People, philosophy, storytelling, law, food, religion, botany, music, the craft, politics, art, history, engineering, psychoanalysis, biochemistry, cinematography, astrophysics, games, poetry, football, mathematics, commerce, you.
I'd like to meet:
In general:
People who know that truth and love are the way forward - not just an idle hope - and that future of mankind is not a pipe dream or doomed to failure.
People who do not know the above, but would like to.
People who are thinking, "there must be more to life than this."
People who love story telling in all its forms, and love to chew the fat about it.
People who are interested in anything I'm interested in and want to talk about deep and mysterious things.
In particular at the moment:
Sci-fi or fantasy writers or aspiring writers, to do with a publishing project I am working on.
Editors in connection with the same thing.
N.B. I get plenty of spam fried requests, so if you're a real person, and would like to be my myspace friend, then I'm sure I'd be happy about that, but please send me a message as well as the request, so that I know you are real.
P.S. If you're a self-pub author wanting to promote your book, I laud and support you in that. But if you couldn't be bothered to read this, or msg me, then I can't be bothered to check your profile and accept your friend request. :-)
Movies:
All-time favourites: Star Wars episode IV, Moulin Rouge, Bladerunner, Labyrinth. At least those are probably the ones I watched the highest number of times, but I like to watch any good film.
Television:
Adverts.
I try not to watch much TV - I'm afraid I might get to like it.
Books:
A few books I particularly enjoyed and recommend, in no particular order:
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
The Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Magician by Raymond E. Feist.
The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson.
Glamourous Powers by Susan Howatch.
The Oddessy by Homer (or another man of the same name ;) )
Letter to the Romans by Paul the apostle.
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong.
Nemesis by Isaac Asimov.
The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett.
Heaven by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen
I also loved Lord of the Rings and the Narnia books as a child and as an adult, and I loved Harry Potter also, but these are too popular nowadays to need recommending ;)
Heroes:
In no particular order: St. Ignatius of Loyola. Jesus. Aleister Crowley. Albert Einstein. My wife. Carl Jung. My mum. Mary Magdalene. Anyone who tells the truth in spite of what people might think of them.
