In no particular order: Music, music, and music (ummm... did I mention I love music?); going to local gigs; travelling to out-of-town gigs; people; road trips; geocaching; fantasy and erotic art; NY Times crossword puzzles (God bless you Will Shortz); NYC; Morningstar Farms veggie bacon; corvids; the LA County Coroner's gift shop; Sharpies; old graveyards; reading; hiking; biking; Fluevogs; Lego; climbing trees; skinnydipping; my kids; my friends; my kids' and friends' artwork and music; movies that make me cry like a baby; movies that make me question my intelligence; movies that make me laugh my ass off; cathedrals; dark humour; champagne, beer and stout; writing; bones; the smell of salty skin; Italian charm bracelets; Till Dawn (it's a T.Rex yahoo group); fishing; picnics at midnight; fetish clothing and clubs; table top RPGs; words; Heidelberg presses; Necromance (a store on Melrose in LA); Artemisia Gentileschi; Northern California/Southern Oregon; duct tape; volunteerism; geckos; Kinder Surprise eggs; science fiction; moss; the SPCA; dancing all night and then walking until dawn; chai tea; being in the pit at metal or punk gigs; Hole in the Wall beach near Santa Cruz; boating; Johnny the Homicidal Maniac; wild flowers; pool; thrift store treasure hunting; camping; hummous with tons of garlic; spiked collars and bracelets; dance; castles; the Three Stooges; trivia; clove cigarettes; Hieronymus Bosch; keypals; the smell of coffee; Kubricks; the LA Music scene; evil bunny lamps; moonlit paths across the ocean; anthropology; kinematics; ballet shoes; licorice flavoured soft icecream/jelly beans/condoms; half gloves, fingerless gloves, and opera gloves; Halloween decorations; ladybugs; cheesy Christmas carols; old leatherbound books; fluffy kittens and cats with 6 toes; diachromatic eyes;
Everyone on the face of the planet! But since that's a wee bit ambitious... I'd like to meet anyone who has eclectic tastes in music, literature, art, movies and fashion. Anyone who is open-minded, intelligent and inquisitive. Anyone who is loyal. Anyone who is honest and has integrity. Anyone who has a sense of humour. Anyone who loves people. Anyone who loves animals. Anyone who enjoys the outdoors. Anyone who is compassionate. Anyone who is pathologically optimistic. Anyone who is WYSIWYG. And especially anyone my age who still thinks there's no greater euphoria than to get in the pit at a really great metal gig :)
This is going to take some time, but here's a start: Antony and the Johnsons, T.Rex, Deadsy, Uberkunst, Doubting Paris, Killing Joke, Yvette Narlock, Pixies, Rammstein, Mindless Self Indulgence, Tchaikovsky, Lacuna Coil, Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, Vivaldi, Pink Floyd, My Brightest Diamond, Genitorturers, Matt Good, Stratovarius, Nightwish, Bowie, Pop Will Eat Itself, Coal Chamber, Arcade Fire, Led Zeppelin, Hanzel und Gretyl, Limblifter, Willie Nelson, Orgy, Jackoff Jill, Diamanda Galas, Slayer, Billie Holiday, Dresden Dolls, Starlit, Duran Duran, Twisted Method, White Stripes, Left Spine Down, Steely Dan, In Flames, Kinks, Darvoset, Sex Pistols, Tom Lehrer, Static-X, Moody Blues, Dimmu Borgir, Bob Marley, Bella Morte, Devendra Banhart, New Model Army, The Dreaming, A Perfect Circle, Faith No More, Gary Numan, Droom, Pitbull Daycare, Barclay James Harvest, Tea Party, Ramones, Dead Can Dance, JJ Cale, Louis Armstrong, Siouxsie Sioux, Heroine, It's A Beautiful Day, Beethoven, Joy Division, Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Murderdolls, Dropkick Murphys, Pentangle, Ozzy, Click, Carole Pope, Social Distortion, Stabbing Westward, Foo Fighters, Johnny Cash, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bauhaus, Birthday Massacre, Pentangle, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Frank Zappa, Sentenced, Patsy Cline, Deadstar Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Devotchka, Lunarclick, Sisters of Mercy, The 69 Eyes, System of a Down, Audioslave, Goldfrapp, Apocalyptica, Baby Scream, Jeepster, Ginger, From A Great Height, Inger Lorre, Jeff Buckley, Cocorosie, Rocco DeLuca and the Burden
This will also take awhile... Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Waking Ned Devine, Withnail and I, Wizard of Oz, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Willow, Labyrinth, Harold and Maude, Siesta, The 13th Warrior, Highlander, The Professional, Wings of Desire, The Lost Boys, The Princess Bride, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Conspiracy Theory, The City of Lost Children, Donnie Darko, Shakespeare in Love, American Beauty, The Rabbit Proof Fence, The Neverending Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chasing Amy, Of Human Bondage, Billy Elliott, Freaks,
I never used to watch TV, but now I am hooked on Battlestar Galactica, Dexter and Heroes :)
Anything by Raymond Feist, Anne Rice, Terry Pratchett, Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle, O. Henry or Vladimir Nabokov; War and Peace; A Warrior's Tale; The Hobbit (no, not LotR - that book is in desperate need of a good editing and would never have been published today!); Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Les Miserables; Anna Karenina; Of Human Bondage; The Devil's Dictionary; The Name of the Rose; The Odyssey; The Prophet; Franny and Zooey; Pillars of the Earth; Perfume; Ender's Game; Contact; Delta of Venus; The Left Hand of Darkness; The Count of Monte Cristo; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; Deborah Chesher's newly published book "Everybody I Shot Is Dead"http://www.cheshercat.com/everybody.html
Jesus Christ and Colonel Stanislav Petrovhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov