I love music, movies, books, art, science, politics, poetry, and fresh-picked cherries still warm from the sun. I also really like chocolate :P
I'd like to meet anyone who stands up for what they love and what they believe. I like to hear opinions from all sides. Of the people I'd like to meet, living, dead, or fictitious: David Bowie, Johnny Depp, Alfred Hitchcock, Ayn Rand, Margaret Mead, Hunter S. Thompson, Emily Dickinson, Edward Scissorhands, Robert A. Heinlein, Edward D. Wood Jr., Oscar Wilde, Jean Genet, Stan Lee, Hedwig Robinson, John Lennon, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Francis Bacon. I always imagined what it would be like to have tea with Bowie, or coffee in some obscure cafe with Depp. Rather insightful, and terribly intense. They are the best artists in their fields (in my opinion), and I think I would love to just sit and chat with them over cupfuls of caffeine.
Music is my life, my life is music. I couldn't get along in this world without some kind of good music playing in the background. I've recently renewed my love for film soundtracks, and now I have the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory soundtrack, Edward Scissorhands, and Nightmare Before Christmas soundtracks, all written by the absolutely fantastic Danny Elfman. Other soundtracks I have include Singin' in the Rain, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling, Psycho by Bernard Herrman, and a collection of Hitchcock film themes entilted "Signatures in Suspense". My favorite composers (which includes film) are: Danny Elfman, Bernard Herrman, Dimitri Tiomkin, John Williams, Howard Shore, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Bach, Mendelssohn, Debussey, Vivaldi, and Brahms. But my love for music isn't just limited to the classics! I love: David Bowie, the Who, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, T.Rex, Velvet Revolver, Ozzy Osbourne, ACDC, Aretha Franklin, B-52's, Better Than Ezra, Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Creed, Dandy Warhols, Gorillaz, Eartha Kitt, Eiffel 65, Jefferson Airplane, Iggy Pop, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Moonpools & Caterpillars, O-Zone, Queen, Sting and the Police, Rammstein, Simon & Garfunkel, Styx, the Arcade Fire, The Cars, Ramones, 'Weird' Al Yankovic. There are more artists I have just one or two songs by. Of the genres I listen to: Rock and most sub-genres (especially Glam), Opera, Classical, Big Band/Swing, Jazz, Soundtracks, Techno, Europop, J-Rock, Alternative, Ska, Punk.... I'll listen to pretty much everything except: rap, hip-hop, country, and christian.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!!!!! O.O I'm going back to see it for the fourth time on IMAX... :D (yeah, I know I'm weird ;) And a whole bunch of other movies.. like: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (THE freakin' awsomest movie ever), Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, David Bowie: A Reality Tour, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, From Hell, Secret Window (to save myself the trouble of typing it, ALL the Johnny Depp films), I love all the David Bowie films I've been able to find (with the exception of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me), Nigtmare Before Christmas, All the Hitchcock films, all the Burton films, all the Shyamalan films, all the Spielberg films (I'm a big fan of directors ;) I've seen two Ed Wood films, and they definitely were the best of the worst in Hollywood. :P I really like foreign films, indie films, films that no one else has ever heard of, off the beaten path kinds of films. My favorite foreign film is Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India, it's a Bollywood musical and it totally rocks. My favorite indie film is United States of Leland. I love Orson Wells, and Citizen Kane is undoubtedly one of the best ever to come out of Hollywood. In short, I'm a movie nut. I will watch anything once, and twice (or more) if I like it. :D
I don't really watch TV. Too much money is spent on advertising, and commercials are alway the main reason I shy away from TV. The only show I ever really watched religiously (like some people watch the OC), was The X-Files. I watched it from season 5 on (because I was too young to watch the first 4 seasons), and I enjoyed every episode. Originally, when I first started watching XF, I wanted to be just like Scully. I wanted to go to medical school, become a forensic pathologist, and make a name for myself in the FBI as a leading criminal profiler. Well... after the show aired it's last episode, the Series Finale (which I could have written better than Mr. Carter), I didn't know what to do. Then I discovered the artist within me, and that's been my main focus since. Still, no matter how hard TV tries, there will never be another X-Files. It was the first, and argueably the last, show of it's kind.
Books are my crack. I can't live without books. I always have at least two or three books I'm reading at once, and all in various stages of completion. My favorite authors number many, but a few that merit mentioning are: Stephen King, George Orwell, Roald Dahl, JK Rowling, Ayn Rand, Robert A. Heinlein, Dan Brown, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, The Brothers Grimm, JRR Tolkien, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Jane Yolen, Michael Crichton, William Peter Blatty, Henry David Thoreau, TS Eliot, John Grisham, and Hunter S. Thompson. There are so many authors I read, it would be a feat to list them all. My favorite books would be: The Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, Misery, Christine, Carrie, Rose Madder, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and IT by Stephen King, The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, and the DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. I also love comic books, and I have a great collection which includes Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight ..1, Green Arrow ..1, and the original Jonny Quest comics, ..1 through ..30.
Yes... that's an excellent song. :D