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About Me

So, you want to know a little bit more about me huh? I am an Illustrator with an interest in the strange and macabre, Here is a couple of my Illustrations
Interested in having me do some illustration work for you? Feel free to contact me about rates. Please keep my style in mind before submitting your request.
I also offer services in Videography, Video Editing and DVD Authoring. I am interested in working with bands and models that are looking for video production that has an interesting/dark twist to it. I am also available for broadcast shoots. I studied Illustration, graphic design and multimedia design in college.
I LOVE OLD B HORROR MOVIES!!! I pretty much stick to the older classics, I leave newer horror to my amazing and beautiful wife Elemental Muse. I collect European horror movies and I am a Godzilla Fanatic. I love to buy junk out of gum ball machines. I think women's throats are sexy, the outside of them I mean. I don't want to see the inside of a woman's throat because that would mean that she was swallowing my head.
Hey, The Video that my partners and I did for Distant Warning is on-line, go to www.distantwarning.com/movies/movies.htm and watch it NOW!!!
I am one of the Co-Founders of The International Order of Horror Professionals.
In addition to all of this I am a Co-Team Lead for the Colorado Springs Paranormal Society. www.paranormalcoloradosprings.org
What is this "free time" that you speak of?

My Interests

Illustration, Video and Audio production, horror movies (Most B cinema,) Music, folk lore, Macintosh computers, comic books graphic and production art.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, illustrators, videographers, video editors, horror fiends, musicians and fellow mad people at large.

Music:

I grew up listening to a lot of Progressive Rock (Rush, Yes, King Crimson and the like) as well as a lot of Fusion type stuff (Allan Holdsworth, The Dixie Dregs, Eric Johnson, etc.) I really like a whole bunch of stuff. I like heavier stuff like Mushroomhead (They really are almost Prog.) Seven Dust, Nine Inch Nails (yea yea, I know that Trent Reznor really isn't in the same vain, but that's the point, I like variety.) Pantera, Nightwish (operatic metal, an idea who's time has come.) and Type O Negative. There are more of course, but that's enough for now.
There is quite a bit of jazz that I dig like John Coltrane, Wes Montgomery Herb Alpert (come on, "A Tast of honey has to be one of the greatest pieces EVER!!!) and Miles Davis. In terms of classical Chopin really dug into me (Prelude in D flat major "Raindrops" really Rocks. People laugh when I say that, but listen to it and I think you'll agree.)
To be honest the only type of music that I can't seem to get my head around is country. Jonny Cash did some cool stuff, so did Buck Owens, but none of that is an excuse for Toby Keith, ARGH!!

Movies:

I'm really hard core into movies. as I've said before I collect European Horror movies, and horror is my favorite genre. I think that the Exorcist is currently my favorite because it has stood up so well after all these years. I learn so much about character driven plot-lines and lighting every time I watch it. The Changeling hasn't stood up quite as well, but it is still a favorite of mine. The older European stuff is a blast to watch just because there are no rules, they just went nuts. I also really like the Hammer stuff. Some of it was really cheesy but it is still just beautiful to watch and it was a huge part of my childhood. I'll watch anything with Peter Cushing in it, the man was brilliant. Christopher Lee has got to be ten feet tall! When he's on screen you just can't pay attention to anyone but him. In my opinion the only person who could hold his own and share screen time with Lee was Cushing.
Finally, If you have a giant monster trampling any city, foreign or domestic, you have my hard earned dollar! Godzilla will always be KING!!!

Television:

Unless it's animated or a vintage horror film (or Ghost Hunters on the Sci Fi Channell) I really hate TV. Ironic given what I do for a living.

Books:

"The Gandhi reader". I highly recommend it. anything by H.P. Lovecraft, horror literature has been mostly down hill since him. "Digital Movie Making" by Scott Billups, anyone trying to get into the world of digital video production specifically for movies should read this. "Make Your Own Damn Movie" by Lloyd Kaufman. This book had me laughing out loud, and it still manages to teach you something. I also read a lot of books on the different technologies that I use in my work Hardware and software. Books on folklore, books about hauntings and the paranormal, these all find a place on my "oh so ready to collapse from the strain" bookshelves.

Heroes:

It sounds so clichÃ©, but Gandhi and Einstein are really two big heroes to me. They never let themselves be fooled into thinking that just because things had always been viewed one way it meant that was the best or only way to view them. They completely changed the way many of us see ourselves and the universe as a whole, no small feat.
Ed Wood is another hero. It has often been said that he had no ability as a movie maker, but that is not the point. The point is that to spite everyone telling him that he had no talent he just kept making movies. He always found a way and he always found people to make movies with him.
Ray Harryhausen just blows me away. He would sit in a small corner of the set where the movies that he was working on where being made and he would do all of those stop motion FX by himself. It really makes me sad that people view stop motion as Digital's poor cousin, because the work of Harryhausen is true art.
There are several artist's work that I just can't stop staring at. Edward Gorey's illustrations where at once simple and rich. I am just inthralled with his work. If there is anyone who inspired the way that I draw it's him. Alphonse Mucha's work flows like water. His creations are some of the best examples of the art nouveau style. Let us not forget Frank Frazetta. I love that his works have a primal quality to them that matches their subject matter. I've spent hours just examining the color and texture of his work.

My Blog

Clarity of thought and direction, or the other guy?

As for me, I'm voteing for the man who can stay focused on the issues and can answer questions, not for the guy who's mind wanders and who just starts dropping buzz words as a substitute for real poli...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:04:00 PST

Things that make you go "WHAT THE HELL?!?!?"

Oh yes, there will be spin...Come on folks, is this how we want to be governed? ...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:23:00 PST

Getting Hitched

Hey folks, I'm getting married today. Still lots to do around the house to get ready so I need to keep this short, but the dress that our friend "M" made for Elemental Muse looks great and Elemental ...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:12:00 PST

Giving up my amateur standing and going pro

Some of you may not have read Elemental Muse's blog (and you should, because she actually updates on a regular basis, unlike me,) but as I am sitting here at my job with nothing to do and the wireless...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:06:00 PST

If I sold it, would you buy it?

First of all, I wanted to thank every one who voted for me in the Predators and Editors poll for 2007. I finished in the top ten taking the undisputed 7th place spot out of a field of 23! I'm very h...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:31:00 PST

The complete guide to understanding differing ideologies and shit.

Note: I didn't come up with these, I just thought that some of them where funny.Taoism: Shit happens.Confucianism: Confucius say, "Shit happens."Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit.Zen Bu...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:47:00 PST

New York New York

Start spreading the news. We're leaving, well, tomorrow. Yup, you guessed it. Elemental Muse and I are taking her son, Johnny Sorrow to New York so that he can attend NYU, Tisch School of the Arts....
Posted by Paulzuzu on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:22:00 PST

None of these people look like me

Just for the record, I don't think any of these people look like me, particularly Lara Flynn Boyle, I mean come on!!! That being said, here's the list:...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:55:00 PST

Hand-fasting with Cthulhu

Just because there isn't enough chaos right now, I thought that I would throw the planets into further disarray and write a blog. I am evil after all.First and most importantly, last Saturday was the...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Mon, 14 May 2007 10:49:00 PST

Screamingly? What my obit will say.

'What will your obituary say?' at QuizGalaxy.com...
Posted by Paulzuzu on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:08:00 PST