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About Me

I write. I breathe. I play guitar. I think too much. Sometimes I'm in a younger age category on surveys and sometimes it's plain wrong. I'm not that old.My first novel, Forever Will You Suffer, is doing quite nicely saleswise. My next literary endeavor, Structural Integrity is done and the revisions will commence shortly. The third novel, Dancing With Ghosts has just begun.I keep thinking about putting a CD together because my orginals are worth it but I don't have the time.I have a wife named Nancy Lynn and two cats, Socrates and Jax. I live in a fine house with two Czechoslovakian stained glass windows, a lot of gorgeous woodwork, and a huge basement.Nancy and I are in the midst of adopting a girl from China. We're in the waiting-for-a-Log-In Date (LID) phase which will lead into the waiting-for-referral phase.Any more you need to know, you'll find on that blog thing. I will update it.

My Interests

Playing guitar, writing songs, poetry, novels & short stories, bicycling, hiking, movies, books, philosophy, astronomy

I'd like to meet:

The Dali Lama, Ray Bradbury (again), Stephen Hawkings, and a number of incredible people who all happen to be deceased like Socrates (philosopher, not the cat), Plato, John Lennon, Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jesus (to find out what he really said), Robert Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecrtaft, and Frank Sinatra.Otherwise, intelligent, creative beings, be they writers, musicians, philosophers, searchers, seekers, healers, believers, questioners.

Music:

The Beatles, Rush, Yes, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, AFI, Bauhaus, Love&Rockets, Rusted Root, NOFX, Queen, Judas Priest, Frank Sinatra, ZOEgirl, Chip Robertson, Iron Maiden, Josh Sallo, Tina Vero, Rainbow, Erin Carly, Stratavarius, The Misfits, The Who, The Scorpions, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Fountains of Wayne, The Rolling Stones, Richard Thompson, Moxy Fruvous, Entrain, Midge Ure / Ultravox, Richard Shindell, Black Sabbath, Bad Religion, Robert Urban, The Zutons, Steve Miller Band, Jill Sobule, Jim Boggia, The Gathering, Sisters of Mercy, Icehouse, Pyschedelic Furs, Echo & The Bunnymen, TwistaLime

Movies:

Woody Allen movies, especially Play it Again, Sam, Sleepers and Manhattan Murder Mystery; Star Wars (the original trilogy); Lord of the Rings; Star Trek II; Hard Day's Night; Monty Python & The Holy Grail; Fierce Creatures; Toy Story (1 & 2); Shrek (1 & 2); Goldmember; Hellraiser; May; Aliens; Ice Age; Mimic; Relic; Somewhere in Time; Godzilla movies; Rocky Horror Picture Show

Television:

Mr. Bean; Speed Racer; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Gigantor; Fawlty Towers; Bugs Bunny; Farscape; The Bugaloos; Lidsville; Star Trek (original, NextGen, DS9); Babylon 5; Batman; M*A*S*H (and a few other shows from my youth that aren't on any more)

Books:

Every book by Robert McCammon; All of Jack Ketchum's work; Books by Gary Braunbeck, Atmosphere (Michael Laimo); Phantoms & Darkfall (Dean Koontz); Wither (J.G. Passarella)

Heroes:

Anyone who's risen above the herd mentality. Anyone who's broken through walls of ignorance. All the visionaries and pioneers who disregarded the naysayers and kept dreaming until they changed the world. Anyone who's laughed at the boundaries we've created and broke through them. Anyone who kept reaching for the stars even when they were obscured by clouds of doubt.

My Blog

African Action Rally For Darfur in NYC

Join Africa Action and Partners in a Rally to Stop Genocide in Darfur!WHAT: A rally at the U.S. Mission at the United Nations to deliver thousands of handprints and messages from all over the country ...
Posted by Gary on Fri, 09 May 2008 08:19:00 PST

Save Darfur

Over the weekend, I had the chance to hear Mia Farrow talk about the genocide going on in Darfur and was appalled at what's happening and the lack of news coverage this is getting. This individua...
Posted by Gary on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:01:00 PST

Kiss of the Mudman

Do yourself a huge favor. Go to a bookstore and pick up Gary Braunbeck’s Mr. Hands, put out by Leisure Books. Read it. Marvel at the man’s ability to get you to feel for the characters as ...
Posted by Gary on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:08:00 PST

Stop-Loss...The Movie

Go see the movie Stop-Loss before it’s not out any more. It’s about two friends who have finished their tour of Iraq. They’re both stop-lossed, meaning they’re sent back to Ira...
Posted by Gary on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:08:00 PST

New Garden State Horror Writers Anthology: Dark Territories

We are within weeks of the new GSHW anthology, Dark Territories, coming out. It’s edited by myself and Mary SanGiovanni with great cover art by Steve Gilberts. The book is $14.95 and we’re...
Posted by Gary on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:02:00 PST

Reincarnation: The Movie

Last year After Dark came out with their 8 movies that were too disturbing, too shocking and too something else to be shown. They called it Horrorfest and it showed in various cities. I never saw it.B...
Posted by Gary on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:03:00 PST

God is Old

You may or may not know the Paul Simon song, "Old", but generally it speaks about how we're not really old in the grander scheme of things: the universe, God, the Earth. Now that's old.I bring this up...
Posted by Gary on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:54:00 PST

General Slocums Gold

We interrupt the usual rubbish for a notice of utmost importance relevant to anyone who can read.At World Horror Con, I stopped by to say hello to one Nick Kaufmann and on the table between us was a s...
Posted by Gary on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:44:00 PST

Where did you get those peepers...The Eye reviewed

The more Asian horror films I see, the more impressed I am and the more I find myself drawn toward the Asian horror cinema over the American cinema. The Eye (Gin Gwai in Chinese) is yet another ...
Posted by Gary on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:59:00 PST

Movie Review: 1408

If you want to see the movie and haven't read the story (to be found in the collection Everything's Eventual), don't read it. See the movie first. If you have read the story and want to se...
Posted by Gary on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:44:00 PST