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E.S. Putnam

Writing reality, one word at a time.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Candy Darling's ghost.

Go here:

And here:

Music:

T-Rex, Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Placebo, Idlewild, Meatloaf, The Dead Milkmen, The Mission UK, Love & Rockets, Kings of Leon, Rufus Wainwright...his dad's pretty kickin' too, The White Stripes, The Helio Sequence, The Magnetic Fields, Uncut, The Sun, The Cure, Nick Drake, Bright Eyes, CVB (and Cracker), Teenage Fanclub, U2, The Strokes, Skindive, BRMC, The Dandy Warhols, Dada, Stabbing Westward.

Movies:

Horror and Indie stuff. Favorite Indie horror? Dario Argento's Suspiria(1977)...THE most chilling soundtrack EVER, thanks to a band called, Goblin. Nightbreed, An American Werewolf in London, Velvet Goldmine, The RHPS, When Love Comes, Splendor, Where the Boys Are, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Pretty in Pink, Cry Baby, Trick, Labyrinth, Billy Elliot, Valley Girl, The Pirate Movie, Ringu, The Crow, Priest, Love, Honor and Obey, Fight Club, The Full Monty, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Outsiders, Beautiful Thing, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Saturday Night Fever, Near Dark, A Streetcar Named Desire, Two Lane Blacktop, Pulp Fiction, Fifth of July, The Children's Hour, A Home at the End of the World, Falling For Grace .

Television:

QaF, Firefly, the new Doctor Who, Hex, Battlestar Galactica, Ghost Hunters, The Office, Scrubs, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, Monk, Psych.

Books:

*Deep breath*...A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, LotR & The Hobbit, On the Road, Naked Lunch, Sandman, Neverwhere, Good Omens, American Gods, Stardust, Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, Plastic Jesus, Everville, Cabal, The Great and Secret Show, Watership Down, Ceremonies (Essex Hemphill), The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Fountainhead, Anthem, Poe and Lovecraft, A Clockwork Orange, The World According to Garp, Hotel New Hampshire, The Haunting of Hill House, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, It, The Shining, Trainspotting, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick, Stonewall...more to be added...

Heroes:

My mom and sis. Neil Gaiman and Armistead Maupin.

My Blog

Iggy/Sam?

In an effort to do anything other than work on revisions of two short stories I was planning on submitting today, I suddenly find myself thinking about something a friend said on the phone the other d...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:54:00 PST

Grindhouse

Okay. It's official. I'm obsessed. *sigh* And I'm really in trouble because there's stuff. The action figures are probably the thing I'll break down and buy...although I'm also taken with the "back to...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:29:00 PST

Tagged again...

This is for you, Frac, my sweet. :-)10 Weird facts about myself:10- I was home schooled. (Okay, so it's not that strange now, but at the time I was one of the first in our county...maybe even the stat...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 09:12:00 PST

My "I" words

I was tagged, so here they are:Idiot- A really great album by the Godfather of punk.Illogical- The opposite of logical...as in the current White House administration.Ignominy- Disgrace, to be shamed.I...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:33:00 PST

Today...

The snow mocs I ordered for the trip to Toronto in Feb. came. As did my contributor's copy of Wicked Karnival that contains my story, Sleep Hath Its Own World. I had my first surprise with the N...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:47:00 PST

Bush is a prick.

"I think there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this  whether it be looting, or price gouging at the gasoline pump, or taking advantage of charitable ...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:02:00 PST

Lack of sleep feels all fuzzy around the edges

Why would anyone think it a good idea to domesticate a nocturnal animal? I love my cats, I really do, all six of them, but unless we can better coordinate our sleep schedules, I may just snap. It felt...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:50:00 PST

Asheville Rocks!

Where to begin? The show last night was FANTASTIC! I got into Asheville around 5:30 and promptly got lost downtown...damn you mapquest! But as it turned out, I was only a few blocks from the club when...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:33:00 PST

Cat with Hands

I was going through some old links this morning and was so happy to see this is still up: http://homepage.mac.com/jbrimm/Cat-With-Hands.mov It's gorgeous, creepy, and surreal. Go see it! And since Bi...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:35:00 PST

Power to the people...

We had yet another power outage due to the weather last night. That makes three times in as many weeks. Ill be so happy when storm season is over. Im excited about going to see KoL and The Helio Seq...
Posted by E.S. Putnam on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:48:00 PST