Guitar, Piano, Music Theory, Poker, Billiards, Live Music, Puns, Movies, Illustration, Cartooning, Deep Thinkers, Black Licorice, Laughing, Books, Strange and Unusual Stuff.
Music
It can go anywhere - Regina Spektor, Tom Waits, Cheap Trick, Bela Fleck, Joss Stone, Interpol, Blink 182, Blondie, Coil, Concrete Blonde, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, BB King, Joe Walsh, Buddy Guy, Cake, AC/DC, Bob Dylan, Devo, Adam Ant, Aerosmith, TCM, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Ani DiFranco, Annie Lennox, Daft Punk, NIN, Aphex Twin, The Bangles, Ben Folds Five, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, KMFDM, Mark Knopfler, Massive Attack, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Weird Al Yankovic, ZZ Top, Letters to Cleo, Three Dog Night, Tool, Neil Diamond, Ozzy, Warren Zevon, Pink Floyd, Seu Jorge, Less Than Jake, Type O Negative, Van Halen, Supertramp, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, Tenacious D, The Police, Moog Cookbook, Mr. Bungle/Faith No More, Thrill Kill Cult, Bjork, Frank Sinatra (and all the Rat Pack), Janis Joplin, Prince, Primus, The Stones, Ry Cooder, Blues Traveler, Chingon. Blues, Rock, 80's New Wave, Jazz, Weird Stuff. Classical: Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin.
And I'm always looking for new stuff. I really want to hear more local bands.
Movies
In no particular order: Kurosawa Films, Star Wars, Casablanca, Donnie Darko, Tremors, The Apartment, Citizen Kane, Rock & Rule, Streets of Fire, Lake Placid, Trilogy of Terror, CHUD, Darkman, Joe vs. the Volcano, Gross Pointe Blank, Sneakers, I Heart Huckabees, Buckaroo Banzai, The Last Starfighter, Big Trouble in Little China, Krull, Clash of the Titans, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, The Muppet Movie, Conan Memento, Clay Pigeons, Suicide Kings, Say Anything, Heathers, The Last Dragon, The Iron Giant, The Road Warrior, Malice, Cube, Dead Alive, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Manchurian Candidate (the Original), The Goonies, Back to the Future I & II, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pleasantville, Slience of the Lambs, Megaforce, Night of the Living Dead - just to name a few.
Television
Lost, The Whedonverse (Buffy, Angel, Firefly), Knight Rider, Buck Rogers, The Family Guy, The Twilight Zone, The Great Space Coaster, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman. Saturday Morning Cartoons of the 80's, Loony Tunes.
Books
Authors: Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Dean Koontz, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Terry Pratchett, Rudy Rucker
Fiction: The Life of Pi, The Time Machine, The Voyage of The Dawn Treader, Flatland, Paradise Lost, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, A Wrinkle in Time, Brave New World, The Descent, Stranger in a Strange Land, Johnny Got His Gun, A Clockwork Orange, Snowcrash, Inherit the Wind.
Nonfiction: Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, Dean and Me, See No Evil, Freakonomics, Nietzsche, Freud, Bones, The Holographic Universe, A Brief History of Time, Jean Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness, Aristotle, Sophocles, Plato, Mark Twain - What is Man?
Heroes
My Father and Brothers.
(Most of the other heroes I wanted to meet are dead): Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Bruce Lee, Toshiro Mifune, Aristotle (which would be interesting, but I'm sure it'd all be Greek to me ::rimshot::), Alfred Hitchcock, John F. Kennedy, Ingrid Bergman, Dali, Groucho Marx, Walt Disney, Johnny Carson, Jim Henson, Bill Hicks, Picasso
WWW.ARTIFICIALGRAPHICS.COM is my actual site! That's where I'm at. You can reach me there. My blog is there. My webcomic is there. K? Go now!
I was born and raised in Northern Virginia. I had a pretty normal childhood. In my teenage years I wore a lot of black but I had fun. I started my career in Design and Illustration at 17. I've worked with Industrial Light and Magic, Thomas Dolby, and Art Monk of the Washington Redskins. I've met a lot of top individuals in the industry. I was there in Silicon Valley during the dot com crash (although I take no credit for it). Now at 32 I'm starting to re-evaluate my life. I'm a Democrat sometimes Anarchist. I'm doing a lot of soul searching, trying to figure out who I am and what I'm supposed to do with the rest of my life. I like reading and watching old movies. I'm trying to learn to play music. I have some guitars and keyboards and I write about my learning in my Rock God blog. I am a cartoonist and enjoy doodling when I'm feeling creative.
I'm also big into Lost and have my Addicted to Lost blog. Give it a read and post your comments!
By the way, all art you see on my profile is done by me.
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone respectful and kind. Anyone that has the time. Don't use me and I'll be your friend. Don't be rude and I'll stay to the end. I'll be faithful and true - I only ask the same of you.
