- Anthropology, cultural and forensic. I'm especially interested in religion and human sexuality.
- Paganism, spirituality, magic, and the occult. I've previously served as an officer of the University of Georgia Pagan Student Association, and I contributed my voice to Out There! on WUOG 90.5 FM.
- Gems and minerals. My collection is a work of art in itself. Just for the record, I'm much more interested in the science behind mineral formation than in cliche New Age crystal healing.
- Native plants and folk medicine. As an ongoing project, I'm restoring natural habitat on 18 acres of my family's land by removing invasive exotic species while planting and protecting the native plant species.
- Other collections (cute spooky toys, scarab carvings/ amulets, Victorian poison bottles, Zuni indian fetishes, the occasional action figure...)
- Comic books... pretty ones. This includes manga. I've been told that some people insist on drawing a distinction, but I don't.
- Bizarre Asian pop culture... from the people who brought us hentai!
- Urban legends and folklore
- Drawing, painting, sculpting, sewing, carving... whatever
- Running around in the woods, despite being dressed in complicated gothic attire.
I'd like to meet:
Entities.
Music:
VAST, Placebo, VNV Nation, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Switchblade Symphony, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Tori Amos, Poe, A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Delerium, David Bowie, Soundgarden, Kronos Quartet, Ministry, Kidney Thieves, Stabbing Westward, Rage Against the Machine, Rasputina, Garbage, Nirvana, Portishead, Front Line Assembly, The Doors, Sisters of Mercy, Bjork, Cruxshadows, Massive Attack, Sublime, Johnny Cash, Orgy, The Cure, Marilyn Manson (circa 1998), Chemical Brothers, Jucifer, Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Yoko Kanno, Loreena McKennitt, Secret Garden, Enigma... (
Oh, yeah. I grew up mostly hearing stuff like Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon.
Movies:
Bladerunner, American History X, Fight Club, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, I Heart Huckabees, Howl's Moving Castle, Kung Fu Hustle, Twelve Monkeys, A Clockwork Orange, Ed Wood, Dangerous Liaisons, The Name of the Rose, Serenity, The Royal Tenenbaums, Velvet Goldmine, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (all four hours of it!), Silence of the Lambs, Heathers, The Addams Family, The Wicker Man.
Television:
...Sucks. We won't pay for channels, so we don't get any. I watch shows on DVD, but I can't bring myself to sit through commercials.
- Invader Zim
- Aeon Flux
- Mystery Science Theater 3000
- Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
- Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen, and the other Adult Swim fare
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Full Metal Alchemist
- Cowboy Bebop
- Samauri Champloo
- Monty Python's Flying Circus
- Kids in the Hall
- Mythbusters
- Firefly
- Carnivale
- Shows featuring actual forensic case files
Books:
I read a lot of nonfiction, true crime, and I follow current events pretty closely.
     
My favorite authors of fiction include: Chuck Palahniuk, Poppy Z. Brite, Mark Danielewski, Edgar Allan Poe,
     Neil Gaiman, and Anne Rice (nothing after 1990!)
Comic series and graphic novels that I've enjoyed: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac,
     Hellboy, Lenore, Gloom Cookie, From Hell, Descendants of Darkness/ Yami no
     Matsuei, Excel Saga, Lucifer, Squee, The Girl Who Would Be Death, Sunglasses After
     Dark.
I can also read Latin, but not especially well.
I feel obligated to create a few categories of my own.
Artists: J. W. Waterhouse, Yoshitaka Amano, Edward Gorey, John Duncan, Dante
     Gabriel Rossetti, William Blake, J. O'Barr, Masamune Shirow.
Poets: William Butler Yeats, Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Video games:
     Metroid, Super and Prime
     Ragnarok Online, and World of Warcraft (I have a troll hunter on Uldum.)
Heroes:
The one with a thousand faces.
