conflict, attention seeking, urban exploration, riding my bike, movies/film, history, philosophy, religions of the world, yoga, watching my big fuckin' TV, writing ego-centric blogs, photography, collecting hordes of DVDs that I have no time to actually watch, chasing after women, showing off, whinging, trying to think of a longer list of stuff I'm interested in ...and wasting a shitload of time (yours and mine) on the net.
Interesting women who find me interesting... there, I said it.Yeah but seriously: intelligent people who can hold a good conversation.Artists, musicians (individual people- not bloody bands already), writers and filmakers, creative types whose ideas I can steal.People who have something (good) listed under 'books'.People who took the red pill, not the blue pill.People who get that reference (without cringing).People that can make me laugh (with you and at you).People whose profiles aren't so loud and zany that you can actually read them (for chrissake).
When I was teenager I pretty much listened to nothing except hip hop, but like many people I'm pretty disillusioned with that whole genre now -minus a few exceptions that are still out there carrying those torches, and some classics that refuse to die. These days any single type of music gets boring quickly, so I try and mix it up as much as I can (so don't look for a pattern here ~ there isn't one.) Pink Floyd, Dj SHadow, Buck 65, Sole, Bodyjar, Camille, Johnny Cash, Faith No More, Marvin Gaye, Gill Scott Heron, James Brown, P.O.D, Neil Young, Atmosphere, Ani Difranco, Sage Francis, Ennio Morricone (obviously), Metallica, Fleetwood Mac, De La Soul, Hilltop Hoods, Curtis Mayfield, MOP, Black Sabbath, Guru/Gangstarr, Rolling Stones, (Hed)Pe, Incubus (before "morning view", that is -yikes!), Frank Sinatra, Black Flag, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Commodores, Screwball, Rakim, The Animals, Janis Joplin, Black Sheep, EPMD, Sam Cooke, KRS1/BDP, Freddy Foxx, Public Enemy, Ice T, Run DMC, Nina Simone, Elvis Presley, Ice Cube, RZA, Grandmaster Flash, System of a Down, + film composers like: Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Michael Nyman, James Horner, Bill Conti, Phillip Glass (right into the 'qatsi' trilogy at the moment) ... Ah you get the idea, etc etc
FAVOURITE FILM: "The End Of Evangelion" (based on Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series). (SOME OF MY) OTHER FAVOURITES: The Three Burials..., Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Magician, Fight Club, Doctor Zhivago, Brokeback Mountain, Trainspotting, The Matrix Trilogy (yeah... all 3, especially Reloaded), Ben Hur, Network, Robocop, The Good, the Bad, The Ugly + Fistfull of Dollars + Few Dollars More, and the other Leonie films: Duck you sucker and Once Upon a times in America and The West (respectively), Lawrence of Arabia, The George Romero zombie films, Gattaca, Star Wars (but lets not get too specific here about which episodes :?), The Warriors, Back to the Future trilogy, Malcolm X, + Do the Right thing and other Spike Lee joints, Coen Brothers and Tarantino stuff, most everything form Terry Gilliam and the Pythons, The Terminator and T2 (but not T3), Alien/s + Alien3, Indiana Jones trilogy, 2001: A Space Oddesy, The Verdict, UHF -aka the 'Vidiot from UHF', Ferris Buellers Day Off, Point Blank (Lee Marvin owns...), The Shawshank Redemption, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Rocky, Sunshine, Heat, Collateral, Ali, Thief, some of the better animes (Ghost in the Shell, Perfect Blue, Howls Moving Castle, Metropolis and of course: Akira), Excalibur, The Kentucky Fried Movie, American Me, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Gojira/Godzilla -the 1954 version, French Connection, Godfather 1/2, Apocalypse Now, Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, The Searchers, The Wild Bunch + the Getaway, Planet of the Apes, Cast Away, The Hurricane, The Interview, Proof (the aussie film), Style Wars, The Corporation, Michael Moore's films, Casablanca, Key Largo, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, Jaws, Braveheart, The Abyss, Last Action Hero (don't care what you say), Tristam Shandy, Top Secret, The Naked Gun trilogy, Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Chinatown, Paths of Glory, The Killing, Usual Suspects, Glengarry Glenross, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, When We Were Kings, Koyaanisqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Demolition Man, THX-1138, Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, American Me, ... (and hundreds more, too many to list) etc etc etc.
The Henry Rollins Show, Rome, Chaser's War on Everything + CNNN, Rome, The Eagle, Hyperdrive, Spaced, Neon Genesis Evangelion, John Saffran's stuff, the Micallef P(r)ogram, The 5 Star Trek series (especially Deep Space Nine) Deadwood (cocksucker!), Farscape (was great until season 4), X Files, M*a*s*h, The Simpsons, Futurama, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica (new), Mythbusters, Jackass, The Awful Truth, The Late Show (abc 1991-2) Firefly, Band of Brothers, From the Earth to the Moon, and the excellent Ken Burns doco series "The Civil War" and "The West"... etc etc
(I don't read enough these days)CURRENTLY READING: "Ham On Rye" by Charles Bukowski.JUST FINISHED: 1)"Get in the Van" by Henry Rollins. 2)"The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq" by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.SOME OF MY FAVOURITES: "Count of Monte Cristo" -Alexandre Dumas, "Thus Spake Zarathustra" -Freddy Nietzche, "Great Shark Hunt" -Hunter Thompson, "Notes from Underground" + "The Devils"(aka "The Possessed") -Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "Holidays In Hell" + "Repubilcan Party Reptile" -PJ O'Rourke, "Brave New World" -Aldous Huxley "Solipsist" + "Get In The Van" -Henry Rollins, "The Nights Dawn Trilogy" -Peter F Hamilton, "American Psycho" -Brett Easton Ellis, "Foundation" series + I,Robot -Isaac Asimiov, "Thomas Covenant" -Stephen Donaldson, The Bhagavad Gita, "Moby Dick" -Herman Melville, "1984" -George Orwell, The "Rama" series + 2001 etc -Arthur C Clarke...etc etc. PS: I am neverevereverever going to read Harry Potter, Dan Brown, or Stephen King. Yes I am a snob, and rightly so, life is short and getting shorter already.
Muhammad Ali, Henry Rollins, Gene Rodenberry, Malcolm X, Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Napolean Bonaparte, George Lucas, Cornel West, James Cameron, Frank Lloyd Wright (can't think of anyone else non-fictional at the moment).