Howard profile picture

Howard

Howard Hallis

About Me

I'm a professional artist living in Los Angeles. For more info, check out www.howardhallis.com

My Interests

3D art, comic books, goth, punk, industrial and vintage psychedelic music, psychotic jazz, web design, Photoshop, hallucinations, Fortean phenomena, cephalopods, cars that can turn into both a submarine and a helicopter, conspiracy theories, surrealism, absurdity, poop humor, good jokes, aged scotch, poking smot, lenticulars, Lovecraft stories, spooky tales around a campfire, seeing movies in the "cult" section of the video store, shooting guns at shooting ranges, Marvel's Doctor Strange, thinking of new things to do.

I'd like to meet:

Sleestacks and dwellers of the dark dimension

Music:


Movies:

Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls. Star Wars. Empire Strikes Back. Revenge of The Jedi. Beneath The Valley of The Ultravixens. Up!. Supervixens. Danger! Diabolik. Control. Grease. Waking Life. Clockwork Orange. 2001. Eraserhead. Lee Marvin movies. Comic book movies... any of them... good or bad. Alice In Wonderland. Yellow Submarine. Harry Potter movies. Spider-Man 1 & 2. Phantom Menace and Attack of The Clones on mushrooms opening day. Bachelor Party. Casablanca. Meet The Feebles. Wings of Desire. Tron. X-Men. Santa Sangre. Un Chien Andalou. El Topo. Holy Mountain. Apocalype Now before the Redux. Pink Flamingos. Dead Man. Nightmare Before Christmas. Barbarella. 24 Hour Party People. Hellboy. Corpse Bride. Mirrormask.

Television:

The Prisoner. South Park. Heroes. Pushing Daisies. Californication. Meadowlands. The Sarah Silverman Program. Lost. Drawn Together. Teen Titans. Weeds. Legion of Superheroes. The O.C. Chapelle's Show. The Littlest Groom. Teen Titans. Playboy Director's Cut. Justice League. The old Spider-Man cartoons from the 60's and the 90's. Loony Tunes. Venture Brothers. Jimmy Neutron. A&E Biography. Shows about squid and octopi on Animal Planet. Good Mr. Furley episodes of Three's Company. The L Word. The Surreal Life. TV Carnage compilations. That show where The Notorious B.I.G. and TuPac are ghosts stranded on a one palm tree island in limbo where the only people they can talk to other than themselves are large spectral images of P-Diddy and Lil Kim that appear above them in the sky.

Books:

Robert Anton Wilson. JK Rowlings. Timothy Leary. Hunter S. Thompson. Neil Gaiman. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Alan Moore. Stan Lee. The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Illuminatus! Trilogy. The Sandman series. Etidropha. Old books on magic spells. HP Lovecraft. Rudy Rucker. All the Harry Potter books. Grant Morrison. Thomas Pynchon. Kurt Vonnegut. JD Salinger. Marquis De Sade. Anne Rice. Judy Blume. Books with lots of paintings and pictures in them, like those big ass Taschen books. Big art books. Existential philosophy books. Books on zen and the art of huffing Video Head Cleaner. Andre Breton. Edgar Allen Poe. Ray Bradbury. Sartre. Douglas Rushkoff books. Really sick and dirty joke books.

Heroes:

Doctor Strange. Lee Marvin. Stan Lee. Tim Leary. David Bowie. Spider-Man. Hugh Hefner.