I'd like to meet:
Someone with an extra 500 grand who has always wanted to be a writer's patron. Serious inquiries only. Barring that - you pretty much know who you are. Boys in fishnet. Beatles freaks. New wavers awakening from cryogenic suspension from 1981. Oscar Wilde scholars. British schoolboys. Tattooed freaks. Pam Grier. Horror writers. Comic book geeks. Absinthe drunkards. Lovers of ancient technology. Beatniks. Dorothy Parker. Children of the night. Trekkies. Goblin kings. Drag queens. Bleached-blond runaways with lip piercings and security blankets. Cab Calloway. Acrobats and circus folk. People who won't judge me for having dreams more outlandish than my limitations will allow. Someone who wants to kiss me, who I want to kiss back. Graham Coxon (again).
Music:
David Bowie, Bauhaus, Duran Duran, Sunset Valley, Cocteau Twins, Tim Buckley, David Sylvian, Miles Davis, Beethoven, Autolux, Orbital, Smetana, My Bloody Valentine, Goblin, Graham Coxon, Haydn, Philip Glass, Wendy Carlos, Mozart, Boards of Canada, The Prids, Wu-Tang Clan, Gnarls Barkley, Love and Rockets, Mendelssohn, the Legendary Pink Dots, Cypress Hill, Bis, The Turn-Ons, Robyn Hitchcock, Esquivel, the Charlatans, Blur, The Beta Band, Gary Neuman, Echo & the Bunnymen, Grace Jones, The Beatles, The Pink Floyd, The Who, The Small Faces, Cornelius, Tom Waits, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Super Furry Animals, Joy Division, Plaid, Blitzen Trapper, Magic Fingers, Swoon 23, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, Matmos, Bjork, Gorillaz, Dan Nakamura, Missy Elliott, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sloan, ELO, Soul Coughing, Outkast, the Marvelettes, Love, Zoviet France, Meat Beat Manifesto, VHS or Beta?, the Cancer Fags, Rick Bain & the Genius Position, Scritti Politti, James Brown!
Movies:
Amadeus, Nadja, Near Dark, The Hunger, Suspiria, Cabaret, Impromptu, Velvet Goldmine, Young Frankenstein, Freaks, Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Black Sabbath, Blade Runner, Danger: Diabolik, A Clockwork Orange, Dracula, The Bride of Frankenstein, Carnival of Souls, Kill Bill, Night Watch, Hellraiser, Scream Blacula Scream, Rope, Les Levres du Sang, Blue Velvet, The Ninth Gate, Gold-Diggers of 1933, In A Lonely Place, Badlands, Repulsion, Blazing Saddles, Cat People, Barry Lyndon, Hard Boiled, Labyrinth, The Jerk, Devdas, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Dead Man, The Big Lebowski, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, The Wisdom of Crocodiles, The Empire Strikes Back, Rushmore, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Television:
The Muppet Show, Dexter, Profit, Twin Peaks, Dark Shadows, Carnivale, Wonderland, Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, Kindred: The Embraced, Manimal, Battlestar Galactica 2.0, Heroes, House MD, Forever Knight, Jeeves and Wooster, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kids in the Hall, The Young Ones, Deadwood, Forever Knight, Electric Company, 24, Cowboy Bebop, Robotech, The X-Files, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Weeds, Samurai Jack, Boobah, X-Men: The Animated Series, The Wire, Veronica Mars, Garth Marenghi's DarkPlace, Red Dwarf, The Powerpuff Girls, The Simpsons, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Dr. Who, Night Flight, Black Books
Books:
Authors I like: William Gibson, Dorothy Parker, Jonathan Lethem, China Mieville, Dashiell Hammett, Carrie Fisher, Colson Whitehead, Alfred Bester, Ursula K. LeGuin, Voltaire, Irvine Welsh, Crispin Glover, Nicholson Baker, Hunter S. Thompson, Steven Brust, Mark Leyner, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Alan Moore, JG Ballard, Stanislaw Lem, Roald Dahl, Chuck Palahniuk, Diane Duane, Vonda McIntyre, Mykle Hansen, and of course me.
Heroes:
well, duh. Image ©HeroesMedia.com, and goddess bless them for having all those knuckle-biting Petrelli pics.