Rock & Roll, Heavy Metal(classics, roots, thrash, black, power), Goth Rock (the pretty stuff, the old stuff, the hard stuff), swords, fantasy, sci-fi, Renaissance Faire (particularly Bristol!), costumes, Silver, incense, candles, pin-up art, architecture. I'm a gamer who generally hates gamers... sorry, social skills are required. I do love the depth of imagination it takes to run a great tabletop game. I just hate the inability to interact with mundane folks that it tends to engender. I love the World of Darkness, and have a rather extensive collection of materials for it. I play Bloodbowl every chance I get, which is far too rare. And I play a lot of videogames. Lately it's been my PS2 and the World of Warcraft. Drop on in to the Garona server and say high to Mordanis or CrazyHarry, both Alliance.
Well, I found my sexy Goth-Metal Bellydancing rocker girl. And I plan on making her the happiest woman in all the world, to the very best of my abilities. I am of course still open to making new friends. However, I now must join the ranks of "Send me a mssage and introduce yourself first". If I don't know you in the RL, or if we don't seem to have a whole lot in common, sorry, I am simply not going to add you. And as far as bands go, if I like you, I will probably add you myself.
That WOULD say it all, but it really doesn't cover it. I was raised on 50's doo-wop and early rock and roll/rockabilly by my parents. My Dad listened to rock radio in the 70's and some 60's and 70's soul, so I was versed in what is now called 'Classic Rock' and 'Old School Soul' at a very young age. I am a child of the 80's so I was there for New Wave, PostPunk, early Goth, and the early days of music videos. I got turned on to heavy metal in the mid-80's like most kinds in my neighborhood. The real stuff, mind you... I am talking about Iron Maiden, Dio, Black Sabbath, EARLY Metallica, Saxon, Mercyful Fate and so on.I turned 21 in 1991, and I grew up next to Chicago, so I was very involved in the grunge and industrial music scenes of that era. You know that Ministry live Vid? "Just in case you didn't feel like showing up"? I showed up. That's me and my friends tearing down the cage at the Star Plaza Theater. I was simply never one to be stuck to one musical genre. I have a deep and abiding love for music, and the older I become, the more of it I love. My music collection is very large, and runs the course from Bel Canto to Immortal. From Sade to Bruce Cockburn. From Elvis Presley to Johnny Cash. From Orange Goblin to Dropkick Murphys. And I really have 'been there and done that' for most of it, but that is said with no sarcasm. More of my favorite memories are tied to concerts and albums and musical experiences than anything else.
Excalibur, Jacob's Ladder, Goodfellas, Tombstone, LOTR, Se7en, 12 Monkeys, Prince of Darkness, Big Trouble in Little China, Pulp Fiction, Heat, Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Mostly stand-up comedy on Comedy Central... but also The Simpsons, The Family Guy, Invader Zim, ROBOT CHICKEN!!!!!, Perfect Hair Forever (yeah, I saw the pilot episode when it originally aired years ago. Nobody believed me for ages...).
Professor Tolkien and David Gerrold are my favorite fiction authors, but recently I have read: Forge of God, The Godfather Returns (really was pretty good, if you liked Mario Puzo), Disclosure, Sleepers, Weaveworld, Mother of Storms (Read it.. DAMN good book!). Yeah, I'm a Harry Potter person. It took me less than a day's casual reading to finish the last book.
King Arthur. I am a huge nut for the Arthurian Myths... something I have studied for years.