I'd like to meet:
I'd enjoy sitting down and have some coffee with...
Non-Famous:
Anyone who wants to meet me, but please do send a message along with Add.
Famous:
Mikael Åkerfeldt, Jacob Bannon, Bjork, Tenzin Gyatso, Bert Monroy, Chino Moreno, Mike Patton, Neil Peart, Travis Smith, Aaron Turner
Music:
Some of these bands are poorly labeled, but you get the basic idea.
classical:
bach, beethoven, mozart, vivaldi
black/death/metal:
5ive, the accursed, anodyne, at the gates, agalloch, atheist, bathory, behold...the artopus, between the buried and me, the black dahlia murder, bloodbath, blut as nord, boris, cannibal corpse, carcass, castle, children of bodom, cryptopsy, dark tranquility, daylight dies, deadguy, death, deathspell omega, decapitated, deeds of flesh, devin townsend, dillinger escape plan, dissection, dissonant, dragonforce, dying fetus, edge of sanity, electric wizard, emperor, entombed, godflesh, gojira, gorguts, gospel, graveslime, gwar, hellchild, heresi, hypocrisy, ihsahn, indian, iron butterfly, isis, jigsore terror, katatonia, kylesa, leviathan, mastadon, maudlin of the well, mayhem, the melvins, meshuggah, metallica, morbid angel, necrophagist, nightingale, november's doom, novembre, ocean, old man gloom, opeth, orchi..omy, orthrelm, pantera, pelican, the project hate mcmxcix, ragnarok, the red chord, sigh, skinless, slayer, starkweather, strappado, subterranean masquerade, steel, strapping young lad, suffocation, swallow the sun, twilight, velvet cacoon, when day descends, winds, wintersun, xasthur
grind:
anal cunt, bolt thrower, circle of dead children, genghis tron, holy molar, the locust, napalm death, the number 12 looks like you, pg. 99, some girls, terminally your aborted ghost, twodeadsluts onegoodfuck
hardcore:
american nightmare/nothing/give up the ghost, the blinding light, botch, breach, breather resist, bucket full of teeth, the chariot, coalesce, converge, curl up and die, draw blood, eldopa, everything falls together, thefail, the farewell, glassjaw, hatebreed, his hero is gone, hopesfall, horse the band, if tomorrow comes/veritas, integrity, a life once lost, killing the dream, killswitch engage, mi amore, modern life is war, nine, norma jean, one dead three wounded, poison the well, the power & the glory, ringworm, rise and fall, saetia, scissorfight, shai hulud, shikari, snapcase, thursday, tremors, zao
idm/industrial/noise:
aphex twins, bishop allen, asmus tietchens, biosphere, dear lover, taylor dupree, electro quarterstaff, electrolane, eluvium, fantomas, the flaming lips, four tet, goblin, godspeed you black emperor!, growing, jesu, kayo dot, kompressor (does not dance : - ), lovage, maldoror, melt banana, ministry, mono, mujaji, mum, nine inch nails, oxbow, popul vuh, rammstein, ratatat, supermachiner, sunn o)))), ut, venetian snares, xiu xiu
alternative/indie:
air conditioning, the allegory index, jon anderson, the arcade fire, at the drive-in, beck, bloc party, the blood brothers, the chinese stars, cursive, danielson, a day in black and white, the decemberists, devendra banhart, nick drake, battles, bearvsshark, bishop allen, depeche mode, the elected, elizabeth anka vajagic, enon, everlovely lightningheart, the faint, hella, jr ewing, kill me tomorrow, ladytron, lcd soundsystem, jens lekman, kid kilowatt, the killers, the magic numbers, sarah mclaughlin, men women and children, modest mouse, the moirai, the mountain goats, neon blonde, neutral milk hotel, panthers, the pop kids, the new pornographers, orchid, paatos, planesmistakenforstars, savath & savalas, sia, sigur-ros, special fredd, spoon, standstill, talking heads, a trillion barnacle lapse, tsu shi ma mi re, weezer, wilco, wolfgang press, wolverine brass
rap:
clouddead, doseone, general patton vs. the x-ecutioners, gorillaz, handsome boy modeling school, the hieroglyphics, master kush, peeping tom, them
rock:
...of sinking ships, a perfect circle, alice in chains, fahir atakoglu, dave bainbridge, the beatles, bjork, black sabbath, blackfield, david bowie, brodequin, camel, cave in, celebrity, richard cheese, circa survive, joe cocker, coheed and cambria, coldplay, alice cooper, crash test dummies, the cure, deftones, denali, dir en grey, doomriders, the doors, dredg, echolyn, eels, eulenspygel, explosions in the sky, fair to midland, pete gabriel, geometry, green carnation, hafler trio, head automatica, helmet, horacio hernandez, herself, high and driving, hum, idiot pilot, imogen heap, jimi hendrix, anthony jackson, billy joel, king crimson, kyuss, led zepplin, john lennon, light the fuse and run, lightning bolt, liquid tension experiment, logh, lovespirals, mae, the mars volta, mew, mewithoutYou, mogwai, mr. bungle, muse, nirvana, no-man, oasis, pearl jam, pretty girls make graves, tom petty and the heartbreakers, pink floyd, the police, porcupine tree, primus, queen, radiohead, red house painters, red sparowes, damien rice, rilo kiley, rush, saosin, bob segar, smashing pumpkins, spock's beard, steve miller band, stina nordenstam, team sleep, thrice, tomahawk, tool, transatlantic, tom waits, scott walker, the who, george winston, yellow swans, your enemies friends
Movies:
numero uno
amelie
american beauty
batman
batman begins
buffalo '66
closer
crash
donnie darko
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
fight club
godzilla films
jaws
predator
pulp fiction
sin city
star wars trilogy
the texas chainsaw massacre (1974)
the ladies man
numero dos
alien, aliens, audition, batman returns, batman: mask of the phantasm, batman returns, battle royale, blow, dawn of the dead, dogma, evil dead 2, evil dead 3: army of darkness, good will hunting, halloween, halloween 2, harrold and maude, ichi the killer, jay & silent bob strike back, kill bill vol. 1, mallrats, metropolis, napoleon dynamite, night of the living dead (original), porn, red dragon, reservoir dogs, requiem for a dream, se7en, shaun of the dead, silence of the lambs, sling blade, spaceballs, spun, terminator trilogy, the big lebowski, the breakfast club, the brown bunny, the devil's rejects, the exorcist, three extremes, v for vendetta
Television:
cartoon: aqua teen hunger force, batman: the animated series, family guy, hey arnold!, home movies, invader zim, rocko's modern life, south park, spongebob squarepants
live: chapelle show, colbert report, married with children, nip/tuck, sex and the city
Books:
charles bauderlaire, frank bidart, william blake, louise gluck, henri michaux, vladimir nabokov, pablo neruda, george orwell, robert pinsky, li po, ezra pound, david sedaris, william shakespeare, mark strand, kurt vonnegut, franz wright
Heroes:
famous
aaron turner / bert monroy / jacob bannon / mike patton (for the inspiration)
non-famous
parents
a man dressed up as a bat who gets all of my press
batman
japan's favorite lizard
godzilla