Science, religion, languages, philosophy, music, art, games, puzzles, reality, themes, interests, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
I'd like to meet:
Having now met the Flying Spaghetti Monster I don't think I need to meet anything or anyone else really. Why look any further when you know the Truth?
Although I'd still like to meet anyone who by His grace has travelled from a parallel universe. Obviously only if He wants me to though.
Music:
Goth/Alternative Stuff
The Sisters of Mercy
The Cure
Gary Numan
Alien Sex Fiend
New Model Army
Bauhaus
The Fields of the Nephilim
The Cult
Rosetta Stone
Other Stuff
J.S. Bach
Chopin
Kenny Burrell
Can
Jean-Michel Jarre
Dire Straits
Ian Dury
Some other people I can't think of right now.
Movies:
An arbitrary selection.
Movies I Like
Toy Story / Toy Story 2
North by Northwest
The Night Porter
Angel Heart
The Empire Strikes Back
Team America - World Police
Movies I Don't Like. At All.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
In the words of Sideshow Bob: "That was a well-plotted piece of
non-clap-trap that never once made me want to retch"
Television:
I'm not quite so fucked as to be unable to remember:
The Prisoner
Futurama
The Simpsons
Doctor Who
University Challenge
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Fawlty Towers
Brass Eye
A bit of Fry and Laurie
QI
In fact anything at all with Stephen Fry in it
Except possibly Absolute Power
Which I never really enjoyed for some reason
The Day Today
The Young Ones
Black Books
South Park
Spaced
Knowing Me Knowing You
I'm Alan Partridge
Adam and Joe
Columbo (esp. the episode with Patrick McGoohan in it!)
Books:
FAR too many to mention. Here are some authors instead.
Fiction
Alan Moore -perhaps you understand my hatred of "the League..." film now
Tibor Fischer
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Yes, put all the intellectual sounding ones at the top in the hope that no-one will bother reading to the dross underneath
Josef Skvorecky
Vladimir Nabokov
Kurt Vonnegut
Michael Marshall Smith
Jeff Noon
Terry Pratchett
Stanislaw Lem
Ray Bradbury
J.K. Rowling
Philip Pullman
J.R.R. Tolkein
Will Self
Neil Gaiman
Douglas Adams
R.F. Laird
Whom certain educated viewers have already identified as a glaring omission
So it goes
Non-Fiction
Jean-Paul Sartre
Roger Penrose
Douglas Hofstadter
Rudy Rucker
Martin Gardner
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Popper
Bill Bryson
Seymour Pappert
David Bohm
Kageyama Toshiro
Heroes:
Thomas Young
Stephen Fry
Stippen Pry
Andrew Eldritch
Mr Spock
