INterests?...my art for one..whether it be comics, paintings, or weird delerium tremens inspired watercolor I jsut love to create, um..video games, Anime and Manga (I was into Anime and Manga when all you could get was fansubbed Sailor Moon!. Yeah...so..um, anyway) re-devoting my spare time to the pratice of the martial arts, making music (i.e. playing guitar, and singing for whatever band manages to stick together after all the drugs and what not), collecting toys of various sorts, writing scatalogical poetry that either confuses, sickens, disturbs, or moves people...whatever evokes emotion, it really doesn't matter....Plenty of other stuff, but I'm getting tired...
I'd like to meet: Nietzche, Jim Morrison, Ludwig von Beethoven, Peter Murphy circa 1982, David Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust days, Muhatma Ghandi, Musashi Miyamato, Yoshitaka Amano, Jackson Pollack, Hunter S. Thompson, Leonardo Da Vinci, the prophet Muhammed, Obi-wan Kenobi, Robert Smith during his mushroom tea "Caterpillar" days, I'll think of more...
Oh here we go: I'm not going to name everything I listen to, because I'd be typing for hours, but here's a shot: Malice Mizer L'Arc en Ciel, GacktJob, Asian Kung Fu generation, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, The Doors, Stone Temple Piolets, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, CHristian Death (w/Rozz Williams), Beethoven, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Jimi Hendrix, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Razed in Black, KMFDM, Ayumi Hamasaki, HYDE (by himself), White Zombie, Rob Zombie (there's a difference),um... OH! David frikin' Bowie...how could I forget...um...Nine Inch Nails (pre Trents sobriety), the Genitortures, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Orgy..they rule too...Joy Division, New Order, Depech Mode, Duran Duran, Pink Floyd, Lynard Skynard, AC/DC, Rozz Williams by himself (Flowers is the most depressing song ever recorded, listen at your own risk, and please don't drink whilst listening to it), Bell Morte, Voltaire, the Ramones, the New York Dolls, The Sex Pistols, Operation Ivy, CHrsit I don't know...I can't think of anything else...I'll jsut update it later.. OH the Beatles!! Cream, Eric Clapton, Derick and the Dominoes, BB King, John Coltrane, Chopin...Elton John, The Bolshoi, Nobuo Uematsu, whoever composed the soundtrack to Shadow of the Collosus, Keane, Red Lorri Yellow Lorri, Razed in Black, The Dresden Dolls, this list is ongoing...Tom Waits, Iggy Pop...
OH God..okay..ummm: Citezen Kane, the Red Lily, Blade Runner (the directors cut version with no voice over), all six Star Wars movies, Howls Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Mirror Mask, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Edward Scissorhands, Waking Life, Big Fish, Finding Neverland, Saving Private Ryan, The Indiana Jones Movies, The Lost Boys, the Original Dracula starring Bela Lugosi, Noferatu with Max Shreck, The Portrait of Dorian Grey (the one with Vincent Price), Velvet Goldmine (the fictionalized acoutn of David Bowie and Iggy Popps sordid affair in the seventies), Macross: Do You Remember Love, Macross Plus, Vapire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, The Matrix Trilogy, the original Dune, Schindlers List, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURESHOW!!!!!!!!!, Heathers, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Yellow Submarine ..I'll think of more later...Okay, hOrror movies of all kinds, Dario Argento movies, HOstel, the Saws, George A Romera movies (the LIving dead movies to be more precise), japanese movies (non chambara: Moon Child, Last Quarter, the Legend of Ricki-O, Ichi the Killer on and On...) (Chambara movies: Seven Samurai, Ronin, Versus, pretty much anythig by Kurosawa), moulin Rouge, Classic Horror as well, old Sci-Fi movies, Ed Wood movies, anything with Vincent Price, anything choreagraphed by Yuen wo Ping (elbow fights!), Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, American Psycho (the book was better, but Glamorama really should have been made next instead of Rules of Attraction), Necromantic, To Kill a Mockingbird (Gregory Peck is frickin' awesome), Casablanca, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Equilibrium, Tombstone, The Toxic Avenger (really anything from Troma studios), The Returner, Wilde, Coffee and Cigarettes (the scene with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop was great!) The Adventures of Baron von Munchowsen, Time Bandits, Irreversable, Memento, Return to Oz, Akira, Ghost in the Shell, I'll get back to this...
Not much: Law and Order (normal, svu, and ci), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Grim andventures of Billy and Mandy, Invader Zim when it was on, Family Guy, I dunno..if I think of something else I'll put it in....Buffy the Vampire Slayer (people always said I reminded them of Spike, so I watched an episode and was hooked), MST3K, That 70's show, that's it for now until I think of more...the Simpsons, THE X-FILES!!!!, Scrubs, Nip-Tuck, Oz, Carnivale (pray with me that it returns for a third season...), Are You Being Served?, MOnty Python's Flying Circus, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Dark Shadows, The Twilight Zone, Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Brothers, Mind Freak, The Jeff Corwin Experience, anything on the HIstory Channel, Project Runway (guilty pleasure!)...
Anything by Oscar Wilde (techniacally only one book per se), anything by Neil Gaiman, anything by Nietchze, anything by Poppy Z Brite, anything by Haruki Murakami, anything by Chuck Palahniuk, lots of Apocrypha, Gnostic scriptures, history books, books about literature, language books, (Hebrew, French and Japanese)..Uh, I don't know...my comics!! almost forgot, JTHM, Spider man, Batman (different ones, as well as different Spidey comics), Sin City, I'll think of more...J.D. Salinger (everything he wrote), Loveless (which is a manga currently being serialized in Japan's Zero-Sum magazine), The Messianic Legacy, The Gnostic Bible, I'll think of more later...
NOt many..I don't like to idolize anyone, but maybe A heroe is okay..lesse..Hunter S Thompson, Oscar Wilde, this is stupid..I duno...maybe my Dad...