BoOks
I've always been a voracious reader--here are some of my favorite books, authors, or most recent reads:
Anything by Mary
Gaitskill, but especially Two Girls Fat and Thin. Probably my
favorite book.
A.M.
Homes: In a Country of Mothers, The End of Alice,
and the hilarious A Real Doll and Adults Alone stories from
The Safety of Objects.
Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and the amazing 3-book 'Baroque Cycle'.
I fall off toilets laughing at:
Susie Bright (what a
goddess!)
William S. Burroughs (bless his twisted soul)
Carl Hiassen
Tom Robbins
Hunter S. Thompson
David Foster Wallace, I love to re-read Infinite Jest (and
boy is my pituitary tired.)
David Gerrold's excellent War
Against the Chtorr sci-fi series.
More sci-fi authors that I enjoy include: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Heinlein.
Thomas Harris' Black Sunday, Red Dragon, and The Silence
of the Lambs.
FiLm
I'm an even worse film nut.
Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., and Fire Walk With Me by David Lynch! Blue Velvet being the first and only favorite film I've ever had. And when I think of what Wild at Heart and Lost Highway could've been like without the dreaded Barry Gifford influence . . .
Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill! by Russ Meyer. Heh. I saw this movie when I was three or four years old (which explains quite a bit.)
I also have a fondness for the work of the following directors (in no particular order):
| Allison Anders | Wes Anderson | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Peter Greenaway | Hal Hartley | Howard Hawks |
| Alfred Hitchcock | Jim Jarmusch | Juenet & Caro |
| Richard Kern | Stanley Kubrick | George Lucas |
| Spike Lee | Richard Linklater | Leni Riefenstahl |
| Nicholas Roeg | Ken Russell | Ridley Scott |
| Don Siegel | Penelope Spheeris | Quentin Tarentino |
| Joss Whedon | James Cameron | Clint Eastwood |
| David Cronenberg | Sofia Coppola | George Miller |
| Monika Treut | Gus Van Sant | Robert Zemeckis |
Please feel free to look them up on the
Internet Movie Database.
In the Raleigh area look up local listings at movieminder.com
Inline Skating
If you've seen my sketch pages at the Black Lobster site you know I love to skate! I do it every chance I get. I play Forward for a rec. league hockey team, and I play pickup games when I can.