Art, dissecting labs, skeletons, gargoyles, shrunken heads, the human body, animation, ugly toys, creepy dolls, monsters, running, traveling, Melbourne, Australia. Drinking lots of WINE, martinis, hanging in dark bars, great coffee and shopping til dropping.
I'd like to meet:
Other artists, vampires, spaceship aliens, corpses that need illustrating.
"Many people are skeptical of the existence of zombies, which I take to mean they are skeptical that a dead person could be revived with or without retaining his or her "soul" or "self-consciousness" or "mind." Once you are dead, you are dead forever. For those who don't believe a person has a soul, death is not the separation of the body from the soul, but the end of life and consciousness. The voodoo zombie is not a dead person, but a living person who has been brain damaged. "
The Victorian Era extended from 1870 to 1915 and during this time people held funerals in their homes, particularly in the part of the home known as the parlor, which gave rise to the expression "funeral parlor." It was also from this era that the term "wake" was coined. During this time, in some cases, those who were pronounced dead were not actually dead. The body was placed in a wicker casket in the home and a wake was held, which gave a few days' time to make sure the person was actually dead. During the wake, furniture was draped in black cloth, the curtains were covered with black cloth and mourners would dress in black. Women even wore mourning jewelry.
The terms "saved by the bell" and "graveyard shifts" were also established during this era. When you were buried, you would be buried with a string attached to your finger so you could ring a bell if you were to awake. Thus, you could be "saved by the bell." In case the buried one would awaken, people were hired to watch over the graveyards and monitor the bells, creating the term "graveyard shift."
Movies:
The Shining, Cinema Paradiso, Scarface, Godfather, Goodfellas, Immortal Beloved, The Dirty Dozen, Jaws,
Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (the original),
Halloween, Barfly, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer,
Anything by Jim Jarmusch,Hitchcock, David Lynch,
Ed Wood.
Books:
Bukowski Poems and short stories, emily dickinson, edgar allan poe, true crime novels, autobiographies, cereal boxes, whatever.....
Oh Yes.
There are worse things than being
alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse than
too late.
C. Bukowski
Heroes:
tank, elvis, edvard munch, grapes, robert smith, tom waits, nick cave, mozart, dracula.
