It would be a privilege to be arrested by Sheriff John Bunnell of the steely grey hair and orange skin. I would prefer not to be arrested for drink driving or anything dangerous but a lesser offence would be fine.
I love to meet Dave Vanian (still gorgeous lead singer of the Damned) because it would make my big sister jealous.
I got to meet loads of great people during 2006 and also got to talk to Jock and Dave from the Straps for the first time for 25 years last year. That was damn good!
Anybody else? There are still loads but too many are dead now - my grandads, Dirk Bogarde, Oscar Schindler (I would love to know why he did what he did at such great personal risk. He is one of my true heroes).
First and foremost Punk
The Straps (one of my first great loves)
Sham 69 : Cockney Rejects : Argy Bargy : 3CR : The Damned : Menace : Xray Specs : Sex Pistols (of course) : Ramones : The Provoked Stanklifters : UK Subs : 999 : NOFX : Buzzcocks : Stiff Little Fingers : Gear : Goldblade : Stranglers : The Duel : Middle Finger Salute and many more.
An edited version of my Wasted Slideshow is now in my Pics.
General - The Foo Fighters : Nirvana : Alice in Chains : Dishwalla (do they belong here?) : Pearl Jam
Metal - Children of Bodom : Sonata Arctica : Emperor : Waking the Destroyer : Municipal Waste
Opera - Puccini : Bizet : Verdi : Rossini
Some Jazz _ Satchmo and Ella mainly but also Dave Brubeck
Some Folk-Rock - The Strawbs : The Band : Robert Allen Zimmerman : Tull
Others - Joy Division : Elvis Costello : At the Drive In (absolutely mad - I love them) : Killing Joke (punk again?)
Jimmy Eat World - at least the song Pain
Lemonjelly and Ozric Tentacles : Stackridge
Once upon a Time in America
Diva
Brief Encounter
Spirited Away
Mystic River
The French Connection
anything by Pixar but especially Monsters Inc
Ed Wood and other Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaberations
Brief Encounter
Mr Smith Goes to Washington and anything Frank Capra did.
George Forbush and the Penguins (hence the virtual pet below)
adopt your own virtual pet!
Seeing as I've just added him and I've been a fan since I was a baby:
Dr Who
Lost and Spongebob Squarepants.
Dangermouse when I get a chance to see it.
"My Name is Earl" - it's brilliant and Earl Hickey is my latest heart-throb - aaah. Quite like the look of Jason Lee as well.
Favourite books of all time
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Chymical Wedding - Lindsay Clarke
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
L'Etranger - Albert Camus
Science Fiction - Philip K Dick, Brian Aldiss, Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Terry Pratchett
Louis de Bernieres & Jostein Gaarder.
Philip Pullman - especially His Dark Materials Trilogy
H P Lovecraft
Currently reading Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
I also read Private Eye and New Scientist
My Dad
Jose Mourinho, John Terry
All the St Helens team but especially Sean Long (very skillful), Nick Fozzard (a human JCB), James Roby (very talented and so young) and Ade Gardner (very quick)
Loads of other people but Stephen W Hawking, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin should all come in for a special mention.
My favourite bloggers: Prawn Cufflinks, Inspector Gadget, PC Copperfield and Mr Chalk. There are links to them from another blogsite I like Growing Old without Dignity