Dressing in black and sipping absinthe in smoke-filled dives named "Cliched Things to Do". Er, not. Finding the strange and beautiful in the every day. Making connections between amazingly creative people. Discovering interesting, bizarre facts about mushrooms, squid, insects, reptiles, and other creatures that seem alien.
Music
Radiohead, Placebo, Black Heart Procession, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The Church, Tarantella, Three Mile Pilot, Henry Kaiser, The Auteurs...
Movies
Paprika, Across the Universe, Serenity, Blade Runner, Alien, Santa Sangre, El Topo, Eraserhead...
Television
Invader Zim, The Shield, Firefly, X-Files, Juan Mandible Sick-Eyes Children's Hour...
Books
See the book slideshow, but also Blood Meridian, Dead Already, Prime Evil, The Wasp Factory, and about three hundred others...
About me: Buy The New Weird Directly from www.Amazon.com!
An anthology featuring great fiction from China Miéville, Clive Barker, Hal Duncan,, Leena Krohn, M. John Harrison, Kathe Koja, K. J. Bishop, Jay Lake, Jeffrey Ford, Sarah Monette, Paul Di Filippo, Michael Moorcock, Steph Swainston, Felix Gilman, Cat Rambo, Alistair Rennie, Daniel Abraham, Conrad Williams, and many others
Who I'd like to meet: The editors of New Weird are Ann VanderMeer, fiction editor for Weird Tales, and World Fantasy Award winning writer Jeff VanderMeer Together, they have edited Best American Fantasy and the forthcoming Steampunk and pirate anthologies. They'd love to meet the Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, Clive Barker, Julie Taymor, and Juan Mandible Sick-Eyes, the famous Mexican wrestling champ. More to the point, THEY want to know what weirdos you'd want to meet--throw them a comment why don't you.
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