All things Halloween: collecting Halloween antiques & the cream of the modern Halloween crop of merchandise, having a huge annual Halloween party, writing Halloween stories, reading books on Halloween...I think you get the idea.
I like to write, paint ceramics, play games, read books, see movies (I've got a pretty decent DVD library and I particularly like to seek out independent films on DVD), have parties at my home, and spend time with my two cats: Pywacket & Bob.
Also, I love drive-in movies. The drive-in is a dying part of Americana that really needs to be saved. To watch a film from a lawn chair under the stars on a balmy summer night is one of the few perfect experiences in life.
Music
Wow. I've got some really eclectic musical tastes. I like Scottish/Irish/Celtic music (my favorite band being The Secret Commonwealth). I also enjoy surf/monster rock (check out The Exotic Ones, they'll irradiate your brain). I regularly listen to classical music, Gregorian chant, liturgical music, and baroque pipe organ. I also like Midnight Syndicate, Dead Can Dance, and some Cocteau Twins. But I also like big band, ragtime, some new age, Rat Pack, classical bluegrass, sea shanties, and classic rock & roll. I know, I know. I need to expand my horizons.
Movies
Don't get me started.
Movies that changed how I think: Memento, Gattaca
Favorites: Alien, Angel Heart, Arsenic and Old Lace, Big Fish, The Black Swan, Blade Runner, Brazil, Casablanca, The Contender, Curse of the Demon, The Devil & Daniel Webster, Excalibur, Field of Dreams, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Henry V (Branagh), The Haunting (1963), The Hudsucker Proxy, The Incredibles, The Innocents, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Kelly’s Heroes, L. A. Confidential, The Lion in Winter, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Mummy (1932), My Favorite Year, The Others, The Quiet Man, Scrooge, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, The Sixth Sense, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Son of Frankenstein, The Thing (1982), To Kill a Mockingbird, The Wolf Man
All Time Favorite: It’s a Wonderful Life
Television
Eh. Not much TV I'm interested in anymore. Really liked Dead Like Me...cancelled. Really liked Carnivale...cancelled. Really liked Firefly (although I never really watched it until it was...cancelled). Used to like 24 before it became really apparent that it was just advancing Dick Cheney's pro-torture political agenda.
Other faves that have been cancelled: Night Stalker, (the original, not that recent abomination), Mystery Science Theater 3000, Babylon 5, Twin Peaks, TV Nation
Classic TV: M*A*S*H, the original Star Trek.
UPDATE: (Sept., 2007) I've gotten hooked on the new Battlestar Galactica (incredible writing!), and Heroes (a nice fresh take on the superhero genre)
Books
Too many to mention. Notable outstanding books: The Halloween Tree, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Long Ships, The Lord of the Rings, Song of Ice & Fire series
Favorite writers: Ray Bradbury, J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Tim Powers, Jack Daves, Clark Ashton Smith, Ryan Reed, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Robert Aickman
Heroes
My dad, Jack Daves, Ed Wood, Ray Bradbury, Don Knotts, Jon Stewart (self-designated enemy of Bill O'Reilly), Stephen Colbert (for the now-legendary under-the-radar scathing satire delivered at the White House Press Dinner in 2006).
John's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Mt. Juliet
Body type:
6' 2" / Average
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Capricorn
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Children:
I don't want kids
Education:
College graduate
Occupation:
Recreational Therapist
John's Schools
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro,Tennessee
Graduated: 1993
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Recreational Therapy
Minor: Biology
About me: Well, the main thing about me is Halloween. Love it. Live it. Don't like it? Browse elsewhere. I'm a recreational therapist, which means, in theory, that I have fun for a living. In practice, I try to make other people who are all but incapable of it have fun. Which can be pretty frustrating. I'm also a movie nut and read a fair amount of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. I also write a bit, turning out a new story at least every Halloween. I've been published three times (Fifth Step in Imagination Fully Dilated (1998, for which I received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror), The Miracle in Bedtime Stories To Darken Your Dreams (1999), A Haunting In Tennessee (2003, this is an e-book about the Bell Witch legends of Tennessee). I'm also a ceramic artist and sell my stuff on occasion.
My philosophy?
You scored as Existentialism. Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life.
"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
"It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."
--Jean-Paul Sartre
"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth."
--Blaise Pascal
You scored as Poison. Your death will be by poison, probably because you are a glutton and are around so many people that it would be easy to get away with it. Several important people in history share your fate.
Of course this is all in fun. Anyone who believes they can be quantified so easily probably believes most of the crap coming out of Washington right now and deserves exactly what they get.
Who I'd like to meet: Montague Rhodes James, Walt Disney, Ray Bradbury (again), Don Knotts. People who love Halloween who aren't dangerously unstable. I'm sure there's more.
In many ways I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy. I believe in introductions before claiming someone as a friend. Okay, let me spell it out. If you want to be added to my friends list, I need to know who the hell you are first. I get bombarded with friend requests from SPAMmers and total strangers. Want me to add you? INTRODUCE YOURSELF BY SENDING A MESSAGE FIRST!
Aye, and much ALE to the Leprechaun King 'imself! Twas oodles of fun drinkin' many pints of Guinness with ye, good sir, at St. Paddy's day in the 'boro! And who knew whut a foin set of shorts ye were sportin' under yer trousers!?
Wow, the Blue Wodies are sure getting old these days...but still willing to undertake the occasional "mission". Will you leave Outback on your back? Happy birthday Doc Satan!
John - Thanks again for hosting such a horrific Halloween party. We had a blast and look forward to it every year. Just wish you'd been feeling better as your enthusiasm was missed.
