Main topics of interest are Punk Rock (mostly of the classic '70s variety-- the Clash, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, etc.) and Horror of all kinds, from any era and locale. I'm enormously fond of Lovecraft, Clive Barker, early Stephen King, David Cronenberg, Italian masters like Lucio Fulci, classics like Hammer Horror, Val Lewton, Roger Corman, anything with zombies, etc.
I enjoy the novels and stories of
Harlan Ellison,
Iain M. Banks,
Raymond Chandler,
P.G. Wodehouse,
James Ellroy,
J.G. Ballard,
John Updike,
John Cheever,
Shirley Jackson,
Patricia Highsmith,
Dostoevsky,
Carson McCullers and many others. For non-fiction I prefer popular science writers, such as
Richard Dawkins,
Michael Shermer and
Carl Sagan, and biographies of iconic figures like
Rimbaud,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Gilles de Rais,
Allen Ginsberg, the
Kennedys,
Elvis, and
Frank Sinatra.
Film is another great passion: I love most of the 1970s movies directed by
Woody Allen,
Martin Scorsese,
Robert Altman,
Francis Ford Coppola,
Roman Polanski,
Hal Ashby, as well as classic-era
John Huston,
Billy Wilder,
Orson Welles,
Alfred Hitchcock, and French filmmakers
Francois Truffaut,
Jean Pierre Melville and
Alain Resnais.
Otherwise I am interested in
skepticism,
atheism,
urban legends, and
pseudoscience. I am obsessed with the ever-present "debate" between
creationism/
evolution as well as the "neo-atheism" movement seen in the works of Dawkins,
Sam Harris and
Christopher Hitchens.
I am not a big fan of people who cannot tell the difference between "its" and "it's" and, heaven forbid, "its'." People who, use, excessive, commas, are a particular, bane.
Graduated from
North Carolina State University with a degree in film and religion, and am originally from
Millville, NJ.
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Main topics of interest are Punk Rock (mostly of the classic '70s variety-- the Clash, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, etc.) and Horror of all kinds, from any era and locale. I'm enormously fond of Lovecraft, Clive Barker, early Stephen King, David Cronenberg, Italian masters like Lucio Fulci, classics like Hammer Horror, Val Lewton, Roger Corman, anything with zombies, etc.
I enjoy the novels and stories of
Harlan Ellison,
Iain M. Banks,
Raymond Chandler,
P.G. Wodehouse,
James Ellroy,
J.G. Ballard,
John Updike,
John Cheever,
Shirley Jackson,
Patricia Highsmith,
Dostoevsky,
Carson McCullers and many others. For non-fiction I prefer popular science writers, such as
Richard Dawkins,
Michael Shermer and
Carl Sagan, and biographies of iconic figures like
Rimbaud,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Gilles de Rais,
Allen Ginsberg, the
Kennedys,
Elvis, and
Frank Sinatra.
Film is another great passion: I love most of the 1970s movies directed by
Woody Allen,
Martin Scorsese,
Robert Altman,
Francis Ford Coppola,
Roman Polanski,
Hal Ashby, as well as classic-era
John Huston,
Billy Wilder,
Orson Welles,
Alfred Hitchcock, and French filmmakers
Francois Truffaut,
Jean Pierre Melville and
Alain Resnais.
Otherwise I am interested in
skepticism,
atheism,
urban legends, and
pseudoscience. I am obsessed with the ever-present "debate" between
creationism/
evolution as well as the "neo-atheism" movement seen in the works of Dawkins,
Sam Harris and
Christopher Hitchens.
I am not a big fan of people who cannot tell the difference between "its" and "it's" and, heaven forbid, "its'." People who, use, excessive, commas, are a particular, bane.
Graduated from
North Carolina State University with a degree in film and religion, and am originally from
Millville, NJ.
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