Reading, writing, film, comic books
I'd like to meet:
Publishers, other writers, anyone interesting, and the kind of mad scientist who can pull off spectacles, a blood-stained lab coat, and statements like "They all thought I was MAD back at the Academy!" in a suitably understated fashion. Whilst operating a doomsday device.
Incidentally, for anyone reading this as a result of my having sent you a Friend request: assume I did so because I actually did read your profile and think you're cool. I never, EVER spam. Scout's honour.
Music:
Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Diamanda Galas, Marianne Faithfull, Leonard Cohen, the Velvet Underground, Stevie Nicks, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Roky Erickson, Bobbie Gentry, the Cramps, the Shangri-Las, Smokey Robinson, Roy Orbison, Big Star, Jayne County, Nancy Sinatra, Warren Zevon, the Divine Comedy, Ute Lemper, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, the Shirelles, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, the Sisters of Mercy, Morrissey, Nina Simone, Blondie, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Smiths, Garbage, Kate Bush, Rob Dougan, Hamish Cowan, Eleni Mandell
Movies:
The Re-Animator series, Night of the Hunter, Psycho, Bride of Frankenstein, Lair of the White Worm, From Beyond, Frankenhooker, Willard, May, Phantom of the Paradise, Nosferatu, Liquid Sky, Blood for Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, Tromeo and Juliet, Voodoun Blues, Without You I'm Nothing, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Passion of Darkly Noon, La Belle et la Bete, Henry Fool, Society, The Frighteners, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Return of the Living Dead, Psychos in Love, Pi, At Close Range, River's Edge, Rubin and Ed, Disco Pigs, Highlander, Carrie, Curdled, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Heathers, The Lost Boys, Dirty Weekend, Death Becomes Her, Earth Girls Are Easy, Twister (no, not the tornado one - the Crispin Glover one), Where the Heart Is (no, not the Natalie Portman one - the John Boorman one), Crimes of Passion, The Devils
Television:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Prison Break, Six Feet Under, Profiler, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, The Riches, Dirt, 30 Rock, Law and Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, Thieves, Oz, Cracker (UK), Aeon Flux, Xena: Warrior Princess, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Masters of Horror, The Maxx, Scrubs, Father Ted, The League of Gentlemen, Prisoner, Bad Girls, Passions
Books:
The Quick and the Dead, by Joy Williams; Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake; First Love, by Joyce Carol Oates; I Was a Teenage Fairy, by Francesca Lia Block; We So Seldom Look on Love, by Barbara Gowdy; Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov; I-O, by Simon Logan; Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion; Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx (yes, since long before the movie); Herbert West - Reanimator, by HP Lovecraft; Les Enfants Terribles, by Jean Cocteau; Suckers, by Anne Billson; Dirty Weekend, by Helen Zahavi; I, Vampire, by Jody Scott; Dead in the Water, by Nancy Holder; Tarantula, by Thierry Jonquet; What They Did to Princess Paragon, by Robert Rodi; Unquenchable Fire, by Rachel Pollack
COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS: Watchmen, Platinum Grit, Charm School, Cadavera, Hard Time, ArchEnemies, Girl Genius, Nightmare World, Dogwitch, Courtney Crumrin, Pure Trance (and anything else by Junko Mizuno), Dioramas: A Love Story, Smoke and Guns, Doll (by Mitsukazu Mihara), NextWave, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Transmetropolitan, Runaways, Descendents of Darkness (Yami no Matsuei), Tomie, Hench, Halloween Man
Heroes:
Joyce Carol Oates, Tanith Lee, Francesca Lia Block, Barbara Gowdy, Annie Proulx, HP Lovecraft, Alan Moore, Mervyn Peake, Jean Cocteau, Ken Russell, Stuart Gordon
