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Marc

"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Pink Floyd,Grateful Dead,Yes,Ozric Tentacles, Sigur Ros, Bjork,Corvus Corax, Irfan, Dead Can Dance, Peter Gabriel

Movies:

2001, Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, Barry Lyndon, Dreams,The Lord of the Rings, Amelie, The City of Lost Children, Dark City, Blade Runner, Conan the Barbarian, Excalibur, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Lion in Winter, Kingdom of Heaven, Spirited Away,Totoro, Pan's Labyrinth, 300, Faerie Tale

Television:

Current:Dexter,True Blood Cancelled: Samurai Jack, Six feet Under, Rome, Deadwood

Books:

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, Dune, Stranger in a Strange Land, Musashi, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The King of Elflands's Daughter,Lud in the Mist, Kipling, Borges, The Silmarillion, A Pattern Language, The Merlin Trilogy, ERB Mars series, Hellboy, Sandman

Heroes:

Stanley Kubrick, William Morris, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, Akira Kurosawa, Eyvind Earle, Hayao Miyazaki, Mary Blair, JRR Tolkien, NC Wyeth, Joseph Campbell, Walt Disney, Bruegel the Elder, Jack Kirby, Mike Mignola, Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Kay Nielsen, Gustaf Tenggren, John Bauer, Alphonse Mucha, Chrissy and my kids

My Blog

You like this Blog? You should see my other one.....

My MySpace blog tends to be a collection of rants complaints and whines. If you enjoy that, you should check out my other blog: http://marchudgins.blogspot.com. It’ s my blog where I rant, compl...
Posted by Marc on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:37:00 PST

What’s in a Name redux

Ha, Ha changed my name again. I've been churning ideas about online identity again and I've been looking for someting that resonates better. The name I'm using now still applies to that post about how...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:10:00 PST

Revelations Revisited

I haven't felt quite right about leaving my first impression of the Revelations workshop sit as it was. My blog post on it was an accurate reflection of how I was feeling during the event (tired, home...
Posted by Marc on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:50:00 PST

Revelations: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

For the last 3 days I've been attending ConceptArt.org's annual workshop in Seattle. It is billed as the greatest gathering of cutting-edge artists from the world of film, games and illustration, all ...
Posted by Marc on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:37:00 PST

Skelendur is Dead, Long Live Carnildo

Well, it's time to retire Skelendur. He had a good run, but to be honest, he kind of snuck out the back door and I haven't seen him in a while so I figure it's time for a new handle here. I've been wa...
Posted by Marc on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:53:00 PST

The Nightmare Before Christmas

So being the busy, disorganized, sort of people we are, we left our Halloween provisioning/planning until this weekend. It would appear, according to the content of the store shelves that Halloween mu...
Posted by Marc on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:25:00 PST

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

For those of you who have both Chrissy and I as cyber-pals, you this might be a repeat -but hey, you get to hear the story told two different ways. This was too good a story to leave alone.it was a da...
Posted by Marc on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:42:00 PST

Marked for Life

Well I finally went and did it. At this relatively late point in my life, I went and got me a tattoo. Not that this was a sudden idea or as some may suspect a manifestation of a midlife crisis. Rather...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:55:00 PST

The House of Mouse

Whew! We just flew back from Walt Disney World and boy are my arms tired!Still there?Yes, we finally made the pilgrimage to Orlando and I have to say I can't wait to go back. There is something truly ...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:56:00 PST

Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry

"The U.S. government has vowed that Americans will never be hungry again. But they may experience "very low food security.""http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti cle/2006/11/15/AR2006111501...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:18:00 PST