"Born Again" – PMT
PASSIONS:
Photography
Fetish Scene
Body Art (on others)
Burlesque
Edinburgh Arts 'Festival' -
(including the Fringe, Official, Film, and Book festivals and the Military Tattoo, Castle fireworks).
www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk
Cooking
Criminal Psychology
Military Strategy
Stand-Up Comedy
Dining Out
Poker
Magic
Architecture - Castles, ruins, industrial wastelands.
FOOD:
Kit-Kats & Smarties
Sushi
Thai
DRINK:
Whiskey - Jack Daniels, Maker's Mark.
Wine - Barolo, Rioja.
Rum - Sailor Jerry.
Gin - Blackwood's Nordic Dry.
Malt Whisky - Talisker 10YRO Isle of Skye.
TRAVEL:
Many places I've been including;
Canada - Calgary
Cambodia - Angkorwat
Croatia - Dubrovnik
Egypt - Karnak Temple, Luxor
Hong Kong - Lamma Island
Mexico - Pyramid of Kukulcan
Russia - St Petersburg
Spain - Alhambra, Granada
Tibet - Lhasa
USA - New York
Many places I've yet to visit.
Creative people with whom to collaborate on photographic projects - muses, minxes, models and feisty femme-fatales.
Devon AOKI
Christina RICCI
All my HEROES - Living (meet - now) & Dead (meet - a little later).
Rock / Hip-Hop:
Flipsyde
Goth (80's):
Bauhaus
Cult
Sisters of Mercy
Alternative Rock / Metal:
3 Doors Down
30 Seconds to Mars
A Perfect Circle
Addiction Crew
Disturbed
Foo Fighters
Goo Goo Dolls
HIM
Muse
Nickelback
Papa Roach
PMT
Rob Zombie
Staind
Who
Punk:
Ruts
Skids
Stiff Little Fingers
Stranglers
Undertones
Post Punk:
Garbage
The Cure
Japan
David Sylvian
Dance:
Gatecrasher
Classical(ish):
William Orbit - Pieces in a Modern Style
Indie:
Anthony & the Johnsons
Dresden Dolls (Amanda Palmer)
Editors
Embrace
Ian Brown
Mogwai
World:
Lisa Gerrard
Independent, Film Noir, Asia Extreme, Art-House, Foreign.
Angel-A
(Rie Rasmussen)
Brick
(Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Betty Blue (Beatrice Dalle)
A Snake of June
(Asuka Kurosawa)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
(Monica Bellucci)
Run Lola Run
(Franka Potente)
25th Hour
(Ed Norton)
B Monkey (Asia Argento)
Harry, He's Here to Help
(Sergi Lopez)
Secretary (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Le Samourai (Alain Delon)
Near Dark (Adrian Pasdar)
Cat People (Natassia Kinski)
District 13 (Cyril Raffaelli)
Baise Moi (Karen Bach)
Build My Gallows High (Robert Mitchum)
The Station Agent (Peter Dinklage)
True Romance (Christian Slater)
Young Adam (Ewan McGregor)
Sheitan (Vincent Cassell)
Sweet Smell of Success (Burt Lancaster)
Psychological Drama and Surreal Comedy - Past.
Cracker (Robbie Coltraine)
Green Wing (Michelle Gomez)
Messiah (Ken Stott)
Psychos (Douglas Henshall)
Profit (Adrian Pasdar)
Read them before they make them into poor films!
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Jean Dominique Bauby
The Sexual Life of Catherine M - Catherine Millet
Beowulf - Seamus Heaney (translation)
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
Hell House - Richard Matheson
Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Body Politic - Paul Johnston
The Jigsaw Man - Paul Britton
Fallen - David Maine
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Attonement - Ian McEwan
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Already Dead - Charlie Huston
Charasmatic characters who challenge convention
- often deified and demonised:
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Thieves of Souls
Steve DIET-GOEDDE
Bob CARLOS-CLARKE
Robert MAPPLETHORPE
Bob COULTER
ART&LITERATURE:
Mickey SPILLAINE
Salvador DALI
Lord BYRON
Louise BROOKS
Max ESCHER
Mark ROTHKO
Michelangelo Merisi da CARAVAGGIO
Nick NOLTE.
HISTORICAL:
Agents of Change
Emperor CHIN SHI HUANG
Lorenzo De MEDICI
King LEONIDAS I @ Gates of Fire
SMUT PEDDLERS:
Purveyors of Porn
Belladonna
Joanna ANGEL
Tanya HYDE.
MYTHOLOGY:
Nymphs, Satyrs and Muses
MAMMON:
Demons of Avarice
Howard HUGHES
Andrew CARNEGIE