Music, comedy, movies, railways, mysteries and wierdness
DISLIKES: Celebrity magazines and celebrity culture; slugs; racism; violence; commercial pop music; intolerance (With the exception of intolerance when it is aimed at the things that I don't like).
Fellow doom/goth/prog/folk musicians and fans & nice people.
My Dying Bride, Type O Negative, Dead Can Dance, Attrition, Trouble, Paradise Lost, The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus, Neurosis, Cult Of Luna, Nick Cave, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Sabbath, The Cult, NFD, Paramaecium, Corvus Corax, The Last Dance, Pure Reason Revolution, Veil of Ashes, The Sisters Of Mercy, New Model Army, Anathema, Thine, Roy Harper, Marillion, Enya, Circle Of Dust, Sunn O))), Place of Skulls, Mazzy Star, Candlemass, Empyrium, Arcana, James, Doves, Antestor, Avrigus, Rammstein, Monster Magnet, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Saxon, Motorhead, The Gathering, Saviour Machine, Virgin Black, Mastodon, Sympathy, Her Blackened Rose, Killswitch Engage, Mike Oldfield, Geoff Mann, Twelfth Night, The Mission, Believer, Bauhaus, Ozric Tentacles, the Choir, U2, Jah Wobble, Troglodyte Dawn, Rush, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Starchild, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Steeleye Span, Warrior Soul, Miranda Sex Garden, Circulus, Green Mistletoe, And Also The Trees, Hildegard of Bingen, Sonver, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Vaakevandring, Hawkwind, Jethro Tull, High On Fire, Richard and Linda Thompson, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, This Mortal Coil, Visionaire,/Ikarian, This Picture, Metus, The Drowning, Tor Marrock, The Death Of Dreams, Khthon, Brendan Perry, Frosthardr, In Vain, Once Dead, Implacable/Dalit and related projects... Ship of Fools, Robyn Miller and many more...
Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Memento, Blade Runner, Existenz, The Matrix, The Butterfly Effect, The Odd Couple, Donnie Darko, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Shining, LOTR, Spinal Tap, Monty Python, Solaris (remake), Gattaca, The Virgin Suicides, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, The Wicker Man, Pink Floyd The Wall, Alien, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Name Of The Rose, Fargo, Ghost World, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Star Wars, Pink Floyd live in Pompeii, Being There, The Last Temptation Of Christ, The King Of Comedy, The Machinist
PEEP SHOW, The Simpsons, Little Britain, The League Of Gentlemen, Nathan Barley, The Mighty Boosh, The Comic Strip, The Young Ones, the Goodies, Bottom, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Monty Python, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Alan Partridge, The Fast Show, Absolutely (not to be confused with Absolutely Fabulous, which is pretty good as well), The Office, Extras, Pheonix Nights, The Prisoner, Rising Damp, Look Around You, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fry and Laurie, louie Theroux, The IT Crowd, Dean Learner/Garth Merenghi, Saxondale, Spaced, Father Ted, cheaply made morning tv about auctions and homes etc, but especially Bargain Hunt.
Terry Pratchet, Stephen Lawhead, Oliver Sacks, Tolkein, Edgar Allen Poe, Issac Asimov, Umberto Eco-The Name Of The Rose, Mary Shelley-Frankenstein, Philip K Dick-Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Larry David, Homer Simpson, Papa Lazarou