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scott heim

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About Me

I'm a writer: Mysterious Skin (1995) and In Awe (1997). My third novel, We Disappear, will be out from HarperCollins in February 2008. I grew up in Kansas, lived 11 years in NYC, and now I'm in Boston. www.scottheim.com is my website; I've also got a blog at: www.heim.etherweave.com/weblog .

My Interests

music, novels, horror films, ghosts, reality tv, rollercoasters, forensic science, ebay, autumn, shoegaze, NYC, logic problems, bull terriers, Hendrick's gin, thrift stores, London, electronica, UFOs, geeky teenagers, rainy weather, unsolved murders

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Music:

cocteau twins, sigur ros, slowdive, talk talk, my bloody valentine, radiohead, mew, stereolab, the cure, mogwai, ride, bark psychosis, felt, elbow, nick drake, interpol, pale saints, cyann and ben, house of love, this mortal coil, flying saucer attack, the smiths, ulrich schnauss, bed, chapterhouse, joy division, hood, brian eno, the knife, dead can dance, mum, the czars, david bowie, cindytalk, the clientele, labradford, m83, kate bush, malory, clinic, lansing-dreiden, aphex twin, broken social scene, lush, sing sing, the durutti column, bjork, low, the daysleepers, and also the trees, swervedriver, future sound of london, bowery electric, jay-jay johanson, cranes, lowlife, hula, virginia astley, mojave 3, david sylvian, japan, belle and sebastian, seefeel, chris and cosey, isan, bethany curve, ellen allien, mahogany, bailter space, boards of canada, ladytron, big star, sway, blonde redhead, the sundays, battles, moose, trespassers william, the notwist, editors, explosions in the sky, breathless, junior boys, shelleyan orphan, apparat, antarctica, ova looven, mandalay, solvent, camera obscura, in the nursery, portishead, sparks, saloon, bracken, wilderness, third eye foundation, auburn lull, efterklang, alpha, languis, autechre, crescent, colder, grizzly bear, the brother kite, the field, magnet, arcade fire, stars of the lid, yume bitsu, lovesliescrushing, monoland, the twilight sad, scott walker, movietone, windy and carl, insides, amp, placebo, dntel, 80s bands that were good in their earlier days (ie simple minds, duran duran, ultravox, blondie, echo and the bunnymen, gary numan, modern english, o.m.d., clan of xymox, human league, icehouse, depeche mode, new order, psychedelic furs, adam and the ants, altered images, etc), old industrial dance stuff, (ie, skinny puppy, clock dva), most bands on Morr Music, Kranky, old 4ad, old Creation, Ghostly International, clairecords, Darla, etc.

Movies:

suspiria, female trouble, spirit of the beehive, safe, wizard of oz, psycho, carrie, eyes without a face, halloween, fire walk with me, the birds, in a glass cage, santa sangre, gaslight, central station, 400 blows, the exorcist, the color of paradise, seance on a wet afternoon, rear window, desperate living, i walked with a zombie, waiting for guffman, north by northwest, ratcatcher, onibaba, rushmore, pink flamingoes, cruising, city of god, vertigo, the evil dead, after hours, luna, opera, the tenant, y tu mama tambien, polyester, the return, the changeling, marnie, brother's keeper, citizen kane, children of heaven, tenebrae, the blair witch project, dancer in the dark, alien, sixteen candles, nobody knows, the dead, peeping tom, gummo, suddenly last summer, grey gardens, audition, repulsion, harold and maude, picnic at hanging rock, alucarda, the texas chainsaw massacre, straw dogs, heavenly creatures, lair of the white worm, the sound of music, ken park, superstar: the karen carpenter story, funny games, phantasm, a charlie brown christmas, diabolique, pulse, inferno, the spiral staircase, blue velvet, carnival of souls, kill bill 1 & 2, secrets & lies, mysterious skin, (no, honestly). Lots of documentaries. Alfred Hitchcock, Todd Haynes, Lars von Trier, Jacques Tourneur, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, Harmony Korine, Jan Svankmajer, Todd Solondz, John Waters, Dario Argento, Kiroshi Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, the Brothers Quay, Kenneth Anger

Television:

Twin Peaks, Survivor, Amazing Race, Scooby-Doo, SCTV, Strangers With Candy, Little Britain, Iron Chef, Top Chef, Investigative Reports, In Search Of, Kath & Kim, Antiques Roadshow, Endurance, Project Runway, Unsolved Mysteries, The New Detectives, Cold Case Files

Books:

Flannery O'Connor, Joy Williams, Truman Capote, Alice Munro, Richard Yates, Cormac McCarthy, Dennis Cooper, D.H. Lawrence, Anne Sexton, James Wright, James Salter, Amy Gerstler, Daniel Woodrell, Mary Gaitskill, Joan Didion, Melville, Faulkner, Sylvia Plath, Ai, Denis Johnson, M.R. James, Carson McCullers, Michael Lowenthal, Robert Gluck, Annie Proulx, Kellie Wells, Steven Millhauser, Stephen Beachy, Kevin Killian, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Matthew Stadler, Peter Straub, and on and on and on...

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