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Stephen T (alias Northwood Cox)

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About Me

What, really, is there to know? I'll notify everyone when I've done even a single thing worth shouting about. Until then, let's just assume I'm in a tentative state of stasis.

My Interests

The infinite, etc.

I'd like to meet:

My true self...?

Music:

Cursive, Tool, Minus the Bear, the Beatles, Murder By Death, Sharks Keep Moving, Wu-Tang, Broken Social Scene, Jack Johnson, The Monkee's, the Shins, Beulah, Kevin Drew, Feist, Death Cab for Cutie, Cat Stevens, Arlo Guthrie, Donovan, the Good Life, Dr. Dog, Iron and Wine, Band of Horses, Georgie James, Luna Sol Terra, Radiohead, OutKast, Gnarls Barkley, The Strokes, Herman's Hermits

Movies:

Fight Club, Casablanca, Midnight Cowboy, Full Metal Jacket, Seven, The Rules of Attraction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Big Lebowski, Suicide Kings, Mystery Train, Requiem for a Dream, Happiness, Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn, The Incredibles, Sin City, Coffee & Cigarettes, Starship Troopers, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk Til Dawn, Star Wars IV-VI, Trainspotting, Belly, 25th Hour, Bamboozled, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, I Heart Huckabees, Crumb, Wisconsin Death Trip, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, Roger & Me, Maybe Logic, Mean Streets, Raging Bull, Gangs of New York, Out of Sight, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Blade Runner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Boondock Saints, Leon the Professional, Scarface, Run Lola Run, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Ninja Bachelor Party, The Children of Men, Cloverfield, Hot Fuzz, Shoot 'Em Up

Television:

Arrested Development, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, South Park, The Joy of Painting w/ Bob Ross, Futurama, Mr. Show, Home Movies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Brothers, The Daily Show w/ John Stewart, Family Guy, American Dad, Strangers With Candy, The Twilight Zone (Rod Serling b&w era), Louisiana Cooking w/ Justin Wilson, The X-Files, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, The Critic, Black Adder, Inside The Actor's Studio w/ James "The Bard Reincarnate" Lipton, The Office (both UK and US versions), Ghost Hunters, My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, Jeeves and Wooster, Harvey Birdman, Mission Hill, Clone High, The Colbert Report, Scrubs, Dexter, Shin Chan, Saul of the Mole Men, Jon Safran Vs. God

Books:

Masks of the Illuminati, Prometheus Rising, Cosmic Trigger I-III, The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles and Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson; All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren; The Pains of April and The God File by Frank Turner Hollon; Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, Filth, and Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh; IT, The Stand, The Long Walk, The Dark Tower I-VII, Different Seasons, Misery, Hearts in Atlantis and Rage by Stephen King; The Beach and The Tesseract by Alex Garland; Rules of Attraction, American Psycho and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis; The Straw Men and The Upright Man by Michael Marshall (né Smith); The Invisibles, Arkham Asylum and We3 by Grant Morrison; Watchmen, Voice of the Fire, From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta and A Disease of Language by Alan Moore; Syrup, Jennifer Government and Company by Max Barry; Slaughterhouse-5, Mother Night and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut; Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson; Blood Meridian and The Road by Cormac McCarthy; To the White Sea by James Dickey; I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan; Fight Club, Survivor, Choke and Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk; Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen; Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things, American Gods and The Sandman (so far Absolute volumes I and II) by Neil Gaiman; The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett; Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; If Chins Could Kill and Make Love* (*the Bruce Campbell way) by Bruce Campbell; Red Dragon by Thomas Harris; Liber Aleph by Aleister Crowley; Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card; Achewood Vol. I-VII by Chris Onstad; Breaking Open the Head and 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck; A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller; A Scanner Darkly, VALIS and The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick; My Dark Places, American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy; Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, The Acme Novelty Library (the big red book and #'s 16-18) and Quimby the Mouse by Chris Ware; Sway by Zachary Lazar; Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman; Will Storr Vs. The Supernatural by Will Storr; THEM and The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

My Blog

for archival purposes

Tired of this being on the main page, but too attached to it as a piece of my own writing despite the rambling nature and macho posturing. I'm such a lazy writer that I'll probably keep it around unti...
Posted by Stephen T (alias Northwood Cox) on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:12:00 PST