Cats. Music. Guitars. Books. Coffee.
I'm not joking about the coffee...
I work with a large black and silver cat. Until very recently I also worked with an uber-cute little leopard cat, until some cretins decided to run her over. (Note to cat-murdering cretins: I hope you die in a freak gardening accident. Even though by killing a cat cooler than Antarctica you've set your karma back about two millenia...)
Everyone should use chorus, phase and flange in their lives- mine comes courtesy of Messrs Ross, Boss and those fine gentlemen at Electro-Harmonix. If you don't know what I'm talking about- well, there you are.
I wouldn't worry your pretty little head about it, if I were you.
Oh, and slide guitar with lashings of reverb & compression...
Supposedly I'm an "expert" in Russian & Soviet history; but I've forgotten most of it, except some true heroes (Peter the Great, and Mr Lermontov & Mr Pushkin- gentlemen, but for several hundred years I'd want to shake you by the hand). Now go and read "A Hero of Our Time" by Lermontov, my darlings...true, Russian sadness...
Anyone who's real. Such "heroes" that I have met have mostly turned out to have clay feet. (Those who haven't rock all the more for being real).
Hawt chyx (isn't this what every male is supposed to put on here? Although quite how this is supposed to make anyone more attractive is beyond me- surely drooling in public is unattractive enough without telling everyone on Myspace. So in fact I am lying- I neither need, nor want, to meet "hawt chyx". Clear? Good. Normal people interested in conversation, well, now, that's different.... Entirely.) I'm glad we cleared that little bijou issue-ette up; clear the air. Mm.
Anything that's played by human beings. Guitars, analog synths and proper drumming is usually involved.
On permanent rotation:-
Smashing Pumpkins
A Perfect Circle
Sisters of Mercy
Rush
Japan
Pearl Jam
Tool
Pretty much anything with Robert Fripp playing on it...
Auf der Maur
Led Zep
Fields of the Nephilim
Type O Negative
King Crimson
King's X
Camper Van Beethoven
All About Eve
Steve Durand
Soundgarden
The Church
Muse
ZZ Top
Plus about a thousand other bands on occasional rotation.
Right now I can't think of a pointlessly obscure list of left-field French art-house films that'll make me look cool. Although I do have a sneaking admiration for the post fin-de-siecle angst portrayed in the current series of Dora the Explorer. It's an interesting commentary on the pan-cultural ubiquity of the human experience.
No, really.
Television. A finer tool for sucking your brains out through your eyeballs has yet to be invented. I'll pass, thanks...