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The Gill-Man

The Creature Walks Among Us!

About Me

I'm a full-time warehouse manager, part-time actor, full-time husband, part-time producer, full-time dad, full-time smart-ass. I'm a rabid music fan, a lover of all kinds of cinema and a huge comic book geek. In May of 2005 I was wed to my beautiful wife here in Houston, and we honeymooned in beautiful Jamaica. I have two step-children, although I consider them my own. I have an incredible family, and a wonderful life.I've acted in numerous stage productions, and even a few commercials. After years of becoming increasingly frustrated with the casting system, I took the advice of actor Bruce Campbell (whom I met at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin): "if you want to act, then you should produce". In May of 2004 I produced and starred in the first Houston production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", an off-broadway hit about a frustrated, East-German, transexual rock-singer at legendary Fitzgerald's nightclub.There are many layers to my personality. I'm a very loving person, yet I'm incredibly sarcastic. I'm compassionate and spiritual, yet I've got a rather dark, twisted sense of humour. While some may find these aspects contradictory, those that know me will tell you that none of it is at odds in me.------------------------------------------------I change my "Top Friends" on a fairly regular basis. If you were on it, and suddenly you find yourself gone, fret not. You haven't done anything to piss me off. I'm just giving another of my groovy friends a chance to be seen by all my other groovtacular online buddies
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My Interests

Acting; Music; Movies; Comics; Halloween

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Music:

Prince; Tori Amos; Duran Duran; Pink Floyd; U2; Depeche Mode; The Smashing Pumpkins; Queen; Tears For Fears; Terence Trent D'Arby/Sananda Maitreya; Bauhaus; Poe; The Police/Sting; Led Zepplin; Peter Gabriel; Radiohead; Everclear; The Doors; The Cure; Black Sabbath; Bob Marley; Love and Rockets; David Bowie; The Beatles; Rob Zombie; Madonna; The Myth; Vina Blue; The Red Hot Chili Peppers; Zwan; Erkyah Badu; Weezer; Linda Strawberry; The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex; Sheila E; Johnny Cash; Foo Fighters; Django Walker; Aimee Mann; Milla; George Michael; Marilyn Manson; New Order; Willie Nelson; Audioslave; Stone Temple Pilots; Nirvana; Kate Bush; Michael Jackson (the old stuff, when he was black); Stevie Wonder; The Donnas; Joy Division; The Time; The Ramones; AC/DC; Madhouse; Miles Davis; ZZ Top; Cross Canadian Ragweed; Counting Crows; The Rolling Stones; Blondie; A Perfect Circle; The Misfits; Warren Cuccurullo; Sarah McLachlan; Alice Cooper; Three Doors Down; Velvet Revolver; Hole; The Eurythmics; John Mellencamp; Motley Crue; Oingo Boingo; Siouxsie and the Banshees; Billy Corgan; Missing Persons; INXS; Ani DiFranco; Iggy Pop; Seventy-One; Sly and the Family Stone; Bjork; The Power Station; The Devils; Arcadia; Pat Green; Asmodeus X; Famous Monsters; The Ghastly Ones; Sigur Ros; The Flaming Lips; The Corrs; Lou Reed/Velvet Underground; Elton John (the old Bernie Taupin stuff); Jimi Hendrix; Santana; Clapton; The Blues Brothers; Elvis Presley; Eric Leeds; Maceo Parker; Roland Orzabal; Ratt; George Clinton and Parliment/Funkadelic; Jane's Addiction; Samhain; The Cult; The Family; The Violent Femmes; Nine Inch Nails; Curt Smith; White Ghost Shivers; Jill Jones; Buckethead; Steve Vai; Tamar; Fleetwood Mac; PJ Harvey; Yes; The Go-Gos; Rush; The Squirrel Nut Zippers; The Bomboras; Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds; Dead Elvi; Billy Idol; Nickleback; Chevelle; Evanescene; Blue October; John 5; Midnight Syndicate; Calabrese; Son of Sam; Surf Rock and Rockabilly

Movies:

The Star Wars Saga; Halloween; Blue Velvet; The Evil Dead Trilogy; The Godfather; The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Batman Begins; Blood Simple; Wild At Heart; Heathers; Ferris Beuller's Day Off; The Indiana Jones Trilogy; The Nightmare Before Christmas; Superman; Donnie Darko; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; Young Frankenstein; Spider-Man; Spider-Man 2; Resevoir Dogs; Good Fellas; X-men; X2; The Breakfast Club; Mulholland Drive; Blade Runner; The Silence of the Lambs; Equilibrium; The Matrix; Lost Highway; Pulp Fiction; The El Mariachi Trilogy; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; King Kong; Jackie Brown; Clerks; Mallrats; Chasing Amy; Dogma; Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back; Jersey Girl; Daredevil; Almost Famous; The Straight Story; Kill Bill; Alien; Aliens; The Big Lebowski; The Fisher King; Ed Wood; The Creature From The Black Lagoon; Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan; Miller's Crossing; Airplane; Mars Attacks!; Weird Science; A Christmas Story; Lost in Translation; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Suspiria; Phantom of the Paradise; Star Trek: First Contact; Memento; The Suicide Kings; Boondock Saints; 16 Candles; A Nightmare On Elm St; Dazed and Confused; Edward Scissorhands; Walk the Line; Bubba Ho-Tep; Return of the Living Dead; Swingers; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Vacation; The Blues Brothers; The Corpse Bride; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Classic Horror (Hammer, Universal etc).

Television:

Twin Peaks:Veronica Mars:Buffy the Vampire Slayer:Heroes:Battlestar Galactica (new version):24; Angel; Firefly; Boston Legal; Babylon 5; Friends; Justice League Unlimited; Batman: The Animated Series; Star Wars: Clone Wars; Ren and Stimpy (early John K episodes); Futurama; Family Guy; The Simpsons; Two and a Half Men

Books:

Fiction: American Gods by Neil Gaiman; The List of Seven by Mark Frost; Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov; Watchers by Dean Koontz (and pretty much everything else he writes); Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (and pretty much everything else he writes); The Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien; The Conan books by Robert E. Howard; The John Carter of Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs; ------------------------------------------------------------ --Nonfiction: The Prophet's Way by Tom Hartmann; The Quest For The Grail by Richard Rohr; Light My Fire by Ray Manzarek---------------------------------------------------- ------------------Comics: Infinite Crisis by Geoff Johns, Phil Jiminez and George Perez; Kingdom Come by Alex Ross and Mark Waid; Batman: Year One by Frank Miller; Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons; Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley; Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman and George Perez; The Invisibles by Grant Morrison; WE3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitley; Kabuki by David Mack; Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale; Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.; Daredevil: Yellow by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale; Sandman by Neil Gaiman; Green Lantern: Rebirth by Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver; Identity Crisis by Brad Metzler & Rags Morales; Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon & John Cassaday; The Nocturnals by Dan Brereton; Classic Marvel and modern DC.

Heroes:

My Blog

Return to Crystal Lake!

A most happy Friday the 13th to everyone! This is a day generally feared by folks across the world, which I've never really understood. Just how bad can a Friday be? In rebellion against this most ri...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:31:00 PST

Rest In Peace, Arthur C. Clarke

Seems like all the great ones are dying on us! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23697230
Posted by The Gill-Man on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:41:00 PST

8 Years Later Survey, Courtesy of RalphieBoy...

First off, Happy St. Patrick’s Day to everyone! Of course, wearing green is no problem for The Gill-Man! Now, on to a survey that has absolutely nothing to do with anything whatsoever... ..TR>...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:51:00 PST

Rest In Peace, Ben Chapman

The original Gill-Man has passed away: http://iconsoffright.com/news/2008/02/ben_chapman_played_cre ature_fr.html An obvious influence on me, I'm truly saddened by this news.  ...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:49:00 PST

Rest in Peace, Vampira


Posted by The Gill-Man on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:57:00 PST

MIA

Yes, I know I've been MIA lately. This is mainly due to two things: the Holidaze and the lovely confusion that is MySpace. First up, the Holidaze have been hectic, to say the least. In a time that is ...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:26:00 PST

The Bratz of Haddonfield

Back on Father's Day, my step-daughter gave me an awesome present: the Neca Toy's Halloween: Evolution of Evil 2-pack, which features 2 figures of movie madman Michael Myers! One fig is of Mikey as a ...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:49:00 PST

Halloween 1978

Two blogs in one day! Yes, folks, this actually is a sign of the impending apocalypse! Recently, I promised that I would review the new version of Halloween that has hit theaters. I still plan to do s...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:23:00 PST

Halloween Movie Premiere!

This past weekend, I attended the opening night of Rob Zombie's version of the classic horror film Halloween.  Most folks know that Carpenter's film is one of my all-time favorites (and it is, h...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:06:00 PST

Another Survey...Now With 65% Less Smartassery!

Yeah, so I'm hardly on here these days, due to lots of issues at work and what-not. Still, just to let everyone know that I STILL LIVE, I periodically do these surveys. This one comes courtesy of Anni...
Posted by The Gill-Man on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:16:00 PST