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About Me

Art School Grad.What about me? I do children's book illustration and Manage a comic book store. What more does one need to know?I travel a bit and have been has far north as Iceland, East as far as Prague South as far as Belize and as far West as Cumberland, Maryland.I was told there was drop off there.I like old things. Vintage design. Certain things have been misplaced.Venice...now Venice is nice. Nice bars in Venice.

My Interests

Art, Anime, Children's Books, folklore, Sci-fi, Traveling, Ancient Mayan Culture, VeloSolexs, Housing Renovations, Dumpster Diving, Vintage Records, Vintage Cameras.

I'd like to meet:

They are all dead. I probibly wouldn't have had a lot to say to them anyway.Famous dead people are prettier and more witty seen through the rosy eyed glasses of time.

Music:

Shriekback, They Might Be Giants, Talking Heads, Midnight Oil, Bauhaus, Siouxie, Love and Rockets, Tom Waites, Soul Coughing, Buddy Holly, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, anything by Mancini or Arthur Lyman, 3 Suns. Young Elvis. Ska...totally SKA.

Movies:

Star Wars, Star Trek II, Buckeroo Banzai, 5th Element, Ran, Yojimbo, Ikiru, Kung Fu Hustle, Lord of the Rings, Office Space, Clerks, Funny Face, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity

Television:

FLCL, Last Exile, Battle Star Galactica (new one), Avatar the Last Airbender, Doctor Who, Northern Exposure, Star Blazers, Firefly, Star Trek TOS, Jonny Quest, Prisoner, Wooster and Jeeves, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett version) Hitchhikers Guide.

Books:

Lord of Light, This Immortal, Last Unicorn, Lord of the Rings, The Light that Failed, Space Merchants, Gateway. Outdated travel journals from the 1920s-30s.

Heroes:

Tesla, Edison, Amundsen, Titiana- Nobile's Dog. Von Lettow Vorbeck, Zepplin, FDR.