tony levi
nice jerk
now: gravebound , sand mountain , tendrils
then: bris , shadowbuilder , slipknot
comic books and heavy metal.
for example...
amelie, angst, audition, baise moi, begotten, bottle rocket, cemetery man, the city of lost children, dancing outlaw, dead alive, delicatessen, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, everything is illuminated, factotum, the 400 blows, garden state, ghost dog, gozu, gummo, ichi the killer, jacob's ladder, ken park, lady vengeance, maniac, night of the creeps, night of the living dead, night watch, oldboy, over the edge, peewee's big adventure, the proposition, reanimator, riki-oh: the story of ricky, slither, street trash, suspiria, sympathy for mr. vengeance, tetsuo: the iron man, texas chainsaw massacre, 28 days later, a very long engagement, visitor q, wild zero, zombie
will christopher baer, clive barker, lynda barry, georges bataille, charles baudelaire, william blake, ray bradbury, charles bukowski, charles burns, augusten burroughs, daniel clowes, harry crews, aleistor crowley, phillip k. dick, evan dorkin, fyoder dostoevsky, katherine dunn, john fante, jonathan safran foer, jean genet, jim goad, knut hamsun, robert kirkman, jim knipfel, edward lee, anton lavey, h.p. lovecraft, richard matheson, cormac mccarthy, friedrich nietzche, chuck palahniuk, daniel quinn, johnny ryan, david sedaris, george r. stewart, j.r.r. tolkien, leo tolstoy, kurt vonnegut jr., sarah vowell, h.g. wells