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Willowy Being

It's later than it seems

About Me

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My Interests

Interests: Horror films - especially Italian, zombie, slasher, vampire, 1930s, 1970s and 1980s, drawing, music, gigs, reading, writing, Jean Seberg,photography, travelling, running, cats, black hair, coffee, Edvard Munch, fairy tales, libraries, waking up early, old dark houses, Whitby, H.R. Giger, Fangoria, 1950s sci-fi, Ealing comedies, Tress MacNeille, Jason Vorhees, Jack Daniels, small rooms, short poems (lengthy poems are great as well but I can't write them), Andy Warhol, Mary Queen of Scots, Sooty, puppets, passport photos, Germany, fog, Halloween costumes, Pee-Wee Herman, odd socks and anything that keeps me awake.

I'd like to meet:

Cats, Horror fans, anyone with similar tastes and interests (like fans of horror for example), musicians, people who do voiceovers in cartoons. A friend like Ben.

Music:

Sonic Youth, Holly Golightly, The Breeders, My Bloody Valentine, David Byrne, Nirvana, Big Black, Sleater-Kinney, Oingo Boingo, The Cramps, Nine Inch Nails, PJ Harvey, Scarling, The Clash, Bauhaus, Other Peeples Puppits, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Weezer, Gwen Stefani, Pixies, Dennis Wilson, John Cale, Pink Floyd, No Doubt, The Kelley Deal 6000, Crispin Glover, Rapeman, Devo, The Amps, Van Dyke Parks, Nick Drake, Francoise Hardy, Gram Parsons, Talking Heads, The Pipettes, Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, Roy Orbison, The Black Cat Orchestra, Twink, The Velvet Underground, Blur, Goblin, Scratch Acid, Lords of the New Church, The Dresden Dolls, Timbuk 3, Stewart Copeland, The Long Blondes, Popol Vuh, Brian Eno, 45 Grave, The The, Beastie Boys, Cornbugs, Everybody But Jesus, Watch Me Burn and Shellac. Anne Briggs has the most sweet, angelic voice. I hate Radiohead.

Movies:

My Sweet Satan, Combat Shock, The Tenant, Fox and His Friends, Salo, Death in Venice, Possession, May, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, L'Age D'Or, The Trial, Inferno, Time of the Wolf, Code Unknown, Henry Fool, What Is It?, Eraserhead, Cigarette Burns, Night of the Living Dead, Repulsion, Lolita, Cries and Whispers, Damage, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Freaks, The Bride of Frankenstein, Videodrome, The Passenger, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Dekalog, God Told Me To, Maniac, The Hillside Strangler, Nosferatu The Vampyre (Herzog), The Driver, Carrie, Santa Sangre, The Gospel According to St Matthew, Wise Blood, Badlands, Annie Hall, Confessions of a Trickbaby, Nadja, Odd Man Out, River's Edge, Halloween, Suspiria, Carnival of Souls, Martin, Ginger Snaps, Phantom of the Paradise, The Railway Children, The Orkly Kid - more later.

Television:

Masters of Horror, Freaks and Geeks, Carnivale, Daria, Seinfeld, My Name is Earl, Brass Eye, Futurama, South Park

Books:

Franz Kafka, H.P. Lovecraft, Angela Carter, Flannery O'Connor, The Outsider by Albert Camus, Whatever by Michel Houellebecq, Girls by Nic Kelman, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, High Rise by J.G. Ballard, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, By the Shore by Galaxy Craze, Apocalypse Culture (edited by Adam Parfrey), Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Salem's Lot by Stephen King, Godard on Godard, This is Orson Welles (w/Peter Bogdanovich).....

Heroes:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Isabelle Adjani Steve Albini Dario Argento John Carpenter Brad Dourif Pier Paolo Pasolini Galaxy Craze Jean SebergKim Deal and Crispin Glover

My Blog

31 Horror Films

It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare.I make a list every year on Halloween of my 10 favourite horror films. I've decided 10 is not enough. Even a top 100 seems limiting but I don't wa...
Posted by Ian in a Box on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:56:00 PST

Scarling and Amusement Parks on Fire gig 2nd May 2006 at Concorde 2 in Brighton

That's right folks, I went to the gig mentioned above and it was excellent. Small venue, low key, intimate, noisy, sexy, delirious... I loved every second of it. A feast for a fan.Scarling were on fir...
Posted by Ian in a Box on Fri, 05 May 2006 04:13:00 PST