Becoming a better writer and a more accomplished artist. I also practice Pai Lum Kung Fu, albeit, so badly your aged grandmother could beat me up, and Chinese lion dancing. Typical nerdy enthusiams include: reptiles, comics, Hong Kong cinema, anime, J-horror, giant monster movies, horror and fantasy fiction, classic burlesque, retro kitsch, and the Coolest Place in the World, The Museum of Jurassic Technology. I'm addicted to all ethnic cuisines, from sushi to soul food. Geekgirls and librarians are hot, especially when they have black hornrim glasses.
Music
Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, The Magnetic Fields, Willie Nelson, The Gothic Archies, Dave's True Story, Holly Cole, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Luther Wright and the Wrongs, The Clash, The Pogues, Serge Gainsbourg, Violent Femmes, They Might Be Giants, Patsy Cline, Stephen Sondheim (legacy of my metrosexual father, probably), Faye Wong, Anita Mui, Sally Yeh, Black 47, The Flash Girls, Meiko Kaji, Ennio Morricone, Gogol Bordello, http://www.silencethemusical.com
Movies
The Band Wagon, Jules et Jim, La Malediction de la LLorna, It's Always Fair Weather, The Big Sleep, Battle Royale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Vixen, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Bride with White Hair, I Know Where I'm Going, Drunken Master 2, Fist of Legend, Dead-Alive, Peking Opera Blues, A Chinese Ghost Story, Porco Rosso, Lost and Found (NOT the David Spade movie, the 1995 Hong Kong film with Takeshi Kaneshiro), Yojimbo, Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man), Once Upon a Time in China 1 & 2, Bride of Frankenstein, Rushmore, That Man From Rio, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, anything by The Coen Brothers, Tarantino or Wong Kar-Wei, anything starring Maggie "The Future Mrs. Ian McDowell" Cheung.
Television
Current: Mad Men, Doctor Who (especially when written by Steven Moffat), Mythbusters, UFC, Gavin and Stacey, Dexter, Californication (a guilty pleasure, as I know it's kind of odious), The Venture Brothers, Law and Order: Criminal Intent (but only the Chris Noth episodes, not the D'Onofrio ones), The Unit (even though David Mamet has become a Republican). Past favorites: Deadwood, Rome, The Wire, Coupling, Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, The Avengers ("Mrs. Peel, we're needed"), Mr. Show, The Tick, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Johnny Staccato.
Books
Magic for Beginners and Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link ("Louise's Ghost" kills me every time I read it, damn her), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, World War Z by Max Brooks, The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore (his comics, too, of course), Coraline by Neil Gaiman, Amphigorey and everything else Edward Gorey ever wrote/drew, the collected Lucifer by Mike Carey, the collected Stray Bullets by David Lapham, The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe by Sydney Anglo, Flashhman and its sequels by George MacDonald Fraser, the collected plays of Tom Stoppard (especially The Invention of Love @ Arcadia), Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite, Anyhow Stories by Lucy Clifford, The Jungle Book and Just-So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles Finney, The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle, the Modesty Blaise books by Peter O'Donnell.
About me: I'm greedy and have no shame. Hence this:
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But I'm also a manly man because I'm so goddam manly!
Ahem, okay, on a more serious note . . .
Tell the maestro to wake the musicians and start that sad waltz in A-Flat. I used to be mad as a hatter but now I am sane as a hat.
I've crossed the Bridge of Lost Virtues I've slept in the Hostel of Sighs but I can't find the Letters of Transit that will unlock the gate of your thighs
From "The Golem Will Dance with the Goyim," a work-in-progress.
I look much younger than I am, which means I can always win you a stuffed animal at the
"Guess Your Age" booth at the county fair, no matter how rigged the games with rings and balls and air rifles are. My high school yearbook photo ages at a much greater rate than I do.
The most traumatic experience of my adult life was the day I was Stalked By Clowns. My friend Anne and I are mentioned by name in SANDMAN. My artwork has been banned in Canada and my fiction has been pulled from the shelves at K-Mart. I've met Iron Chef Morimoto and eaten his sushi. I think that Kate Winslett and Maggie Cheung are the sexiest contemporary actresses. When I was 7 years old, there were 49 different reptiles and amphibians living in my room. I can say "good evening to you, fair lady" in Gaelic and "I hope you fall down while walking!" in Cantonese.
I'm the author of two published novels, MORDRED'S CURSE and MERLIN'S GIFT, which are now out of print but readily available from Amazon.com resellers. My short novella "Geraldine" in Poppy Z. Brite's anthology LOVE IN VEIN still gets me fan mail (and royalty checks) a decade after I wrote it. I'm also wrting the English language version of the manga-derived novel BLOOD INJECTOR KARIN for Tokyo Pop, but that's work-for-art, not "art" (not that anything I do is necessarily "art"). Despite this modicum of success (yeah, right), I must pay my bills by working at FedEx Kinko's, an experience which is going into my novel-in-progress CUSTOMER SERVICE.
The most important thing I ever learned from my parents was not to give them any more money.
I also draw a bit, and "paint" with photoshop. I'm always looking for new venues in which to display my work.
Who I'd like to meet: The Girl Pirates of the Yangtze.
Damn, I've been on the other site too much. As assy as Myspace can be for communicating, I miss seeing everyone's... "ness" scattered all over the place. Facebook is so generic.
Where: Jeff's Bucket shop 1601 Montford Dr Charlotte 28027
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