Comics, Novels, Antidepressant medication, Boys who look like girls, Star Wars figures, New York in the 1960's, Paris in the 19th century, Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries, Learning French to read Rimbaud, Dying in something other than desperate ignominy
Music
Smashing Pumpkins, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Animal Collective, Velvet Underground, Andrew Bird, White Stripes.. Skip James, East River String Band, Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf, Apples in Stereo, Radiohead, Stolen Babies, Kander and Ebb, Billie Holiday, Dresden Dolls, Danny Elfman, Death Cab for Cutie, Rufus Wainwright, Goldfrapp, Scissor Sisters, Bjork. Umm.. Set the Ray to Jerry! The soundtrack to any Tarantino film.
Movies
Check out the list in my blog.
Television
Don't watch any TV. I do buy Sopranos as it comes on DVD, also X-Files, and Powerpuff Girls.
Books
I'm going to assume "books" includes comics and list favorite illustrators, some of whom would include: R. Crumb, Marjane Satrapi, Becky Cloonan, Um.. Frazer Irving, Kristian, Pete Woods, of course Bill Watterson, Winsor McCay, obvious ones like Frank Miller, ones who didn't really draw "comics", like Thomas Nast and John Tenniel. Keith Haring. I'm really interested in a black-and-white pen-and-ink look at the moment, as that list probably shows. As far as "books" like "novels", I like too many to list here... I also really like "inspirational" books, such as A Child Called It, which inspired me to start feeding children bleach.
Heroes
Hmmm.. Heroes.. Bob Dylan. Michael Moore. Batman. And Squee.
I just finished a novel and am working on editing the first draft. Wanna publish it? I have another, unfinished, novel that I've done maybe 250 pages or so of. I write comics and prose, and don't plan to limit myself to one or the other.
I've also started drawing said comics... I'd also be interested in drawing/co-illustrating comics that other people have written or that I've co-written with them.. basically, being collaborative on this appeals to me.
About me:
"They give patients in a mental institution baskets to make or finger-paints, and this work helps general health. That's also why I make films" -Woody Allen
"If I don't draw for a while, I get really crazy ... get really depressed and suicidal if I don't get to draw. But then, sometimes when I'm drawing I feel suicidal, too, so..." -R. Crumb
I write things, and sometimes I draw things. These days I've been writing and drawing a comic strip called "A Waste of Time," which is posted in my blog here.
Who I'd like to meet: In no order, R. Crumb, Woody Allen, Billy Corgan, Tom Waits, Alan Moore, George Lucas, Craig McCracken, Kurt Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, Tim Burton, Julie Andrews, George Romero, Ian McKellen, Bill Watterson, David Chase, Conor Oberst, Hayden Christensen, Thomas Harris, Eddie Izzard, Bryan Lee O'Malley.
I haven't yet met Truman Capote, Bob Fosse, Stanley Kubrick, Roald Dahl, Alfred Kinsey, Charles Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Andy Wahol, or Caravaggio, for want of a shovel.
I have a graphic novel that I'm working on, which I would love to have your feedback on (it's located in my pictures; comments welcome). I'm also looking for models for the book (use their likeness as characters in the book)
