Oo, you know - the usual.. swords, guns, tits and explosions,
films (FNV 'till I die! :D),
good wine and fine friends (you heard right),
comic books... oh, and your mum :P
Also my little poisoned fetus in a jar. Lookatim there, the little feller! :D
I'd like to meet:
No one.
Music:
Don't judge me. She's from Barnsley, which is awesome, and the Kinks didn't have the original up.
Don't get any funny ideas, I also like anything that instills in one the irresistable urge to do harm to others.
(Actually, it's come to my attention that this is not necessarily true. S CLub 7, for instance, instills in me the overwhelming urge to stab certain people in the face with a screwdriver over and over again until the tip is scraping the back of their fucking skull, and I don't like S Club 7)...then again, it didn't ask me "what music do you like?", it simply said "Music:" which, quite frankly, could have meant any fucking thing, couldn't it?
Update: on the subject of music, I am set here listening to "On My Own" by teh Used. There is a line herein which goes "Knowing nothing is better than knowing it all." Now, I don't know about you, but I quite seriously beg to fucking differ with Burt on that one...
Movies:
is an irritating fucking Americanism based on the misnomer that they are "moving pictures" - they are not. The word you are looking for is "film"
That one with the japanese girl in the sailors' outfit and a horse wasn't bad... better than that celluloid abortion Kill fucking Bill, anyway!
^^This made a lot more sense when the heading said "Movies". Now they've changed it. I like to think my frothing diatribe had something to do with that... :)
Television:
Is shit. Flicks r0xx0r!!111OMG I spose I'll let you off with Family Guy and Futurama.. and Red Dwarf and Fawlty Towers.. any good sitcoms, basically, though they're becoming so very few and far between these days. Anyone who says "League of Gentlemen" or "Little Britain" to me is going to get a punch, be ye forwarned.
X Files was good, back in it's hayday, as long as they were actually doing some cases and not running around after Mulders' bloody sister!
Speaking of which, there've bin some passable little sci-fi programmes on in the past, though almost invariabley on BBC2 or Channel 4 (the "fruity" channels) at half-past-daft-o'clock in the fucking morning! *grumble* *grumble*
Books:
"A Game of Thrones" by George R R Martin. Best book you've never read. Read it. Read it NOW!
Dan Abnett's a passable little author, too, and anything by David Gemmell is sure to be worth picking up.
There was a time of day I'd have said Terry Pratchett as well, but his last umpteen dozen books have just been so... formulaic.
Obviously Jonny-boy Tolkien's story telling was well above par, if you can forget the drudgery of slugging through LotR (my advice - read Silmarillion instead) but mentioning lesser authors in the same breath as George is already making me feel dirty.
I suppose the only other writer worth mentioning is the best one in the universe.. Me! :D (Ok, George is probably better than me too.. but he's the only one! :P)
Update: been reading some Robin Hobb lately. I normally can't stand first person, so it's a double achievment for her that I actually liked her stuff. Recommended. Start with the Farseer Trilogy, the first of which is "Assassin's Apprentice". The non-omniscient diegesis means it can get a tiny bit monotonous at points, but only briefly. The plot keeps ticking along just fast enough to make it ver ver good.
Heroes:
-This guy:
-My homies Kaffe and Spyke (Kaffe + Spyke = Me2! ;D)
-Hoz, because she's a better person than me, knows me better than I know myself, and still puts up with me after all these years x
-And my sensei. Not enough little old venerable-looking men with a zen calmness and unflappable modesty are ranked as the third hardest japanese swordsman in Europe, go surfing and end emails with "Stay weird, dudes!" This is him:
Go Keith, go! :D
You've got to understand, it's just that it's hard to have heroes when you're this damn good at everything. Let's just say I view God as another one of those people you don't really like but you keep in touch with them cos they come in handy now and then, like they live near a gig venue or they can copy DVD's or something.
He's not a bad bloke actually, God. He got me Leeds tickets the other year...
