I'm a book and DVD addict. I buy a smattering of comics including anything by Mike Mignola, Moebius, Francois Boucq, Nicolas de Crecy, Jacques Tardi, Richard Corben, Dan Clowes, Guy Davis, R. Crumb and a handful of others. I love going to museums, checking out all the amazing art. I like seeing shitty art, too. It makes me appreciate the good stuff all the more. Great contemporary artists I revere include Dave Cooper, Todd Schorr, Mark Ryden, John Currin, Jenny Saville, Lucien Freud. And I have an unhealthy love for ZOMBIES!
I'd like to meet:
Fellow industry professionals (writers, artists, directors, book and comics retailers, etc.), like-minded folks who share some of my listed interests, and (not to sound egotistical) fans of my work.
Music:
The Beatles, DEVO, The Ramones, Queen, Metallica, The Lunachicks, Rob Zombie, NIN, The Upper Crust, Judas Priest, Rammstein, The Cars, Circle Jerks; there are plenty more but I don't want to get into all that. Jazz, like Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Shorty Rogers, Stan Kenton, Sonny Rollins. I like some oddball stuff. Perrey & Kingsley were great. Same goes for The Swingle Singers. I listen to a lot of spoken word stuff, especially comedy.
Movies:
Largely geeky escapist fare, leaning towards the more sci-fi and horror oriented stripe. David Cronenberg is one of my all-time faves. George A. Romero's zombie tetralogy is pivotal. I've suffered through many bad zombie movies, but also enjoyed many good ones. The 2004 reinvention of Dawn of the Dead was excellent. Shaun of the Dead is a masterpiece. Plaga Zombie: Zona Mutante is lots of fun (and the "John West" theme song is infectious as hell). Phantasm. Anything with Bruce Campbell (anything).
I love movies. Too many to list, really. Of all genres. Except, maybe, romantic comedies. And musicals. But even there, one or two slip by.
Television:
Again, escapist stuff. Buffy, Angel, the new Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Farscape, Sliders, The Prisoner. Good comedy, like Freaks and Geeks (though that's sort of dramedy, no?), Undeclared, MST3K, Monty Python, Black Adder, Mr. Show, Spaced, The Office (the British one; I haven't seen the American version, though I hear it's good), Brass Eye, Strangers with Candy, Reno 911, The Larry Sanders Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Odd Couple, Futurama, The Simpsons, South Park. Deadwood. Dexter. There's more, but that's enough to get the gist. The old series, Naked City, is a classic everyone should run out and get on DVD. Amazing.
Books:
Favorite authors include Philip K. Dick, Terry Southern, Bruce Jay Friedman, Jerry Stahl, Donald Westlake, Chuck Palahniuk, Tom DeHaven, Thom Metzger, Leander Watts, Augusten Burroughs, Philip Roth, Will Self, William S. Burroughs, David Rakoff, Sarah Vowell, Jonathan Ames, Jonathan Lethem, Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell and always adding.
Heroes:
In no particular order: Ken Nordine, Jonathan Winters, Peter Cook, Woody Allen (older vintage), David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, Terry Gilliam, Philip K. Dick, Terry Southern, William S. Burroughs, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, Moebius, Richard Corben, R. Crumb, Walt Kelly, Charles M. Schulz, DEVO, Tim Schafer (the genius behind Grim Fandango and Psychonauts), Bill Hicks, Bill Maher, Trey Parker, George Carlin, Harvey Kurtzman. And more...
