Video games: Keeping it Old Skool with the NES! Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat (cos Scorpion is THE MAN!), SNK (god bless them) and long gaming sessions. Obscene Nintendo DS pictochat sessions are always welcome!
All time fave game series is Silent Hill. The relentless nerve shredding fear I have when playing those games is unmatched by any other medium for me this side of a snuff video!
Comics: I keep up to date with anything by Garth Ennis and Warren Ellis, 2 of the finest writers of any medium I've ever encountered. All time best ever heroes are Spider-man and Batman! No Questions! I also love good ol' JTHM and Squee by my dark lord Johnen Vasquez, Serenity Rose is something I'm digging right now too! The mad Scotsman known as Mark Miller also keeps me smiling and after that is the mountain of manga I love like Ranma 1/2, Shaman King, One Piece and Battle Angel Alita!
If anyone thinks that comics are just a cheap form of reading then look at the shelves in your local bookshop and see them groaning under the weight of chick-lit novels, male power fantasy wank-stravaganzas and monotonous travelogues!
Movies: oh just the read the box over there!
Books: I read next to fuck all, I'm very thinly read. My book for this year though is Screen Burn by Charlie Brooker. Very funny!
Aside from those I do all the usual stuff a 20-something does like drink with friends, go to gigs, go to clubs, worship my dark lord satan with the blood of the innocent, eat Chinese food.....
I've managed to find myself in Finsbury Park with 3 rather awesome flatmates and we live in a quiet commune of gentle reflection, wine drinking and much dvd watching. Would love to meet people so I can have an excuse to go to the Big Red on Holloway. Anyone else who can brighten up my existence shall be welcomed with open arms!I'm FB'd up as well for you hipsters who left Myspace quicker than an out-of-the-closet politician's wife. Please don't send me vampire/pirate invites though.
If you look like this then please get in touch for possible marriage vacancy!
My tastes change all the time and cover a wide spectrum of genres. Basically I'll enjoy anything that sounds like it has some BALLS to it! Industrial, Techno, Metal, Indie, House, Classic Rock, Punk, Hardcore. These have all tickled my ears at some point in time and more besides.
It's easier to list what I don't listen to so I'll do that instead:
Any shite RnB.
Club Dance.
Gangsta Hip Hop (ACTUAL Hip Hop fricking rules though!)
Bands that are personality free zones.
Drug ridden losers who are deemed "cool" for no actual reason other than they inject heroin into their last fresh vein.
.. boomp3.com
All time faves: Alien, Blade Runner, Only You (an anime film not the turgid Sanda Bullock one!) , Akira
Random faves: 16 Candles, Breakfast Club, (yup, I loves me some 80's teen cheese!), Shaun of the Dead, Time Bandits, All the Monty Python films, Aliens and Alien 3 (in my world Alien Resurrection and AVP don't exist!), The Terminator, The Incredibles, Spider-man 2, X-men 2, Ghost World, Lost in Translation, Ghostbusters, JACOBS LADDER!, Kamikaze Girls, Tokyo Zombie, Wild Zero. Battle Royale, Tetsuo 2 and a load of other Japanese films that are so obscure you don't even know about them! Nyer nyer!
Spaced, Black Books, Father Ted, Look Around You, Harry Hill's TV Burp, TV Offal, Newman and Baddiel In Pieces, Mr. Show, League of Gentlemen, Young Ones, Bottom, Porridge, The Dangerous Brothers,Have I Got News For You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Vidz, DOCTOR WHO (Old AND new skool bitches!), Life on Mars, Kids in the Hall, The Panel, Invader Zim, X-Men: Evolution, Batman: The Animated Series, Venture Bros.
I think Jeremy Kyle is Satan made flesh and I keep watch over him waiting for the day when he finally shows his black wings. Either that or eats a baby.
COMICS thank you... JTHM, Squee! The Boys, The Punisher (only the Garth Ennis ones though!), Ultimate Spider-Man, The Ultimates, Eyeshield 21, Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, Scott Pilgrim, The Ultimates, Batman: The Dark Knight ReturnsBooks - Virtual Light, The Vesuvius Club, Time for Bed
Bill Hicks. A man who was passionate about everything he believed in.
Shigeru Miyamoto, for having just the most insane imagination and for piling heaps of creativity into his work that goes unmatched by any games developer!
Akira Yamaoka, for scaring the shit out of me late at night during many a Silent Hill session!
Trent Reznor, for having a fine voice and an almost obsessional amount of depth to his music!