Comic genius Eddie Izzard on 'Jesus and Dinosaurs'
I a driftwood artist, approaching my craft from several angles: functional pieces, sculpture, and digital art made from my creations. Photos of all can be found in my pics section...check them out!
My Passions:
Nature
music
appreciating art in almost any form
creating art in almost any form
long and involved projects of all types, especially ones
that stretch my abilities
learning new skills
hiking
skiing
programming
listening to children talk about their (uncorrupted, honest)
thoughts and ideas
sleeping in!
Those who are obsessive about their passions...or who are passionate about their obsessions...or both!
And...
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (trailer)
My Aural Sex list:
Ultimate Trip - Riverside
Scarborough Faire - Simon and Garfunkel
Within You and Without You - The Beatles
Open Your Eyes - Death in Vegas
Sleep Together - Porcupine Tree
What Happens Now? - Porcupine Tree
Back in NYC - Genesis
The End - The Doors
In the Cage - Genesis
The Sun The Sea - Verve
Family and the Fishing Net - Peter Gabriel
Lend Your Love to Me Tonight- Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Gravity Eyelids - Porcupine Tree
Play Me - Neil Diamond
The Colour Hurts - Curve
Firth of Fifth - Genesis
Supper's Ready - Genesis
...fill up my blood, my veins, my lungs with Steven's music...
...most especially:
What Happens Now
Sleep Together
Burning Sky
Gravity Eyelids
Anesthetise
Hate Song
Dark Matter
BANDS:
Porcupine Tree, Riverside, Sylvan, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Genesis (early), Pink Floyd, Zero 7, Nine Inch Nails, Death in Vegas, Afro Celt Sound System, Bach, Peter Murphy, Dead Can Dance, Eno/Fripp, John MacLaughlin (esp. Mahavishnu, Shakti), Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath (early), Talking Heads, Roy Orbison, Neil Diamond, Jeff Beck (esp. w/ Jan Hammer), Elton John, Yes, Beatles, Ritchie Blackmore, Jean Luc Ponty, Bad Company, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Simon and Garfunkel (together, not as soloists)
MY ALL-TIME FAVORITE ALBUMS (in no particular order):
*'Rapid Eye Movement' Riverside
*'In Absentia' & 'Fear of a Blank Planet' & 'Signify' Porcupine Tree (hard to pick favorites--everything's good from this band!) *'Pretty Hate Machine' NIN
*'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' & 'Selling England by the Pound' Genesis
*'Volume 2: Release' Afro Celt Sound System
*'Ten' Pearl Jam (not anything by them after that)
*'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' The Beatles (my very first album--played it over and over and over every day)
*'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' Eno/David Byrne
*'Remain in Light' Talking Heads
*'melty face' Peter Gabriel (although it's hard to choose with Peter--he's a musical genius and has stayed fresh throughout his long career as a musician)
*'Exposure' Robert Fripp
*'Houses of the Holy' Led Zeppelin
*'War' U2
*'Between Nothingness & Eternity' Mahavishnu Orchestra
*'The Pubic Fruit' Curve
*'Contino Sessions' Death in Vegas
*'A Storm in Heaven' Verve
*'The Hurting' Tears for Fears
*'Beat' King Crimson
*'Throwing Copper' Live
*'Welcome to my Nightmare' ("Steeeeeveeeeen!") Alice Cooper
*'Paranoid' Black Sabbath
*'The Big Heat' Stan Ridgway
*'In Utero' Nirvana
*'City Slab Horror' Severed Heads
*'Simple Things' Zero 7
*'Fragile' Yes
*'Deep' Peter Murphy
*'Mind Bomb' The The
*'Into the Labyrinth' Dead Can Dance
*'Heart Shaped World' Chris Isaak
*Soundtrack from 'Baraka'
*Soundtrack from 'Until the End of the World'
*'Wish Your Were Here' Pink Floyd
*'Meat is Murder' The Smiths
*'Hotel California' The Eagles
*'Captain Fantastic' Elton John
*"Idiocracy"
*"Silent Running"
*anything David Lynch or Tim Burton
*"Memento"
*"The Machinist"
*"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
*"The Sixth Sense"
*"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (Daniel Day-Lewis is my all-time favorite actor)
*"Brazil"
*"A Clockwork Orange"
*Pink Floyd's rock opera "The Wall" and "The Valley Obscured by Clouds" with soundrack by Pink Floyd
*another excellent rock opera: The Who's "Tommy"
*"This is Spinal Tap" (I could see this movie 20 times and it would still be hilarious)
*"The 'Burbs";
"Better Off Dead"
*"Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure"
*"Galaxy Quest"
*"Yellow Submarine"
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My all-time favorite:
*"The Dark Tower" series by Stephen King (a part of my life was over when he finally wrote the last book)
*Robin Hobbs' three 'fool' trilogies (helped me to live beyond "the Tower", but after the 9th book another part of my life ended)
*anything by Ian McEwan (recently read "Saturday"--every sentence is brain candy)
*Michael Crichton's autobiographical book "Travels" (he comes the closest anyone ever has to my own personal beliefs on what we term 'spirituality')
*"The Naked Ape" by Desmond Morris (really scratches my sociology/philosophy itch)
*"Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy" and all of its sequels by Douglas Adams (funniest books *EVER*)
*"Fear Nothing"+"Seize the Night" by Dean Koontz
*"Mists of Avalon" and early "Darkover" books by Marion Zimmer Bradley
*"Taltos" trilogy by Anne Rice (*much* better than the vampire stuff)
*"The Talisman"+"Blackhouse" by Stephen King and Peter Straub
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