Thought provoking arguments, too much consumption of alcohol, fine food, stimulating cinema, top quality comic books, emotion-inducing music and getting my head and beard scratched.
I'd like to meet:
Chimps and orangutans, time travellers and freshly dead zombies who still retain the ability to chat. Myself in the past so I can slap me into making good decisions instead of all the awful ones.
Music:
Pavement, Mum, Sigur Ros, Jurassic 5, Beastie Boys, American Analog Set, Deathcab For Cutie, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, De La Soul, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Fog, Air, Cornelius, DJ Shadow, David Holmes, Primal Scream, Unkle, Dinosaur Jr, Foo fighters, Weezer, Super Furry Animals, Death in Vegas, the Go! Team, Stevie Wonder, Teenage Fanclub, the Delgados, and Pixies among others.
Movies:
Ooh, too many to mention, but here are some - Evil Dead 2, Goonies, Airplane, Akira, Aliens, Anchorman, the Animatrix, Back to the Future, Batman Begins, Battle Royale, Big Trouble in Little China, Best in Show, Braindead, the 'Burbs, Chopper, Dawn of the Dead, Die Hard, Dr Strangelove, Dumbo, Ed Wood, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, the Fog, Ghostbusters, Goodfellas, the Incredibles, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Little Shop of Horrors, Lord of the Rings, Oldboy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pi, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Predator, Return of the Pink Panther, Ringu, Rushmore, the Royal Tenenbaums, Shaun of the Dead, the Shining, Short Circuit, Sin City, Spiderman 2, Star Wars (that 3, not those 3, obviously), Superman, Swingers, Taxi Driver, the Thing, the 3rd Man, Total Recall, True Lies, Withnail and I , the Wizard of Oz and a million-odd others far too numerous to mention.
Television:
At the moment - Family Guy, American Dad, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, South Park, the odd episode of Neighbours and repeated viewings of Big Train, the Mighty Boosh, Extras, Father Ted, Nathan Barley, Deadwood, 24, the Day Today, Brass Eye, Futurama, Nighty Night, Arrested Development, Peep Show, the League of Gentlemen, Spaced and Black Books.
Books:
'I Am Legend' by Richard Matheson,
'Rebel Without a Crew' by Robert Rodriguez,
'If Chins Could Kill' and 'Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way' by Bruce Campbell,
'Sin City' by Frank Miller,
'V for Vendetta' by Alan Moore,
'Preacher' by Garth Ennis,
'Generation X' by Douglas Copeland,
'Calvin and Hobbes' by Bill Waterson.
Heroes:
Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf and Wizard and...
