Writing (whether it's prose, scripts, articles or songs), playing guitar, filmmaking, skateboarding, doodling, reading comics, watching films and listening to music.
I'd like to meet:
Anyone. Anything. I thrill at the thought of meeting new people, listening to their opinions, watching them interact in their natural habitat and disecting their inner workings much like a high-school sadist in bio class armed with a scalpel and a fresh frog.
Except without the frog.
Or the scalpel.
Music:
Old School Rock: Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Aerosmith, Frank Zappa, Cheap Trick, the Who, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Cream.
Hip-Hop Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Public Enemy, N.E.R.D., Mos Def, DMX, Eminem, NWA, Snoop Dogg, Wu Tang Clan, Mos Def, Outkast.
Rock n' Roll: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, the Big Boppa, Beach Boys, the Beatles.
Rock Revivalists: the Darkness, Jet, Kings of Leon, the Hives, Hot Hot Heat, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Death From Above 1979.
Old School Punk: the Clash, the Ramones, Iggy Pop & the Stooges.
2nd Wave Ska: the Beat, Madness, the Specials.
The Blues: John Lee Hooker, B.B. King.
Solo Songwriters: Suzanne Vega, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple.
90's Alternative: Nirvana, Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead, Everclear, Sleeper, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Terrorvision.
3rd Wave Ska-Punk: Sublime, Reel Big Fish, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Save Ferris, Goldfinger, Mustard Plug.
Electronica/DJ/Etc: Daft Punk, Prodigy, Dust Brothers, DJ Shadow, Mixmaster Mike, the Wiseguys, Ta-Dhin Project, DJ QBert.
Punk/Emo/Etc.: NOFX, Rancid, Green Day, (early) Offspring, Blink 182, the Ataris, Something Corporate, the Living End, Taking Back Sunday.
Crooners: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin.
Swing Revivalists: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin' Daddies.
Soul Brothers n Sisters: Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Joss Stone, George Clinton.
Metal/Nu-Metal/Etc: (early) Korn, (early) Metallica, (early) Sepultura, White Zombie, Deftones.
Unknown Genre: Ben Folds Five, Primus, Mr. Bungle, Tism, Electric Six, Theme tunes to Cartoon Network shows.
Movies:
Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python and the Meaning of Life, American Pie, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Harold & Kumar go to White Castle, the Big Lebowski, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Airplane, A Fish Called Wanda, Coming to America, Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spinal Tap, Freddy Got Fingered, Swingers, Whitnail & I, Seniman Bujang Lapuk, Pendekar Bujang Lapuk, Ali Baba Bujang Lapuk, 3 Abdul, Do Re Mi, Labu & Labi, Madu Tiga.
Action: A Better Tomorrow I & II, the Killer, Bullet in the Head, Hard Boiled, Face/Off, Die Hard, Speed, Matrix, Drunken Master II, Fist of Legend, Spiderman II, X Men II, Hellboy, Blade I & II, Batman I & II, Robocop, Terminator I & II, 2 Fast 2 Furious, the Bourne Identity.
Horror: Evil Dead I & II, Army of Darkness, American Werewolf in London, Brain Dead, Dawn of the Dead (remake), the Haunting (original), the Exorcist, Lost Boys, Cabin Fever, 28 Days Later, Nightmare On Elm Street, Jacob's Ladder, Event Horizon, Dog Soldiers, Beetlejuice (didn't know what genre to put it in).
Drama: Taxi Driver, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Rain Man, Fight Club, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, ChungKing Express, Kill Bill I & II, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, American Splendour, Wall Street, Tadpole, Ed Wood, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Benny & Joon, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Scent of a Woman, Dead Poets Society, American Beauty, Raging Bull, Donnie Darko, American History X, Ichi the Killer, Battle Royale, Almost Famous, Amelie, Trainspotting, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Pale Rider, Once Upon A Time In The West, Sgt. Hassan, Ibu Mertua Ku.
Gangster: Godfather Trilogy, Goodfellas, Casino, Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, the Untouchables, Things to do in Denver when you're Dead, Donnie Brasco, Gangster No.1, the Italian Job, Get Carter, Boyz In The Hood.
Animated: Toy Story I & II, Shrek I & II, Transformers: the movie, Akira, the Incredibles, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut.
Popcorn: Back to the Future trilogy, Star Wars II, IV, V & VI, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Indana Jones trilogy, the Goonies, Gremlins I & II, Pirates of the Caribbean, Oceans Eleven, Ghostbusters, School of Rock.
Television:
British Comedy: Monthy Python's Flying Circus, Red Dwarf, Bottom, Rising Damp, Only Fools and Horses, the Fast Show, Ali G, Fawlty Towers, Have I Got News For You, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Cartoons: Dexters Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Cow & Chicken, I Am Weasel, Transformers, the Simpsons, South Park.
MTV: Beavis & Butthead, the Maxx, Aeon Flux, Viva La Bam, Jackass.
American Comedy: Friends, That 70's Show, Frasier.
Classics: Knight Rider, MacGyver, Airwolf, the A-Team, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days.
The Only TV Show I've Bought Every Single Season Of: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Others: Late Nite Poker.
Books:
Comics: Transmetropolitan, Gen 13, Fables, Preacher, Hellblazer, Sandman, New X Men, Ultimates, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Sin City: That Yellow Bastard, Batman, the Maxx, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee.
Fiction: Fight Club, Choke, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Catcher in the Rye, Dracula, It, Good Omens, Philosophy in the Boudoir, Silence of the Lambs, Generation S.L.U.T., the Wasp Factory.
Non-Fiction: Screenplay, If Chins Could Kill, That Robert Rodriguez diary of how he shot a movie for less than $7,000 which I can't remember the title of, Once More With Feeling.
Heroes:
Martin Scorcese - For making me want to be a film director.
Robert Rodriguez - For proving what was once thought impossible in filmmaking.
Sam Raimi - For taking me on a rollercoaster ride in the Evil Dead trilogy and Spiderman II.
Robocop - For teaching me the F-word.
Quentin Tarantino - For helping me refine the use of the F-word. Oh, and making some excellent films too.
Johnny Depp - For being the coolest actor to ever live.
John Cleese - For all those extras in the Fawlty Towers box set, preaching the nature behind comedy.
Hunter S. Thompson - For opening my eyes to his gonzo world.
Marty Beckerman - Even though I've only read one of his books, believe me I am super-impressed.
Kurt Cobain - For introducing me to the wonderful world of guitar based music.
Guo Sun Lee - For introducing me to Kurt Cobain (not personally, of course).
Jimi Hendrix - For showing me the beauty of great guitar playing.
Warren Ellis - For writing Transmetropolitan.
Garth Ennis - For writing Preacher.
Alan Moore - For writing the most revolutionary comic books in history.
Neil Gaiman - For introducing me to a whole new world of comics (and in that world, they call them graphic novels).
Sharan - For helping me out.
P. Ramlee - For teaching me how to speak Malay and showing just how much a man can accomplish in cinema.
