I love taking a sketchbook out to a coffee shop (Los Feliz in LA, Virginia-Highland in Atlanta)or these days, I'm just as likely to have my laptop out with a drawing tablet - isn't technology wonderful? If they only made a sketchbook with multiple Undos. Anyway, I love music and movies and art. I love tech - digital cameras and Macs and iPods and wireless networking. I'm definitely a geek, but I think I'm pretty social and well-adjusted regardless. We shall see...
I'd like to meet:
Artists (illustrators, cartoonists, comic creators, painters, drawers, and creative types in general) and fans of my work, too!
Good people, good conversationalists, smart, funny, positive, helpful people. Hot chicks who dig artists. Hell I don't know. I'll know 'em when I see 'em.
Music:
Continuing with the "geek" motif, I bought an iPod back in '03, and it has completely changed the way I listen to and buy music. Lots of blues (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jonny Lang), classic alt (U2, REM, the Cure, Concrete Blonde, Nirvana), new stuff (Coldplay, Poe, Strokes, Donnas, Ataris, Franz Ferdinand, Pete Yorn, She Wants Revenge), heavier rock and punk (Metallica, Hole and Courtney Love, Distillers, Clash, Social Distortion, Bad Religion) and lighter, beautiful stuff (Sarah McLauchlin, Nora Jones). I love great female vocalists, especially jazzy/bluesy ones. I love Irish-flavored bands like Young Dubliners, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly (in case I hadn't mentioned it before). I love live shows, and going to bars with live music.
Movies:
I'm addicted to Netflix. Right now I have three DVDs checked out: Porco Rosso, House of Flying Daggers, and The Last Samurai. Among the movies I own: Indiana Jones (got the DVD box set), The old spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood (also have the box set), Lord of the Rings, any Monty Python, japanese anime - Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, Yamato (I used to run home from school every afternoon), FLCL, and the inimitable Cowboy Bebop. Generally, anything adventurous or funny or very well written and acted.
Television:
I haven't owned a TV in some time, and to be honest I don't bloody miss the damn thing. When I did watch, though, it was mostly BBCAmerica and Cartoon Network. I do miss being able to watch a very few shows, like Scrubs (funny), Battlestar Galactica (awesome), and maybe a few others.
Books:
I just don't make time to read much fiction. But I'm a big Douglas Adams fan, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, classic SF like Clarke, Niven, Azimov, etc. I've read a lot of graphic novels and comic collections, if that counts - especially the FLIGHT anthologies put together by Kazu Kibuishi, and lately some comics like Invincible and Nextwave (great art and writing for both).
Heroes:
I admire great illustrators and storytellers, even if their influence isn't direcctly reflected in my own work: Shane Glines, Ben Caldwell, Frank Miller, Masamune Shirow, Bill Watterson, Berke Breathed. John Singer Sargent, Gil Elvgren, Leyendecker. NC Wyeth, Frank Frazetta. Will Eisner. Kazu Kibuishi. Too many to name; others along similar lines...
