All the most interesting things in life that you're not supposed to do. Does "waiting to see what I can foul up next" count as an interest? If not, it's certainly interesting. I head up the Amazingness Commission (our motto: "Get that out of my sight, it's merely remarkable!") and wait to see what offends people today. Whisky, poker, guitar, preparing for the impending zombie apocalypse, movies, music, women, wrestling (yes, I know it's fake, but it's like pantomime for blokes) and pirates!
I'd like to meet:
The poker players, the wheeler-dealers, the makers of compilation albums, the kiss-stealers, the Jack Daniel's drinkers, the heavy thinkers, the guitar jammers, the pop-up pub pirates, the mudslingers, the storytellers, those on the inside looking out and those on the outside looking in, and all of you good-good people out there in La-La Land!!
Music:
Anything that goes "kerrrrannnnnngggg!!!!", and a few things that sound awfully like "nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I'll go and eat worms". Nirvana, Tom Waits, Muse, Radiohead, Feeder, Jeff Buckley, Kings of Leon, The Go! Team, The White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Green Day, The Hives, The Vines, The Atomic Dogs (R.I.P.), Daaaaaavid Bowie (always spelt with that many 'A's), Queens of the Stone Age, Hayseed Dixie, Deadenstereo, Ash, Guns'n'Roses, Interpol, Aerosmith, Aberfeldy, Counting Crows, Super Kestrel, The Wildhearts, Grace Emilys, Elvis Muthaf***in' Presley, Supergrass, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wolfmother, The Rat Pack, Eagles of Death Metal, Smashing Pumpkins, Arctic Monkeys, Jimi Hendrix, Gogol Bordello, The Sex Pistols, The Fratellis, We Are Scientists, Pixies, The Stooges, Maximo Park and pretty much everything else I've ever spent money on.
Movies:
I could mention far too many (Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Good Will Hunting, Enter The Dragon, Beetlejuice, Scrooged, Ghostbusters all please stand up) but fervently hope that those who don't have a soft spot for The Labyrinth (starring Daaaaaavid Bowie), Yankee Doodle Dandy, Singin' In The Rain and The Wizard of Oz all die cold and alone in their beds. And no, I don't think that's going too far.
Television:
The Duke does not approve of this Idiot Box, but watches an awful lot of cartoons.
Books:
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. If you have not read this book, you are dead to me. On The Road by Jack Kerouac, Tietam Brown by Mick Foley and Stone Junction by Jim Dodge are all books that will get into your brain pan and shake something loose. Who wants to start AMO? Bill Bryson makes learning fun, and Stephen King used to be the baddest cat on the block. Christopher Marlowe's Faustus kicks the holy hell out of Shakespeare on his best day because it's ALL ABOUT STORY and I Big Red Heart the Private Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg. And Kinky Friedman is the best Jewish country'n'western singer turned detective story novelist in the history of the world. Period.
Heroes:
Hunter S. Thompson, Muhammed Ali, Mick Foley, Kurt Cobain, Isaac Newton, Batman, Chuck Bukowski, Inigo Montoya (woe betide the six-fingered man!), Tom Waits, Bill Murray, Doc Holliday, Alexander the Great, any of a dozen pirates (Jack Rackham, Henry Morgan, Edward Teach, Roc Brasiliano, all please stand up) and the people I speak to most often...my friends are cracked mavericks, Weekend Warriors and Agents of Chaos who kick the asses of some things which don't even HAVE asses.
