reading, writing, music, concerts, metal, trees, travel, nature, making stuff, conversation, connection, the human condition, intoxication, creation, destruction
I'd like to meet:
Gods, extraterrestrials, aether-dwelling benevolent entities, centaurs, satyrs, faeries, imps, nymphs, dryads, sprites, gnomes, wise men, angels, embodiments of divine energy, time-travellers, prophets, personified archetypes, amicable incarnations of sentience from other dimensions, sophic visitors from other planes of existence, familiar faces from parallel universes, manifestations of certain things from my dreams, and other beings of questionable existence...
and people from other parts of the world so I can go visit them. I want to go EVERYWHERE at least once.
Music:
Music is synonymous with experience. Layers of sound waves, more than mere vibrations of air, convey emotion like no other art form. I am very partial to metal. Metal is rife with a form of intensity lacking in many other styles of music, and there is so much diversity within the genre and its countless sub-genres, it’s impossible to get bored. But I don't like all metal... for example, not much grindcore does it for me, and anything with “Nevermore†vocals- which is most prog/power metal - tends to give me the fingernails-on-the-chalkboard experince. I like classic rock, classical, oldies, ’80, a bit of blues and jazz, some electronic and industrial. I don’t like much modern pop, rap, and country; and I haven't ever really gotten into any punk or rockabilly or anything, and I'll admit to a lack of exposure, but, what- with all the wonderful metal to listen to- does it matter? And the band list: Arcturus, Enslaved, Solefald, Agalloch, Satyricon, Amon Amarth, Old Man's Child, Zyklon, Cryptopsy, At The Gates, Morbid Angel, Borknagar, Immortal, Canopy, Strapping Young Lad, Decapitated, Emperor, Insomnium, Thorns, Ram-Zet, Asmegin, Windir, Primordial, Blut Aus Nord, Gorgoroth, Jesu, Keep Of Kalessin, Malevolent Creation, Mayhem, Negurã Bunget, Red Harvest, old Soilwork, most In Flames, Sturmgeist, ...And Oceans, Akercocke, Hypocrisy, Kataklysm, Behemoth, Anata, Dissection, Burzum, Ulver, Arch Enemy, Ved Buens Ende, Dodheimsgard, Neurosis, Thyrfing, Fintroll, Grave, Sigh, Mastodon, Daylight Dies, Age Of Silence, Fluerety, Marduk, Rotting Christ, Opeth, Isis, Ephel Duath, Callisto, Mael Mordha, Vital Remains, Paths of Possession, Dark Tranquility, Death, Cronian, Six Feet Under, Vintersorg, I, Danzig, Samael, Deathspell Omega, Septic Flesh, Thorr's Hammer, Frantic Bleep, Kathaarsys, Carpathian Forest, Ihsahan, How Like A Winter, In The Woods, Katatonia, Swallow The Sun, Krisiun, Misery Index, Quo Vadis, Silent Stream of Godless Elegy, Vituperation, Zyklon B, Kalmah, Ground Zero System, The Haunted, Darkane, The Angelic Process, Kayo Dot, Korpiklaani, Mithras, Pelican, Mors Principium Est, Arsis, Pan-Thy-Monium, Acid Bath, Subterranian Masquerade, Amoral, Orphaned Land, Bathory, Dog Fashion Disco, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Björk, Wumpscut, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Secret Chiefs 3, Faun Fables, Zoe Keating, Arcanum, Aphex Twin, Frank Zappa, Fleetwood Mac, The Cure, Depeche Mode, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Jonny Cash, Bogus Blimp, Porcupine Tree, They Might Be Giants, Golgol Bordello, Beirut, Dead Can Dance, Massive Attack, Emilie Autumn, Sarah McLaughlan, The Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Frank Sinatra, Blue Oyster Cult, The Beatles, Patsy Kline, Billie Holiday, Edith Paif, Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zepplin... I can't list them all... but you can tell I'm a glutton for music!
Movies:
Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, The City of Lost Chilrden, Delicatessen, Ameli, A Very Long Engagement, Tuvalu, Wild at Heart, Gummo, The Lord Of The Rings, Fight Club, The Wicker Man (the original- have not seen new one), Dogma, Little Nicky, Meet the Feebles, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Brazil, Minority Report, A Scanner Darlky, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, Bubba Hotep, Dune, Legend, Jacob's Ladder, Full Metal Jacket, 2001; A Space Oyssey, Dr. Strangelove, The Fountain, The Neverending Story, Singing In The Rain, Watership Down, Raising Arizona, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, The Jerk, Weekend at Bernie's, The Little Mermaid, Like Water for Chocolate, Pan's Labyrinth, The Motorcycle Diaries, Donnie Darko, Sin City, The Life of David Gale, Frida, Crash, Magnolia, What The Bleep Do We Know!?, Waking Life, Edward Sissorhands, Big Fish, anything Tim Burton worked on... Stanley Kubrick, Kevin Smith, David Lynch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet... lately I've been getting into Ingmar Bergman films...
Television:
The Simpsons, The Family Guy, South Park, American Dad, Metalocalypse, Mythbusters, NOVA, other random Discovery or History Channel or PBS sometimes...
I hate a lot of TV.
Books:
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom Robbins (especially Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates and Jitterbug Perfume), Mark Twain (favorites include all short stories, No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger, The Bible According to Mark Twain which includes Eve’s Diary and Adam’s Diary, and Letters From the Earth), Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Albert Camus, ee cummings (poetry counts- it's in books!) , Edgar Alan Poe, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Beckett, Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, J.R.R. Tolkien, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Flannery O'Connor, Walt Witman, Ray Bradbury, Herman Melville, Harold Frederic, Richard Adams, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, John Fowles, E.M. Forester, Henrik Isben, Thomas Hardy (especially Jude the Obscure), Walker Percy, Margret Atwood, Carlton Mellick III, Chuck Palahniuk, Terry Prachett, Dr. Andrew Weil, Fred Alan Wolf, Stephen Hawking, books about random things I find interesting... like right now I am reading a book about about Qi and the practice of Qigong and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Heroes:
The people who have really been there for me.
And my great grandmother, Sutie Nova Mable Turner, though she died before I met her, she left a legacy of artwork, a legend of endless talents, and a family full of people who were touched by her. I hope to be like her one day.
