You have entered the house of Snarls.
The Tale of Despereaux
U2 - Numb
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Nada Surf - Popular
Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe
First and foremost... Art. I like painting, illustrating, writing short stories, writing bad poetry (when I'm in that mood). I like to walk a lot more than drive. I also like to read. I almost always have a book with me. AND, certainly, I have to say I like listening to music. I have my headphones on a lot when I'm out about town alone.
Creative people.
Me being 'Live Action Snarls' for one of the many skits we did for The ShOw on community access. Now you can watch me being a jackass right here heh (circa 2005)
In no particular order: Mindless Self Indulgence, Nine Inch Nails, The Birthday Massacre, Damone, Rasputina, The Killers, Moby, Sponge (their song Plowed), Prince, The Darkness, Enya, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Skinny Puppy, Beck, Lucia, Aphex Twin, Ohgr, Filter, Fine Young Cannibals, Bloodhound Gang, Duran Duran, Marilyn Manson, Orgy, Garbage, Rammstein, The Cure, Drill, System of a Down, Switchfoot, The Corrs, Goo Goo Dolls, Cradle of Filth, Billy Joel, KMFDM, Linkin Park, Insane Clown Posse, Laibach, Kompressor, Janes Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Peter Cetera, Cypress Hill, Alanis Morissette, Static-X, Dresdon Dolls, Lifehouse, Limp Bizket, 311, Three Doors Down, Ninedays, Tom Petty, Dandy Warhols, Frou Frou, Billy Idol, Mozart, Elton John, Sublime, Weezer, Fall Out Boy, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Vertical Horizon, Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman, Skindred, Starship, ABBA, The Beach Boys, REO Speedwagon, Korn, Coheed & Cambria, Lacuna Coil, Cole Porter, Eminem, Faith No More, Talking Heads, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Machine Head (The Burning Red), Big Audio Dynamite, Laibach, Foo Fighters, 30 Seconds to Mars, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Sinead O'Connor (Nothing Compares 2 U), Flyleaf, Hellogoodbye, M (Pop Musik), Paula Cole, Real Life, Annie Lennox, My Life in the Thrill Kill Kult, Lords of Acid, Muse, She Wants Revenge, El Debarge, Lady Sovereign, Phil Collins, Genesis, Lo Fidelity Allstars (Battle Flag), Death Cab for Cutie, Sick Puppies, Counting Crows, White Stripes, .................. and others that I just can't think of at this very moment
The Muppet Movie soundtrack
Garden State soundtrack, Some songs from the Big Daddy soundtrack, The Crow soundtrack, ....
Rachmaninov, Paganini, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, .....
Snow Patrol (song- Chocolate)
Compi Christ (song- This shit will fuck you up)
Howard Jones - Life in one day
Duran Duran - Ordinary World
Snake River Conspiracy
Band: Big Country Song: In a Big Country
Taylor Swift - Teardrops on my guitar
New Order – Temptation
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.... Song: Dancing Cheek to Cheek by Irving Berlin
Lloyd Price
Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay
A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies
Howard Jones - Life in one day
Plumb - In your arms
The Tuesdays - It's up to you
The Vines - Get Free
Danny Wilde - Time Runs Wild
Ruoska - Pirunkieli
Louis Armstrong - A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Billy Preston - Will it go round in circles
Inaya Day - Nasty Girl
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Se7en, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Rules of Attraction, Donnie Darko, Memento, Frailty, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Suicide Kings, Dawn of the Dead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Underworld, Ever After, Shallow Hal, Dark City, Edward Scissorhands, 12 Monkeys, K-Pax, As Good As It Gets, Dogma, Almost Famous, Finding Forrester, A Walk To Remember, Blade Runner, Payback, Hellraiser, Notting Hill, Powder, 28 Days Later, Great Expectatoions, The Princess and the Warrior, True Romance, Fried Green Tomatoes, City of Angels, In Love and War, The Wedding Singer, Red Meat, Evil Dead, The Silence of the Lambs, Natural Born Killers.
The Cell, The Dark Crystal, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Falling Down, The Fly, Fight Club, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Man on the Moon, The Ring, B. Monkey, Run Lola Run, The House of Yes, Pin, Meet Joe Black, Monsters Inc., The Nightmare Before Chrismas, Somewhere in Time, The Powerpuff Girls movie, Breakfast of Champions, Night Breed, The Heavenly Kid, Mike Leigh's: Naked, Sleepers, Indecent Proposal, The Mothman Prophecies, Bubble Boy, How to make an American Quilt, Aeon Flux (cartoon), Curdled, Cube, Carrie, Pet Sematary, xXx (Triple X), Sometimes They Come Back, The Shawshank Redemption, Hearts in Atlantis, Romy and Michelles High School Reunion, Swimming With Sharks, 13 Going on 30, Artificial Intelligence, The Truman Show, The Shining, SAW, FROM HELL, Being John Malkovich, Re-Animator, Pi, The Crow, Species, Girl with a Pearl Earring.
BIG, Big Fish, Secret Window, Troy, Red Dragon, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, 50 First Dates, The Blair Witch Project, La Belle Noiseuse ("The Beautiful Annoyance" french film), TRON, Collateral, Hannibal, Kill Bill (1&2), The Terminator (1,2,&3), The Mask, White Oleander, The Princess Bride, Elektra, Kafka, TMNT (CGI), Sweet November, Road House, Grindhouse, Waiting..., Hannible Rising, The Last Mimzy, Norbit, Ultraviolet, The Last Kiss, The Tenants, Swing Kids, Wolf Creek, Clerks II, Employee of the Month, Xanadu, Wings of Desire, The Return, Catch and Release, The Fountain, Candy, Blood Diamond, American Movie, The Departed, Stay, Hostel part 2, The Messengers, Knocked Up, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Venus (Peter O'Toole), Blue Velvet, Hollywoodland, El Mariachi, The Pursuit of Happyness, Highway 61, Monster House, Stranger Than Fiction., Black X-Mas, Fast Food Nation, The Hitcher, Dead Silence, The Wicher Man, Black Snake Moan, Babel, The Science of Sleep, Pan's Labyrinth, Hard Candy, Hellboy, Transformers (live action), The Number 23, Colour Me Kubrick, The Simpsons movie, The Bourne Ultimatum, Happy Tree Friends (season one), Premenition, Deja Vu, Disturbia, Children of Men, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Smokin' Aces, Prefume- The Story of a Murderer, Winter Passing, Timeline, The Holiday, Breaking and Entering, The Good Shepard, The Good Girl, (Kirsten Dunst) Marie Antoinette, Fracture, Inland Empire, The Prestiege, Halloween (Rob Zombie version), Bridge to Teribithia, Factory Girl, A Dirty Shame (Rated NC-17... not the pussy R rated version), Music & Lyrics, 30 Days of Night, Reign On Me, SAW IV, The Astronaut Farmer, Date With An Angel (1987 movie), Running With Scissors, 28 Weeks Later, Vacancy, The Good German, 300, Mr. Brooks, Fred Claus, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, Casino Royale 007, The Mist, BUG, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Jim Henson's Labyrinth, The Iron Giant, An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder, Blood & Chocolate, Daywatch, Flushed Away, The Other Sister, Domino, The Ex, Ghost Rider, The Reaping, The Human Stain, The Page Turner (French film), The Tank Man: Tiananmen Square June 5, 1989 (PBS)
Stardust, Hot Rod, Zodiac (David Fincher), Tideland, The Bridge (documentary of suicides off of the Golden Gate Bridge), Michael Moore Hates America, Manufacturing Dissent: The Uncovering of Michael Moore, 10 Items or Less, Captivity, Blow-Up, Veronica Mars season two, The Invisible, Live Free Or Die Hard, Next, Mozart and the Whale, C.H.U.D., Superbad, The Host (Korean film), Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (Kristen Bell, Alan Cumming), Evening (Claire Danes), Fifty Pills, Veronica Mars (season three), Deadwood (season one), Miss Potter, School for Scoundrels, Pierrepoint - the last hangman, Grizzly Man, Across the Universe, Arthur, The Exorcist, Sketches of Frank Gehry, The Last Unicorn, Secretary, In the Land of Women, Cray Love (Documentary on the Pugach's), The Running Man, The Devil's Rejects, Good Luck Chuck, License to Wed, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Sunshine, Waitress, The Namesake, Arthur, Evan Almighty, El Cantante, Rocket Science, The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters, The Heartbreak Kid, Talk to Me, Seperate Lies, Goya's Ghosts, Lonely Hearts, I'm Reed Fish, Horton Hears a Who (CGI), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton's version), 1408, Dario Argento's Suspiria, A Good Year, Diary of the Dead, Ratatouille, My Kid Could Paint That, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Martian Child, Awake (Jessica Alba), Breach, Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Aeon Flux (Motion picture), American Gangster, Atonement, Iron Man (motion picture), Maria's Lovers, ALvin and the Chipmunks (live action), Teeth, Jack Ketchum's The Lost, The Invasion, Shoot'em Up, Love in the Time of Cholera, Reservation Road, Dan in Real Life, Hitman (adapted from video game), Lookout (Jeff Daniels), Back to the Future Trilogy, Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, Lars and the Real Girl, Unknown, The Strangers,
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing, Tiptoes, M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening, Southland Tales, The Incedible Hulk (2008), The Love Guru, (somethingsomethingsomething) Zohan, Disney's Enchanted, Wall-E, The Italian Job (Marky Mark), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Gone Baby Gone, The Nanny Diaries, Feast of Love, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The SMURFS season one, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, ........
Remember the 80's cartoon Belle and Sebastian? Monchiechi's? Snorks? Wuzzles? Rubik the amazing cube? Visionaries? Sektaurs?...and a ton of other 80's cartoon's I've forgotten over the years.
Reading as of July 14, 2008:
(novels/graphic novels)
Thieves & Kings by Mark Oakley (Graphic novels)
(Reading and re-reading my own writing as of late. I've been writing quite a bit the past few months. Plus I'm reading a number of research books that I'm not about to list here only because they'd give away parts of what I'm writing about. I'm reading, reading, reading; writing, writing, writing.)
....I seem to read too many books, as you'll see.
Recommended books:
The Tale of Desperaeux by Kate DiCamillo
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Brutality of Fact: interviews with Francis Bacon by art critic David Sylvester
The Golden Compass book 1 of His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife book 2 of His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass book 3 of His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Dry by Augusten Burroughs
Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (a Libretto) Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Gloria by Mark Coovelis
For One More Day by Mitch Albom
Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958 Jack Kerouac & Joyce Johnson
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (This book is being made into a movie... go figure. Just found that out.)
She Needed Me by Walter Kirn
Less Than Zer0 by Bret Easton Ellis
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis
Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
The Tracks of Angels by Kelly Dwyer
My Petition For More Space a novel by John Hersey
Arrogance by Joanna Scott
Egon Schiele: The Complete Works compiled by Jane Kallir
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Hollywood by Charles Bukowski
The captain is out to lunch and the sailors have taken over the ship by Charles Bukowski illustrated by Robert Crumb
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
WOMEN by Charles Bukowski
Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
The Roominghouse Madrigals by Charles Bukowski
Come On In! by Charles Bukowski
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Portable [William] Blake edited by Alfred Kazin
You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem
Summer Crossing by Truman Capote
Music For Chameleons by Truman Capote
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimton
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Conversations with Capote by Lawrence Grobel
Selected Writings of Truman Capote (A Random House Book)
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
The Tenants by Bernard Malamud
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier is one of my favorite female writers to read, you can check out her website at: www.tchevalier.com
(Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite male writers.)
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Make Love* *The Bruce Campbell Way... by of course Bruce Campbell.
Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
The Stranger Next Door by Amelie Nothomb
The Man in My Basement by Walter Mosley
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Spider by Patrick McGrath
Heavy Water and other stories by Martin Amis
Cole Porter: Selected Lyrics edited by Robert Kimball
The Battle of BRAZIL by Jack Mathews about the story of Terry Gilliam's victory over Hollywood to release his landmark film
Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski
Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon
Kink by Kathe Koja
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Collector by John Fowles
Mantissa by John Fowles
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Clive Barker's Shadow's In Eden edited by Stephen Jones
Inferno/From An Occult Diary by August Strindberg
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken (I enjoyed parts one and two of the book but didn't care much for part three which is the ending)
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Andy Kaufman REVEALED! by Bob Zmuda with Mathew Scott Hansen
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath edited by Karen V. Kukil
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Willful Creatures: Stories by Aimee Bender
My Education: A Book of Dreams by William S. Burroughs
FAST FICTION: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes by Roberta Allen (One very interesting book to read and reference back to)
The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephan Vincent Benet
Story-crafting by Paul Darcy Boles
Recommended Comic Books/Graphic Novels:
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez (One of my favorite comic books of all time)
Jellyfist written by Jhonen Vasquez drawn by Jenny Goldberg
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 by David Petersen
Tales From the Farm by Jeff Lemire
Ghost Stories by Jeff Lemire
Ordinary Victories by Manu Larcenet
Stardust by Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
Screw Heaven, When I Die I'm Going to Mars by Shannon Wheeler (creator of Too Much Coffee Man)
Red Eye, Black Eye by K. Thor Jensen
Spent by Joe Matt
Lucky by Gagirelle Bell
Dogs and Water by Anders Nilsen
The Fountain written by Darren Aronofsky & illustrated by Kent Williams
Lenore by Roman Dirge
Scud: The Disposable Assassin by Rob Schrab
Akiko by Mark Crilley
Miki Falls by Mark Crilley
12 Reasons Why I Love Her by Jamie S. Rich & Joelle Jones
I Never Liked You a comic-strip narrative by Chester Brown
Summer Blonde (stories) by Adrian Tomine
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Caricature by Daniel Clowes
Concrete: Fragile Creature by Paul Chadwick
Concrete: Land & Sea by Paul Chadwick
The Ticking by Renee French
Fables: Legends in Exile written by Bill Willingham with various artists
Fables: Animal Farm written by Bill Willingham with various artists
Fables: Storybook Love written by Bill Willingham with various artists
Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers written by Bill Willingham with various artists
Fables: The Mean Seasons written by Bill Willingham with various artists
Fables: Homelands written by Bill Willingham with various artists
Fables: Arabian Nights (and days) written by Bill Willingham with various artists
Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall written by Bill Willingham with various illustrators
Iron West by Doug TenNapel
The Crow by James O'Barr (First graphic novel)
Good-bye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson
Blankets by Craig Thompson (A fantastic graphic novel. Honors and respects everything an artist can do in and for the comic book medium)
Carnet De Voyage by Craig Thompson
Beach Safari by Mawil (Markus Mawil Witzel)
Grickle by Graham Annable
MAUS (volume 1&2) by Art Spiegelman and MAUS on cd-rom (which has the entire contents of MAUS, audio and video interviews and commentary, hundreds of sketches, photos, rare artwork you won't find anywhere else, and more.)
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
CreeD by Trent Kaniuga
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
David Boring by Daniel Clowes
Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
Twentieth Century Eightball krazy komics by Daniel Clowes
MOME (anthology collection, 1-5 and 9)
32 Stories: the complete Optic Nerve mini comics by Adrian Tomine
The Mask by John Arcudi & Doug Mahnke
Madman by Michael Allred
Four Letter Words (an anthology by various artists) from Image comics
FROM HELL written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Eddie Campbell
The Sketchbook Diaries by James Kochalka
Kissers by James Kochalka
Paradise Sucks by James Kochalka
Hate by Peter Bagge
Buddy Go Home! by Peter Bagge
Thieves & Kings by Mark Oakley (trade paperback volumes and comics)
Sin City (all of them) by Frank Miller
Pizzeria Kamikaze by Etgar Keret & Asaf Hanuka
Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form by Scott McCloud
Clumsy: A Novel by Jeffrey Brown (Not exactly high comic book art by any means but it does have a touching underlying coming-of-age story to it.)
AEIOU: Any Easy Intimacy by Jeffrey Brown
Every Girl Is The End Of The World For Me by Jeffrey Brown
Little Things by Jeffrey Brown
Road to Perdition written by Max Allan Collins, art by Richard Piers Raynor
Zebediah the Hillbilly Zombie Redneck Bites the Dust by Scott Mills
Oversight: Short Stories 1990-2005 by Phil Hester
Get a Life by Dupuy & Berberian
Maybe Later by Dubuy & Berberian
Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story by Harvey Pekar
The Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch
The Last Lonely Saturday by Jordan Crane
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud
Shadowland comics by Kim Deitch
The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell
Little Star by Andi Watson
Bardin the Superrealist by Max
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase
Completely MAD: The history of the comic book and magazine by Maria Reidelbach (MAD magazine)