Lately I haven't had much time to pursue my interests, besides working and sleeping.Suffice it to say I have far more interests than I will ever have time to satisfactorily explore.
I'd like to meet:
Diogenes of Sinope, Francois Villon, Ovid, and the people on my heroes section (which I restricted to the living).I'd have loved to party with Baudelaire's Club des Hashischins or the second Hellfire Club.
Music:
There's way too much, an overview?
Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg, Immortal Technique, Jurassic 5, Harvey Danger, Strung Out, Mr T Experience, Children of Bodom, Mos Def, Johnny Cash, Joe Satriani, The Decemberists, A Wilhelm Scream, Iron Maiden, Jets to Brazil, The Smiths, The Faint, The Lillingtons, Bad Religion, Sacrilege (Sweden), The Mountain Goats, The Evens...
Fuck, I don't know. I'm an obsessive music pirate. 15,000 songs and counting.
Movies:
M, Adventures of Robin Hood, Pan's Labyrinth, Metropolis, The Wicker Man, Sunset Blvd, Vertigo, Jeanne et le Garcon Formidable, Sleuth, Eraserhead, King Kong, Boondock Saints, Blazing Saddles, Willow, Follow that Bird, Four Rooms, Lucio Fulci's Zombi, Six String Samurai, City of Lost Children, Dark Crystal, Abominable Dr. Phibes, Suspiria, ad infinitum.
Adger night for life.
Television:
I haven't watched tv much these past years. But dvd boxed sets have allowed me to see a lot of what I'd missed.
Red Dwarf, Arrested Development, Neverwhere, Dark Shadows, The Office (I prefer the British one), Spaced, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and probably a lot more.
And then there's anime, of course. Kimagure Orange Road, Tenchi, DN-Angel, Maison Ikkoku, Escaflowne, Ranma 1/2, and all the essentials.
Books:
My favorite all-time author is HP Lovecraft (it had been Poe until around age 15). In a similar vein, Lord Dunsany, Robert Bloch, and a handful of others.
When I was more intellectually ambitious, I read and enjoyed quite a bit of philosopy and religion. Mostly Marxists and Existentialists, (to make me more one-sided, I guess). I really liked Nietzsche, Sartre, Marx, Aquinas, etc.
I love some older and rather obscure French poetry. Charles Baudelaire, Pierre de Ronsard, Arthur Rimbaud, and (most particularly) Francois Villon. It's always been a dream of mine to publish a book of my own translations to glorify the forgotten masters.
I've long had a soft spot in my heart for fantasy, since as a small child I read the Chronicles of Narnia and Prydain. Not to mention Tolkien and the Dragonlance series.
Long-winded, I know.
