Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, PJ Harvey, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Soundgarden, Ryan Adams, Audioslave, Nick Drake, Muse, Elliot Smith, McAlmont and Butler, Led Zeppelin, Steely Dan, Marvin Gaye, Jeff Buckley, John Martyn, Neil Young, any band with Johhny Marr playing guitar, Tommy Emmanuel, Frank Sinatra, Scott Matthews, Metallica... not so much of a theme, more a Supermarket Sweep dash-through of HMV.
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Movies
Bladerunner, Blues Brothers, Amelie, His Girl Friday, The Searchers, The Big Sleep, Ace In The Hole, The Philadelphia Story, Superman, Goodfellas, Lost In Translation, Sideways, Toy Story, Spirited Away, Kentucky Fried Movie, Platoon, any Sergio Leone, most Clint Eastwood. And cinema's finest achievement: Jupiter's Darling.
Anyway, what makes a favourite movie? Some times the crappest peice of fiction can draw you in, other times you look at Citizen Kane and shrug 'spoilt bastard, why should I care?'
Television
Original Star Trek, accept no substitutes. West Wing, Doctor Who, Deadwood, My Name Is Earl. Any TV play by Dennis Potter or Alan Plater. Currently Heroes and Lost are the most fun on telly- Lost is like an anthology show of twisted family relations, with mystical undertones and Heroes is simply the best adaptation of a Marvel comic ever, even though it wasn't a comic originally. Brilliant.
Books
Sirens Of Titan- Kurt Vonnegut, just genius; Demolished Man- Alfred Bester- the one novel I'd slay bunnies to get to do design/storyboard work on a movie adaptation; To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee, Atticus Finch is one of the most perfect evocations of an 'ordinairy' hero; Thomas Pychon's 'V' a novel I hated but was determined to finish which -in the last few pages- became a work of genius; any James Ellroy. Watchmen and V for Vendetta just because. Batman:Year One- Miller and Mazzuchelli, the most perfect synthesis of writer and artist in modern American comics; On the general comics front- The Spirit, Tintin, Asterix the Gaul, Blueberry. Slaine by Pat Mills and Mick McMahon, Nemesis by Pat Mills and Kev O'Neil...
Heroes
Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Norman Rockwell, Will Eisner, Gil Kane, Frank Bellamy, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Neal Adams, John Buscema, Jim Starlin, John M.Burns, John Byrne, John Wagner, Alan Grant, Steve Bell, Brendan McCarthy, Bilal, William H.Macy, Steve Buscemi, Warren Oates, Johnny Depp, and the ultimate: William Shatner.
Mike Collins's Details
Status:
Married
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
WEST BROMWICH
Religion:
Catholic
Zodiac Sign:
Taurus
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
College graduate
Mike Collins's Schools
Brunel University
Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Graduated: 1984
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: POLITICS
Minor: HISTORY
Clubs: RAG
1979 to 1984
Mike Collins Dredd, Who and some Joes... Posted at 9:49 AM Aug 10 view more
About me: I draw stuff- comics, illustrations, storyboards, steamed up windows.... it's not so much of a job as a terminal compulsion that I get paid for, luckily, otherwise I'd be stuck in a gutter somewhere doodling in the mud.
Currently the artist on Panini's DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE comic-strip; I digitally paint book covers for STAR TREK novels from Pocket Books; I'm storyboarding a new nursery age puppet show HANA'S HELPLINE for S4C and Channel 5 and preschool show CYM TEG for Dinamo and S4C; and write and draw a regular half-page monster fightin' strip MATTHEW DAEMON for the august journal of the unusual, THE WEEKLY WORLD NEWS.
I've tried that blog thing too- but pathetically, done little with it.... http://freakhouse-graphics.blogspot.com/
And I've got an almost as badly neglected website (recently extended but not by much!)- www.freakhousegraphics.co.uk
Who I'd like to meet: Archbishop Talleyrand.
Johnny Cash.
...and alive... Tom Waits. My hero- as improbable and ludicrous as he should be, he manages to carry it all off deftly.
Joni Mitchell. However, in my mind she's still fresh faced and mid twenties with all her dreams to fulfill.... whereas she's really the same age as my mom, and that's just weird. You hang on to a vision of folks as they were in their prime.
Ingrid Bergman, Katherine Hepburn, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth-- however, see above.
Hey, thanks for becoming part of my "friend" space! I'm looking to get more plugged in with creatives worldwide through this social network.
Wow, Doctor Who AND Judge Dredd! You must be in British fanboy heaven! I always feel like I'm time traveling myself when I watch the good Doctor in a '60s, '70s or '80s TV show.
Speaking of time travel, my Xeric grant winning book "Jazz: Cool Birth" is now at Aazurn. com, a murder mystery in a 1957 jazz bar, with art and type based on '50s album cover design, dig? Bebop for your glims.
I'm looking forward to exploring the MySpace pages of all of my new "friends" (Man, does that sound square).
Si ostinano a farti credere che nasci nudo...ma il tuo corpo non è il tuo vestito? they persist to let you belive that you born naked...but your body is a dress,isnt it?
Sudnoissenza-The Deceptive Real Imaginary World
this song is on our myspace...you can hear it and if you like, you can add it into your my space questo è il nostro nuovo pezzo ...lo potete ascoltare sullo space e addarlo nella vostra pagina se vi piace
Great to see you at the Expo again mate.Thanks for the album. I'll plug it on my comics blog soon. Didn't take many pics this year so instead I'll be combining a mini photo gallery with reviews of a few comics (such as yours) that I acquired over the weekend. Gotta wind down from the event first though. :)
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