EXPERIANCING LIFE! traveling and exploring new places, roaming around old stomping grounds, long conversations with friends new and old about everything and nothing, going out to clubs for nights of dancing my cares away, LIVE MUSIC!, discovering new music, adventures however big or small, art and museums, clove cigarettes, tattoos, drawing, writing, curling up with a good book, being endlessly curious and researching random things that strike my interest
I mostly use MySpace to keep in touch with friends.
" The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" "
~ Jack Kerouac
MUSIC MAKES ME HAPPY!
alternative, celtic, classical, darkwave, EBM, gothic, industrial, new wave, metal, post-punk, punk, rock, synthpop, trip-hop...
Just to name a few:
dEUS, The Smiths, Morrissey, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Concrete Blonde, Mike Doughty, Kaki King, Rasputina, Regina Spektor, The Cure, Bella Morte, The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, Apoptygma Berserk, Funker Vogt, KMFDM, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Das Ich, Mortiis, Nine Inch Nails, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Clash, The Ramones, Tones On Tail, The Faint, Franz Ferdinand, Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, Garbage, Machines Of Loving Grace, New Order, Joy Division, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Counting Crows, VAST, Love Is Colder Than Death, VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, Seabound, Covenant, Sister Machine Gun, Gary Numan, Oingo Boingo, the list goes on and on...
Comedies, fantasy and scifi, horror, action adventure, period dramas and combinations of any of the above. The stranger the better. Some movies are so bad they're good. Mel Brooks, Kevin Smith, Monty Python, and Tim Burton movies are classic favs, and also movies starring Johnny Depp, John Cusack or Bruce Campbell.
To list a random few;
Tank Girl, The Fifth Element, Grosse Pointe Blank, Army of Darkness, Murder by Death, Clue, A Fish Called Wanda, Gormenghast, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Affair of the Necklace, Dangerous Beauty, The Hobbit (animated), Boondock Saints, Formula 51, The Princess Bride, Willow
Dead Like Me, CSI, Law and Order, Scrubs, Adult Swim, Family Guy... I really don't watch much TV.
Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Sandman, Death, etc), Charles de Lint's Newford series (Dreams Underfoot, The Onion Girl, etc), Paul Di Filippo's The Steampunk Trilogy, Graphic Novels/Comics such as Vertigo's Lucifer and Fables, books on mythology and folklore, poetry; Blake, Poe, Yeats, Frost, Dickinson, and Wilde just to name a few
'Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.'
~ Mark Strand
No matter how much I may respect or admire a person, I try not to put them on a pedestal. My heros are more ideas of individuality and independant thought than actual people. They tend to be larger than life would allow, although I've never let that stop me from aspiring to them.