First and foremost my wife and best friend Jewels who contains endless depths to explore, our dog Picasso, aquarium fish (cichlids),
road trips to places like Salem Mass. for Halloween, Coney Island for the Mermaid Parade, or the Mutter Museum in Philly,ART,... Medium and time period do not matter only that it invokes reaction....(Gustav Klimt, Salvatore Dali, Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman, Auguste Rodin, Matthew Barney, Gil Elvgren, Jean-Michael Basquiat, David La Chapelle,Elmer Batters,Man Ray,etc)..,
wine tasting, orchids, Thai food, bubble tea, chocolate martinis, green tea ice cream, reading good books that take me away from harsh reality, reading good books that bring me back to reality, buying books at second hand stores, I currently have shelves fit to bursting, writing, Buddhism, Mythology, Wicca, Shamanism, Evolution, secret societies, antique metal toys (robots)pocket watches, B- movies, my fetishes, equal rights, comic books, anime,Adbusters, Paste, Rue Morgue, The New York Times, public radio, Burlesque, vintage erotica, old photography, Netflix, roadside attractions, theater, oddities, old carnival sideshow memorabilia, Taschen books, Subcultures, rediculous amounts of music,
Playstation, old 8 bit nintendo games, etc.......
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Which Trainspotting Character Are You?Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself.
Choose your future.
Choose life.....
I enjoy a little bit of everything..... These are some of my likes in no particular order..... U2, R.E.M., Placebo, N.I.N., Portishead, The Cure, The Clash, Asobi Seksu, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Sousxie and the Banshees, Anything Box, Love and Rockets, The Talking Heads, Death Cab for Cutie, Covenant, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, Kraftwerk, The Dears, Apoptygma Berzerk,Echo and the Bunnymen, Jimmy Cliff, Hot Hot Heat, The Postal Service, Mazzy Star, Depeche Mode, Interpol, Jane's Addiction,David Bowie, Marvin Gaye, T-Rex, Spiritualized, Sisters of Mercy, The Moldy Peaches, New Order, Bjork,Madness, The Specials, Nellie Furtado, Tori Amos, System of a Down, Etta James, N.E.R.D., Delerium, Enigma, Joy Division, Missy Elliot, , Sam Phillips, Panjabi M.C., Peter Gabriel, Annie, Scissor Sisters, Kanye West, Annie Lennox, And One, Fischer Spooner, Vangellis, Jay-Z, A Tribe Called Quest, MF Doom, The Killers, Wolfsheim, The Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello, Deep Forest, The Smiths, Morrisey, Moby, The Kaiser Chiefs, VNV Nation, Ladytron, Modest Mouse, Simon and Garfunkel, Cat Stevens, Regina Spector, Tool, The White Stripes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ani Difranco, The B-52's, The Pixies, The Beatles, Qkumba Zoo, Madonna, Arrested Development, The Roots, The Tigerlillies, Blur, Pulp, Erasure, Klaus Nomi, The Velvet Underground,Lou Reed, Led Zeppilin, Sonic Youth, The Dead 60's, The Gorillaz, My Bloody Valentine, Elvis Costello,..The Zombies, Leonard Cohen, Duran Duran, Blondie, The Ramones, Eliot Smith, Bright Eyes, Neil Young, The Smashing Pumpkins, ..Goldfrapp, Cat Power, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Belle and Sebastian, The Flaming Lips, She Wants Revenge, Kate Bush, The Decemberists, Kasabian, Bloc Party, The Violent Femmes, Hurrah Torpedo, The Raveonettes, White Rose Movement, the Von Bondies, Billie Holiday Kitsune, Maystar, At The Lake, Bernadette Seacrest, Grandaddy, Creature Feature, Vive La Fete!, Devil Doll, Bubblyfish, Bit Shifter, The 5,6,7,8's, Au4, Swallow, Figurine, Aphex Twin, Tricky, Massive Atack, Adult, Beck, Pony Pony Run Run, The Faint, Peaches, Klaxons, Suicide, Curve, The Raincoats, Neutral Milk Hotel, Liars, Nick Cave, ..Kavinsky, The Silver Apples, Suicide, The Cramps, The Birthday Massacre, The Love Me Nots, Maru, Danger Mouse, Robots in Disguise, Superbus, Throbbing Gristle, Soviet, Justice, T.V on the Radio, The Rapture, Blacklist, Aural Vampire,any 8 bit or circuit bending musicians, most classical, jazz, and world music, So much more I couldnt possibly name it all, etc...
*JOHN WATERS* Pink Flamaingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry Baby, Serial Mom, Cecil B. Demented, A Dirty Shame;.........*MATTHEW BARNEY* The Cremaster Cycle (Spent a whole day in the Guggenheim taking in the exhibit and watching all five movies. Exhausting and unforgettable.)*PURE IMAGINATION* Any Disney animation while Walt was still in charge and it wasn't all about money, Willy Wonka and the Chocalate Factory, Legend, Labrynth, Willow, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast,City of Lost Children, The Dark Crystal, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Alice (French stop animation version), The Iron Giant, Clash of the Titans, the original Star Wars movies, Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, Edward Scissorhands, Beatlejuice, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Mirrormask;........*ANIMATION* Vampire Hunter D, Princess Mononoke, Naussica of the Valley Wind, Akira, Spirited Away, Ghost in the Shell, Metropolis, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies, Millennium Actress, Anything PIXAR, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello ;.......*HORROR*Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (the original and the remake), The Hunger, Vamypros Lesbos, Carnival of Souls, Hellraiser, Cat People, White Zombie, The Excorcist, Nosferatu,Audition, Uzamaki, Village of the Damned, The Omen, The Shining, An American Werewolf in London, Zombie(Fulci), Cabin Fever, Interview with a Vampire, Rosemarie's Baby, Carrie, 28 Days Later, Horror of Dracula (anything Hammer related)Return of the Living Dead, Halloween,Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness,American Psycho, Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing, Hostel, House of a Thousand Corpses, The Ring, Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Frankenstien (Boris Karloff), The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Blood for Dracula (Also called Andy Warhol's Dracula. A bizarre montage of cartoon violence, porn, and politics. All the typical excesses of a horror movie transformed into pop art.)The Wicker Man (the original folks let's not talk about a remake), Blood Feast,Re-animator, Dead Ringers, Day of the Triffids, Scanners, Dog Soldiers, Mimic, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Save the Green Planet,..Angel Heart, Tomb of the Blind Dead (zombies on horse back!?) Sleepy Hollow, Last House on the Left (although I hate the out and out comedy parts and so apparently does the director Wes Craven), The Hills Have Eyes (the original version, the new one added nothing),Suspiria, Life Force, The Beyond, May,Night Watch, The Isle, Irreversible, Ichi the Killer,Cannibal Holocaust, Dead/Alive, Last Man On Earth, 3Extremes, Feed, Videodrome, Hard Candy, The Descent ;.........*DOCUMENTARIES* Dark Days, Bowling for Colombine, Tarnation, Grizzly Man, Hell House, Divine Trash, The Weather Underground, In the Realms of the Unreal: the Mystery of Henry Darger, The Corporation, Farenheit 9/11, Rize, Devil's Playground, Party Monster: The Shockumentary, Born Into Brothels, The Nomi Song: The Odessey of Klaus Nomi, Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale, Why We Fight, The Cockettes, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Super Masochist, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, The Pixies: Gouge;.........*DRAMA* Party Monster, I Shot Andy Warhol, , Frida, Titus Andronicus, The 400 Blows, Ms. Henderson Presents, The Rules of Attraction, Welcome to the Doll House, Happiness, Storytelling, Palindromes, Quills,Lilja-4-Ever, City of God, Velvet Goldmine, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me,Secretary, Harold and Maude, Requiem for a Dream, Garden State, Midnight Cowboy, The Last Emperor,Lost in Translation, Gangs of New York, Goodfellas, Casino, Trainspotting, Gods and Monsters, Gummo, Chuck and Buck,The Red Shoes,Donnie Darko,Finding Neverland, Tipping the Velvet, Dancer in the Dark, Eraserhead, Taxi Driver, The Virgin Suicides, Mulholland Drive, Run Lola Run,Amelie, Breakfast on Pluto, Heavenly Creatures, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, A Very Long Engagement, Sirens, The Shawshank Redemption, High Art, Dead Poets Society,Blue Velvet,, The Pillow Book, Fight Club, Resovoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill vol 1&2, Natural Born Killers, Summer of Sam, L.A. Confidential, Fargo, Kids, SLC Punk, One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest, American Beauty,Wings of Desire, A Clockwork Orange, Dog Day Afternoon, Buffalo 66, American History X, Lord of War, Brokeback Mountain,Dear Wendy, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Blow, Munich, Brick, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Dogville, In the Mood for Love (words cannot describe the beauty of this film),2046, , Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising, Kenneth Anger's Invocation of my Demon Brother (guaranteed to fuck with your head);........*COMEDY* Vermillion Pleasure Night 1 and 2, Say Anything, Ghost World, Heathers, D.E.B.S., Zoolander, Better Than Chocalate, But I'm a Cheerleader, Garage Days, Death to Smoochy, Shaun of the Dead, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Me You and Everyone Else, Goldfish Memory, Cowboys and Angels;.........*SCIFI* The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, A.I. , Metroplolis (the silent film), 2001: A Space Odessey, Existenz, 12 Monkees, Blade Runner, Dune (the mini series), Children of Dune (mini series) Unbreakable, Six-string Samurai, Children of Men;........... width="425" height="350" ....*MUSICALS* Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Apple,Lilly, Cabaret, The Phantom of the Paradise, The Rocky Horror Picture Show;........
..Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, Project Runway, Top Chef, etc..
*FICTION* Anything William Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus is a favorite, the most grande guignol of his tragedies), The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), Imajica, Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, The Theif of Always, The Damnation Game, The Hellbound Heart, etc... (Clive Barker), Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Smoke and Mirrors, Good Omens, etc..(Neil Gaiman), IT, 'Salems Lot, The Shining, The Stand (classic Stephen King, the newer stuff eh.. but I know I should read the Dark Tower books, I only got up to the third),The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, The October Country, A Medicine for Meloncholy, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Golden Apples of the Sun, Fahrenheit 451 etc.. (Ray Bradbury)The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass (Phillip Pullman), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), I Am Legend (Richard Matheson), The Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series , the Otherland series (Tad Williams), Deathbird Stories, Angry Candy, Slippage (Harlan Ellison),Snow Falling on Cedars (David Gutterson), L.I.E. (David Hollander), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky), The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger) Hairstyles of the Damned (Joe Meno), The Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling), The List of 7 (Mark Frost), The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold),The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, etc... (H.P. Lovecraft), The Lord of the Flies (William Golding), Animal Farm, 1984 (George Orwell), Slaughterhouse-5 (Kurt Vonegut), A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Ciderhouse Rules (John Irving), The Black Dahlia (Jmaes Elroy), Choke, Lullaby (Chuck Palahniuk),Winter's Tale (Mike Helpern, The Lorax (Dr. Seuss), The Lost Thing (Shaun Tan)*NON-FICTION* Running With Scissors, Dry (Augusten Burroughs), Into the Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven (Jon Krakauer), Stiff (Mary Roach), The Devil in the White City (Erik Larson), The Rape of Nanking (Iris Chang), Night (Eli Weisel) Basquiat: A Quick Killing In Art (Phoebe Hoban), In Cold Blood (Truman Capote), Close to the Knives (David Wojnarowicz) , As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (John Calapinto) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt)*ILLUSTRATED or GRAPHIC NOVELS* The Sandamn Series (Neil Gaiman), V For Vendetta, Watchmen,Swamp Thing,From Hell,The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, (Alan Moore) Torso (Brian Michael Bendis), Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison)Fables (Bill Willingham), Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice (Craig Thompson),Tricked (Alex Robinson), Ghost World (Daniel Kluas), 30 Days of Night (Steve Niles)*PLAYS* Neccesary Targets, The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body (Eve Ensler), Rent, Shockheaded Peter ( Struwwelpeter ), Angels in America, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, The Glass Menagerie, Cabaret,Death of a Salesman, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, *Poetry* William Blake, Poe, Bukowski (thanks to a friend who leant me 'Love is a Dog From Hell', etc.......................
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Mahattma Ghandi