People- i like honesty, honor, humour, integrity, open mindedness, a balanced perspective on life, and understanding.Music, all the time, love music. some poetry, most art, photography, graphic design,Scuba diving, (british) football, tennis, drinking.....
Festivals, Gigs, Raves... live music or DJs, house parties
Environment, natural beauty, conservation, the sea, animals and most life, beaches, waterfalls, full silver moons and the night sky, sunsets and dawn.Ideals of peaceful protest and democracy, developed by many of the greatest minds. Ghandi, M L King for peaceful protest. too many to list on democracy, despite the view that:
"Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."
Mythology, history, belief systems (philosophies, theologies, practises)... I love trying to understand them, why they are the way they are and their origins.
I also love tolkiens writing, and fantasy worlds (ive wished many a time i was in one...lol): dragons, elves, greek mythology, vampires (cliche on here? never...)
Gothic clothing/culture/fashion: fishnet things, spiky things, shiny things, black, fetish, UV stuff....
cooking really nice food and having a meal with friends, with lots of wine.
Kinkyness, playfulness, erotisism, BDSM, outdoors... exploration and experimentation... ice, candles, cuffs, swings, fire, (I can watch flames endlessly), blindfolds.. whips, swings...I love talking, properly, with people, exchanging ideas on life, or just having really random conversations regardless of what state your in.
Tai chi, kung fu, meditation, chi gung, buddhism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, Taoism...Random things: feathers, (Paua) shells, incense, baths, glowsticks, sunglasses, hippies, ravers, industrial gothic fashion, Fishnets..., corsets, thumbcuffs, real cuffs, dreamcatchers, cats (
friends and family who are all too far away
any one on my 'heros' list
most people who have a good heart, humour, open and intellegent mind, interesting nature, and life.A cross between Jimi Hendrix and Jack Sparrow, would probably be the coolest bloke ever...
This list is not exhaustive... but its plenty enough.
Dance music: Trance (from euphoric to psytrance), Drum and Bass, Breakbeat, Techno, TBM, EBM, Industrial, Acid and Funky House, Liquid Funk...
Leftfield, Orbital, Pendulum, Combichrist, VNV Nation, Front 242, DJ Tiesto, Groove Armada, Faithless, NIN, Calibre, Roni Size, High Contrast, Logistics, Syrian, Gataka, Squarepusher, Rob D, Aphex Twin, Shy FX, Ayria, Delerium, Vitalic, William Alexander, DJ Friction, DJ Hype, DJ Marky, Plump DJs, Cut and Run, Andy C, Silent Auction, Prodigy, Icon of Coil, Neuroticfish, Mind in a Box, Zombie Girl, Suicide Commando....Metal and Rock:
Tool, Defontes, Muse, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Black Sabbath, Staind, A Perfect Circle, Evanescense, Propellerheads, Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix, Incubus, Man Of The Hour, Opeth, Rob Zombie, Slayer, System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, Cheap Sex, Queens of the Stone Age, Mariyln Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, Disturbed, Biffy Clyro, Merrick, Rival Schools, Janis Joplin, Audioslave, Skunk Anansie, Shihad, Cycloptic, Pantera, Drowning Pool, Korn, Slipknot, The Pixies...Classical:
Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Rodrigo, Albinoni, Mozart, Beethoven, Barber...
I'm missing a lot here but i can't remember them all...Chill Out: Trip Hop, ambient, Reggae, blues etc.
Tricky, Massive Attack, Otis Redding, Eva Cassidy, Bic Runga, Portishead, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, David Gray, Coldplay, Bob Marley, DJ Format, Moby, Air, Manu Chau, Gregory Isaacs, Marvin Gaye, Finley Quaye....Hip Hop, Rap, and Punk:
Dead Kennedys, Jurrasic 5, A Tribe Called Quest, Cypress Hill, NoFX, The Clash, Greenday, 2 Pac, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Rancid, Less Than Jake, Nad Religion, Sublime....
Requim for a Dream, Pi, Lord of the Rings, Bully, Kids, Being John Malkovich, City of God, Full Metal Jacket, Apocolypse Now, Gladiator, The Motorcycle Diaries, Kagemusha- Shadow Warrior, V for Vendetta, The Big Libowski, Laputa- Castle in the Sky, Revelations, Shooting Dogs, South West 9, Unleashed, Underworld, The Crow, Ong-Bak, A Beautiful Mind, The Thin Red Line, Training Day, Tears Of The Sun, Event Horizon, The Matrix, Planet of the Apes (original), Layer Cake, Saw, Bowling for Columbine, Farenheit 9/11, American History X, Leon (directors cut), Natural Born Killers, Sin City, Crash, Blow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pirates of The Caribbean, The Nineth Gate (most Johnny Depp films...), Monty Python, Fight Club, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Lock Stock..., Snatch, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, 12 Monkeys, Shuan of the Dead, Battle Royale, The Shaweshank Redemtion, The Experiment, Gattaca, Interview with a Vampire, Alien(s), Human Traffic, Se7en, Rules of Attraction, Withnailand I, Scarface, random indie films, B movies, fantasy films, international films...
Tribe,Merlin, Family Guy, South Park, My Name Is Earl, Simpsons, 2DTV, Monkey Dust, Spaced, Peepshow, Futurama, Lost, The IT Crowd, The Power of Nightmares, Have I Got News For You, Scrubs, Cowboy Beebop, American Dad, Red Dwarf, Rome, Dead Ringers, Modern Toss, Trigger Happy TV, Sopranos, Star Trek (stuff, sometimes), Babylon 5, Stargate (stuff), Drawn Together, Bremner Bird and Fortune...
Catch 22, Michael Moore, Herman Hesse (Siddhartha, The Steppenwolfe), JRR Tolkein (the Hobbit, LOTR, the Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales), John Pilger (Tell Me No Lies), Sebatiao Salgado (photographic books), Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions rocks), Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers guide to galaxy series, last chance to see, the salmon of doubt), Gary Larson (farside stuff), Garfield, Heroge Orwell, Shakespeare, Nietzsche ...
Gro Harlem Brundtland, Kofi Annan, Bob Marley, Martin Luther King, Nobel (and his prize winners), Gandhi, Buddhas, aid workers, Kurt Kobain, Chino Moreno, Helen Clarke, HR Giger, Freud, my grandfather (Armor Mitchell), John Pilger, Sebastio Selgado, Herman Hesse.... etc...