Michael Avolio

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About me

Gender Male
Introduction indie cartoonist - read my work at www.michaelavolio.com
Interests comics, film, music, etc.
Favorite Movies 8½, The Addams Family, Alien, Apocalypse Now, The Asphalt Jungle, The Bad and the Beautiful, Bad Lieutenant, Barry Lyndon, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Bullets Over Broadway, Casino, Le Cercle Rouge, Chinatown, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Danger: Diabolik, Dead Man, The Deer Hunter, La Dolce Vita, Don't Look Now, Dont Look Back, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Draughtman's Contract, Duck Soup, Ed Wood, Eraserhead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Face of Another, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Fugitive, The General (1927), Get Carter (1971), The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Good Night and Good Luck, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, GoodFellas, Heat, His Girl Friday, In the Soup, The Incredibles, Insomnia (2002), Intimacy, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The King of Marvin Gardens, L.A. Confidential, The Lady from Shanghai, Last Year at Marienbad, Lawrence of Arabia, The Leopard, The Limey, The Lion in Winter, Lost Highway, A Man Escaped, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Man Who Knew Too Little, The Meaning of Life, Michael Clayton, Mikey and Nicky, Miller's Crossing, Million Dollar Baby, Monkey Business, The Muppet Movie, Naked Lunch, The Nightmare Before Christmas, No Country for Old Men, North by Northwest, Notorious (1946), Oldboy, Out of the Past, Papillon, Paris Texas, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Point Blank, Pulp Fiction, Punch-Drunk Love, Raging Bull, The Remains of the Day, The Royal Tenenbaums, Salesman, Save the Green Planet!, Schizopolis, Scorpio, The Seventh Seal, Shame, The Silence, The Silence of the Lambs, Solaris (2002), The Squid and the Whale, Sympathy for the Underdog, Taxi Driver, Tekkon Kinkreet, The Third Man, This is Spinal Tap, THX 1138, Touch of Evil, Unfaithfully Yours, Videodrome, Wag the Dog, The War is Over, Wings of Desire, Winter Light, The Wrestler
Favorite Music Bob Dylan, Over the Rhine, David Bowie, Warren Zevon, Brian Eno, Wilco, The Pixies, The Kills, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The New Pornographers, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Elvis Costello and the Imposters, Miles Davis, The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Waits, U2, Mazzy Star, Arcade Fire, The Cure, Frank Black, Black Francis, Peter Gabriel, Ryan Adams, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Raveonettes, Joy Division, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Elliott Smith, John Coltrane, The Stooges, M. Ward, Randy Newman, Johnny Cash, The Shins, Led Zeppelin, The Detroit Cobras, Garbage, Ambulance LTD, No Picnic, Weeping Tile, Bryan Steel, Dear Vincent, Jack Henderson, The Birthday Party, The Doors, Old 97's, Howlin' Wolf, William Shatner, Tom Petty, Moby, The Sex Pistols, The Smiths, AC Newman, Matthew Sweet, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Stars, David Gray, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, OK Go, The Greenhornes, Holly Golightly
Favorite Books The Long Goodbye, Across the River and into the Trees, Glengarry Glen Ross, Alec: The King Canute Crowd, Berlin Game, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Casanova, The Filth, Mome, A Family Matter, Sin City: That Yellow Bastard, Desolation Jones, Watchmen, Fell, Mr. Punch, Mister X, Kane, Choke, Calvin and Hobbes, Hurlyburly, The Catcher in the Rye, Acme Novelty Library, The Screwtape Letters, Hellboy, The Stranger, A Moveable Feast, A Year with Swollen Appendices, BodyWorld, Low Moon, The Last Musketeer, Hey Wait...