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circus history, illustration, drawing, folklore, myths, optical illusions, photography, victorian houses, the fourth world, the neo-victorian, Edwardianesque, cathedrals, bells & carousels, sideshow freaks, the weird, wild, and wonderful, harlequins, the ghastly grotesque, tragic endings, androgyny, costumes, masks, 2D animation and stop motion animation, antiques, sculpting, tarot cards, staying in, shaving, marionettes, toys, the baroque, puppetry, anatomy, mustaches, fashion, robots, books, people watching, Dinosaurs, forensic science, dark chocolate, beards, window shopping, cryptology, bookstores, the occult, paleontology, fossils, archeology, astrology, most -ologys, light and magic
THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ABNORMALARTS
last but not least taxidermy. Below is a picture of my fish Belle, that I succesfuly mummified, she is currently framed on my hall way wall. Just because I don't eat meat doesn't mean I don't enjoy playing with the carcasses.
R.I.P. Belle
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"~Alice
"I am convinced that the
only people worthy of consideration in
this world are the unusual ones. For
the common folk are like the leaves of a
tree, and live and die unnoticed."
~The Scarecrow of Oz, from
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Some time ago, my friend Irene & I made a short animated film together. You can see it on youtube
Fruity PanDEMONium or take a look below, here on my page.
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Dressy Bessy, The Hidden Cameras, The Fiery Furnaces, Of Montreal, The Arcade Fire, Midlake, Grizzly Bear, Sunset Rubdown, The Magnetic Fields, Niza, Wolf Parade, Architecture in helsinki, Camera Obscura, Mates of State, Scissor Sisters, The B-52's,Neutral milk hotel, The Essex Green, BROADCAST, Stereo Total, A hawk and a hacksaw, beirut, The Concretes, Gogol Bordello, Belle and Sebastian, Bodies of Water, Tilly and the Wall, Sufjan Stevens, Midnight Movies, Antony and The Johnstons, The Gossip, Peter Bjorn and John, Feist, Final Fantasy, Figurine, Patrick Wolf, Devotchka, Doves, Acid House Kings, Lavender Diamond, La Casa Azul, Feist, yo la tengo, cat power, the Gothic Archies, The Radio Dept, looper, go sailor, April March, magnetic fields, new pornographers, blonde redhead, Stereolab, Lali puna, la monja enana, and many more, it grows by the day....
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El Laberinto Del Fauno, Tod Browning's FREAKS, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Female Trouble, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Royal Tenenbaums, Phantom of Paradise, Carrie, Children of Men, Wet hot American Summer, The Baxter, Rushmore, Harold and Maude, Hedwig and the angry Inch, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Splendor, Hairspray, The Virgin Suicides, Heavenly Creatures, V for Vendetta, The FLY, The triplets of belleville, Ghost World, Velvet Goldmine, Return to Oz, Pleasantville, Fight club, Dancer in the dark, Svankmajer's Alice, Thelma and Louise, Punch drunk love,the Ice storm, But I'm a cheerleader, Muriels Wedding, Wit, James and the giant Peach, Welcome to the Dollhouse, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Celluloid Closet, Chicken Run, jurassic park,The dark crystal, Faust, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Something Wicked this Way comes,the Iron giant, Labyrinth, Little Shop of Horrors, The Witches, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Beetlejuice, Polyester
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GEEK LOVE by Kathrine Dunn is my favorite book ever,
Stiff:the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, The Perry Bible Fellowship, FABLES, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Wicked:The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, The watchmen, Barlowes Inferno, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, all of the David Sedaris books, The Meloncholy Death of Oysterboy, Harry Potter(ive only read the first two I will get to the rest of them),Dinotopia by Jame Gurney, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,& Through the Looking Glass, Catcher in the Rye, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Burton on Burton, Black Hole, Feel this Book by Janeane Garofalo, The Far Side comics, Ghost World Comics, Eightball and other Daniel Clowes, Star Wars tales, Hellboy comics ( are the best comics EVER!), The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Pride of Baghdad, Tolkien, Roald Dahl, Clive Barker, Brian Froud, H.R. Giger, Edward Gorey. Thank you Land for introducing me to the wonderful words of Steve Martin, The Pleasure of my Company, Pure Drivel, Shopgirl, The Thieve of Always.
.. No Heroes, just people whose work I admire and have inspired me.
Janeane Garofalo
Zdzislaw Beksinski
Lukasz banach
Alphonse Mucha
Arthur Rackham
Mike Mignola
Iassen Ghiuselev
Michael Parkes
Brian Froud
Andy Warhol
Wayne Barlowe
Edward Gorey
Maurice Sendak
Tim Burton
Mary Blair
The Two Elvira's:
My Mother
& the Mistress of the Dark
My Favorite Red Guy, Hellboy.
The American Beauty herself Leslie Hall