About Me:
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"I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful...these are truly the last days"...You grabbed my hand and we fell into it...like a daydream or a fever."
CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: Wolves In The Throne Room (Two Hunters) - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - (F-number sign-A-number sign-infinity - 1997) - Shackleton (Soundboy's Suicide Note EP) - Ohgr (Devils In My Details) - Ben Frost (Theory Of Machines) - Dan Deacon (Spiderman Of The Rings) - The Birthday Party (Mutiny / Bad Seed EP - 1983) - Fuck Buttons (Bright Tomorrow - Single) - Fuck Buttons (Street Horrrsing) - CocoRosie (Noah's Ark) - Les Vampyrettes (Biomutanten 12" Single - 1980) - David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski (Polish Night Music) - Ape vs Mo'Wax (Nigo vs James Lavelle - Japanese Only Release - 1997) - Tindersticks (My Oblivion EP) - Geniuser (Mud Black) - Battles (Atlas - Promo Single) - CocoRosie (The Adventures Of Ghosthorse And Stillborn) - Portishead (Third) - Various Production (The World Is Gone) - DJ Distance (My Demons) - David Lynch (The Air Is On Fire - Soundscape) - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) - David Lynch (Ghost Of Love / Imaginary Girl - Single) - Holger Czukay (On The Way To The Peak Of Normal - 1981) - Animal Collective (Strawberry Jam) - Liars (Liars - 2007) - Skull Disco (Soundboy Punishments V/A) - Panda Bear (Person Pitch) - Liars (Drum's Not Dead) - Burial (Burial) - Kode 9 & The Spaceape (Memories Of The Future) - Amon Tobin (Bloodstone EP) - Animal Collective (Sung Tongs) - I Monster (Neveroddoreven) - Rhythm & Sound (The Versions) - Rhythm & Sound with Paul St. Hilaire (Showcase)...
Magnolia - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - The Servant - The Last Picture Show - Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? - The Third Man - Touch Of Evil - Citizen Kane - The Lady From Shanghai - THX 1138 (Original Un-Butchered 1971 Version) - Metropolis (Original 1927 Fritz Lang Version) - The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari - 1984 (1984 Version) - Baby Doll - A Streetcar Named Desire - The Hustler - The Illustrated Man - Blade Runner - Alien - Dr. Strangelove - Lolita (Both Versions) - 2001: A Space Odyssey - Clockwork Orange - Rollerball (Original 1975 Version) - The Day Of The Jackal (Original 1973 Version) - The Seven-Ups - The Conversation - Three Days Of The Condor - Klute - Marathon Man - The Parallax View - Network - Being There - Raging Bull - Taxi Driver - Blue Velvet - Eraserhead - Mulholland Drive - Institute Benjamenta - Phantom Museums: The Short Films Of The Quay Brothers - Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) - Repulsion - The Tenant - Rosemary's Baby - In The Mood For Love - Kafka - Miller's Crossing - Barton Fink - The Man Who Wasn't There - Fargo - No Country For Old Men - There Will Be Blood - Amelie - Punch Drunk Love - Napoleon Dynamite - Slap Shot - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind...
Is the babysitter of procrastination and apathy.
With the extremely rare exception of "Davey and Goliath".
The Trail (Franz Kafka) - The Castle (Franz Kafka) - The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) - 1984 (George Orwell) - The Stranger (Albert Camus) - A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) - Youth In Revolt (C.D. Payne) - Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris) - Naked (David Sedaris) - Geek Love (Katherine Dunn) - The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) - To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee) - Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut) - Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut) - Lord of the Flies (William Golding) - The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus, Plexus, & Nexus (Henry Miller) - Tropic Of Cancer (Henry Miller)... plus countless books on art, design, photography, fashion, architecture and interior design
Mark Tansey had an incredible impact on my early artistic development:
As did the work of Edward Hopper:
And of course the esoteric philosophies of Marcel Duchamp:
And when I first started taking graphic design seriously these nine record covers had a profound effect on how I approached the craft: