Writing, reading, research (true crime, paranormal and weird topics), pop culture, traveling, philosophy, film, music, art of any sort.
Music
Goth, Industrial, Punk, New Wave, Garage, Classical, Jazz, Exotica, and Lounge.
Movies
I'm a huge fan of classic horror, especially films based on gothic literature. I also enjoy any film that deals with either interesting subcultures or non-fiction subject matter.
Television
True crime shows, paranormal shows, and The Colbert Report.
Books
Non-fiction, classic literature, unexplained phenomena, and true crime. A short list of books that I found particularly inspiring would include: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Morning of the Magicians by Louis Pauwels, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein, by Dorothy Hoobler, Opium: A Portrait of the Heavenly Demon by Barbara Hodgson, The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester, The Haight-Ashbury: A History by Charles Perry, Junky by William S. Burroughs, Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe, Going Postal by Mark Ames.
Heroes
Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Polidori, Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Thomas de Quincey, Antonin Artaud, Bram Stoker, Jane Austen, Washington Irving, Charles Dickens, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Frost, Kenneth Anger, Dr. Albert Hoffman, Jack Handey, and Maat.
Labyrinth13 is Curt Rowlett, a researcher and writer with a penchant for the mystical, mysterious, and macabre.
He is also: a serious student of the paranormal and unexplained, a former merchant marine who has traveled all over the world, an ex-rock musician, and an old-fashioned, southern gentleman.
His work has appeared in the book Popular Paranoia and the magazines Fortean Times,
Strange Magazine, Paranoia and Steamshovel Press.
Who I'd like to meet: Writers, poets, artists, book lovers, film buffs, musicians, and/or anyone who shares similar burning interests. I am no longer active in the club scene, but still entranced by the whole goth aesthetic. (A good volume of Poe in an appropriate coffee shop would be more inline with my tastes these days).
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