The following interests work hand in hand with my concepts of style: Listening to Alternative-rock/pop, playing guitar and singing for said bands, getting drunk, smoking,, acting slovenly and stupidly when at work so everyone there continues to think I'm addicted to smack, or something.
The following interests are stunningly geeky, but I really couldn't give a shit: Reading the Harry Potter books, Watching the Harry Potter films, Talking about Harry Potter, Writing my own Potter books, Final Fantasy VII, reading warhammer books on my own because I can't find anyone to play with me. MASTURBATION.
God. (and, upon reflection and a late night internet trail, Liz Vicious)
I enjoy straddling both alternative and mainstream music, to the effect that I am regarded as having rather obscure taste by many pop fans, and having worryingly poppy tastes by my more musically knowledgeable friends. My reasons for liking bands/artists varies from minute to minute, giving any reasons from lyrics, to music to guitar solo's to pointless notions of credibility and integrity.
If you want to talk genres, then half my record collection would fit snugly in the "grunge" bracket. I also own some alternative pop and the occaisional album that might be regarded as metal.
I play in bands from time to time. My last band, Drone (www.droneweb.co.uk), was a truly excellent fusion of punk-rock and uncompromising incompetance, that was absolutely brilliant. These days I have somehow found myself in a prog-rock band. I don't know why. I hate prog.
I like these bands best of all: Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Opeth, Matthew Good Band, High on Fire,Temple of the Dog, Kyuss, Nobuo Uematsu.
The following Bands used to be further down the list, but have since enjoyed an upgrade into the "almost in the list of my favourite bands" territory: Melvins, Monster Magnet, At the Gates, (early) Emperor, Darkthrone, Cat Power, Blind Melon.
I like these bands quite a lot: The Smashing Pumpkins, The Tea Party, Mudhoney, Queens of the Stone Age, A Perfect Circle, Tool.
I like what I've heard of these bands a lot, though I've not heard a great deal, so I can't really call them my favourites: Tad, The Whitlams, Something For Kate, Ben Folds Five, Paradise Lost.
And I like these bands, although my absurd notions of what gives artists integrity prevents me from regarding them as equal to the other bands mentioned: Lacuna Coil, Silverchair.
Mes Fevryt Fylms is: Donnie Darko, May, Dazed and Confused, Magnolia, LotR: The Two Towers, Battle Royale, Audition, Lost in Translation, and a host of other stuff which I can't even begin to remember right now.
I am lucky enough to not watch a great deal of television. Family Guy, American Dad and Match of the Day are about all the programs I ever watch. In actual fact I haven't watched the first two in nearly six months, so I suppose only the latter counts.
As a child, Everything by Robin Jarvis (The Deptford Mice series, The Whitby Witches etc).
As an adult, or at least in what might be termed my post-teenage years, I am obsessed with the Harry Potter novels, to quite manic levels.
If anything in my profile is true, then it is that.
At 21 years old I am between theories of heroes. For the first twenty one years of my life I believed that heroes existed and were a source of great inspiritation. I acted like my heroes, both fictional and real, and hoped that one day I could be a "hero".
But recently I've lost sight of this. As I'm become slightly less naive, I've begun to spot the character flaws in the people I worshipped, and the unrealness of heroes on screen. Kurt Cobain probably wasn't against all the corporate interests I thought he was, Che Guevara probably had an extremely macho streak, John Lennon probably didn't treat people quite the way I believed. Yet I find myself an amalgamation of all of the pathetic, media documented and probably made up, characteristics of these people. Inevitably I have taken the worst from all of them and become a sad excuse for a person living off other people's interpretations of people I claim to love when I don't even know them.
So I'm between heroes.