Films, films, films, indie comics, films, music, films, drawing, Louise Brooks, films, painting, films, Goonies, films, Musique concrète, films, reading, films, the video games, films, animation, films, WWI, films, outer space, silent films, the 1920's, prohibition and the gangsters of old, zombie attacks, films, UK comedy, comedy, Canadian comedy, stand up comedy, unintentional comedy, WWII, films, hobos and riding the rails, dinosaurs.
Music
I like variety of music, a lot of rock/pop/punk/new wave/electro/electronic, a lot of instrumental (especially film soundtrack music), as for rap I like old 80's early stuff, but not a whole lot of current stuff (with some exceptions), as for jazz I like old prohibition era jazz, or big band music mostly. Favorite bands include... The Pixies, Figurine, The Polyphonic Spree, The Arcade Fire, Sigur Rós, The Postal Service, The Clash, Mellow, Devo, Gary Numan, Jon Brion, Yann Tiersen, Pizzicato Five, The Clash, Built to Spill, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Teenage Fanclub, Mates of State, Weezer, The Flaming Lips, The Rentals, Grandaddy, Brian Eno, Elliot Smith, Dragon Force, Rocket From the Crypt, Printed Circuit, The Specials, The Buzzcocks, David Bowie, Guided by Voices, The Shins, The Frogs, Lee Harvey Oswald Band, I Am Robot and Proud, Madness, Adam Ant, A Flock of Seagulls, The Cars, New Order, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, The Velvet Underground, Queen, ELO, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Beach Boys.
Movies
I'll simply start with the obvious. Spencer Tracy totally kicks ass in Bad Day at Black Rock. Furthermore if it is a film there is a chance I would like to see it, and that I could like it. No preferences in genres, just in quality. I absolutely love seeing silent films in a theater with live music. There is really no other way to see them. Also the French sure know how to make films I tell ya. The biggies in my life are... tied for top film ever: The Graduate, and Harold and Maude. And then many others that I love (in no specific order) are Millers Crossing, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, CQ, Punch Drunk Love, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fargo, O' Brother Where Art Thou, I Heart Huckabees, Intermission, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Time Bandits, The Road to Perdition, Ravenous, The Goonies, The Three Colors Trilogy (Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge), Mad Max, ROAD WARRIOR!, Lost in Translation, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, Down By Law, Broken Flowers, Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes, Night on Earth, Playtime, Masculine Feminine, Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Cremaster Cycle, Breathless, Kontroll, About Schmidt, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Spartacus, Trekkies, Shaun of the Dead, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Alien, Office Space, Babe (yes the talking pig movie!), A Boy and His Dog, Zatoichi (new and old), The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, The Usual Suspects, Tarnation, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl, Beggars of Life, Napoleon Dynamite, Zelig, Annie Hall, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, The Bad News Bears (the original), Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (the oldie much more than the newie), Martin, Wings of Desire, Patton, Das Boot, A Bridge Too Far, Saving Private Ryan, Joyeux Noel, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Dolls, Hanabi, Zatoichi, Primer, Nashville, Popeye, Shortcuts, Gosford Park, Throw Momma From The Train, Silence of the Lambs, Layer Cake, Waiting For Guffman, Stranger Than Fiction, Anchorman, Taladega Nights, Evil Dead 2, Kill Bill (both as a whole), Jackie Brown. Oh so many more. If it's projected on a screen I will at least want to see it once (well there probably are some exceptions, such as if it says "directed by Michael Bay" in the trailer). A rough incomplete list of some of my favorite film makers is... Jean-Pierre Jeunet, The Coen Brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Takeshi Kitano. The Milwaukee Film Festival is now my yearly obsession. I see more films in 11 days than most people see in a year. I LOVES me some films! I probably watched one today.
Television
Probably too much. I watch very little current US television, but a lot of current UK TV (mostly comedy). This list's an amalgamation of everything I've liked my entire life including whatever is on now. You may notice a certain level of nerd quality. The Simpsons (ad infinitum, I'm a walking encyclopedia of Simpsons knowledge), Futurama, QI (WITH THE AMAZING STEPHEN FRY!), Mystery Science Theater 3000 (one of the best television shows in history and second only to SCTV as the most influential in my life of humor), SCTV, Father Ted!, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Black Books, Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen, Spaced, The Young Ones, Bottom, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, The Office, Extras, Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Kids in the Hall, Who's Line is it Anyway (the original with the great Clive Anderson much more than the US version) The Prisoner (!!!! one of the best non-comedy television shows in history!), Home Movies, Carnivale, Deadwood(!), BAND OF BROTHERS!, Rome, Freaks and Geeks, Strangers With Candy, Get a Life, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim And Eric Awesome Show: Great Job!, Metalocalypse, 30 Rock, Scrubs, The Venture Brothers, Farscape, Reno 911, King of the Hill, Dr. Katz, Everyone Loves Hypnotoad, Battle Of The Network Space Krackens, The X-Files, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek (especially The Next Generation, but ESPECIALLY SHATNER!), Random shows on the History and National Geographic channels (especially space WWII and dinosaur shows), anime... Macross, Yamato, Galaxy Express 999 (or anything Leiji Matsumoto), Mobile Suit Gundam, Dragon Ball (overboard action as an artform!), Evangelion. I'm a bit picky and old fashioned with anime. I pretty much like the stuff I grew up with as a young nerd 20 years ago, and then the odd newer series that is different from the rest (like FLCL). I also like listening to NPR, and This American Life, as well as a bunch of BBC radio shows.
Obviously I am not a person who thinks TV is a bad or inherently stupid thing. That would be like thinking literature is inherently bad just because so much of it is taken up by trash like romance novels or Danielle Steel's books. TV at it's best is an amazing art form, and that should be encouraged and embraced by "smart" people. If all the "smart" people abandon television as "the idiot box" then it won't be anything but that, but it will be our fault, not TV's.
Books
Cat's Cradle, Jimmy Corrigan: or "The Smartest Kid on Earth" is one of my favorite books, Harlan Ellison's writings are a favorite of mine as well, The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Breakfast of Champions, Of Mice and Men, The Graduate, A Confederacy of Dunces, some Bukowski, Lulu in Hollywood is a great book, Lord of the Rings, I Am Legend, The Ender series, Lost Worlds of 2001, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Little Prince (someday I will read it in the original French!). I'm like a kid again when I read the Harry Potter books, and the Hobbit is one of my lifelong favorites. In all my range of reading choices is rather varied, and tangential. And I don't read nearly as much as I should, or would like to.
Milwaukee Institute Of Art Design
Milwaukee, WISCONSIN
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Illustration
Clubs: Total Sex Quazar
1995 to 1999
South Hi
Waukesha,Wisconsin
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Winner of the Year!
About me: www.timmykkramp.com!!!Click here to go to my online store at Etsy.com and buy some junk.
I paint, and draw, and write, and I watch movies the way a lot of people breath (heavily, and with a bit of wheezing desperation). It is my main hobby other than my art, which is more of a necessity than a hobby. But I find that film is taking over more and more of my life. My biggest goal other than supporting myself entirely with my art is to finish and have published my graphic novel, a 1960's set post apocalyptic love story. Now if only I can complete the writing I could start on the final art. Influences on my art range from 50's graphic art styles, to mod 60's fashion and a whole lot of art deco 1920's fashions for characters and design sensibilities. In other words my artistic influences are not so much other specific artists or art (with a few exceptions), but just artistic and design sensibilities that speak to me. Other things... I'm now learning to speak French, but I just started recently, and have hit many a speed bump with canceled courses and whatnot, so I'm still quite crummy. It may take a while. I'm a rather (very) shy person unless it involves getting up on stage in front of a group of strangers and acting like an idiot. Then I will leap up with aplomb. I am actually de-aging, which is fantastic. I literally look younger now than I did five years ago. I have Photic sneeze reflex. Do you? It's radical. I enjoy riding my bike when the weather, my iPod battery, and my mood allow me to. I can play no instruments (at least not competently), and yet I've created quite a few pieces of music under various guises (one is named FistBEAM). I can human beat box rather well. I don't like sports at all except for Sumo Wrestling (really).
And finally... this is some of my art...............................................
Who I'd like to meet: 1. Joel Hodgeson
2. Frank Conniff
3. Matt "Creator of Zoidberg" Groening
4. Curtis Armstrong
5. Jeff Cohen
6. Gedde Watanabe
7. Louise Brooks
8. Audrey Tautou
9. Tim "TimandEric.com" Heidecker, and Eric "TimandEric.com" Wareheim
10. Will Ferrell
11. David Alan Grier
12. Louis C. K.
13. Dave Attell
14. Harlan Ellison (though I'm sure he'd think I was an idiot)
15. William Shatner
