Music, music and more music (though just to listen to, I can't play)Art, classic and modern literature - from Hemingway, Henry Miller to Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson and now Anne Rice (vampire and gothic stuff a favourite)I used to write and maybe I will again someday (other than just amateur music reviews, though that was how my professional writing started) and I'm occassionlly drawn to oil painting.And I also love non-mainstream movies, esp French, Chinese and Japanese movies and Japanese animation.
The friends I haven't met yet.
The Tea Party - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Miles Davis - Charles Mingus - John Coltrane - The Doors - The Cocteau Twins - Janis Joplin - Jimi Hendrix - Pink Floyd - REM - Mazzy Star - Portishead - The Velvet Underground - Iggy Pop - The Triffids - Within Temptation - Sigur Ros - David Bowie - Shivaree - The Gathering - Died Pretty - Simple Minds - New Order - Bach - Billie Holiday - Hunters & Collectors - Julee Cruise - Meiko Kaji - The Church - Neko Case - The Clouds - Midnight Oil - Van Morrison - Ry Cooder - The Neville Brothers - Natacha Atlas - The Blackeyed Susans - Dave Graney & the Coral Snakes - The Cruel Sea - Sarah Blasko - Rage Against the Machine - Tool - The Cure - The Cowboy Junkies - Sonic Youth - Cat Power - Placebo - Shriekback
Three Colours Trilogy, Basquiat, Entropy, Roadside Prophets, The Big Blue, Casablanca, Kikujiro, Salvador, Stealing Beauty, Amelie, Pink Floyd The Wall, Betty Blue, Farewell My Concubine, So Close, Himalaya, Night of the Living Dead, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Bad Boy Bubby, To Live, Until the End of the World, The Hunger, Blue Velvet, Queen Margot, Wild At Heart, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Bladerunner, Millers Crossing, Angel Heart, Barfly, Henry and June, Little Buddha, Excalibur, Round Midnight
Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles, The Mummy, The Mayfair Witches, Violin), Julian May (Saga of the Exiles and The Milieu Trilogy), Frank Herbert (The Dune series and others), Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller (Sexus, Plexus and Nexus, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer), James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy), James Clavell, Norman Mailer, Charles Bukowski (Post Office, Factotum, Women), Hunter S Thompson (most of his books), Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, Islands In the Stream, The Old Man and the Sea), Robert A Heinlein, Dostoyevsky (The Idiot, Crime and Punishment), Sogyal Rinpoche (The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying)