roller derby. ice hockey. all things morbid and macabre. identical twins and their fucked up psychic baggage. good movies. bad movies. schadenfruede. steaks and bacon. tattoos. (big pet peeves include guys who are covered in tattoos but don't think girls should have them. i hate you douche bags.) cult film. gore. horror. zombies. popular culture and unpopular culture. roller setting my hair. avoiding small talk like its the black plague. netflix. going to grad school. HDTV. Rowan, my dog. reading books about childhood education, urban education, horror genre theory, film theory, media convergence theory, television theory. counting down the many days until hockey season starts again. Myspace Layouts by Pimp-My-Profile.com
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I'd like to meet:
Misanthrops, Lycanthrops, Incontinent Malcontents, Hurdy Gurdy Dirty Birdies, you know... whoeves.
Music:
I will casually listen to ANYTHING with a double bass drum. (This includes and is not limited to black metal, death metal, grind-core and heavy metal.)If you don't like metal, you must be be dumb. I like loud AND quiet music but love, love, LOVE music that manages to be BOTH at the same time. I like Seneor Coconut's -Kraftwerk album. I dig the following bands: The Arcade Fire, The Magnetic Fields, The Pixies, old Rolling Stones, The Beatles, new wave 80's gems, DEVO, Johnny Cash, The Monkees, Neko Case, The Soft Boys, The Stone Roses,The Jesus and Mary Chain, The New Pornographers, France Gall, The Death-Ray Davies, Fleetwood Mac, My Bloody Valentine, The Sword, Mastedon, Pinback (who are amazing live by the way), Aphrodites Child, Ween,Superchunk, Sebadoh, Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Iron and Wine, Nick Drake, Madge, The Cramps, The Misfits, The Circle Jerks, The Exploited, Joan Jett, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs first full length album... The Vega Star. Oral Sorceror. George Harrison is my favorite Beatle, Johnny is my favorite Ramone, and Mike Nesmith is my favorite Monkee.
Movies:
SLAPSHOT! EQUUS! GINGER SNAPS! TEEN WITCH! THE BIG LEBOWSKI! BRAZIL!SUSPIRIA! THE SQUID AND THE WHALE! NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN! ROPE! THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE! THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP! TWIN FALLS IDAHO! BE KIND REWIND! HUMAN NATURE! ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND! RAISING ARIZONA!Anderson. Cohen Bros. Argento. Fulci. Waters. Hitchcock.Ray. Soderbergh. Hill. Gilliam. Romero. Kaufman. del Toro. Murnau. Kubrick (damn you Kubrick!).Sirk. Meyers. Fincher. Coorman. Gondry. Baumbach. Gordon-Lewis. Tarintino. Wilder. (Billy, not Gene) Early Carpenter, Craven and Burton. I hate Charlton Heston and yet I have seen so many of his god damn movies. It just isn't right. -noir -cult film -sci fi -horror (my favorite!) I loves me an bloody, gory auteur!
Television:
The Venture Brothers is my favortie show on television right now. Mad Men. Lost. Flight of the Conchords. (I am a Jemaniac.) Gossip Girl. NHL on the Fly. My Name is Earl. House. This American Life. (radio version too) Dexter. Tim and Eric's Awesome Show-Great Job!. Saul of the Mole Men. Home Movies. Futurama. Moral Orel. The Tudors. John Adams. Metalocalypse. General Hospital? Yes, please. The Office (Both BBC and American versions.) Big Love.I fully embrace Henry Jenkin's theory that popular culture is a format that can be used to expand one's intellect and involvement with the community, thank you very much. I'm not just a passive consumer, I am an active citizen. (As illustrated by this MySpace page suckas!)
Books:
Men, Women, & Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer King of the Sex Film, The Ruins, Lunar Park, Spider, The Time Travelers Wife, Nine Stores, Stiff,J-Horror: The Definitive Guide to The Ring and The Grudge,the Harry Potter series, Yellow, Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff, The Woman Chaser, American Psycho, Ghostworld, Blackhole, Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid on Earth, Summer Blonde, That Poor Bastard, Eightball, Optic Nerve, Peepshow, Mini-Sulk, Unlovable, Spent, Rue Morgue magazine.
