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craig

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About Me

Uh-Oh. I'm feeling all nervous here, like I'm in school again, taking one of those tests, sweatypalmed hand wrapped too tight around a newly sharpened .2 pencil, and fill out the bubbles completely, but don't write outside the circles, or it may hurt your score, and remeber; love happiness, success, and money will all be yours if you do well. You have 45 minutes, begin, now. Course I never really cared about school and those test, so I was never really nervous. Guess that ruins my analogy. Sigh. Anyway, about me. I've lived here and I've lived there. I was a musician for a good number of years, but I don't play much anymore. Moved on to other things, like writing novels and making movies. When I'm not doing that I can normally be found reading, or watching movies. I call this "studying", but it's really just a way of saying I'm a big geek, but one with aspirations (or pretentions, take your pick). I really like experimental cinema and horror films, and the same kind of books. Anything with the power to emotionally move me, normally in a "dark" way, but I do enjoy comedies and laughing as much as anyone, I guess. I want to put that I'm of passable intelligence, not hard on the eyes, gobs, no, oodles of fun, but i'm not very good at self promotion. hmmm... oh, i forgot funny (though silly may actually be the more apt term.) That's it...for now.

My Interests

I came to the realization the other day; I am addicted to art. No, I mean really, I am an art junky. I must both create and experience a new work of art every day. Doesn't matter what kind of art, music, movies, literature, photography, whatever, If I don't see and create something new everyday I go bonkers. So, that's pretty much where I'm coming from as far as interests go. Oh, I love cats as well. And, of course, world domination.

I'd like to meet:

as if I could do better... evoLve

Music:

The Velvet Underground, Prince, Slayer, Pink Floyd, The Mars Volta, Skinny Puppy, Bill Evans, Mahler, John Coltrane, Down, Jane's Addiction, The Chili Peppers, Miles Davis, Herbie's Headhunters, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Ani, Tori, Frente, Bartok.

Movies:

Jacob's Ladder. The Purple Rose of Cairo, Lawrence of Arabia, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Fog, Hellraiser, Under the Cherry Moon, Amelie, May, Ginger Snaps, Martin, Rosemary's Baby, Dawn of the Dead, The Evil Dead, Mad Monster Party?, Eyes Without a Face, Hammer Films, AIP PoePics, anything and everything by David Cronenberg, Aguirre The Wrath of God.

Television:

Angels in America

Books:

The Deathbird Stories, The Proud Highway, Crime and Punishment, Imajica, Einstein's Dream, The Plague, Lovecraft, Poe, The Ceremonies by T. E. D. Klein. Harlan Ellison, Clive Barker, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Bradbury, Matheson, Checkov, Machen, Raymond Carver, Shakespeare, Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Blake.

Heroes:

Kurosawa, Ellison, Prince, Lars VonTrier, Cronenberg, Flea, Eric Avery, Roger Waters and, of course, Lloyd Dobler