Comics, zombie matters, spooky music, skepticism, kitty-cats, glorious eccentrics of all shapes and kinds, wild speculation about the future, monsters, steampunkery, wrought iron furnishings, H.P. Lovecraft and, of course, Disneyland (Pirates of the Caribbean is my church, my god Thurl Ravenscroft).I am also interested in you possibly BUYING MY BOOK, Serenity Rose Vol. 1: Working Through the Negativity, available for a song* simply by clicking the image below.*not really.
Me in a dark alley. I think I could take him.
OH BOY TIME FOR LISTING! The Birthday Massacre, Rasputina, Morrissey, Babyland, Meg Lee Chin, Pop Will Eat Itself, Ima Robot, The Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Iris, Eels, Voltaire, Jack Off Jill, Magnetic Fields, The Chameleons, Lunarclick, Spray, The Modern, Switchblade Symphony, Collide, VNV Nation, Dr. Steel, Depeche Mode, New Order, Erasure, Joy Division, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, The Damage Manual, KMFDM/MDFMK, Brainclaw, Sister Machine Gun, Spahn Ranch, Siouxsie, The Cure, Interpol, The Smashing Pumpkins, Stolen Babies, Ruby, and that "You're The Best... AROUND!" song from Karate Kid. God, that's awesome.
Ed Wood, Crumb, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Rushmore, Aliens, The Thing, American Movie, Evil Dead 2, Coffee & Cigarettes, Life of Brian, Kill Bill and the collected works of Mr. Hayao Miyazaki. Oh, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. We must never forget The Nightmare Before Christmas.
The Office, The Simpsons, The Daily Show/Colbert Report diad, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Penn & Teller's HORSEPUCKY!, The Venture Brothers, Mythbusters and an oft-whispered prayer that someday, somewhere, someone will finally (FINALLY) make a sci-fi TV show that doesn't make me sleepy.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, A Confederacy of Dunces, At the Mountains of Madness, Guns, Germs and Steel, The Demon-Haunted World, The Blank Slate, Fabric of the Cosmos, His Dark Materials and, oh lord, here come the comics: Transmetropolitan, Fables, Black Hole, Sandman, American Splendor, The Acme Novelty Library, Optic Nerve, Eightball, DMZ, Bone, Watchmen (shock!), The Contract With God Trilogy, Ed the Happy Clown, Wet Moon, The Abandoned, Demo, Y: The Last Man, Lucifer, Hellboy, The Goon, The Walking Dead, Nightmares & Fairytales, Shutterbox, Ranklechick and His 3-Legged Cat, Calvin & Hobbes, Akira, all the EC Comics in the world (and most of the Creepies) and a thousand million other things that make my stuff look just silly in comparison.
Bill.Chaz.H.P.