Movies, books, comics, radio, tv, some video games, history, art, art hisory, video games on the history of art and the art of history, food, music, sleep, motorcycles, cars, anything with engines, basically, tinkering with stuff, geek cultures of all sorts, things that go boom, scrabble...I develop interests in many different things, most of which have a half-life of six weeks or so, but never fade away completely.
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I'd like to meet:
The Enlightened One
Music:
Just about anything. Except fresh aire. And easy listening. And boy bands. And soft, toothless white-people jazz.
Grew up in Nawlins, so jazz, blues, and funk are in my dna(the funky-ass Meters!), rap came along in grade school, teenage metalhead, discovered punk, branched out from there.
One thing I really miss is live music. In N.O. there's ALWAYS something happening. Arena shows, club dates, after-hours jams, even church! Ever hear Bach played on a pipe organ the size of a house? It's practically a religious experience.
Movies:
Star Wars, Star Trek even numbers, LOTR, Matrix (1 only!), sci-fi, mystery, horror, Welles, Scorcese, Coppola, Kurosawa, Val Lewton, Marx Bros, Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Ford, George Stevens (Shane, come back!), John Woo Hong Kong films, Kung Fu Theater, Bruce Lee!, Kevin Smith, Spike Lee, Tarantino, Cameron, ANYTHING by the Jim Henson creature shop, Spielberg, Lucas, anything with Brendan Gleeson, Andre Braugher, or Danial Day Lewis; Michael Mann, Roger Corman, Full Moon Studios, ANY movies with effects by Willis Obrien or Ray Harryhausen (Dynamation!!!) (although I was a bit disappointed by Clash of the Titans), anything with dinosaurs for that matter-except Half-assic Park 2-Flash Gordon, Flesh Gordon, movie serials...skinemax (what else are you gonna watch at 4am?), interesting porn (see Flesh Gordon)...don't really care much for slasher movies; watching people being brutalized by psychopaths just doesn't do anything for me
Television:
History channel, TLC, Discovery, L&Os, CSIs except Miami, most of the Star Treks, Sesame Street, the new Battlestar Galactica, good sci-fi/horror/mystery shows, Seinfeld, Scrubs, cartoon network, most HBO original shows
Books:
Science fiction, horror, pulp fiction of all kinds, history...Shakespeare, Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Asimov, Dan Simmons, Mark Twain, Ted Sturgeon, Joe Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Stephen Ambrose, Manley Wade Wellman, Philip K Dick, Alfred Bester, Gerald Kersh, "A Confederacy of Dunces", Mark Helprin, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Kurt Busiek, Peter David, Grant Morrison, Joss Whedon, J. Michael Strackzinski, Terry Moore, Ranma 1/2,Frank Miller, Poul Anderson, Michael Moorcock
