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batshade

About Me

i like cats and bats and dogs and snogs

My Interests

music that moves me and witnessing it live, graphic design, small shiny things, keeping it real, enjoying nice weather with nice people, shedding excess baggage that is not aerodynamic, begging to be microchipped by the government (NOT!), PS2, Gamecube, Nintendo DS, HTML, PHP, CSS, order vs. chaos, perceived reality vs. truth

Music:

LATELY: casino versus japan, tipsy, meat beat manifesto, the merkin dream, the melvins, queens of the stone age, raymond scott, django reinhart, old school billy joel, hall and oates, and biz markie!

Movies:

some of my faves of all time: mirrormask, v for vendetta, my neighbor totoro, cat soup, spirited away, akira, vampire hunter d, kitschy sci-fi, barbarella, danger: diabolik, kill bill, tetsuo iron man, rubin and ed, cabinet of dr. caligari, six string samurai, princess bride, the abominable dr. phibes, wicker man, office space, any david lynch or wim wenders, city of lost children, dark city, nightbreed, serpent and the rainbow, lair of the white worm....

Television:

I DON'T REALLY HAVE TV, BUT I LOVE: the mighty boosh, most extreme elimination challenge, wonder showzen, sesame street circa 1978, the young ones, red dwarf, the daily show, the colbert report, the venture brothers, carnivale, firefly, twin peaks

Books:

lately, audiobooks while i multitask: the wild trees, the princess bride, born standing up (steve martin autobio)FAVORITES: hardcore zen, life the movie, stephen king's dark tower series, frank herbert's dune series, anne rice, we, brave new world, 1984, cabal, any vonnegut you got, little nemo comics, sandman graphic novels...

Heroes:

cyndi lauper, miki berenyi, my mom, my dad, my grandparents, both my aunties, kurt vonnegut, the person who pulled me up from a mosh pit pile up when i was 16, and whoever invented chocolate.