| Influences | Music: Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, Pigface, Foetus, Melvins, Coil, Big Business, KMFDM, Prick, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Cop Shoot Cop, Firewater, Dillinger Escape Plan, Johnny Cash, Head Wound City, The Countdown, Portishead, Tub Ring, Mindless Self Indulgence, Screaming Mechanical Brain, Tomahawk, VNV Nation, Evil Mothers, Killing Joke, 16 volt, Anti Pop Consortium, Celtic Frost, King Missile, Atreyu, The Agony Scene, Dimmu Borgir, Lords of Acid, Beck, Type O Negative, Bile, System of a Down, Fantomas, Meg Lee Chin, Captured by Robots, Thrones, ... industrial, experimental, punk, metal, techno, blues, rap, radio static, voices in my head
Movies: Dark City, American Beauty, A Clockwork Orange, American History X, Being John Malkovich, Hellraiser, House of 1000 Corpses, The Ring, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Seven, 8MM, countless short films, cartoons, and porn clips on the internet.
Television: The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, WWE Raw, ECW, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Venture Bros, that one channel where they always show some kind of surgery when you're flipping by it with the remote.
Authors: Mark Z Danielewski, Kurt Vonnegut, Chuck Klosterman, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Christopher Moore, Dave Barry, Dave Eggers, Carlton Mellick III
Playwrights: Samuel Beckett, David Ives, Eric Ehn, Eric Overmyer, Christopher Durang, Jean-Claude Van Itallie, David Lindsay-Abaire, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Miller
Books: A Child Again by Robert Coover, House of Leaves, Fast Food Nation, America: The Book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, God's Debris, Candide by Voltaire, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Magazines and Manifestos: Bizarre, Other, Too Much Coffee Man, Outburn, Industrial Nation, Giant, Sync, The Believer, Tastes Like Chicken, Hitch, The Onion
Heroes: That guy that sells shoelaces on the corner and yells at the moon about stealing his pants. I love that guy. |
