Favourite Visual Artist
Loads, mainly surrealist and modernist artists, some of the brilliant people I watch on DA (I'm constantly amazed by some of the unbelievable talent I see here).
Favourite Movies
The Prestige | 300 | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | The Last Castle | The Eagle | Gladiator | Underworld | The Road | V for Vendetta | Pathfinder | La Vie En Rose | Van Helsing | August Rush | La Meglio Gioventu | any movies with Johnny Depp | many more
Favourite TV Shows
Hell on Wheels | 24 | Rome | The Borgias | Downton Abbey | Hannibal | Sons of Anarchy | The Tudors | Prison Break | Spartacus | Touch | Revenge | Magnificent Century | Bones | Top Gear
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Heavy Metal (Death, Doom, Symphonic, everything) | Classical | Dubstep | Hard Rock | Baroque | Reggaeton | I'm open to music of any kind except mainstream pop.
Favourite Books
Any fiction except fantasy (LOTR being an exception), lots of historical fiction, non-fiction when it's historical or military, to do with arts, literature or music. I've read far too many brilliant books to have favourites.
Favourite Writers
J.R.R. Tolkien | Robert Ludlum | Jeanne Kalogridis | Peter Tremayne | George R.R. Martin | Dante Alighieri | Adrian Goldsworthy | Frank McCourt | Robert Harris | Ben Kane | Samuel Butler | Lots of poets | heaps more.
Other Interests
Cars | Travelling | Music | History | Languages | Philosophy | Roman Military History | Literature | Rock-climbing | Art | Cheesecake | Football - lots and lots of football!