Books!!; Comics!!; Writing; Cooking/Baking; Rock Climbing; Hiking; Travel; Board Gaming; Roller Derby; Films from the '70s; Designing Board Games; Writing Comics; Creating Comics; European Comics; Music; Death/Black Metal; Baseball; TAI CHI (studied 3 yrs.); TAE KWON DOE (studied 7 yrs.); Cats; Movies starring: Wings Hauser, Linda Blair, Sho Kasugi, Sonny Chiba, Klaus Kinski, Udo Kier, Greta Garbo, Crispin Glover, Bud Cort, Michael J. Pollard & Lance Henriksen; Horror novels that are so bad, they're good (Shaun Hutson comes to mind--he rocks the terrible prose like a out-of-control weed wacker--love him!)
I'd like to meet:
I did meet the Dalai Lama--so that's taken care of--but I haven't met Alejandro Jodorowsky who is one of the weirdest cats you'd EVER meet, bar none. His films & graphic novels blow your mind & make you feel like you've bathed in psychotropic narcotics & toweled off with surrealism. I'd also like to meet Mikhael Ackerfelt, lead singer & guitarist of the death metal band, Opeth. As my wife says: "There's death metal and then there's Opeth."
Amen.
Music:
In Flames; Opeth; Faith No More; The Church; Peter Murphy; Black Sabbath; CAN; Killswitch Engage; Emperor; Dimmu Borgir; Scar Symmetry; Dark Tranquillity; A Perfect Circle; Roxy Music; Hawkwind; Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention; Husker Du; Motorhead; Old Man's Child; Nightrage; Bloodbath; At the Gates; Job For A Cowboy; Patsy Cline; Lou Reed; Elvis Costello; The Plasmatics; Marillion; Lamb of God; The Smiths; Death Cab For Cutie; Hasil Adkins; Arch Enemy; Suffocation; Monster Magnet; Ween; Jefferson Airplane; Tool; Cattle Decapitation; Blur; The Jam; Infectious Grooves; The Damned; Soulfly; The Coasters; Jimmy Reed; Kate Bush; The Stooges; Butthole Surfers; Ministry; Bunny Wailer; The Police; Nile; Dissection; Obituary; Pentagram; Corrosion of Conformity; Clutch; Funkadelic; Graham Central Station; Charlie Parker; Parliment; Tom Waits; Megadeth; Probot; UFO
Movies:
Little Big Man; The Devils; Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia; A Better Tomorrow I & II; The Ninth Configuration; O.C. & Stiggs; Vanishing Point (1971); Rollerball (1975); Gun Crazy (1949); Riders of the Storm; Repo Man; Brewster McCloud; The Final Programme; Year of the Dragon; Johnny Handsome; Angel Heart; Mahler; Female Trouble; The Devil's Rejects; Bullet In the Head; Duck, You Sucker!; Bullet for the General; Aguirre-The Wrath of God; Fitzcarraldo; Death Race 2000; Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry; Two-Lane Blacktop; Bloody Mama; Dillinger; The Great Texas Dynamite Chase; A Boy & His Dog; The Wild Bunch; Django; Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid; Harold & Maude; Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens; Fear of a Black Hat; Zardoz; Into the Night; LEON-The Professional; House of a 1000 Corpses; La Femme Nikita; Uzumaki; El Topo; The King of Hearts; Ichi the Killer; Visitor Q; The Wicker Man (1971); Kelly's Heroes; A Bridge Too Far; Once Upon A Time in Mexico; Once Upon A Time in the West; Once Upon A Time in America; Once Upon A Time in China I-III; The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat; Lady Snowblood; Urotsukidoji-Legend of the Overfiend; Full Contact; The Killer; Lone Wolf & Cub; The Wild Angels; River's Edge; Dust Devil; Blade Runner; Spider-man; Spider-man 2.1; Spider-man 3; Foxy Brown; Coffy; La Blue Girl; Audition; Iron Man; Wizards; Cinema Paradisio; Scanners; Scanners 2: The New Order; Videodrome; Rabid; Shivers; The Brood; Escape From L.A.; Highway to Hell; Cecil B. Demented; Graveyard of Honor; Dead Or Alive; Greetings; Naked Killer; Cleopatra Jones; The Toolbox Murders (1978); Streetfighter; Moonstruck; Captain Blood; Freaks; Dawn of the Dead (1978); Day of the Dead (1985); Land of the Dead; King of New York; The Prophecy; Way of the Gun; Little Fauss & Big Halsey; Savage Streets; Re-Animator; Bride of Re-Animator; From Beyond; Imprint; Sharkey's Machine; Bird With the Crystal Plumage; Deep Red; Opera; Motel Hell; Cloverfield; Dagon; Even Dwarfs Started Small; The Blue Max; Revenge of the Ninja; Drunken Master 2; My Father is a Hero; The Man Who Fell to Earth; The 3 Musketeers (1974); The 4 Musketeers (1974); Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2; Hard-Boiled; Scrapple; In the Line of Duty 1-4; City on Fire; Riki-O: The Story of Ricky; The Toxic Avenger; Class of Nuke 'Em High; Casablanca; Heavy Metal; Chinatown; Apocalypse Now!: Redux; Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S.; Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks; Big Trouble in Little China; Urotsukidoji 2: Legend of the Demon Womb; Urotsukidoji III: Return of the Overfiend; Shaolin Soccer; All About Eve
Television:
Arrested Development; LEXX; Project Runway; Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (BBC); Space: 1999; Upright Citizens' Brigade; Footballer's Wives (BBC); Millennium; Robot Chicken; Home Movies; The Ben Stiller Show; MLB; The Colbert Report; The Daily Show; Witchblade (1st season); Scrubs; Cash In the Attic (BBC); BBC World News; CNN; MSNBC; Adult Swim; I'm Alan Partridge (BBC), Black Books (BBC); My Family (BBC); The Larry Sanders Show; The Prisoner (BBC); Baseball Tonight; Little Britain (BBC); Trailer-park Boys (CBC); Family Guy; Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (BBC)
Books:
Last Exit to Brooklyn; Crash; Lolita; East of Eden; Dr. Sax; Cannery Row; Sweet Thursday; The Trial; The Castle; Sexus; Plexus; Nexus; Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn; The Hotel New Hampshire; Madame Bovery; Behold the Man; Fight Club; A Boy & His Dog; A Scanner Darkly; Ubik; The World Jones Made; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; Ultra Fuckers; Heart of Darkness; Dune; A Game of Thrones; A Clash of Kings; A Storm of Swords; A Feast For Crows; The Malazan Book of the Fallen-- (Gardens of the Moon-bk.1; Deadhouse Gates-bk.2; Memories of Ice-bk.3; House of Chains-bk.4; Midnight Tides-bk.5); Sin City; Transmetropolitan; DOMU; AKIRA; At the Mountains of Madness; The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward; The Incal; WE3; Journey to the End of the Night; South of No North; Hot Water Music; Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame; Great Expectations; Perdido Street Station; GRASS; Raising the Stones; Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; Creekers; Swan Song; Secrets of the Samurai; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; 100 Bullets; Preacher; The Metabarons; The TechnoPriests; Flesh Gothic; Stormbringer; The 3 Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich; Vulcan's Hammer; Memoirs Found in a Bathtub; The Chaos Theory; Ask the Dust; "If They Move, Kill 'Em": The Life of Sam Peckinpah; Rebel Visions: The History of Underground Comics; IMAGE COMICS: The Road to Independence; Dune Messiah; Children of Dune; God Emperor of Dune; Men, Women & Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film; Spaghetti Splatter: Italian Horror Cinema; Iron Man: Beneath the Armor (a history of Tony Stark in comics); Thus Spoke Zarathustra; The World According to Garp; Setting Free the Bears; Dangerous Visions; The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry; A Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley; Riddley Walker; Slaughter House Five; Slapstick; Welcome to the Monkey House; L'Morte de Arthur; The Complete Works of Harold Pinter (vol. 1-3); Waiting for Godot; Essential Ghost Rider (vol. 1-2); The Big Nowhere; Der Furer Bunker; The Painted Bird; Being There; Encyclopedia of Norse Mythology; The Devils of Ludon; Brave New World; "The Machine Stops"; John Carter of Mars; The History of the Devil; The Encyclopedia of Underground Comics; The Anarchist Cookbook; Enders Game; Speaker For the Dead; City Infernal; Infernal Angel; Spawn; The Torture Garden; A Walk on the Wild Side; Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller; The Handmaid's Tale; The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; The Ninja; The Miko; Dominion; The Vanishing; How to Make War; Thoth: The Tarot of Aleister Crowley; Marion Zimmerman Bradley's "Darkover" novels; The Shadow of the Torturer; Cabal; Weaveworld; Imajica; The Great and Secret Show (graphic novel); Cult Movies 1, 2 & 3; A Choir of Ill Children; Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track--to name a few....
Heroes:
Sam Peckinpah; Hubert Selby, Jr.; Garth Ennis; Philip K. Dick; Peter Parker; Takashii Miike; Henry Miller; J.G. Ballard; John Steinbeck; Andy Kaufmann; Warren Ellis; John Wagner; Tony Stark; Kazuo Koike; Grant Morrison; Katsuhiro Otomo; Frank Miller; Kent Allard; Kenny Lofton; H.P. Lovecraft; Edward Lee; Shaun Hutson; Stephen Colbert; Bentley Little; Spider Jerusalem; Steven Erikson; Abel Ferrera; Franz Kafka; Anders Friden; Greta Garbo; Vladimir Nabokov; Vaughn Bode; Richard Corben; Moebius; Alejandro Jodorowsky; John Woo; Ringo Lam; Chow Yun-Fat; Jet Li; Sonny Chiba; Wings Hauser; Linda Blair; Dario Argento; Lucio Fulci; Sergio Leone; Sergio Corbuci; Jayne Mansfield; the Rose City Rollers; the Rat City Rollers; the Charm City Rollers; the EMERALD CITY ROLLERGIRLS
