Books. Art/The Arts. Music. Movies. Nature (I miss the Adirondacks, terribly). Tennis. Running. Walking. Cross-country and alpine skiing. Sledding. Riveting. Reading. Writing. Drawing. Sporadic Hermitage. Minimalism. Drum circles. Holistic living and healing. Health and fitness. Vegetarianism and animal rights. #55. Zyr + Sugar-Free Red Bull. Red wine. Green Tea. Cemeteries. Railroad tracks. Abandoned buildings (especially old industrial ones). The paranormal. Earning and enjoying money. The Sabres, Bills and Blue Jays. Hating on porn and substance abuse. Lovin' on blood 'n guts.
I'd like to meet:
People and products who and that don't make my eyes cross and/or roll. If you run the drama ringer like Jerry Springer I've no time for you.
Music:
Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Delerium and Front Line Assembly and any other Rhys Fulber and/or Bill Leeb projects, Enigma, Perfume Tree, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Yes, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Clapton, Bowie, The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, Stone Temple Pilots, The Stone Roses, Blur, Ride, Oasis, Manic Street Preachers, Suede, The Charlatans, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets, Adorable, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Catherine Wheel, Cocteau Twins, The Police, Simple Minds, Coldplay, Skinny Puppy, Rammstein, Eisbrecher, Lords of Acid, lots of WaxTrax! stuff, NIN, Assemblage 23, Funker Vogt, Razed in Black, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Iron Maiden, Scorpions, Simon and Garfunkel, The White Stripes, Beethoven, Berlioz, Chuck Mangione, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Cohen, Ladytron, Bee Gees, ABBA, Madness, The Specials, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Prince, Ultravox, Visage, Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, Peter Murphy, Wolfsheim, The Cure, Depeche Mode, New Order, Jean-Luc DeMeyer projects, Insekt, Modeselektor, Marvin Gaye, World music, Tori, Madonna, Bjork, Kylie, (old) Country (i.e. Cash, Cline) etc... No ghetto jams kthanx.
Movies:
Any David Lynch, especially: and Blue Velvet, any Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Shining and most Stanley Kubrick, all Neil Marshall, Donnie Darko, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Night of the Living Dead, old-school cheesy horror and sci-fi, Metropolis, '50s-'70s Godzilla, The Omen ('76), Damien, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Hellraiser, The Last House on the Left, Apocalypto, The Silence of the Lambs, Immortal Beloved, Lost in Translation, Watership Down, The Crying Game, The Breakfast Club, Less Than Zero, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss Sunshine, Pink Floyd's The Wall, The Crow, Sin City, Buffalo 66, Underworld, Match Point, Hard Candy, Bitter Moon, The Sixth Sense, etc...
Television:
...is now available with more than 70 channels and more brainwashing capability than organized religion. However, I DO dig: The X-Files, The Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous, The Decalogue, Twin Peaks, The Muppet Show and old school Sesame Street DVDs. Globe Trekker on PBS. Orbit commercials.
Books:
The Fountainhead ...but just for the sex scenes, Lust for Life, The Dannon Book of Yogurt, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Nabokov, Rimbaud, Shakespeare, Poe, Morrison, atlases, beat poets, art/art history, mythology, paranormal, metaphysics, sociology, (Jungian) psychology, biography and just about anything non-fiction. JUXTAPOZ and REASON magazines.
