Hockey! Watching it & playing it. Reading. Animals. Writing. Movies. Drawing. Music - all kinds. Baseball - watching & playing. Guitar. Crosswords. Pictionary. Trivial Pursuit. Scattergories. Risk. Boardgames obviously. TV. Sleeping. Eating. Running. Mice. IKEA. Jeopardy! Obtaining money. Zombies. Paintballing!
Chuck Palahniuk, repeatedly, even though I've already quasi-met him twice. The man is just too damn funny. Bill Amend. Irvine Welsh would probably be fun to meet. The Vampire Lestat. James Earl Jones, I want to here him say, "This is CNN." The Teletubbies. The Maytag man, the "retired" one. Samuel L. Jackson, so he can swear at me. And some girl in England named Jenny.Oh yes, and some of my favourite female actresses - Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Evan Rachel Wood, Tamara Hope, Diane Kruger, Zhang Ziyi, Shannyn Sossamon, Emmy Rossum, Anna Paquin (not that I'd have anything intelligent to say to any of them, I'd probably just drool in front of them).I learned to do the above at work. Me and another graphic drone started making cartoons of us killing each other. His were amazing. This is the only one of mine that I actually liked. I didn't do the one below.Sub-Zero wins. Fatality.
TOOL, RAMMS+EIN, CROSSBREED, unloco, Lacuna Coil, Evanescence, SEVENDUST, Avril Lavigne, EMINEM, D-12, godsmack, LINKIN PARK, MUSHROOMHEAD, MaRilYn MaN5oN, veruca salt, nina gordon, JAKALOPE, Mudvayne, Chimaira, A NEW REVOLUTION, Scars of Life, The Burning Red, Adema, GRAVITY KILLS, Stabbing Westward, dope, Drowning Pool, Slipknot, stone sour, a perfect circle, ALICE IN CHAINS, nine inch nails, orgy, tuuli, LILLIX, Scratching Post, Tegan and Sara, the Refreshments, KiTTiE, METALLICA, Aerosmith, Neil Diamond, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Hans Zimmer, Disturbed, Flesh Field, The Birthday Massacre, Zombie Girl, Ventana, Blue Man Group, Fort Minor, Emma Roberts (yeah, that's right), Ashlee Simpson, Three Days Grace, Chevelle.
VICARIOUS
Eye on the TVFIGHT CLUB, SE7EN, American History X, Interview With the Vampire, Return of the Jedi, Braveheart, Black Hawk Down, Panic Room, The Shawshank Redemption, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 28 DAYS LATER, The Beach, DAWN OF THE DEAD (remake) and all of George A. Romero's four Dead movies (I like zombies), Saw & Saw II (Saw III was just too much), The Game, The Green Mile, The Crow, Collateral, Gladiator, John Q., Blade II (ONLY! the first & third were bags of ass), Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong movie soon to be remade starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Matt Damon), the Lethal Weapon franchise, Hotel Rwanda, The Boondock Saints, Underworld & Underworld: Evolution, Hero, the Resident Evil movies (more zombies), Ocean's Eleven & Twelve, Troy, Reign of Fire, Crash, Assault on Precinct 13, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Thirteen, Tears of the Sun, The Matrix Trilogy, the Harry Potter series, Serenity, Four Brothers, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Terminal, Cast Away, Catch Me If You Can, G.I. Jane, The Transformers Movie, G.I. Joe the Movie, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, I, Robot, The Incredibles, The Rock, Con Air, Love Actually, Pitch Black and Riddick, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Hoodwinked, Jarhead, Running Scared, V for Vendetta, Lucky Number Slevin, Akeelah and the Bee, Jet Li's Fearless, Inside Man, Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, Blood Diamond, Constantine, John Constantine, asshole...
FRASIER!!! The Simpsons, Batman Beyond, OZ, Invader Zim, Jeopardy!, HOCKEY!!!, Nip/Tuck, Malcolm in the Middle, G.I. Joe, The Transformers, Red Dwarf, Boston Public, The Practice, Third Watch, Batman the Animated Series, Justice League, The X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, BAND OF BROTHERS!!!, FIREFLY!!!, Lost (not so much now, the show's getting annoying), Prison Break, The Boondocks, The Zeta Project, The Unit (best show on TV right now), Heroes, Shark.
Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monster, Choke, Stranger Than Fiction, Fugitives and Refugees, Haunted, Lullaby, and Diary.Alex Garland's The Beach and The Tesseract.Irvine Welsh's Glue, Trainspotting, Porno, Filth, and The Acid House.Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves.Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire and The Vampire Lestat.J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, The Bear and the Dragon, The Sum of All Fears, hell, all of his books.Anthony Swofford's Jarhead.Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down.Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's Red Dwarf series. The New Jedi Order series by a whole bunch of Sci-Fi authors, and the X-Wing series by Michael A. Stackpole and Aaron Allston.Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.Stephen King's It, The Green Mile and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.Don DeLillo's White Noise, Mao II, Running Dog, and Underworld.Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain.Michael Crichton's Congo and Jurassic Park.Anton Szandor LaVey's The Satanic Bible.Max Brooks' The Zombie Survival Guide.Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey.Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker series.Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.William Golding's Lord of the Flies.Dan Brown's's The Da Vinci Code.Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.Dante's Divine Comedy.Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series.Gene Brewer's K-PAX trilogy.There's so much more, I love reading...
I do not like everything I read though. Here are some classics that I thoroughly DID NOT ENJOY: Crime and Punishment, Dracula, Moby Dick, Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby, anything & everything by Shakespeare, The Communist Manifesto, The Bible, some Leonard Cohen book I forgot the name of, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, The Stone Angel, In Cold Blood, and a Salinger book with Salesman in its title.
Wendy Yanko of Flesh Field.My favourite comic strips are Bill Amend's Foxtrot, Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes, and Jim Toomey's Sherman's Lagoon. Amend and Watterson are geniuses. I also read comic books because I am a geek. I'll read anything by Slave Labor Graphics. Favourites are Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee!, and Roman Dirge's Lenore. Right now I like Runaways by Marvel. My favourites growing up were The Amazing Spider-man and The New Warriors. Jeff Smith's Bone was also great, especially the early issues.Some of these people really are my heroes, others are just people I admire.Authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Irvine Welsh, Alex Garland, Tom Clancy, J.K. RowlingMusicians: Maynard James Keenan (the man is a god), Adam Jones, Danny Carey, Justin Chancellor, Chester Bennington, Blue Man GroupSports: Wayne Gretzky, Martin St. Louis, Mike Modano, Jerome Iginla, Mark Gubicza, John Olerud, Ichiro Suzuki, Jim AbbottFilm & Television: David Fincher, George A. Romero, Mel Gibson, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks, Djimon Hounsou, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Evan Rachel Wood, Johnny Depp, David Duchovny, Brandon Lee, Tony Jaa, Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Moose the dogNon-Fictional Misc: Ken Jennings!!! my African-Canadian friend - Basil Brown, Jhonen Vasquez, Bill Amend, Bill Watterson, Marcus Aurelius, Julius Caesar, my university European history professor - Modris Eksteins, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luthor King Jr., Matt Groening, William Wallace, Terry FoxFictional: Wedge Antilles, Wes Janson, Tycho Celchu, Derek "Hobbie" Klivan, Garik "Face" Loran, R2-D2 & C-3P0, Han Solo, Chewbacca, David Lister, Kryten, Arnold J. Rimmer, Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne, Terry McGinnis, Alfred Pennyworth, The Joker, Solid Snake, Fox Mulder, Homer J. Simpson, Lenny and Carl, Tyler Durden, Jason Fox, Roger Fox, Calvin, The Crow, Frasier Crane, Niles Crane, Martin Crane, EddieAs well as the guys below and many others just like them.
Alexander Radulov ..47
Nashville Predators, Right Wing
Dion Phaneuf ..3
Calgary Flames, Defense
Anze Kopitar ..11
Los Angeles Kings, Centre
Kari Lehtonen ..32
Atlanta Thrashers, Goalie
Bryan McCabe ..24
Toronto Maple Leafs, Defense
Ilya Kovalchuk ..17
Atlanta Thrashers, Left Wing
John-Michael Liles ..26
Colorado Avalanche, Defense
Pavel Datsyuk ..13
Detroit Red Wings, Centre
Martin Havlat..9
Chicago Blackhawks, Winger
Martin St. Louis..26
Tampa Bay Lightning, Right Wing
Alexander Frolov..24
Los Angeles Kings, Left Wing
Ryan Getzlaf..15
Anaheim Ducks, Centre
Alexander Ovechkin..8
Washington Capitals, Left Wing
Shea Weber..6
Nashville Predators, Defense