Mark Steel

I'd like to meet:

Good friends for good times.

What Your Underwear Says About You
When you're bad, you're very bad. And when you're good, you're still trouble!

Your ideal job: Gigolo. Or naked cowboy. The Underwear Oracle

Music:

There is no describing my musical tastes, other than to say they're all over the scale. 99% of Country & Rap are out --- I'll probably not even give it a listen, along with any Top 40 crap on the radio these days.

However, that said, the albums I find myself listening to the most are old Blue Note Herbie Hancock and Etta James , Queensryche's "Operation: Mindcrime," The Police "Synchronicity" and Nine Inch Nails "Pretty Hate Machine." Not exactly out of the mainstream in their time, but I still like 'em.

Movies:

I love Suspense/Thrillers --- Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles are my favourites. The best movie ever made is most definitely " Touch of Evil " (1959).

But it's not just old movies for me. The re-remake of Hitchcock's Pysho was freakin' brilliant --- who wouldda though Vince Vaughan could pull it off! Even The Usual Suspects kinda bounced on that Hitchcock nerve.

You still can't go wrong with good Epic ( Star Wars / Indiana Jones ), an interesting Foreign film ( Life is Beautiful / Amelie ) or a hilarious Comedy ( Friday / Full Metal Jacket / Goodfellas ). What, Full Metal Jacket isn't a comedy? Screw you hippies!

Television:

My television is a requisite part of my home theatre system.

Books:

I like reading in general, and have a lot of books. Now, quite a lot is reference material (software development, etc.) but I enjoy a lot of macabre like Clive Barker and H. P. Lovecraft . A bit of Douglas Adams and Robert Fulghum never go amiss, either.

The last thing I read was " The Historian " --- interesting story line, but all in all one of the most boring reads since Lord of the Rings (ooooh, sacrilege!).

Heroes:

Nelson Mandela --- that guy went through a ton of shit, and he's still an humble pacifist.

Past that ... Bill Gates. Jimmy Stewart. George W. Bush. Blame the antidisestablishmentarist in me, but I know damn well that if they can do it, so can I.