i love death masks, art, sculpting, bookbinding, books, natural history, ethnography, museums, medical oddities, victorian curiosities, watching old movies, finding random forgotten places, the view from the train, wild west gun slingin', late night crime fighting, and being with my friends.
gene wilder. i love him. i honestly love him. oh, and other people with irrational fears of bigfoot and taxidermy.
What i really really like is 1950s and 60s teen idol types. Doris Day, Ricky Nelson, that kind of stuff. Also motown and stax artists like Otis Redding and The Supremes. Bernard Herrmann, Leonard Cohen, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Iggy Pop, Juno, Notwist, Van Morrison, Sun Volt, Jeff Buckley, Sam Sham & the Pharaohs, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, ? & the Mysterians, Billie Holiday, Al Green, Red House Painters, Stevie Wonder, Edith Piaf, Serge Gainsbourg, PornoSkirtCheck, Joni Mitchell, Dusty Springfield, The Ronettes, The Chordettes, Roberta Flack, Nico, Dahmer Bunnies, Roy Orbisn, Elvis Costello, Velvet Underground, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Mojave 3 especially "Life in Art" I swear it's the most beautiful song ever written, Jill Scott, Lou Reed, Blonde Redhead, Klaus Nomi, Johnny Cash, Blondie, Sufjan Stevens, Cheap Trick, Her Space Holiday, Yo La Tengo, The Velvet Teen, Etta James, The Thermals, The Marvelettes, The Temptations, Iron & Wine, New Bomb Turks, Irish DeMent, The Robot Ate Me, Captured by Robots, Atmosphere, Belle & Sebastion, Jesus & Mary Chain, Delgados, Neva Dinova, Josie Cotton, French Kicks, Trachtenburg Family Slide Show, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Nick Drake, Velvet Goldmine soundtrack, Echo & the Bunnymen, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Billy Bragg, ... and a whole shit ton of other stuff just like this yet totally different.
Anything by Mel Brooks, Young Frankenstein is my favourtite film. I also love love love John Waters. B-movies (horror and science fiction before 1980) especially Night of the Lepas. Classic sci-fi and horror movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbiden Planet, Trog, and so forth. Hitchcock of course. North by Northwest is my favourite of his. I really really love Vincent Price and anything he is in. Also Kung-Fu like the Killing of Satan, that one has laser beams!!! i adore horror films that take themselves too seriously. oh and French films about pianos...i don't know why.
the late and great Freaks and Geeks, Flight of the Conchords, Mystery Science Theater 3000, get Smart, Reno 9-11, Upright Citizens Brigade, Strangers with Candy, Saturday Night Live(all of it, even during the Piscapo years), the Daily Show, Family Guy, Louis Theroux, Pete and Pete, and so on...
books on the history of funeral practices like, the english way of death by julian litten and the death of kings by clifford brewer. i just finished reading born standing up, steve martin's autobiography, kiss me like a stranger, gene wilder's autobiography. its fantastic. Louis Theroux's Call of the Weird is the best thing i've read in years!!! Not So Still Life, by Jimmy Ernst, its a biography/autobiography about growing up with his Dadist/Surrealist father Max Ernst. I love memoirs about regular people but I also enjoy a good fiction. Anything by Irvine Welsh and Chuck Palahniuk. One of my favourite authors is David Gilmour, who wrote my favorite book, Sparrow Nights. Hairstyles of the Damned, by Joe Meno. Morvern Callar by Alan Warner is a great, there's a movie but it isn't near as good as the book. I really like JD Salinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov, Jonathan Lethem, Adrian McKinty and Toby Young, who wrote, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, it's funny. I also enjoy a good serial killer book...i don't care if that makes me creepy or not, i think it's interesting.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
ed wood jr., gene wilder, and steve mcqueen