Mythology. Music (in the form of GOOD music-will explain in the music section...promise). The Occult and all associated practices (nothing New Age please). Ireland. Scotland. Wolves, ravens and dragons. Garnet. The colour blue, and the colour green. Debates. Knowledge. Alcohol is very good also. Pandas, keyboards and copper coins - and above all, the almighty spunge.
Erm...*ponders* I suppose meeting anyone is an experience, whether good or bad. Meeting people is good. Specifically? The dude who invented spunges. Bloody good man.
Also, I suppose I should do the polite thing and give you my email address - after all, it'd be rude not to after saying I like to meet people ;-)
[email protected]
"As the moon who’s silvered fingers play
On words and dreams too cursed for day
She led my hand to lands I’d not accrued
Where the faun dawn bathed her golden hair
And faith renewed, leapt joyous there
I praised their worth, then planned their conquest
Too..."
Flogging Molly, The Pogues, Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, Slaughter & The Dogs, The Exploited, The Birthday Massacre, Theatre of Tragedy, Turisas, Falkenbach, Special Duties, 40th Birthday, Capdown, Sid Vicious, UK Subs, Therion, Combichrist, Rammstein, The Dubliners, Suzanne Vega. Genres in particular? (In no particular order) Folk, Punk (old school and new wave), Industrial, Metal (hair, thrash and death as well as nu, viking, symphonic, opera and folk), ska, reggae, and (shock horror) even classical.
V for Vendetta, The Wicker Man (the original), Beowulf and Grendel, Freddy Got Fingered, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Mallrats, Little Nicky, Nightwatch, Sid and Nancy, Serenity, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Land of the Dead, Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3, The Zombie Diaries, War of the Buttons, Lord of the Rings, Donnie Darko, Twelve Monkeys, King Arthur, Party Monster, Michael Collins, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 300, Transformers (old and new), Labyrinth, Pan's Labyrinth, City of God
I don't really watch television, I don't see the point - but if I do, it's usually South Park, Heroes, films or documentaries
Non-Fiction
-God Against the Gods (Jonathan Kirsch)
-Mastering Witchcraft (Paul Huson)
-The Real Middle Earth (Brian Bates)
-The Leaves of Yggdrasil (Freya Aswynn)
-The Call of the Horned Piper (Nigel Jackson)
-Masks of Misrule (Nigel Jackson)
-Futhark (Edred Thorsson)
-Runelore (Edred Thorsson)
-At the Well of Wyrd (Edred Thorsson)
-The Nine Doors of Midgard (Edred Thorsson)
-Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires (Aaron Leitch)
-The Lesser Key of Solomon (Ed. Peterson)
-The Greater Key of Solomon (Ed. Mathers)
-A Book of Troth (Edred Thorsson)
-Witcha (Nathaniel Harris)
-Teutonic Religion (Kveldulf Gundarsson)
-Teutonic Magic (Kveldulf Gundarsson)
Fiction
-The Way of Wyrd (Brian Bates)
-American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
-The Bartimaeus Trilogy (Jonathan Stroud)
-The Old Kingdom Trilogy (Garth Nix)
-The Black Magician Trilogy (Trudi Canavan)
-Dr Faustus (Christopher Marlowe)
-The Last Kingdom (Bernard Cornwell)
-The Pale Horseman (Bernard Cornwell)
-Lords of the North (Bernard Cornwell)
-Master of the Five Magics (Lyndon Hardy)
-Prey (Michael Crichton)
-The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien)
-The Dune Saga (Frank Herbert)
-The Saga of Hrolf Kraki
-Egil's Saga
-The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings (Kevin Crossley-Holland)
-The Poetic Edda
-The Prose Edda
-The Earthsea Quartet (Ursula LeGuinn)
-Day of the Triffids (John Wyndam)
-The Chrysalids (John Wyndam)
"MICHAEL: So you make your face a mask.
KATIE: A mask that hides your face.
MATT: A face that hides the pain.
JESSIE: A pain that eats your heart.
EMILY: A heart nobody knows."
-Bang Bang, You're Dead
Robert Cochrane, George Pickingill, Gerald Gardner, Nigel Aldcroft Jackson, Andrew Chumbley, Woden, Michael Collins, Beowulf, Isobel Gowdie, Bessie Dunlop, Egil Skallagrimmson, Raven (she knows who she is), and above all are the friends I have (which, incidentally, also includes Raven), because they put up with me, and because they humour me
"Man's greatest aspect is not his vaunted science, but his boundless ignorance - for if he were to come across the truth, it would drive him mad." -H.P.Lovecraft