Photography, rock music, reading, gaming (PC, PS2 and Magic The Gathering) , good food, good company, Real Ale and the odd Old Port cigar. Is there anything more? Oh yes, I remember...
A redheaded nymphomaniac millionairess with her own pub! (and talking of pubs, I'd love to meet the suit from 'M+B' who made the decision to shut the Intrepid Fox. Scumbag).
Seriously though, I'd quite like to have a chat with Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux. Also, it'd be fun to meet Tori Amos (to ask "What went wrong there, doll?"), Jeremy Clarkson, Sir Jimmy Savile, Billy Connolly, John Lydon (run for Parliament, fella!), Henry Rollins (the greatest living American), Meat Loaf (the second), Gordon Brown (please, just go away), and Graham Norton (you're gay, we get it. Now fuck off). Finally, I'd love to meet the awesome George R.R. Martin, if only to tell him 'write quicker, dude!'
If time travel were possible, I'd go back and shake Nelson by the (other) hand. The man was a god.
AntiProduct, The Wildhearts, Biohazard, Static-X, Hatebreed, Throwdown, Machine Head, Megadeth (up to 'Youthanasia'), Metallica (up to 'Metallica'; the black album), Fear Factory, Flogging Molly, The Offspring, Rancid, DevilDriver, Criminal, Faith No More, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Ahab, Red Sparowes, Mortiis, Rammstein, 6 Prong Paw, Isis, Killing Joke, Lamb of God, Opeth, Step Kings (RIP), Rob Zombie, Dr. Steel, Mad Capsule Markets, Suicidal Tedencies, Papa Roach, Meat Loaf, Kate Bush (1978-1985), Pink Floyd, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Stranglers (with Hugh, natch!), Black Flag, Johnny Cash, The Damned, The Ramones, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, New Model Army, early Marillion, early Tori Amos, ELO (seriously!), Fuzzbox (Brummie girls rock!), Alison Goldfrapp, Moby, Astral Projection, Technossomy, Infinity Project (nothing wrong with a bit of Trance, dudes!) and generally anything that's loud and done well. Except Rap, Hip Hop, R&B or that Ibiza dance shit (Dancing? What's that all about? Men DO NOT dance unless they're a) drunk b) homosexual or c) on the pull. Or possibly all three.) Where was I? Oh yes, I also firmly believe that Bono needs killing, along with that whiny prat from 'Coldplay'.
Finally, in honour of the absolutely stonking gig I went to last weekend, here - for those who've never heard of 'em - is 'Drunken Lullabies' by the fantastic Flogging Molly. If ever they're playing in your city - GO! They're one of the best live acts around right now and a great night out!!
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
Withnail & I, Photographing Fairies, Highlander, Edward Scissorhands, Alien, The Crow, V For Vendetta, The Prophecy, Pitch Black, Pulp Fiction, The Terminator, Raiders Of The Lost Ark (balls to the sequels), LOTR, 300, Bad Santa, any Marx Brothers film you care to mention, Ghost World, Groundhog Day, Dark Star, The Matrix (not the appalling sequels), Flash Gordon (I'm not gay!), Quick Change, The Descent, Dog Soldiers, Pan's Labyrinth, Dumb & Dumber, Leon (or 'The Professional' if you're a Yank).
Don't watch a great deal of telly, but the new Battlestar Galactica is just about the best tv ever made. Northern Exposure, Father Ted, 24, Black Books, Frasier, Sharpe, The Fast Show and Star Trek Voyager (yes, I know. Sorry!) have all been favourites, too.
As for Soaps and 'Reality TV', I firmly believe they should transmit 'blipverts' in the ad breaks and make the monkeys who watch this dreck explode.
George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series (if you enjoyed 'Lord Of The Rings', then this will blow you away), Terry Brooks's 'Word & Void' trilogy, anything by Bernard Cornwell, Calvin & Hobbes, 2000AD, Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman', Mike Carey's 'Lucifer', Harry Harrison's 'Stainless Steel Rat', early Terry Pratchett (when he wasn't just writing for his Christmas payslip) and anything by David Gemmell (RIP, dude, and thanks for 'Legend'; one of the greatest fantasy books ever written).
Spike Milligan, Henry Rollins, Oliver Reed, John Lydon, Groucho Marx, Penn & Teller, Meat Loaf, Guy Fawkes (the finest man ever to enter Parliament), Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, and last, but not least, the one and only Sir Jimmy Savile (how's about that, then?).