Occupation(s): Artist, Stagehand, Educator, Scenographer, Jack of Many Trades...
Hobbies: Procrastination and drinking...
Interests: My family, art of all mediums, theatre, tattoos, cigar culture, film, music, books, roleplaying games (especially D&D), goth stuff,cyberpunk and steampunk stuff, vampire stuff, cooking, Facebook, MySpace, cheesecake, coloring books, adult beverages...
Music: EVERYTHING I can't possibly list it all: The Cure, The Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer, Joy Division, TV on the Radio, Marvin Gaye, Johnny Cash, Jethro Tull, Have Gun Will Travel, Einsurzende Nebauten, Ween, The Flaming Lips, Beck, Cry, Cry, Cry, Steely Dan, Joan Armatrading, Hank Williams Sr., The Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, P.J. Harvey, The White Stripes, Nick Cave, Outkast, Kasey Chambers, Various so-called goth bands from the 80's, soundtracks to Magnolia and Garden State, Gorillaz, Damien Rice, Lucinda Williams, The Roots, Social Distortion, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Ray Lamontagne, Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Parliment, Radiohead's O.K. Computer, Rachel Yamagata, Warren Zevon, The Damned, more to come...
Films (Non-Medicine): Blade Runner (and many Ridley Scott films, Tony Scott's The Hunger, Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk-Love (PTA all), some, but not all, of the films of Lars Von Trier, Garden State, The Long Riders and the Outlaw Josey Wales, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Anything with Samuel L. Jackson, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, more to come...
Books: The collected works of Jack Kerouac, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Anne Rice, Alfred Bester (especially The Demolished Man), the occasional novel by Phillip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock's Elric series, H.P. Lovecraft, more to come...
Artists: Michelangelo, Albrecht Durer, Aubrey Beardsley, Thomas Hart Benton, Cindy Sherman, Arbus, Gary Chapman (my painting and figure drawing teacher)
www.uab.edu/art/faculty/chapman/gary_chapman.html
My wife especially likes Hopper and Parish, I like some of the old Dungeons and Dragons artists from back in the day, Erol Otis in particular and Paul Jaquays, a contempoary artist in this genre is Todd Lockwood- amazing (a modern Frazetta or Vallejo and then some), P. Craig Russell, Jo Mielziner (father of modern scenic design for the theatre), Jean Rosenthal (she was a pioneer in theatrical stage lighting), mitchtaylor, more to come...
Heroes: My mom, my wife Carrie, John McFadden (the reason I design theatrical lighting now), Lance Armstrong, Bill Clinton (presidents are people too), Lilith, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Cash, the true artists on MedicineFilms (there are too many to name), but I especially appreciate the "Triad" Zac, Michelle and Jared...
Enemies: Backstabbers...
Dreams: Once I dreamt that I was content.
Quote: This is a dark ride. I always use this one. I need to steal something new.
