world affairs (yer i like depressing myself!), geekery, guitaring, gamon eating (not really but i was going with a g theme), gigging (anohter one! i didnt need gamon after all! Oh well). books, music, horticulture, kayaking, surfing (until i moved to landlockedsville, landshire), seeing freinds Wildlife/nature/the enviroment, Travelling/exploring. Drama and theatre studies
The person i would have become had i been born without any armpits. Ooooh and Gollum! AND some of these stupid Americans so i could beat some sense into them!..
I like a wide range of music, world, classical, indie and trance...but mainly METAL!!!!!! Alexisonfire, Across Five Aprils, Andy, Arch Enemy, As I Lay Dying, Atreyu, Audioslave, August Burns Red, Avenged Sevenfold, Billy Talent, Bullet, Brand New, Caliban, Coheed and Cambria, Children Of Bodom, Chimaira, Cradle Of Filth, Dragonforce, Dream Theatre, Echo Red, Finch, FFAF, InMe, In Flames, Incubus, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Lordi, Mastodon, Megadeath, Metallica, MCR, Mudvayne, Nevermore, NOFX, Norma Jean, Opeth, Panic!, Paramore, Presoulnation, Rage, Rammstein, Rise Against, Roadrunner United, Silverstein, Slipknot, Soil, Soilwork, Soulfly, Still Remains, Strap-on-Happy(they're welsh), Strapping Young Lad, SOAD, Tenacious D, The Hurt Process, Thrice, Thursday, Trivium, Unearth, Weezer, I accept the term Metal was a bit loose there... world music - Ismael Lo, Rodrigo and Gabriella, Jack Johnson, Calexico, bit of classical - Arvo Part, Elgar, Barber, some indie - Bloc Party, Chillis, Franz Ferdinand, The Kippered Experience. MUSE. Old stuff like the Clash, the Who
LLOTR, Gladiator, American beauty, Dogville, Monty Python!, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Kurosawa, Star Wars (not new 1s), Dog soldiers, Three Kings, South Park, Pulpfiction, Kill Bill, Big Wednesday, Blue Crush, Blue Juice, Unforgiven, Pale Rider, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Rise With The Devil, King Kong (both), Donnie Darko, KungFu Hustle, CTHDragon, City Of God, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, 21 Grams, Traffic, Cold Mountain, Enemy at the Gates, Matrix 1, Galaxy Quest, The Mummy, India Jones, The Constant Garderner, Waterworld, The Italian Job (origional), Seven, Scary Movie 1 (never the others, never!), Terminator, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Spirited Away, Ice Age, Toy Story, Usual Suspects, Volver, Pirates 1+2, Snakes on a plane!
Lost, desperate housewives, panorama, horizon, news, dispatches, deadringers, rome, peep show, mitchel and webb situation,
I do enjoy perusing tomes, although i havent done enough of it recently. My big time favorite authors are Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Nick Hornby, Mil Millington, Douglas Adams, Jonh Stienback, R. Swindells, Rosemary Sutcliffe, Orwell, and...more i cant think of. I also like theatrical stuff - Brecht, Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Henrik Ibsen, Mike Leigh, Strinberg.
Gollum! My cats - Puffin, Mitt and Calypso Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Claudio Sanchez, Herman Li and Rodrigo Sanchez. They are my favourite guitarists in the world. If you dont know who they are...thats fine, you wont die or anything...