Carnivorous Nights

Music:

Member Since: 3/17/2006
Band Website: carnivorousnights.com
Band Members: Michael Crewdson Adjectives, Nouns, Question MarksMargaret Mittelbach Verbs, Conjunctions, BoldfaceAlexis Rockman Watercolors, Pigments
Influences:

Books and authors
E.O. Wilson’s The Diversity of Life,, Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild, John McPhee, Redmond O’Hanlon, David Quammen’s The Song of the Dodo, Bill Bryson, David Sedaris, Bruce Chatwin, Stephen J. Gould, E.B. White, Moby Dick, Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle, H.P. Lovecraft, Jules Verne, Saki, Bram Stoker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Loren Coleman, Joseph Conrad, Tim Flannery, James Woodford’s The Secret Life of Wombats, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles M. Schulz, Susan Orlean, Marie Winn, Tennessee Williams, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Gerald Durrell, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Douglas Adams’ Last Chance to See

Music
Beastie Boys, Bernard Herrmann, They Might Be Giants, ? and the Mysterians, Charles Ives, Etta James, The Standells, Parliament, Henry Mancini, The Kinks, The Pogues, Tito Puente, Dean Martin, Benny Goodman, Tom Waits, Louis Prima, The Zombies, Vince Guaraldi, Howlin’ Wolf, the Beatles, Sun Ra, Nina Simone, Pet Sounds

Movies
We'll try to limit this to our favorite 7.2 million films ... Howling III: The Marsupials, Jaws, Herzog’s Grizzly Man, Hitchcock’s The Birds, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Planet of the Apes, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Reservoir Dogs, Apocalypse Now, The Andromeda Strain, The Deer Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Silent Running, Do the Right Thing, The Wizard of Oz, The Blair Witch Project, Mad Monster Party, Rushmore, Adaptation, Alien, Taxi Driver, Sleeper, Nosferatu (1922), Soylent Green, Gallipoli, Blade Runner, Swimming to Cambodia, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Touch of Evil, Inherit the Wind, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Hope and Crosby’s “road” movies, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Borat, Bedazzled (1967), John Carpenter’s The Thing, James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931), Mel Brooks, John Waters, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch, Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Robert Altman, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, David Cronenberg, Mira Nair, Peter Weir, David Attenborough, Jacques Cousteau, Michael Moore, An Inconvenient Truth, Crumb, The Hellstrom Chronicle, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), King Kong (1933)

Art
Gregory Crewdson, Walton Ford, Mark Dion, Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Church, Charles R. Knight, Carl Akeley, Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermy, Catherine Chalmers, Rosamund Purcell

Beasts
Thylacine, giant squid, grey-headed flying foxes, Tasmanian devils, spot-tailed quolls, echidnas, platypuses, wooly mammoths, little blue penguins, ivory-billed woodpeckers, weedy sea dragons

Essentials
WFMU, WNYC, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Tom Scharpling