Obviously... I'm into sport in a major way... Not so much by choice as by chance... Rowing, Rugby, Sailing, Kayaking, Football (soccer), Cricket, all the usual Kiwi bloke stuff. I love watching sport as much as participating in it. I'm also a huge fan of the outdoors, Mountaineering, Climbing, Camping, Tramping, etc. Will pretty much give anything a go. Always keen to go out for a few drinks (sometimes a couple of quiet ones, sometimes a few more...) Spending time with friends and family, Exploring new places, Learning, traveling.
Anyone really. Particularly people with similar interest and curiosities; Thinkers, comedians, intellectuals, dreamers, philosophers, altruists... I would also really like to meet people who enjoy a bit of a giggle and a beer or two... or three. People with ambition and who know how to have a good time. I'm always keen for a good old chat/debate/random conversation etc, so don't hold back.
Muse, Radiohead, U2, Oasis, Red Hot Chilly Peppers, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Bob Dylan, Weezer, Maximo Park, The Streets, LCD Soundsystem, Minuit, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Pluto, Fat Fredy's Drop, Interpol, James Brown, David Bowie, Cure, Kasabian, The Shins, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Fugees, The Velvet Underground, Queens of The Stone Age, Black Eyed Peas, Audioslave, The Von Bondies, Sonic Youth, The Hives, The Gordons, The Beatles, Rage Against The Machine, Kaiser Cheifs, The Black Seeds, The Datsuns, Phoenix Foundation, Ash, Fly My Pretties, !!!, Bob Marley, Flight of the Conchords, Cake, Bush, The Killers, Green Day, Crowded House, Pink Floyd, Concord Dawn, The Bluetones, Kora, The Verlaines, Bic Runga, Guns 'n' Roses, The Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Shapeshifter, The Clash, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Tapes 'n' Tapes, Split Enz, British Sea Power, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Blink 182, Elvis, The Verve, Ah-Ha, Blur, R.E.M., The Clean, Kings Of Leon, Richard Ashcroft, Cold War Kids, The Cranberries, Hollie Smith, Smashing Pumpkins, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, The Stone Roses, Die! Die! Die!, Coldplay, Dire Staits, The Mint Chicks, Faithless, Manic Street Preachers, Snoop Dogg, The Cars, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Loop, Flying Nun, Wellington music, New Zealand music, Rock, Indie, Hiphop/rap, Drum & Bass, Alternative... Anything that gets me into the mood for racing... The list is endless!.........
The Goonies, Super Troopers, The Castle, Star Wars (original trillogy), Good by Pork Pie, The Prestiege, Empire of the Sun, American Psycho, Batman Begins, Fight Club, Ice Age, All the Pixar movies (especially Cars!) Lucky Number Sleven, Lord of the Rings I, II, & III (II being my favourite), The Godfather, Heat, The Graduate, Miracle, Braveheart, Any Given Sunday, Full metal Jacket, Platoon, Last of the Mohicans, Pirates of the Caribean, Casino Royal, Laurence Of Arabia, 300, Sin City, Sean Connery as 007, Legends of the Fall, 7, ... there is just no way that I can remember all of the movies I like so again the list goes on forever...
So I guess I like all the usual boyish stuff like The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Futurama, Sort of got into Lost but got lost myself in doing so, The Daily Show, The David Letterman Show, History and Discovery channels. As Ricky Gervais puts it "Ask me anything about sharks or Nazis" So of course, The Office and Extras are favorites. Blackadder, The Young Ones, loads of stuff really... Who am i kidding, I'll watch anything... Plus a shout-out to Smackface tv... Too much fellas, keep it up! haha!
No real favorites here... Too many to name. I tend to read trashy detective type novels when traveling and prefer to read biographies and non fiction books when at home. I also read quite a bit of war history for some reason, not sure why. I read my way through Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion recently but I don't generally stick to one Genre. I'll also find myself reading four of Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels in a week just as easily or my latest read which has been 'Turn Around And Run Like Hell (amazing stories of unconventional military strategies, that worked!)'My sister gave me a cool book for my birthday called 'Three Men In A Boat' by Jerome K. Jerome, which turns out to be my grandfather's favorite book too!
"It is ourselves we conquer - not the mountains." - Ed HillarySir Peter Blake, Sir Edmund Hillary, Rob Waddell, James Tomkins, Sir Steve Redgrave, All the boys from '72... it's your shoes I have to fill... and Grandad, for being my Grandad every day of my life.My Dad recently sent me the following quote after Grant Dalton had said of Team New Zealand when defeated in the Americas Cup, "We will never, never, never give up."When asked to surrender by the British at the end of the Waikato war in 1864 at Orakau, Rewi Maniapoto is said to have replied ‘E hoa, ka whawhai tonu matou, Ake! Ake! Ake!’ – ‘Friend, we will fight on forever, forever and forever!’"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Nelson Mandela