"I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales, and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors." - H.P. Lovecraft
Beatles, John Lennon, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Wyclef Jean, Morrissey, The Smiths, Beck, Sinead O'Connor, John Doyle, Peter Gabriel, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Keane, Coldplay, XTC, Crowded House, Garbage, Radiohead, Lou Reed, Black Eyed Peas, Cibo Matto, Moby, Air, Charlotte Church, Nina Simone, Talking Heads, Blondie, Enigma.
Movies
Exorcist, Apocalypse Now, Hellboy, Most Animation, Lord Of The Rings, Johnny Depp, Brando, Bond, All Kubrick, All David Lynch, All Guillermo Del Toro, Annie Hall, Producers (Original), Being There, All Universal Monsters and Hammer, Last Temptation of Christ, Batman, Gangs of New York, Ronin, Coppola's Dracula, Marx Brothers, Star Wars and Most Horror/SciFi/Fantasy. Recent, Grown-Up years: The Prestige, A Very Long Engagement, Downfall, The Lives of Others and The Children of Men.
This year: Star Trek, District 9, Inglourious Basterds, The Hurt Locker, Zombieland, Paranormal Activity.
Television
Californication, Mad Men, True Blood, Original Star Trek, X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, INVASION, Wild Wild West, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Breaking Bad, Family Guy, Honeymooners, Monty Python, Simpsons, Sopranos, Rome, Carnivale, Dexter, Deadwood, Destination Truth, American Idol, Firefly, John Adams, and with a father and grandfather that were both firemen, one of the greatest shows ever, Rescue Me.
Books
Exorcist, Queen of the Damned, The Vampire Lestat, Ghost Story, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Harry Potters, The Books of Blood, The Stand, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hunter Thompson, Trevanian, Harlan Ellison, M. Scott Peck, Sarah Vowell, Carlos Casteneda and Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko novels.
Heroes
The Founding Fathers and America's Astronauts (from Mercury to The Space Shuttle); two groups of people whose bravery confounds me.
Same with Christopher Reeve, Stephen Hawking.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, true artistic pioneers.
Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Orson Welles, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Clint Eastwood: giants of filmmaking.
Lawrence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Marlon Brando; people who redefined acting.
Lovecraft, Poe, Ellison, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Shakespeare; writers who fill my life with imagination.
Goya, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso; artists who don't see the world as others do.
Trinity Repertory Company Providence, RI US Equity Stage Manager and Actor Under Artistic Director- Adrian Hall then Academy Award Nominee Richard Jenkins
1988-93
The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theatre Newport, RI US Actor Artistic Director- Robert J. Colonna
1983-90
Books On The Square Providence, RI US Bookseller
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Richard Alan Scott /Shroud #7 now available with my Lovecraftian nightmare, "Assault at Innsmouth"- http://lnk.ms/4j0NTPosted at 6:14 AM Dec 3 view more
About me: I am a writer of Speculative fiction: Horror/ ScFi/ Fantasy/ Supernatural, etc. Short Stories, Novels, Screenplays. My Writers' groups are the New England Horror Writers and the Newport Round Table. I'm also a student of photography, and still do some acting. I'm obsessed with the far reaches of human experience: from hauntings to alien abduction, psychic phenomena, the occult, witchcraft, sexuality, ancient places of power, precognition, prophecy, good and evil, yin and yang, John and Yoko, numerology, card readings, auras, God, Satan, death, space, Rasputin, Houdini, Ben Franklin, Mesmer, Lois Griffin, Lovecraft, Poe, mythology, voodoo, zombies, vampires, werewolves, magic, religion, comedy, tragedy, fear, ritual, the soul, Dracula, chakras, nirvana, beautiful women that take your breath away and most of all the afterlife.
Who I'd like to meet: Alive: My dream girls: Brandy Schwan, Natasha McElhone, Madolyn Smith and Kari Matchett. Christopher Lee, the four(C)Kates- Beckinsale, Blanchett, Bush and Winslet, Yoko Ono, Woody Allen, Billy Connolly, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Norah O'Donnell, Joss Whedon, Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison, Barack Obama, Ariana Huffington, Bill Maher, Howard Stern, Camille Paglia, Conan O'Brien, David Lynch, Al Gore, Sean Connery and David Bowie.
Dead: John Lennon, Jesus, Ghandi, Warhol, Rasputin, Natalie Wood, Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Danny Kaye, Red Skelton, Ben Franklin, Orson Welles, Charles Laughton and Marlon Brando.
Undead: Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing, Bela Legosi, Lon Chaney Sr. and Jr.
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