ANTIQUES: antique halloween. vintage halloween. ouija boards. old pulps. old comics. antique hunting. carnival chalkware. jadeite. antique radios. fruit crate art. flea markets. yard sales.
HALLOWEEN: antique & vintage halloween. apple cider. autumn. bats. black cats. crows. fall leaves. hayrides. headless horseman. jack o' lanterns. monsters. monster gourds. october. old monster movies. pumpkins. pumpkin pie. scarecrows. skeletons. witches.
HAUNTED STUFF: ghosts. abandoned houses. attic explorations. basements. cemetaries. cornfields. creatures of the night. freaks. ghosts. hermits. horror. isolation. macabre. mad men. nightmares. oddities. old tombstones.
VINTAGE PIN UP ART BY: petty. vargas. elvgren. moran. runci. beltran. medcalf.
LOWBROW ART BY: coop. campbell. clayton brothers. todd schorr. kathy schorr. robert williams. thomas han. shag. otto seibold. niagara. mimi kersting. mister reusch. mark ryden. kozik. kirsten easthope. chris mars. james jean.
CLASSIC ART BY: arthur rackham. maxfield parrish. howard pyle. nc wyeth. alfons mucha. joseph christian leyendecker. erte. dulac. homer. john bauer. hugo leven.
COMIC BOOKS: hellboy. the nocturnals. the goon. doc frankenstein. revere. tarot. justice society of america. justice league of america. any golden age, silver age, early bronze age comic.
PULPS: weird tales. the shadow. doc savage. the spider. operator 5. terror tales. horror stories. strange tales. dime mystery magazine. the unknown. detective fiction weekly. amazing stories. astounding stories. thrilling wonder stories. fantastic adventures. famous fantastic mysteries. cover art by margaret brundage or virgil finlay.
COMIC ART BY: art adams. dan brereton. mike mignola. george perez. alex ross. eric powell. jason pearson. bart sears. dave stevens. phil noto. steve rude. michael bair. rags morales. mitch byrd. too many to mention.
MUSIC: rock. punk. emo. rockabilly. alt-country. old old country. (i despise modern "pop-country" as well as "i'm proud to be a white trash redneck" country style music. that is not what the original creators of country music meant it to be.)
MISCELLANEOUS: 13. 1800's. carnivals. driving down back roads. fairytales. folk tales. mythology. nostalgia. old route 66. old storybooks. weird historical happenings. hot summer night thunderstorms. Bettie Page! Bettie Page!! Bettie Page!!!
I'd like to meet:
They're coming through the air and traveling along the ground, in many forms. I see a wolflike thing crossing a dark river - at the shadows - just above the waterfall, the starlight burning his pelt. I see maple leaves blowing high. I see a small bat flying. I see many creature beasts, running under the forest trees and slipping through the highest branches; and they're all heading here!
~ The Homecoming - Ray Bradbury
Music:
DISCLAIMER: I am not going to split hairs over whether a particular artist should be in this group or that. And please don't lecture me on how I can be a fan of one type of music or artist, and still like another style or contradictory artist. It works for me. All thats important is that I like them. And if you don't I hope you don't hold it against me. Its music. Have fun with it.
ALT-COUNTRY: Ryan Adams. Whiskeytown. Kings of Leon. My Morning Jacket. Son Volt. Sun Kil Moon. The Stills. Uncle Tupelo. Wilco.
OLD-TIME COUNTRY: Almeda Riddle. Bill Monroe. Blind Lemon Jefferson. Charlie Poole. Dick Justice. Dock Boggs. Hank Williams. Johnny Cash. Loretta Lynn. Patsy Cline. the Carter Family.
CLASSIC ROCK: Alice Cooper. Allman Brothers Band. Boston. Cat Stevens. Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fleetwood Mac. Gram Parsons. Grand Funk Railroad. Grateful Dead. James Taylor. Joe Walsh. Journey. Led Zeppelin. Lynyrd Skynyrd. Styx. Supertramp. Steve Miller Band. The Byrds. The Eagles. Tom Petty. Yardbirds.
ROCK: Better Than Ezra. Blink 182. Collapsis. Coldplay. Counting Crows. Dovetail Joint. Eve 6. Foo Fighters. Fuel. Gin Blossoms. Goo Goo Dolls. Green Day. Incubus. Jack Johnson. No Doubt. Oasis. Semisonic. Smashing Pumpkins. Splender. Stroke 9. The Cure. The Killers. The Smiths. The Strokes. Third Eye Blind. Tonic. U2. Verve Pipe. Weezer. (way too many to list but pretty much any good band that sounds likes the above.)
EMO & INDIE: Acceptance. American Football. Armor For Sleep. Colossal. Dashboard Confessional. Death Cab for Cutie. Early November. Elefant. Get Up Kids. Hey Mercedes. Kings of Convenience. Mae. New Amsterdams. New Pornographers. Postal Service. Rilo Kiley. Saves The Day. Straylight Run. Sufjan Stevens. Taking Back Sunday. The Shins. Thursday.
Movies:
Sleepy Hollow
The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Nightmare Before Christmas
Underworld
Van Helsing
Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Corpse Bride
From Hell
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Nosferatu (1921)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1923)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
London After Midnight (1927)
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
White Zombie (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
King Kong (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
The Wolfman (1941)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943)
The Bodysnatcher (1945)
Bedlam (1946)
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
House of Wax (1953)
The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954)
Godzilla (1954)
The Fly (1958)
Tombstone
Swingers ~ Made
A Christmas Story
High Fidelity
Road To Perdition
Rounders
The Great Escape
Cool Hand Luke
12 Angry Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
Boondock Saints
Almost Famous
Television:
Adult Swim
My Name Is Earl
The Office
Nightstalker
Carnivale
Dave Chappelle
The Munsters
The Addams Family
The Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Fugitive
The Andy Griffith Show
He-Man
Thundercats
Justice League Unlimited
Phantom 2040
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs
Heckle & Jeckle
Top Cat
Tom & Jerry
Scooby Doo
Thundarr the Barbarian
Spiderman & his Amazing Friends
Speed Racer
Jonny Quest FUCK YEAH!
Books:
"mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur"
Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft
Ray Bradbury
Stephen King
Caleb Carr
Clive Barker
Edward Gorey
Heroes:
Bela Lugosi
Boris Karloff
Peter Lorre
Max Schreck
Lon Chaney Sr. & Jr.
Alfred Hitchcock
Vincent Price, King of the Grand Guignol
Peter Cushing
Christopher Lee
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp
Tor Johnson
Vampira
Houdini
PT Barnum
The Elephant Man
Rondo Hatton
"Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?" - Peter Lorre to Vincent Price, upon viewing Bela Lugosi's body dressed in his notorious Dracula cape at Bela's funeral.
