Special Effects Makeup and Mask making, Horror and SF films, doodling, sideshows, carnies, hustlers, swindlers, card sharps, and non-greasy-tuxed, non-animal-and-women-torturing magicians. Both of them. Making my kids laugh by being an ass. I just discovered and fell in love with an old aluminum rowboat.
Eating Slovak delicacies prepared by my sainted wife. I make the best damned egg rolls in the universe. After an absence of several years, I'm being drawn back into martial arts and weapons rebuilding... Yagyu Shinkage-ryu and Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu, iaiado and naginatajutsu.
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Music
Rob Zombie, XM Chill and Audio Visions, Reverend Horton Heat, Pendulum, Gary Numan, Ultravox, bluegrass guitar and banjo, Tangerine Dream, Yes, pre-JW/unpronounceable-symbol Prince, Goldfrapp, Linda Ronstadt, Motorhead, Kate Bush, Tool, Scorn, NIN, Peter Gabriel, Soundgarden, Sex Pistols and The Ramones.
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Electronic
Drum & Bass
Hard Rock
Prog Rock
Glam Rock
Ambient
Movies
King Kong (all of them, even the '76 one that screwed Rick Baker... it was seminal to my artistic development at the time); Bride of Frankenstein, Highlander, Pitch Black, Manhattan, The Thing, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Alien et al, Star Wars Trilogy, Wrath of Khan, Mighty Peking Man, From Dusk 'til Dawn, Sean Connery Bond, Planet of the Vampires, Pulp Fiction, Life is Beautiful, Robot Carnival, House of 1,000 Corpses, Pink Panther, Underworld, Batman Returns and Begins, Amazon Women on the Moon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Forbidden Planet, every single Godzilla, Abbott & Costello, Kurosawa and Woody Allen film made.
Television
...is mostly a pointless waste of valuable time when I could be creating things. Except for Deadwood. And Carnivale, RIP... also, slightly ashamed to be a Law and Order rerun junkie, all of them.
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Books
Demon Haunted World by Sagan, Flim Flam by James Randi, How to Play in Traffic by P and T, Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer, Lathe of Heaven by Ursuls K. le Guin, Stage Makeup by Richard Corson, Grande Illusions I and II by Tom Savini, Rendezvous with Rama by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Secrets of the Sideshow by Joe Nickell.
Heroes
HUB CITY HELLRAZORS! WOOOHOOO!!!
Frank Thorne, Artie Fritz, Chick 'June' Melillo and his crazy, talented wife; Al Dudash, Paul Tapovci, Stephen Vircik... Woody Allen, Hans Ruedi Giger, Tom Lanno, Ms. Fear, Mrs. Ward, Bob Burns, Carl Sagan, Hunter S. Thompson, Buster Keaton, Penn and Teller, Zacherly, Howard Stern, James Randi, Vaughn Bode, Richard Corben, Forest J. Ackerman, Druillet, Moebius, Edgar Froese, Uncle Floyd, Bill Hicks, Lou Costello, Bob and Ray, Sam Kinison, Lewis Black, Ward Hall, Coney Island Todd Robbins, Pasquale Caputo, perverted Uncle Lou, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Richard Feynman, Peter Sellers, Rick Baker, Stan Winston, Peter Jackson, Dick Smith, Willis O'Brien, Ray Harryhausen, Quentin Tarantino, Stuart Freeborn, John Chambers, and Tom Savini.
I was bitten by the muse at an early age, and stand before you today at the culmination of a life (mis?)spent in the arts... theatre, film production, stop-motion animation, magic, cartooning, caricature and the graphic arts... not to mention the martial arts, in which I'm enjoying a rediscovery at 44... and, most recently, haunted house design and SFX creature and mask fabrication.
I met my wife on a Friday the 13th, wed one year later on the 13th, and am in my 14th year of marriage to an extremely tolerant, monstrously intelligent soul. We have two incredibly funny and talented kids who make Wednesday and Pugsly look like pikers. We enjoy flea markets, swimming, parks and carnivals... the rides, the smells, the food, the freaks... on and off the midway...........
Who I'd like to meet: Any fans of carnivals, monsters, film, martial arts and literature. I've made some real friends here in the last year, and I'd like that to continue.
Go to Lilith's Apple Studios and check out the new photos and prints available through the paypal shopping cart. You don't have to have paypal to buy!! Just Visa, Mastercard, AMEX or Discover.
On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. He appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Several years earlier Madison's wife threw him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?
Hey Mike, how's tricks? Whats goin' on with the Jersey Devil thing? We got some great shows coming up, first one being tonight. Would be cool to see you again. -Cheers
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