Singing and playing guitar in Mansions of Glory,
putting the odd gig on, films and stuff, books, comic books,
doing the football with NIRFA, cartoons,
Japanese Role-Playing games, drinking, things.
I'd like to meet:
Bruce Campbell, Stan Lee, Harry Houdini, The Earl of Sandwich.
Music:
400 Blows, The Advantage, Afghan Whigs,
Against Me!, Alexisonfire, Alias, All,
An Albatross, Anthrax,
Antipop Consortium, Asshole Parade, Atom &
His Package, Avail, The B-52's
Bad Brains, Bars, Bear Vs. Shark,
Bjork, Black Cougar Shock Unit,
Black Flag, The Blood Brothers,
Born Against, The Bouncing Souls,
Braid, The Bronx, Jeff Buckley, Bullet Treatment,
Chromeo, Coheed & Cambria, Butthole Surfers,
Cancer Bats, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, The Clash,
Converge, The Cro-Mags, Dag Nasty,
Dan Sartin, Dead Kennedys,
Descendents, Devo, Dillinger Four,
The Dismemberment Plan, DJ Shadow, The Draft,
Drawn By Lines, The Drips, Duran Duran, Dwarves,
The Enablers, Erase Errata,
Fishbone, Fiya, Fucked Up, Fugazi, The Futureheads,
Gallows, Gang of Four, Gold Chains,
Grabass Charlestons, Guided By Voices,
Hot Cross, Hot Snakes,
Hot Water Music, Interpol,
Jane's Addiction, Kiss, Koufax, Kyuss,
Lard, Leatherface, Led Zepplin, Ted Leo,
The Lemonheads, Les Savy Fav,
Lifetime, The Marked Men, MC5, Milemarker, Minor Threat,
Minutemen, The Misfits, Motley Crue,
Nation of Ulysses, NERD, Numbers, The 101, Outkast,
Passage, Pavement, Piebald, The Pixies,
The Postal Service, Prince,
Propagandhi, Public Enemy,
Public Image Ltd, Q & Not U,
Quicksand, The Ramones,
The Rapture, Refused, Replacements,
Rites of Spring, Rocket From The Crypt,
Rush, The Shins, Slayer,
The Smiths, Snuff, Social Distortion,
The Specials, Bruce Springsteen,
Sultans, Superchunk, Supersuckers, The Letters Organize, Talking Heads,
Team Dresch, Testors, Trans Am,
Turbonegro, The Unit Ama, Van Halen,
The Weakerthans, Western Addiction,
Written From Negative, The Wu-Tang Clan,
Frank Zappa
Movies:
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Spirited Away, Breakfast Club, 300,
Enter The Dragon, Lost in Translation, A New Hope,
The Empire Strikes Back, The Return of The Jedi,
Howard The Duck, Buckaroo Banzai, Akira, Mallrats,
Shaun of The Dead, Conan The Barbarian, Hot Fuzz,
This Is Spinal Tap, Ghostbusters, Swingers, Pootie Tang,
Bubba Ho-Tep, Being John Malkovich, Big Trouble In Little China, Escape From New York,
Chasing Amy, Clerks, Virgin Suicides, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,
Dogma, Donnie Darko, Evil Dead, Ghost Dog, Hard Boiled,
Ichi The Killer, The Iron Giant, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Italian Job,
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Memento, Princess Mononke,
This Is Spinal Tap, Superman, The Thing, Transformers: The Movie,
Unbreakable, Pretty much anything with ninjas, samurai, pirates, giant robots, Bruce Campbell,
Drew Barrymore or superheroes in it.
Television:
Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends, The Simpsons, The Venture Brothers,
Deadwood, Justice League, Lost, Futurama, Look Around You, Spaced, Battlestar Galatica, Prison Break,
Smallville, Extreme Dodgeball, Match Of The Day, Sky Sports News, Family Guy, American Dad,
The Mighty Boosh, Worlds Most Extreme Explosions, Veronica Mars, Robot Chicken,
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Arrested Development, My Name is Earl, Ugly Betty, Jericho, Dresden Files, Heroes.
Books:
Books - Empire of The Nine - Philip Jose Farmer. The Chinatown DeathCloud Peril - Paul Malmont. World War Z - Max Brooks. Jack Staff - Paul Grist. The Walking Dead - Robert Kirkman. Anything by Haruki Murakami. Anything by Douglas Coupland.
Anything by Michael Chabon. Anything by Joe Lansdale. Anything by Jonathan Lethem.
Mcsweeneys quarterlys. Carter Beats The Devil - Glen David Gold.
Disinformation Books (Espec. Book of Lists, Book of Lies).
If I Die In A Combat Zone - Tim o'Brien. Cash - The Johnny Cash biography.
The Adventures of Jimmy Corrigan, Smartest Kid On Earth - Chris Ware.
Pimp - Iceberg Slim. And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave.
Any Calvin & Hobbes books. Excelsior! - The Stan Lee Story.
The Killer Inside - Jim Thompson. Fun With Milk And Cheese - Evan Dorkin.
Pretty much anything by James Ellroy.
Little Boy Blue - Edward Bunker. The Vesuvious Club - Mark Gatiss.
The Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Shea/Robert Wilson. American Gods - Neil Gaiman.
Love All The People - Bill Hicks. Get In The Van - Henry Rollins. The Hollow Earth - Randy Rucker.
Fargo Rock City - Chuck Klosterman. The Dirt - Motley Crue. Princess of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Our Band Could Be Your Life - Michael Azzerad. The Prestige - Christopher Priest.
Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard. Anything by Kinky Friedman. Old school pulp novels (Bran Mak Morn, Doc Savage, John Carter of Mars, Kull, Solomon Kane, The Shadow, etc.)
New Gods/Fourth World - Jack Kirby. From Hell / Watchmen / Halo Jones / ABC Comics/ Pretty much anything by - Alan Moore. Planetary/Next Wave/Authority - Warren Ellis.
Comic Books (as of July, 2007) - Walking Dead, She-Hulk, The Irredeemable Ant-Man, All-Star Superman, The Spirit, Wormwood, The Boys, Brave & the Bold (I used to read a load more stuff, but in the last year the quality of stuff from Marvel and DC has gone through the floor. If you can reccomend anything, go for it).
Heroes:
Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Cloud Strife
