Live music, independent theatre & good tv. Love Ms Fortuna, temptress of the moon; & enjoys travelling - i've been to PRChina three times - but that costs an awful lot of broken up pallets. I also follow the Bad Astronomy, Skep Chick & Improbable Research blogs online
Someone who shares at least some of my interests & who isn't afraid to insist that i try some of hers. I'm sure there has to be some spark of physical attraction for a continuing relationship; but a bright smile & sharp eyes counts for more than a mere look
Runs the gamut from inner city rockers like the Hell City Glamours, Booby Traps, Bright Red, Bug Girl, Young + Restless, Teenagers in Tokyo, The Jezabels & Violent Minx (they're all on myspace - look 'em up like i did) through the mystic romanticism of Alan Hovhaness (Chakmakjian), Morton Feldman & La Monte Young through the romantic serialism of Humphrey Searle (& the anarchistic fun of Searle's Hoffnung colaborateur, Malcolm Arnold) to the uncompromising noisemaking of Kryztof Penderecki. This would generally be considered something of a range. Overseas acts i always catch when they hit Sydney.au include Bob Log III & Nashville Pussy. The Pink Floyd's eye- & ear-popping Pulse dvd is currently annoying the hell out of my neighbours; & i can occasionally be heard humming HE Zhanhao' & CHEN Gang's Butterfly Lovers Concerto at Radio Birdman shows - this is unlikely to be doing any favours to actuarial statistics but so far i've survived. Other classic bands rating high on my cd player include Toys Went Berserk, Joy Division, The Stranglers & The Reels; & i remain romantically partially to Ms High Cs herself, Kate Bush. Lydia Lunch is a recent rediscovery from my youth; while
Anything starring Jodie Foster (my favourite actress), Wallace (my favourite actor) or filmed by Stan Brakhage (no - you probably haven't heard of him). For some strange reason, i don't see many films nowadays. The best film of all time is Vertical Features Remake (followed closely by The Falls); & my dvd collection is filled with nice, commercial titles like Chelsea Girls; the Jacques Tati collection; I Am Curious (Yellow & Blue); WomanWizard; A Weatherwoman (& Weatherwoman Returns); Dog Star Man; Sherman's March (a meditation upon the possibility of romantic love in the south during a time of nuclear weapons proliferation); Caligula; & Wallace & Gromet's Cracking Contraptions. This list doesn't make any sense at all. One day, someone will put the third best film of all - Claude Farraldo's anarchist assault, Themroc - on silver dish; & i'd be delighted
Off-beat documentaries (NOT reality tv), particularly when dealing with science & technology. For some childish reason, it amuses me that the don't try this at home disclaimer on Mark Williams' Big Bangs has a spelling mistake. Anything with the word Scrapheap Challenge in the title has to be watchable; & enjoy ESPN's Around the Horn & Pardon the Innterruption for no easily discernable reason. Wish they were still making the Red Green Show, too, with definately establishes me as a geezer (as does my taste for This Old House & The New Yankee Workshop). The only version of ---- Idol i ever watched was TISM's, which probably doesn't count. Enjoy Babylon 5 (although how much of that is based on the gorgeous Claudia Christian & Mira Furlan i;m not game to admit); & have every episode of Star Trek 9 ever made (both legal; & in a Chinese bootleg version)
Currently reading the complete science fiction of Cordwainer Smith & Her smoke goes up forever by James Tiptree, Jnr. Since Smith's real name was Col. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger & Tiptree was a CIA analyst called Alice Sheldon, i'm sure this overwhelming sense of claustrophobic paranoia is only fleeting & has nothing to do with the fact that one of my favourite books is Gormenghast. Other writers in my shelf include Phillip Jose Farmer, Michael Moorcock & Samuel R Delany