Bullwhip, snakewhip, whips, filmmaking, super 8 cameras, 16mm cameras, antique cameras and telephones, antique things, early 20th century, photography, making props, movies and movie posters, pyrotechnics, special effects, archeology, drawing, urban exploration, urban spelunking, natural spelunking, industrial archaeology, ruins, traditional archaeology, the paleolithic, Indiana Jones, photography, romance (and not only in the Valentine's Day sense of the word), tattoos, pistols, Drive-In theatres, truck stop diners, National Geographic magazines, scratch built miniature models, painting, black girls, other cultures, travel, collecting hats, FEDORAS, writing, things macabre and occult, dreaming of Nevada, White Lily soya sauce (ha ha!), shooting Parkours mid-air before their next roof, and building websites.
Film people, actors, artists, photographers, whip enthusiasts, urban explorers, writers, dancers, performers, romantic and adventurous people. ...and people who like fedoras.
anything but most rap and most country. I prefer lounge, surf, alternative, punk, punkabilly, and am getting into the soul/funk. Artists I like: BARRY ADAMSON!, John Legend, Lalo Schifrin, Erykah Badu, Reverend Horton Heat, Django Reinhardt, Pixies, Souixsie & the Banshees, Ventures, Nina Simone, Agent Orange, Deadbolt, Cannonball Adderly, Benny Goodman, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Herbalizer, Les Baxter, Los Straightjackets, Propellerheads, Headstones, India Arie, Mary J. Blige, Huevos Rancheros, the RAMBLIN' AMBASSADORS, Johnny Cash... haha, how can you not love Johnny Cash?
Delicatessen, Brazil, Blues Brothers, Indiana Jones, Bladerunner, Highway 61, Crime Wave (Canadian), Top of the Food Chain, Five Bullets Five Names , Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, 14 Days from Damnation , Ravenous, Sin City, 5th Element, Quest for Fire, Amelie, City of Lost Children, 12 Monkeys, May, Waking Life, Slacker, Buckaroo Banzai, Koyaanisqatsi, Hudson Hawk, The Last Man on Earth, Casablanca, Bing & Bob Road movies, all of Robert Rodriguez' films, oh tonnes of movies really
Current:
Home Movies (gawddamn that Brendan Small kid's hilarious!), Mythbusters, whatever's on History Channel, the Venture Bros., Carnivale
Past:
Clone High, Undergrads, Spy Groove, Duckman, Blind Date, Relic Hunter (yeah- it's a guilty pleasure)
The Action Hero's Handbook (brilliant and useful!), Seven League Boots (by Richard Halliburton, 1930's adventurer: I have a first edition!! Published two years before he died on an adventure), Sewer Gas and Electric, If Chins Could Kill, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Gods, Cromagnon Man (Time Life books), How to be a Villain (gawdamn, it's hilarious, but only a 40 minute read).
Indiana Jones, Terry Gilliam, real life Mad Scientist Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories (whom I met in 1991), Rosa Parks (that defiant, culture changing little old lady), Simon Wiesenthal: Nazi Hunter, anyone who makes it through the day with a smile. Mark L. was my hero for a while for conspiring and participating in pie facing the Premier of Alberta. I was stupid, but I still admire it. Ken Gawne, Paul Denton, the real R.C. Halliburton, Craig Whitton, and Erik Lombardo, because they're all true adventurers.