I love making stuff, making friends, drawing cartoons, animation, music, art, design, movies, robots, Doctor Who, Moomins, scones, comics, festivals, inflatables, vegetarian food, root beer, Astroboy, Doraemon, parties, toys, Lomo, science fiction, fairy tales, silent movies, super 8 films, BBC7, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Sir John Soane's House, 18 Folgate Street, country walks, serendipity
I love Kinder eggs too...
OTHER MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS:
Bjork, Pulp, The Polyphonic Spree, The Dresden Dolls, Tori Amos, The Go! Team, Shea Seger, Billie The Vision and The Dancers, I'm From Barcelona, The Memory Band, Ed Harcourt, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Arlo Guthrie, Goldfrapp, Joanna Newsom, Feist, Juana Molina, Tujiko Noriko, Jimmy Cliff, Emiliana Torrini, Stacey Kent, Lisa Ekdahl, Belle and Sebastian, Imogen Heap, Aidan Smith, The Tiger-Lillies, Ben Folds, Sigur Ros, Frou Frou, Sleeper, Grand Drive, Shostakovich, Moondog, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson, Vashti Bunyan, Taj Mahal, Mel Torme, Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhart, Tilly and The Wall, SoKo, and the legendary Jarvis Cocker (of course)
Movies
A Matter of Life and Death, Brazil, It's A Wonderful Life, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, The Big Lebowski, Amelie, Dreams That Money Can Buy, The Science of Sleep, Wings of Desire, Blue Velvet, L'Atalante, The Piano, La Belle et La Bete, Tideland, Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, Vertigo, Singin' In The Rain, Star Wars, Joe Versus The Volcano, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chungking Express, Ghost World, Alphaville, A Bout de Souffle, Pygmalion, True Stories, The Tempest, Metropolis, Before Sunrise, The Cremaster Cycle, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Beauty and the Beast, The Jungle Book, Mirrormask, The Straight Story, American Graffiti, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Jean Vigo, Jean Cocteau, The Coen Brothers, Charlie Kaufman, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Derek Jarman, Jan Svankmajer, Tim Burton, Powell and Pressburger, Georges Melies, The Marx Brothers, George Formby, How To Draw A Bunny... classic horror, animation and film noir
Television
Doctor Who, Twin Peaks, Buffy, Northern Exposure, The Moomins, Beauty and the Beast, Futurama, My So-Called Life, Queer As Folk, Hancock, Ren and Stimpy, Bod, Mr Benn, Bagpuss, The Clangers, The Magic Roundabout, The Twilight Zone, Sherlock Holmes, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Young Ones, Batman, Spaced, Star Trek, Quantum Leap, Tales Of The City, Barbapapa, Henry's Cat, Father Ted, Fist of Fun, Jeeves and Wooster, The Prisoner, Max Headroom, Harry Hill, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Look Around You, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Torchwood
Books
The Little Prince, Peter Pan, The Tao of Pooh, The Thurber Carnival, The Castle of Otranto, The Consolations of Philosophy, Last Chance To See, Struwwelpeter, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Jimmy Corrigan, 1984, Frankenstein, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Princess Bride, The Bloody Chamber, Invisible Cities, The Book of Imaginary Beings (Borges), Edward Gorey, Will Eisner, James Thurber, Raymond Chandler, Charles Dickens, PG Wodehouse, Sherlock Holmes, J.G. Ballard, Tove Jansson, Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware, The Sandman, fairy tales, gothic novels
Heroes
Bjork, David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Joseph Cornell, Michael Powell, Will Eisner, David Attenborough, Michel Gondry, Douglas Adams, Jarvis Cocker, Tom Baker, Spike Milligan, Groucho Marx, Woody Allen, Rolf Harris, Humphrey Lyttelton, Edward Gorey, James Thurber, Tony Hancock, Vic Reeves, Frida Kahlo, Dave McKean, Tim Burton, Clive Barker, Derek Jarman, Johnny Depp; my fictional heroes are: Dr Who, Bertie Wooster, The Spirit, Peter Pan, Popeye and Batman. I'm also a disciple of the late artist Ray Johnson (below)
Kent Institute of Art and Design
Rochester, HC
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Communication Media
Clubs: Student Union President 1994-5
I'm a happy and creative animated character with loads of interests. I love making things and watching old movies... i love making people smile and going to gigs. I really enjoy my own company but you can have too much of a good thing and there's loads of things which aren't so much fun on your own...
I'm honest, positive, optimistic, energetic, romantic, fun, silly, talkative, artistic, enthusiastic, confident, reliable, emotional, vegetarian, outgoing, literate, open-minded, intelligent, independent, loyal, passionate, a little bit naughty and ever so modest.... if you'll let me I promise to try to be the best friend you could ever have...
I'm the founder of the accidental cult of "moondog loves you", leaving small pieces of cardboard art around the world. Emails I get sent from people who find them go onto my site along with my cartoons and links.
I am also part of the HungaMunga posse who organise arty parties championing new music and arts and crafts, with live bands, comedy, DJs, gameshows, performance, prizes, projections and of course scones... HUNGAMUNGA is at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club every month with loads of painting and making stuff... imagine a kind of "Later... with Rolf Harris"
check myspace for details of our next event...
MAKE STUFF, MAKE FRIENDS, MAKE A MESS!!!
Our next party is a puppet night at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club is on Sunday the 7th of June with Tabloid and others and lots of puppet-making... from 7pm.
See you there!!!!!
If you want to join my club I'll send you a load of tags for you to put in cool places to spread the love... All the info is on my site:
www.moondoglovesyou.com
These are a few of my favourite things...
My favourite song: Hyperballad by Bjork
My favourite movie: A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
My favourite artist: Joseph Cornell
My favourite singer: Bjork
My favourite male singer: Jarvis Cocker
My favourite painter: Frida Kahlo
My favourite job:
teaching art to kids at a summer camp
My favourite cartoon character: Astroboy
My favourite writer: James Thurber
My favourite kids TV show: The Moomins
My favourite food: Braised Tofu
My favourite poet: Rainer Maria Rilke
My favourite house: 18 Folgate Street
My favourite French movie: L'Atalante
My favourite sweet: Kinder Eggs
My favourite restaurant: Bonnington Cafe
My favourite martian: Marvin
My favourite comic: The Spirit by Will Eisner
My favorite day: today
My favourite country: Iceland
My favourite person: Vic
My favourite thing: my friends
Who I'd like to meet: fellow travellers on the lost highway... and Amelie...
If you're open-minded, free-spirited, considerate and fun, i'm always up for meeting up with my myspace friends... keep me informed about any gigs or if you are going out or are doing anything remotely fun... and I'll do the same...
I'm happy to announce that my new album "Songs From The Films Of David Lynch" is out now.
"Truly unsettling and perplexingly brilliant... testament to both the quality of Lynch’s soundtracks and Truax’s talents" - The Skinny
"Truax is paying homage to a kindred spirit with this album. It's the best kind of tribute – affectionate and respectful, but with its own quirks and imaginative leaps and its own distinct identity." -The Scotsman
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