Perhaps it's childish, but I can be endlessly fascinated by just about anything. I am especially passionate about:
Gadgets and toys, philosophy, drumming, writing, SED and OLED TVs, HD DVD or Blu-Ray? Eating biscuits, anime, Capoeira, particle physics and quantum theory, computers, Chinese and Japanese culture, pie, good sound systems and the music I can play on them, sushi, dim sum, theology, silly and/or clever humour, acting, the theatre, racial equality and the difficulties of understanding white privilege, aestheticism, the cinema, heelying , poetry, steaks and cakes (not at the same time), mythology, good dancing, whisky and whiskey (especially single malt whisky, my favourite being Caol Ila), not having any taste whatsoever in tea or coffee, sci-fi, fantasy, wearing goggles on my forehead and eternal youth.
Oh, and I find owls very cute indeed; I had three strigine soft toys as a child: Owly, Mad Owly and Owly Supreme.
And most of all, of course, I am interested in having fun.
Music:
Early King Crimson, The Beatles, The Doors, Queen, The Animals, The Kinks, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Akino Arai, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, ALI Project, Yoko Kanno & the Seatbelts, The Prodigy, The Future Sound of London, Sack Trick, Holst, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Dvorak, Hans Zimmer, Lacuna Coil, Opeth, Nightwish, System of a Down, Slipknot, Metallica, Amplifier, Dog Fashion Disco, Sack Trick, Bad Religion, T-Rex, Liquid Tension Experiment, The Sex Pistols, From Zero, Space and The Roots.
Drummers I admire: first and foremost, Michael Giles. Then Buddy Rich, Steve Gadd, Dave Weckl, Thomas Lang, Mike Portnoy and Joey Jordison. Dennis Chambers is some sort of drumming deity.
Bands I would (somehow) gnaw off my own ears to have drummed for: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, early King Crimson, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System of a Down, Opeth, Lacuna Coil, The Doors and Dream Theater.
Movies:
Cinema Paradiso, La Gloire de Mon Pere, Empire of the Sun, The Lion King, Mononoke-hime, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, Porco Rosso, Omohide Poroporo, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.Directors: Pasolini, Kurosawa, Spielberg, Kubrick
Television:
Have I Got News for You, Spitting Image, Red Dwarf, Dr Who, Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Anime: Hikaru no Go, Mai-HiME, Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, One Piece, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Evangelion, Azumanga Daioh, Last Exile, Scrapped Princess, Pita-Ten, Tiny Sugar Fairy Snow, ROD: The TV, Wolf's Rain, Gankutsuou, Monster, Gunslinger Girl, Princess Tutu, Trigun, Gakuen Alice, Ichigo Mashimaro, Rurouni Kenshin, Hachimitsu to Kurobaa, Mahou Shoujotai: Arusu, NHK ni Youkuso!, Monster, The Third, Genshiken, HunterXHunter, Noein and Rozen Maiden
Books:
Pale Fire and Lolita, Nabokov
The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas
Les Miserables, Hugo
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Edward II and Dr Faustus, Marlowe
Othello, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
Prometheus Bound and The Oresteia, Aeschylus
The short stories of Chekhov
The short stories of Wilde, particularly 'The Nightingale and the Rose'
Poets: Wilfred Owen, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Blake. I have a great fondness for Keats, but mostly find that I just want to cuddle him and go, 'Awwww!'
Philosophy: Plato, Nietzsche (for his style over his apparent beliefs), Ryle
Heroes:
I always liked the X-Men, personally.
