Being a bit pretentious, writing, music, film, Doctor Who, hanging around in dodgy bars, forteana, politics and all sorts of other gubbins.
I'd like to meet:
I'd love to meet Jon Pertwee, but his unfortunate deadness means that is now an extremely remote possibility. I'm also regretting the two times I saw John Peel (the patron saint of DJs, not the author of War Of The Daleks) from afar and was too starstruck to go talk to him.Profile edited with CricketSoda's Myspace Editor
Music:
Oh, a whole bunch of stuff. Here are a few examples:
Bowie, Radiohead, The Fall, Liars, Buck 65, Boards of Canada, The Bug, Venetian Snares, Wrong Music, Mogwai, Coil, The Go! Team, Burial, LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Archie Bronson Outfit, Shitmat, Aphex Twin, Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Bomb20, Prodigy, Asian Dub Foundation, Autechre, Dirty Projectors, Avalanches, Tom Waits, Prince, The Beatles, Shinra, The United States of America, Stereolab, Beck, The Beta Band, Steve Mason's solo stuff, Silver Apples, Chris Clark, Clearlake, The Open, The Organ, Kasabian, Gravenhurst, The Incredible String Band, DJ Shadow, Billie Holiday, Cypress Hill (early shit only), The Wu Tang Clan, Rob Zombie, Broadcast, The Smiths, A Tribe Called Quest, Diplo, Roots Manuva, Squarepusher, Sisters of Mercy, Stunt Rock, Isan, Blur, Soundmurderer & SK1, Deathchant Records, Monkey Steak, Third Eye Foundation, V/Vm, Black Affair, A Silver Mount Zion, Grandaddy, DJ Floorclearer, Doormouse, Elliot Smith, The Horrors, Enduser, Film School, Mashit Records, Siouxie and the Banshees, Knifehandchop, Goldfrapp, The Magnetic Fields, Alec Empire, Hope of the States, Bong Ra, Kraftwerk, Sex Pistols, Christian Vogel, Death in Vegas, Flaming Lips, Devendra Banhart, Mercury Rev. And so on...
Movies:
Donnie Darko, Jaws, Fight Club, Brick, Taxi Driver, Ed Wood, Life is Beautiful, Lost In Translation, The Birds, North By Northwest, Ghost World, Wild Strawberries, Star Wars (all of 'em, yes, even Phantom, I've had a change of heart), most of the Star Trek films, but especially 4 and 6, Fahrenheit 451, 28 Days Later..., Serenity, Romero's Dead trilogy, Kill Bill, The Lord of the Rings, The Host, the Harry Potter movies, Ghost Dog, various Bonds - though Casino Royale is by far the best, Children of Men, Unbreakable, Batman Begins, Battle Royale (not so much the sequel though, despite the presence of an asian Thom Yorke lookalike), Ringu, Hot Fuzz, Pan's Labyrinth, Deliverance, Pulp Fiction, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zizzou, Delicatessan, The Wicker Man (original), The Fog (original), The Alien films, Napoleon Dynamite, Lord of War, Withnail and I, Grosse Pointe Blank, Predator AND Predator 2 (fuckin' voodoo magic man)...
and many, many more...
Television:
Doctor Who is a lifelong obsession that I will never be cured of. Also: Life on Mars, Heroes, Firefly, Buffy, Angel and Veronica Mars all come a close second. The Sopranos. Spaced. Jericho. The new Battlestar Galactica. South Park, Torchwood. Anything by Chris Morris. Jason King, Northern Exposure, The Avengers. 24 is stupid fun. Farscape, The Prisoner, Carnivale, Lost, Survivors (the seventies disaster series), The Tripods (yes, even the French bits). Basically anything culty and good.
Books:
Jeff Noon. Oh fuck yeah.China Mieville, Dave Eggers, John Brunner, Haruki Murakami, Jasper Fforde, Emily Bronte, Simon Clark, Neil Gaiman, Robert Rankin, Stephen Laws, Terry Pratchett, Stephen Lawhead, Doctor Who books (especially those by Lance Parkin, Paul Cornell, Kate Orman, Lloyd Rose and Lawrence Miles), Harold Pinter, Katherine Mansfield, Mary Doria Russell, George Orwell, Frederick Pohl, Philip Kindred Dick, Susana Clarke, Harry-fucking-Potter, John Christopher, Grant Morrison, Dave Gorman and Danny Wallace stuff, Warren Ellis, David Mitchell, Iain Banks and loads of other bits and bobs too.
Heroes:
Too many to mention. Some big figures on my personal radar though:
David Bowie
Joss Whedon
Coil
Radiohead
Patrick MacGoohan as Number Six
Delia Derbyshire!
Chris Morris
The Doctor...
