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Simon the Electric Elk

I'M gonna buy a bitchin' CAMARO, with MY share of the booty!!!

About Me

"Do you want that little hamster to live or not? THEN GO AND PLAY THE CELLO!!!!!"

My Interests

History, film (especially--but not limited to--horror, sci-fi, and pre-1975 cinema), cooking, walking, reading, dancing (believe it or not), volunteering, writing fiction and repellently amateurish film criticism, music, living, breathing, etc., etc.

I'd like to meet:

"You're a groovy boy... I'd like to strap you on sometime..." --I've never met them, but when I do, I'm sure things will be interesting. Unsure if anything will happen, but interesting nonetheless.

Music:

The Kinks, Sleater-Kinney, Super Furry Animals, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Claude Debussy, The Faces, The Decemberists, Erik Satie, Til Tuesday and Aimee Mann, The Velvet Underground, Blur, Brian Eno, Georges Bizet, Traffic, Guided By Voices, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Prince, The Jam, Starling Electric, Into the Freylakh, Wilco, The Jam, Roxy Music

Movies:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Touch of Evil; Flash Gordon; Lawrence of Arabia; The Wicker Man; The Thirty-Nine Steps ('35); Casablanca; A Matter of Life and Death

Television:

Doctor Who, Buffy, NewsRadio, The Simpsons (pre-'00), Veronica Mars, Blackadder, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Coronation Street

Books:

The Three Musketeers (Dumas pere), Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), Middlesex (Eugenides), Lucky Jim (Amis), Dark Star (Furst), Japanese By Spring (Reed), The Bloody Chamber (Carter), Nostromo (Conrad), Therese Raquin (Zola), A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole), The Fatal Shore (Hughes), Prince Caspian (Lewis), Isara (Soyinka)

Heroes:

Bill Mauldin, Fred Rogers, Jim Henson, Orson Welles, Preston Sturges, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Tom Allen, Charles Nelson Reilly

My Blog

FIRST BHF BOOK OF HORROR STORIES (correction)

To my horror (funny, that), I misrepresented the URL of the lulu.com site of The First Book of BHF Horror Stories. Here it is, correctly rendered. ...
Posted by Simon the Electric Elk on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 06:18:00 PST

THE FIRST BHF BOOK OF HORROR STORIES

In case anyone missed the bulletin, and because it really can't be plugged enough, I now have two stories in an anthology published last month by the webmaster of the estimable British Horror Films we...
Posted by Simon the Electric Elk on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:56:00 PST

the real blog

I have a blog elsewhere--namely, here.
Posted by Simon the Electric Elk on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST