creation, progression, art, reading, watching movies and learning about film, music, XXX, the outdoors during winter and autumn, the leaves changing, snow, ice, night time, life, being bitter at times and hopeful at others, survival, having passion, the undead in general (zombies are entirely awesome), reading comic books and making music that your parents would hate.
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Danny Elfman, Jeff Buckley, Tragedy, Necrophagist, His Hero Is Gone, Elliot Smith, Cave In, Cursive, Mastodon, Living Sacrifice, At The Gates, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Earth Crisis, Doom, Opeth, Emperor, Strongarm, Muse, Cryptopsy, Dredg, Shai Hulud, Testament, Merauder, Agents of Man, The Haunted, In Flames, Cannibal Corpse, Death, Turmoil, 100 Demons, Life In Your Way, Old Man Gloom, AOS, Crowbar, With Honor, First Aid Kit, Biohazard, Sepultura, Slayer, Queen, Pink Floyd, Inequity, The Beatles, Porcupine Tree, Hail of Rage, REACT, State of Fear, Disrupt, God Forbid, Metallica, Codeseven, Denali, Misery Signals, Twelve Tribes, Overcome, Hella, Arsis, Suffocation, Ambitions, Sage Francis, Shoshin, Voivod, Corrosion of Conformity, Shallow Water Grave, Assuck, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Wrench In The Works, Snapcase, Strife, Inside Out, Ignite, One King Down, Pantera, Meshuggah, The Red Chord, Children Of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Far, Hum, Megadeth, Failure, Bad Religion, The Misfits, S.O.D. etc...
AMELIE and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND are my two favorite films. Well... there is also BATMAN too. For A Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, The Royal Tennenbaums, Edward Scissorhands, The Unforgiven, Dawn of the Dead (original), American Beauty, The Big Lebowski, Evil Dead 2, Momento, L.A. Confidential, Platoon, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Shining, The Usual Suspects, UHF, Beetlejuice, Pulp Fiction, Awakenings, Psycho, First Blood, 28 Days Later, King Kong, Re-Animator, Citizen Kane, Alien, Aliens, John Carpenter's The Thing, Apocalypse Now, Requiem For A Dream, Taxi Driver and many others...I'm devlishly obsessed with classic Horror and Sci Fi such as Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Invisible Man, Frankenstein, Dracula, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Thing From Outer Space, The Fly, The Last Man On Earth etc...I also am pretty into contemporary Horror as well.
CATCH 22 is probably my favorite novel of all time. Other books I love are A Clockwork Orange, Dracula, The Giver, And Then There Were None, I Am Legend, Dante's Inferno, Frankenstein, The Little Prince, Of Mice And Men, Bruce Campbell's If Chins Could Kill: Confessions Of A B-Movie Actor etc...
Lately I've been reading H.P. Lovecraft stories and A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Both of which are clearly great. I must also make note that Edgar Allan Poe was a huge influence on me and I cherish his works.
I am HEAVILY into graphic novels. My favorite writers are (as should everybody's be) Frank Miller, Alan Moore and Garth Ennis. My favorite books of the genre are WATCHMEN, Sin City, V For Vendetta, the entire PREACHER series, Batman: HUSH, Batman: The Long Halloween, MAUS, the Garth Ennis' Punisher MAX series, the I Am Legend adaptation by Steven Niles, Ronin, Hardboiled, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Spiderman: Kraven's Last Hunt, Fury, 100 Bullets, Marvels, Spiderman: Carnage, Road To Perdition, Batman: The Killing Joke etc...