LOVE. COMPASSION. TOLERANCE. HONESTY. JUSTICE. COMMUNICATION. LANGUAGE. MUSIC (listening). MUSIC (playing). MUSIC (presenting).
SEX AND ... AND ROCK N ROLL (minus drugs - despite their many attractions, they allow scumbag dealers to profit from the vulnerability of others, and ultimately make users fucked-up or dead).
All things magical, mysterious, mathematical and mnemonic...
I LOVE TREES.
And World of Warcraft.
And, not least, 4ZzZ.
I'd like to meet:
More trees. More people.
My great-grandparents,
old friends,
a few of my old school teachers (Mr Fahy - Maths - aaahh, that first calculus lesson was almost better than sex, Miss Ryan - English, Sr Kathleen - Religion!),
Jesus,
Dave Wyndorf if Jesus not available (even if available),
Max Cavallera and his partner Gloria,
Zbigniew Preisner,
Paco De Lucia,
Josh Homme,
Werner Heisenberg,
Freddie Mercury,
Liberace (vavavoom!),
Meryl Streep,
Judy Benson.
Music:
RANDOM SELECTION:
MONSTER MAGNET,
Tool,
Lamb of God,
Kyuss,
Metallica,
Queens of the Stone Age,
Eagles of Death Metal,
Rob Zombie / White Zombie,
Marilyn Manson,
Soulfly,
Sepultura,
Il Nino,
Opeth,
Nevermore,
Pantera,
Slayer,
Audioslave,
Hilltop Hoods,
Butterfingers,
Everlast,
Transplants,
Guns n Roses,
Sisters of Mercy,
Muse,
A Perfect Circle,
Nine Inch Nails,
Type O Negative,
Tom Waits,
David Bowie,
Lou Reed,
Ian Dury,
Blue Oyster Cult,
Mozart,
J S BACH,
Zbigniew Preisner,
Tricky,
Massive Attack,
Portishead,
Cowboy Junkies,
Cake,
Michael Franti,
Creedence Clearwater Revival,
Paco De Lucia,
John Butler Trio,
Clotaire K,
old metal, old Aus rock like Buffalo and The Angels,
FLICKER SWITCH (hard-working Qlders),
New Town Jets (come out of retirement and PLAY, guys!),
GREAT BRIZ BANDS,
blah blah blah.... all sorts of stuff.
Movies:
RANDOM SELECTION:
Monty Python - Life of Brian, Holy Grail;
La Double Vie de Veronique,
Matrix series,
Apocalypse Now,
Seven,
Tootsie,
Diva,
Pulp Fiction,
Fist of Fury,
Tous Les Matins Du Monde,
lots more...
Television:
Hardly ever watch it....
SBS - Insight, Pizza, World Movies (haha, we all know everyone watches for the "arty"/nudie flics ooh aah);
ABC - Compass;
old episodes of The Addams Family, Get Smart, Merrie Melodies / Looney Toons (the old stuff), Blakes 7, The Sopranos, The Goodies, Monty Python, Keeping Up Appearances, Ab Fab, Joyce Meyer Ministries, whatever amuses or moves me ...
BRING BACK PROFESSOR JULIUS SUMNER MILLER!!
Books:
RANDOM SELECTION:
Georges Perec - Life A User's Manual,
J-K Huysmans (La Bas and others),
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong,
Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose and others,
Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda,
Kate Grenville - The Secret River,
Thomas Pynchon - Vineland and others,
Tim Winton - Cloudstreet,
Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat,
Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho,
H E Huntley - The Divine Proportion - A Study in Mathematical Beauty,
Tompkins and Bird - The Secret Life of Plants,
The Limbourg Brothers - Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry,
Escher - The Complete Graphic Works,
Norman Lindsay,
Anais Nin,
P G Wodehouse,
Evelyn Waugh,
Charles Dickens,
Jane Austen,
Thomas Hardy,
J R R Tolkein,
The New Oxford English Dictionary,
Roget's Thesaurus,
The Moscow Puzzles.
LIFE-CHANGERS:
Robert Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,
George Orwell - 1984,
Josef Conrad - Heart of Darkness,
Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics,
Gary Zukav - the Dancing Wu Li Masters,
Marilyn French - The Women's Room (it really did - you had to be there...),
Germaine Greer - The Female Eunuch (it did too)
Heroes:
Activists who keep on INTELLIGENTLY fighting the good fight to make the world a better place for everyone, not just a few.
Kids who can't save themselves from death (let alone save the world), as well as the families / friends who support them on their dark road.
When life is hard (and it is), everyone who survives today to wake up tomorrow is a hero.
What's a hero, anyway?
