Films of all kinds - watching, and making 'em, too. Puppets, animation, sideshows, circuses, amusement parks, silent film style and culture between 1900-1930ish.
I'd like to meet:
People who like this sort of thing.
Music:
The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Dickies, X-Ray Spex, GWAR, The Gr'ups, Elvis (my hero!), Mojo Nixon, Dead Kennedys, Teen Idols, The Lunachicks, Tilt, The Avengers, Naked Aggression, They Might Be Giants, Skankin' Pickle, The Selecter, Bad Manners, Bodysnatchers, Devo, Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, music generally between 1900-1935. Circus music, calliopes and anything remotely fairgroundish.
Movies:
Eraserhead, Freaks, Tales from the Gimli Hospital, Careful, anything by the Marx Brothers, Pink Flamingos, Dead Alive, Meet the Feebles, Tale of the Fox, Brazil, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Delicatessen, Ed Wood, King Kong (1933), Archangel, Female Trouble, Evil Dead 1-3, Twice Upon A Time, The Dark Crystal, Freeway, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, The Island of Lost Souls, Re-Animator, Blade Runner, Bad Taste, Team America: World Police, D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage (Punk Documentary), Glen or Glenda?, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Happiness of the Katakuris, Creepshow, Flash Gordon, the Mad Max films, Run Lola Run, Forbidden Zone, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The City of Lost Children, A Trip to the Moon (1902), Planet Terror, the Universal Monster movies (particularly Frankenstein & Bride of Frankenstein), Amicus Horror Anthologies, L'Age d'or, Un Chien Andalou, Lon Chaney films, Cannibal!: The Musical, Orgazmo, Bill and Coo (an all-bird cast!), The Maltese Falcon, Clash of the Titans, Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Specials, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Unholy Three (talkie and silent versions), Sin City, the Indiana Jones films, Raising Arizona, the Monty Python films, The Thing (1982), Fight Club, Escape From New York, The Apple, Lobster Man From Mars, Shock Treatment, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Phantom of the Paradise, El Mariachi, Night of the Living Dead, Clerks, Death Race 2000, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, the films of Ladislaw Starewicz, the early Disney films (particularly Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia and Dumbo), silent film in general and anything involving puppets, monkeys or animals dressed as people. If you actually read all of that, I'm impressed.
Television:
Wonder Showzen, Twin Peaks, Carnivale, 24, Red Dwarf, TV Funhouse, Poirot, The Twilight Zone, My Name is Earl, Tales from the Crypt, Doctor Who, Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp, The Sifl & Olly Show, Robot Chicken, The Prisoner, The Kingdom (Lars von Trier version), Lost, Deadwood, Rome, The Young Ones, South Park, That's My Bush!, Cops (my guiltiest pleasure) and anything involving puppets.
Books:
1984, Animal Farm, The Phantom Tollbooth, James and the Giant Peach, The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, Heart of a Dog, anything relating to circuses or sideshows. Comic books of all sorts.
Heroes:
Mostly film related: David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, The Marx Brothers, Ladislaw Starewicz, Peter Jackson (particularly his early work), Charley Bowers, Ray Harryhausen, Lotte Reiniger, Spike and Mike, Walt Disney, Tim Burton, John Waters, Sam Raimi, Georges Méliès, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, Tod Browning, Lon Chaney Sr., Robert Rodriguez
