Writing, editing, filmmaking, watching movies, discussing movies, wishing I had more in my life to talk about... reading, sleeping...
Oddly enough, a lot of the people I communicate with online or over the phone are folks I've never met in person. So... them.I've also learned the hard way, however, that "if you admire the art, never meet the artist". With that caveat in mind, I'd still like to sit down face-to-face with Robert Rodriguez, Richard O'Brien, Clive Barker, Christopher Moore and Rob Zombie.
My musical tastes reached an odd stasis around 2001. My favorites have remained pretty constant: Rob Zombie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kate Bush, The Monkees, Harry Nilsson, The Who, Pink Floyd, They Might Be Giants, Peter Gabriel, Peter Murphy, early Nine Inch Nails, Liz Phair, L7, GWAR, soundtracks to Little Shop of Horrors, Rocky Horror Picture Show...
Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Magnificent Seven, The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, The Big Sleep, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Return of the Living Dead (1 & 3), Re-Animator, Miller's Crossing, Rio Bravo, Silverado, The Great Escape, The Last of Sheila, The List of Adrian Messenger, Psychos in Love, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Hellboy, Sin City, L.A. Story, Little Shop of Horrors, The Exorcist, Nightbreed, Near Dark, Deep Rising, Lord of the Rings, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shock Treatment, An American Werewolf in London, American Beauty, Taxi Driver, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Drunken Master II, Police Story, The Armour of God, Hard Boiled, The Killer, The Killer Elite, The Wild Bunch, The Lady from Shanghai, Project: Valkyrie, The Muppet Movie, Blood Simple, Charade, North By Northwest, Arsenic and Old Lace, Singin' in the Rain, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Chainsaw Sally, Young Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Scrubs, The Gilmore Girls, CSI, Who's Line is It Anyway?, Futurama, Xena and NOT Project Greenlight, Seinfeld, Friends, Newlyweds, Survivor or American Idol...
Santiago, Lamb, The Deathbird Stories, An Edge in My Voice, Fevre Dream, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, The Sandman, Good Omens, All I Needed to Know About Movies I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, Bloodsucking Fiends, The Spirit, Sequential Art, Transmetropolitan, Adventures in the Screen Trade...
Will Eisner, Harlan Ellison, John Huston, Neil Gaiman, Robert Rodriguez, John Sayles, The Coen Brothers, Sam Raimi, Benjamin Franklin, Doc Holliday, Darren McGavin, Terry Gilliam, William Goldman, Roger Corman, Bruce Campbell, Scooter McCrae, Alan Moore...