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Sean Parker

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About Me

Writer (kind of) and musician (maybe).I started writing around the end of 2005 / start of 2006, speculative fiction, I suppose. So far, my work has appeared in The Black Book of Horror ('The Sound of Muzak'),Escaping Elsewhere (no4 'Mr Jones'), Fusing Horizons (no5 'Sock Puppets'), Trails of Indiscretion (no3 'Preliminary Report Y'), Pantechnicon (no2 'Invasions'), Heavy Glow (no6 'Walk'), Flashshots (19.2.07 'Treasure Hunt'), Whispers of Wickedness site ('Watching') and 'Whispers of Wickedness (15, 'Teeth'). Two articles on classic SF novels has appeared in issues 3 and 4 of Pantechnicon. Also, some book, film, and music reviews of mine have appeared on the 'Video Vista', 'Soundchecks' and 'Zone' sites.Further fiction is due to appear in Estronomicon ('Excerpt'), Filthy Creations ('Character'), The Third Black Book of Horror ('Death Con One'), All Hallows ('Epilogue') and Nenonymous 8: Cone Zero (?????).Sometimes I pretend that I am musically adept and record stuff under the name 'Giant Albino Penguin' (which recently got a mention in the acknowlegements page of Ramsey Campbell's new novel 'The Grin of the Dark' - much to my surprise and delight). MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Kristen Hersh- Your Ghost

I'd like to meet:

Lord Running Clam (a telepathic Ganymedean slime mould)UPDATE: well, who'd believe it but I've met the Clam through the magic of myspace, so I'm going to have to pick a more unlikely character next time!

Music:

swans, the birthday party, alice donut, glenn branca, pil, joy division, cardiacs, silverfish, gallon drunk, nico, john cale, brian eno, electric eels, shellac, crass, dead kennedys, sonic youth, butthole surfers, tom lehrer, happy flowers, pussy galore, lard, half man half biscuit, pixies, the sisters of mercy, the very things, the cravats, mothers of invention, pavement, the stooges, velvet underground, stravinsky, wire, edgar varese, conflict, la monte young, john cage, the fall, theatre of hate, the adverts, big black, the cure, bauhaus, phantom limbs, nick cave and the bad seeds, at the drive in, wolfgang press, throwing muses, spacemen 3, loop, the god machine, mars volta, red lorry yellow lorry... and a whole bunch more

Movies:

asylum, dead of night (ealing), freaks, carnival of souls (original), scanners, peeping tom, the wicker man (original), the war game, punishment park, romero zombie films, 12 monkeys, la cabina, plan 9 from outer space, when the wind blows, texas chainsaw massacre (original), quatermass and the pit, forbidden planet, reefer madness(!), brazil, nosferatu, the medusa touch, from beyond the grave, threads, eraserhead, alien, dark star, 2001 a space odyssey, westworld, misery, ringu, ju-on, the eye, the brave little toaster... etc etc

Television:

sapphire and steel, twilight zone (original), futurama, the prisoner, tinker tailor soldier spy, the simpsons, star trek (original), drop the dead donkey, all the quatermass stories, the day today, hammer house of horror, day of the triffids, the stone tape, father ted, not only... but also

Books:

pretty much anything by: philip k dick, ramsey campbell, peter straub, brian aldiss, franz kafka, tolstoy, george orwell, albert camus, clifford simak, olaf stapledon, stephen king, john brunner, harlan ellison, m john harrison, koji suzuki, fritz leiber, ray bradbury, richard matheson, robert bloch, charles beaumont, j g ballard, thomas disch, john wyndham, h g wells, robert sheckley, h p lovecraft, thomas harris, bob shaw, umberto eco, jack kereuac, william burroughs, iain banks, mervyn peake, hunter s thompson, thomas ligotti, robert anton wilson, edgar allen poe, thomas pynchon, kurt vonnegut, joseph heller, kim newman... and yes you've guessed it, a whole lot of others also...

Heroes:

Professor Quatermass

My Blog

The Third Black Book of Horror

.. The Third Black Book of Horror is out now.http://www. freewebs. com/mortburypress/3rdblackbookofhorror. htmAnother great volume in a series which is rapidly becoming essential reading for anyone...
Posted by Sean Parker on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:23:00 PST

Creations, cones and a potato

WARNING: THIS BLOGPOST MAY CONTAIN SPAM! The new issue of Filthy Creations (number 4) is out now. A real labour of love this one, and its great to have a story of mine in it. This, and previous ...
Posted by Sean Parker on Fri, 16 May 2008 03:46:00 PST

My cat died today

That's a picture of Charlie Parker, the family cat who died earlier today. Old age had hit him hard in the last couple of months, and for the last few days it was obvious that he was on his last leg...
Posted by Sean Parker on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:52:00 PST

Novel

Woo hoo! This week I finished my novel, and on the whole I’m pretty pleased with the results. It managed to do all I set out to achieve with it and everything gelled splendidly. I was also surpr...
Posted by Sean Parker on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:10:00 PST

Fitna - the film

Tricky subject this. Just a few random thoughts on it. This short fifteen minute film Fitna was released on the internet on the LiveLeak site yesterday, dealing with what the film maker and polit...
Posted by Sean Parker on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 06:52:00 PST

Stuff

'ello again, long time no blog. 2008 has so far excelled itself in being a crap year. I doubt that a bunch of real life stuff is of much interest to anyone, so I won't go into it. Breathe a sigh of re...
Posted by Sean Parker on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:22:00 PST

Stockhausen and the North Wales police chief

Bye bye to Karlheinz Stockhausen who died last week. He may not be on everybody's ipod or whatever the f*****ng things are (Luddites on the 'net - can there be anything worse???) but the stuff he did ...
Posted by Sean Parker on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:38:00 PST

House move, etc.

Well, here I am again.... Busy busy time the last couple of months. Relocation of myself and family and cat now complete (ten minutes walk from the old house!) The new place is a three store...
Posted by Sean Parker on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:25:00 PST

Why did J.G Ballard cross the road?

  Because he was stapled to the chicken? Because he saw a drained swimming pool on the other side? In the hope of causing a road accident, freeing the victims to explore new wounds, to use the f...
Posted by Sean Parker on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:23:00 PST

Spies and ghosts

  "Are we dealing with fucking ghosts here?" - Absolute Friends, John le Carre. These days, I mainly read within the genres of SF (the phrase 'sci-fi' makes me want to hit things with sticks) and...
Posted by Sean Parker on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:38:00 PST