Filmmaking, Ghost Hunting, Lucid Dreaming. Go ride your bike or hike with someone else. I'd rather be writing and having a cigarette.
I like things I cannot look away from. Horror is always a great metaphor for peeking into a darker aspect of ourselves that we are usually afraid to confront in real life. It's a temporary mirror that we can turn on and off when we feel like it. It's a safety net before our darker selves take too much control of our life. But, what if, we could leave the door open, welcome it and play with it....then it becomes art.
I think people are inherently movie vampires. They watch movies so they can absorb and suck the life out of the characters on screen. For a moment there, they become that character, feeling the blood and life coursing down their veins. But when the second hour has passed, and the movie finishes, the hunger for a better movie suddenly begins to seep in. They want to relive the experience of a fantasy life of many kinds. People do that because they are afraid of pain. So, when movies allow you to feel a temporary pain, experienced in a safe place, what you are always so afraid of, they avoid pain in that weird way. They think they know pain because they watched a movie and understand it. Movies are like a healing process, to a filmmaker like me, they are like a torture. Because while the movie go-ers experience that pain for a couple of hours, the job of the filmmaker is to live that role for the next two years to understand his own film...
That is because...the best view of god is always from hell...
Covenant, Switchblade Symphony, Jane's Addiction, Razed in Black, Cruxshadows, The Birthday Massacre, Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, Depeche Mode, Korn, The Doors, MUSE, Mogwai, Type O Negative, Second Skin, AndOne, Convenant, Wolfsheim, Juno Reactor, Die Form, Adenosine Tri Phosphate, Amber Asylum, Wumpscut, Orgy, Genitorturers, Deftones, man....do I have to list them all?
Bladerunner, Ghost in the Shell, La Cite Des Enfant Perdus, Brazil, City of God, Delicatessen, Clockwork Orange, The Crow, Equilibrium, Hero, Ringu, Cronos, Memento, Nightmare Before Christmas .etc.
I don't fancy television, especially episodic series. It makes me stay on a routine and I HATE routine.
Geek Love, The Lovely Bones, The Painting of Dorian Grey, Helter Skelter, Great Expectations , Future Noir, Neuromancer, Communicating with the Dead, The Vampire Chronicles, The Sandman, Ghost in the Shell, Vampire Hunter D, Akira, if I mentioned more, would that change your opinion of me?
If you've read this far, you're my hero.