1960s las vegas, 1960s mod fashion, antique furniture, cocktails, collecting old records, dada, filmmaking, paranormal, photography, steampunk, surrealism, theremin, tiki culture, turn-of-the-century spiritualism, vaudeville, victorian medical curiosities, victorian mourning customs, vintage clothing, wwii history
Music
Frank Sinatra and the rest of the Rat Pack, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Arthur Lyman, Doris Day, Serge Gainsbourg, 1940-60's music, Exotica and Lounge, Old Country, Outsider Music, Spy Music, Tango, Neofolk, Old Industrial, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Leonard Cohen, The Velvet Underground, etc.
Movies
Blue Velvet, Fight Club, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Cemetery Man, Heathers, Secretary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Suspiria, Shaun of the Dead, Donnie Darko, Ghostworld, Shallow Grave, Santa Sangre, Rubin and Ed, Spellbound, James Bond flicks, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Leni Riefenstahl, Brothers Quay, Kenneth Anger, Dario Argento, Federico Felini, Alfred Hitchcock
Television
Carnivale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, X-Files, Twin Peaks, Doctor Who, Torchwood, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, True Blood, Absolutely Fabulous
Books
Lots....however, I really dig Hunter S. Thompson, Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson, Jim Goad, Dorothy Parker, HG Wells.
About me: I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. - Dorothy Parker
Who I'd like to meet: Those with a dark and absurd sense of humor, swanky people, lounge lizards, boys with shexy accents, eccentrics, cynics, sideshow freaks and misanthropes.
THE JIM ROSE CIRCUS VS. JAKE THE SNAKE ROBERTS TOUR we are looking for wrestlers,variety,burlesque,comics,freak show and circus acts..PLEASE message us here..if you are a BAND please get us contact info for your local promoter that is INTERESTED in booking this show.. message us here too..if we get the booking because of your contact info you can open for us..please dont have managers contacting us unless they have a gig with guarantees..we dont do door deals..sorry for sounding harsh on that one...FANS FANS FANS this show is going to be amazing..keep checking this site for tour dates and updates we start on the west coast july 3rd thanks jim
Hey! How's it going? I am so glad summer is coming - more time for movies.
This month I'm promoting this Indie Film - "Preaching to the Perverted" - a spicy English Dominatrix thriller!
Watch this film online today ($4) at http://www.eyesoda.com/film/89 and help create a new channel for indie filmmakers!
Preaching to the Perverted
WHAT?: ZOM-Bowl A Thon is a Fundraiser for a Local Horror/Comedy/Zombie/Bowling Film Called "ATOM THE AMAZING ZOMBIE KILLER" by coming to this event , you will be helping make this film Possible!!! COME BOWL FOR INDEPENDENT ART! WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE THIS FILM POSSIBLE! (myspace.com/AtomtheZombiekiller)
WHERE: GOLDEN BOWL
WHEN: MAY 2, 2009
TIME: 6PM-10PM
HOW MUCH: ONLY $25 dollars (Which will go to Producing the film "ATom the Amazing Zombie Killer" )
YOU WILL GET
5 Games of Bowling!!!!
FREE Shoe Rental
FREE FOOD
FREE LIVE Entertainment (SOme Kick Ass Bands!)
FREE Door Prizes
PLUS! come dressed up as a zombie and get a FREE PRIZE !!! Totally FREE!
Hi jim rose here. yes im the actor who plays the caveman on the commercials so now you have something to tease me about the next time we see each other. Im going to be in your area in the summer hosting rock shows and writing a new book about the people I meet on the road. We should throw a small party together. If you want to hang out ,message me at my other site here www. myspace. com/toohotforfizzle or go to my top friend(same site) We dont read the messages at the circus site. we are getting too many to handle there There are too many there and hard to manage