Antiquities in general, vintage clothing and automobiles in particular, languages (both living and dead), comic books, various sorts of role-playing games (geek!), music composition, poetry composition, horticulture, quilting, costume design, mead-making, martial arts, all things metaphysical, steampunk, corsetry, interesting and unusual textures, Asian cuisine, pin-up art, multi-genre dance, the spaces between cultures
I'd like to meet:
Fellow artists and musicians of a bohemian bent, activists and mystics with their feet firmly planted on the ground, scientists who have not yet had the wonder ground out of them, poets and fey wanderers of the night all crowned in stars, and all those for whom the art of conversation is alive and kicking, a means to our noblest ends.
Music:
Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures, Rhea's Obsession, Abney Park, Cocteau Twins, Hedningarna, Nightwish, For My Pain, Betray My Secrets, Dark Seed, Mortiis, VNV Nation, Hybrid Thoughts, Garmarna, Corvus Corax, Dead Can Dance, Cruxshadows, Type O Negative, Faith and the Muse, David Sylvian, Bryan Ferry, Duran Duran, Queensryche, Warrior Soul, Crimson Glory, Wovoka, T Ride, Steve Vai, Mediaeval Baebes, Sheila Chandra, Alison Moyet, The Cure, L'Ame Immortelle, Fields of the Nephilim, Joy Division, Tristania, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Bel Canto, Dissidenten, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ofra Haza, Natascha Atlas, Rasa, David Hykes, Incus, Eluveitie, Agalloch
Movies:
Aliens, Lord of the Rings, City of Lost Children, Blood of Heroes, Blade Runner (Director's Cut), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Comet Butterfly and Sword, Hero, Iron Monkey, The Replacement Killers, Cemetery Man, Moulin Rouge, Legend, Seven Samurai, Ran, Throne of Blood, Tampopo, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Millennium Actress, Escaflowne (the series - not that monstrosity that they released as a movie in the United States), The Fifth Element, Unbreakable, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Frankenstein Unbound, The Matrix Trilogy, Dead Man, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club, Buckaroo Banzai, Sleepy Hollow, Ninth Gate, Kama Sutra, The Lover, Casshern, The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Lover (Director's Cut), Stigmata (Director's Cut), The House of Flying Daggers, Amelie, Sin City, Batman Begins, Equilibrium, Serenity, Avalon (Polish Sci-Fi, not that other nonsense), The Fountain, The Promise, The Piano, Spices, French Twist, Bread and Tulips, Chocolat, A Series of Unfortunate Events, all of the Harry Potter movies, The Hunger, The Keep, Beautiful Creatures, Das Boot, Pitch Black & Chronicles of Riddick, Kung Fu Hustle, Memoirs of a Geisha, Versus, Alive, Attack the Gas Station!
Television:
As a rule, I don't watch television, but if I'm to be trapped in a room with a live television, I'd rather it be tuned to the Sci-Fi Channel or the Cartoon Network. In the past, I've had a fondness for Babylon 5, Nowhere Man, Deep Space Nine, Farscape, the original Iron Chef, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Samurai Jack, Dirty Jobs, Monty Python, Firefly, Doctor Who, Jon Stewart, The Addams Family, Monarch of the Glen, and Six Feet Under. I am currently a Battlestar Galactica addict. As far as I'm concerned, the rest is just noise...
Books:
Fiction: The Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time series, the His Dark Materials series (even though I HATE the ending!), Earthsea and anything else by Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wrinkle in Time and anything else by Madeline L'Engle, the Darkover series and anything else by Marion Zimmer Bradley, the Witchworld books and anything else by Andre Norton, Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, and Kushiel's Avatar, The Eight, anything by William Gibson; Comic Books: Sandman, The Books of Magic, Grendel, Crying Freeman, Sanctuary, Kabuki, Electra (and to a lesser extent Daredevil), The Crow, Love and Rockets, The Watchmen, Miracle Man, a fair number of the Batman spin-offs (especially Arkham Asylum), V For Vendetta, Swamp Thing, Promethea (anything by Alan Moore), Cry For Dawn, Gods in Chaos, The Spider Garden and anything else by Michael Manning, Elfquest, random one-shots and not-so-well-known stuff; Non-Fiction: anything pertaining to Theoretical Physics, Metaphysics, Symbolism, Art, Psychology (but not pop!), Herbal Medicine, Brewing, Holistic Medicine, Gardening/Horticulture, Permaculture, Archeology, Linguistics/Philology, some Biographies, occasional bits of Socio-Political Commentary...
Heroes:
Joseph Campbell, Morticia Addams, Bouadiccea, Morgan le Fey, Martha Graham, Isadora Duncan, Sarah Bernhardt, Neil Gaiman, Mark Twain, William Blake, Hunter S. Thompson, Quinton Hoover, Bernie Wrightson, Olivia, Starhawk, Z. Budapest, Mary Magdalene, Sun Tzu, Bruce Lee, Maggie Cheung, Nikola Tesla, Susie Sexpert, Siouxsie Sioux, Madonna, Annie Sprinkle, Molly Ivins
