Playing music, listening to music, spicy food (the habanero pepper is a cruel and delicious mistress), eyes, writing, kissing, horror movies, writing about horror movies, crossword puzzles, cartoons, new age mystical nonsense, stand-up comedy (Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, George Carlin, Sarah Silverman, Doug Stanhope), drawing, chemicals, caffiene, red wine, Jagermeister, bloody marys, duct tape.
I am what you could call a word fetishist. My personal favorites are "conundrum", "equilibrium" and "lozenge". My least favorite word is "ointment". Writing in longhand with a nice gel pen is an extra turn-on.
Music
Top Ten Albums
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
Full Blown Possession - The Grifters
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Animals ( or Dark Side of the Moon, depending on mood) - Pink Floyd
Music In Twelve Parts - Philip Glass
Neroli - Brian Eno
Music For Eighteen Musicians - Steve Reich
Doolittle - Pixies
Souvlaki - Slowdive
Other great stuff:
Ride, Mogwai, Curve, Crash Worship (best live show I ever saw), StrongBad, Massive Attack, Boom Boom Satellites, Jesu, Goblin, Milton Freewater, Final, Ennio Morricone, Serena Maneesh, Arvo Part, Henryck Gorecki, John Adams, Boredoms, Windy And Carl, Johnny Cash,Ornette Coleman, New Kingdom, The Meters, RL Burnside, Lounge Lizards, They Might Be Giants, Captain Beefheart, Sly Stone, T-Rex, Willie Nelson, Simon Boswell, Frampton Comes Alive!, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Ween, Godflesh, The Residents, Iggy and the Stooges, Cheap Trick, Cocteau Twins, Zappa, Hendrix, James Brown, Big Star, Catheters, Beatles, Johnny Cash, John Carpenter, Neko Case, Queens of the Stone Age, Spiritualized, Einsturzende Neubauten, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Dirtbombs, Helio Sequence, Todd Rundgren, PJ Harvey and whatever I'll kick myself for forgetting in about twenty seconds.
I hate Weezer and Nine Inch Nails.
Movies
Top Ten Movies:
Santa Sangre
Mulholland Dr.
Holy Mountain
Harold And Maude
Ed Wood
Dawn Of The Dead '78
Last Night
A Night At The Opera
Jackie Chan: Martial Arts Mayhem (bootleg compilation)
Alien
Runners-up:
Secretary, Halloween '78, Ginger Snaps, May, The Exorcist, Carnival Of Souls, The Pillow Book, Cabin Boy, Grindhouse, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Suspiria, most Marx Brothers movies, Shaun of the Dead, The Beyond, 28 Days Later, The Thing '82, Cemetery Man, Opera, Phenomena (NOT Phenomenon, mind you), Profundo Rosso, Manos: The Hands Of Fate, Memento, A Zed And Two Noughts, The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Drunken Master 2, The Big Doll House, Last Hero In China, The Descent, Iron Monkey, Hard Boiled, Moju: The Blind Beast.
Television
A great band with Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Seriously, folks: Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (before TV's Frank left), Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The Sopranos, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and most other Adult Swim fare, Masters of Horror.
Books
When I was a kid, Stephen King did it for me (Pet Sematary, I think, is the essence of horror. The movie - not so much). In adolescence, Richard Bach (Illusions), Harlan Ellison and Tom Robbins (Skinny Legs And All, especially). Nowadays I love Joe R. Lansdale, Kathe Koja, David Sedaris, The Hitchhiker's Guide books, Alan Watts, Yarboro's "Michael" books, Jack Ketchum, the list goes on. The nice thing about not having Internet at my house is that it forces me to hit the library more often, so if you have any recomendations...
Heroes
Bugs Bunny, Joel Hodgson, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Irving Klaw, Kevin Shields, Todd Rundgren, Madalyn Murray O'Hair
About me: Musician (drums, guitar, keyboard, vox), film composer, home recording enthusiast, writer, Karaoke ham, haunter, radio show host, drinker, horror geek.
I made it up until March of 2009 before I got a cell phone, and I consider that something to be proud of.
I enjoy having a busy creative life. I don't feel comfortable unless my plate of projects is too full.
I'm hooked on haunting. I've been a member of Baron Von Goolo's team for the last two years, and have learned how to make guts out of cotton and latex, as well as how to be scary while wearing a giant bunny head.
My grilled cheese sandwiches are apparently the stuff of legend. I'm not too bad at making gumbo, either. Next, I want to learn how to make Tom Kah soup.
I think stand-up comedy is the most exalted art form in existence, and I will be very happy if I ever find myself with both the material, and the balls, to try it myself.
I play guitar and sing in my band The Heartmurmurs. We're a good lot. We too have a MySpace page (www.myspace.com/theheartmurmurs). Feel free to peruse. I'll wait here until you get back.
I co-host a weekly online radio show called Horror Holocaust with my friend Jeff. Because no, I simply wasn't geeky enough before.
I've interviewed Patti Smith and made a cappucino for Elvis Costello. Yes - yes you CAN call me Daddy.
I am now a staff writer for the website www.fatally-yours.com. I review horror movies. Big surprise. But to mix things up a bit, I'm also reviewing Bloody Marys for www.barflymag.com.
http://www.barflymag.com/user/willbeaux/blog/
My book SHADOW PLAY: PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF THE MODERN HORROR FILM, may be published by the end of this year. Stay tuned for details.
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who does not support the NRA, PTL, GOP, or WWE. Lucid people. Creative people. Funny people. Hedonists. Dana Delany.
Dude, that's awesome ;-) Did you only tour California? In the early 90's, eh? That was too many moons ago for me to have seen you play with them, hehe. I was still stuck up here in crappy old 'Twater at that time. lol. I didn't start going to a plethora of shows like a crackhead until I moved to Southern Cali in '94
Oh yeah, Dru. She was pretty cute. I agree. Hehe. I used to see This Ascension play in Santa Barbara quite often when I lived there, 'cause William Faith from Faith and the Muse/Christian Death lived there ... and he produced a few of their albums.
Trance to the Sun played with them a lot as well. I thought Zoe from Trance to the Sun was fecking GORGEOUS. And her vocals were deep, and sexier than shite.
The last time I saw Dru from This Ascension sing was with Victoria Lloyd from Claire Voyant in Sac a few years ago - she still had a magnificent voice.
Ok, soooo I totally didn't know that you were in The Shroud. WTF ... Mark never told me that! LOL. That's hella rad - how long were you with them for?
so I put on Songs of Love and Hate in the car tonight and I was one be-boppin' happy little cracker. Give it a spin if it's been a while. Miss you dude, but this weekend is quite busy for a talk. Hope you are well.
