include.
Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Choi Min Sik, John Malkovic, Kurt Russell, Jim Carrey, James Cagney, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Toshiro Mifune, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Gary Oldman, Humphrey Bogart, Christian Bale, Dan Ackroyd, Peter Sellers, John Candy, Steve Coogan, Takeshi Kitano Chow Yun Fat...too many to mention.
Television:
I don't have a TV signal, and i have never missed watching general TV, but i do love quite a few shows. Faves include...Batman the Animated Series, Red Dwarf, Family Guy, Alan Partridge, The Office, The Sopranos, Auf Weidhersien Pet, Blackadder, Bottom, The Young Ones, Father Ted, Rising Damp, Porridge, Fawlty Towers, Brasseye, WWF Wrestling, Takeshi's Castle, Roseanne, Cheers.
Books:
I am quite thinly read (as Eddie Izzard would say!). Anything by Kafka, and Murakami is good though, e.g. The Trial, Metamorphosis, Kafka on the Shore, Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I love comics and graphic novels too. Faves include...A Death in the Family, Venom, The Long Halloween, The Killing Joke, Knightfall, Dark Victory, Year One, The Dark Knight Returns, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, Death and Return of Superman.
Heroes:
Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Musashi Miyamoto, Batman, Hulk Hogan.