*** FIRE, FIRE, FIRE....... and fire. Fire's not bad either.
*** Alternative lifestyles and revolutionary ideas that WORK...... I’ve been around all the ones that don’t. I hope Obama's for real.
*** The Producrion/Arts Process - ever expanding ways of making those amazing pictures in your head into realities, and the arenas in which to do them.
*** Illusions, Spectacles, and Things From The World Of Wonder - I want everyone to overcome their pettinesses and conflicts by staring wide-eyed at something so incredible, that they can’t think negatively any more.
*** The Beautiful People ...... and what got them that way.
*** Ways of being good to people but still pushing the world forward... doing my piece
Music
Glitch Mob. Freaq Nasty. Haj. DJ Edit and DJ Lauren. Vinyl Slut..... some Scottish songster called Flambeaux with a nasal voice.......
Movies
Apart from 'Gothkill-The Soul Collector' (www.gothkill.com) starring me & my P-Cult, and The River Of Copsa Mica (www.sharktankdiver.com?TheRiver) with me and my P-Cult, there is;
The Devils of Ludon, Caligula, Queen Marget, The Claim, and definitely Buffallo 66. Amarcord by Fellinni, Visitor to a Museum (USSR), Time of the Gypsies (Yugoslavia), Spartacus, Eyes Wide Shut, A.I. and Doctor Strangelove. Breakfast on Pluto. Lolita with Peter Sellers and with Jeremy Irons. Anything with Malcolm McDowell. I'm a sucker for Moulin Rouge.
Hedwig, of course. The Life Acquatic. Performance by Nick Roeg (Mick Jagger). Abra tus Ochos and Vanilla Sky. The Cube, Romy and Michelles' High School Reunion and Clueless - true classics. Fear and Loathing, of course. Solaris. Charade with Audrey Hepburn and any Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn movies. The Others and Beloved. Favourite cheesy romance - Out Of Sight with George Clooney and JLo. Boys of the Head. EVERYTHING Christina Ricci even walked past - specially Monster, The Oppositte of Sex and Black Snake Moan. I KNOW it wasn't a classic but Christina Ricci was a nympho on a CHAIN fur Chrissakes!
Television
Channel 13 - PBS. I'm priveleged to be the fire-breather in their main station ID ad and I LOOOOOOVVVVVVEEEEE them! The rest of TV can go f**k itself...... apart from the Riches, Arrested Development and believe it or not, Friday Night Lights
Books
'Cry to Heaven'- Anne Rice
'Pillars of the Earth' - Ken Follett.
H.G. Wells was a great greatest historian and wrote 'The History of the World, Parts One and Two' that Monthy Python did a take on.
Heroes
Spartacus, William Wallace, James Bond, David Bowie, Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed.
Archbishop Romero of San Salvador but definitely not JP2. Yassir Arafat AND Golda Meir.
I am Flambeaux, master of flames, ex-vagabond and clown, pyro artist for the stars, shaman and performer who doesn't mind the struggle as much as you might think.
I am a multi-faceted visual artist in many mediums- painting, sculptured costumes, props, words and music... But most of all, I am a producer of beauty and controversy; using FIRE and the flames which I love. I also make sure to include beautiful women whom I adore, for in them dwells the goddess of fire my one true lover. (That's right baby! I'll- make you a fire star!)
My waters run deep and I fear never getting all of what's inside of my heart out into the world! That would be simply AWFUL!
I left Scotland in 1987, young and penniless journeying to live in a world of my own creation, criss-crossing the globe, finally resting in America and New York City; my beloved Babylon and Field of Dreams. It was wild, hard and dangerous; with beauty peeping through the cracks... It's upon those cracks that I have built my vision... a vision based on FIRE.
I have worked hard to become the most extreme and fantastical fire-performer possible. After much time and hard work I am now there and humbly approach you and the gods for the privilege of moving to even greater achievements and heights.
My intentions are good, and I am a romantic, it's true - but I ain't no sucker! I remain faithful to standing for what is outside of the norm and what is challenging. Sometimes, that puts me in the firing line, but I'm not afraid to fight for my beliefs.
I hide nothing- why should I? Even mistakes one has made, hold a host of potential lessons. Besides, all we are IS potential. So be it.
Who I'd like to meet: ***Artists - artists who are focussing their powers on success, but using their OWN formulae to achieve it. ***Lovers - lovers of who we are and what we do. Lovers for a healthy bed too. ***Pyros - pyros who, like me, seek not to destroy but to create. ***Mentors - in the arts, acting, business, production, the ways of the world.
Mr. Flambeaux, or as I know you...Chris! Starfish here...I miss you terribly! I moved to brooklyn a month ago..I didn'tk now you were here! We must get together! You know the numbers!
In addition to all this, he's a movie star as well. Check out Flambeaux in action in a rough cut highlights trailer of the work in progress GothKill...The Soul Collector: http://www.gothkill.com
Flambeaux and I go back about a thousand years or so. I was always trying to forge a Pan-Celtic alliance from behind the scenes, while Flambeaux was always the one to attract attention to himself. He really knew how to work a crowd. He could get an entire vilage to follow us into battle. We hung together in Scotland once...literally...from a tree...we were strung up by the enemy. Another time, he got himself burned at the stake. I got away that time...well, the next day my ship went down and I was drowned, but I still got away. This time, it's gonna be different. This time, instead of instigating rebellions and plotting to overthrow some king, Flambeaux has a better idea. World domination through...show business. I don't quite understand it, but I'm in. Anything's better than trying to unite the tribes and the clans again.
