Connor
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Poet |
| Location | Chicago, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I am a Catholic Socialist and a writer from Flint, Michigan. I have lived in Chicago and New York City, and am a founding member of the Gothic Funk Nation. I am happily married and blessed with many friends and a rock-solid family. I believe that sharks and monkeys and octopuses and fish are wonderful animals. I believe that radioactive ultraviolet is the best color. I do not believe that a good story requires a beginning, middle, and end. Gothic Funk nation: http://www.gothicfunk.org The rest is at my blog: http://hereisnowhy.com/blog Website: http://www.hereisnowhy.com |
| Interests | Literature, Fantasy, Noir, Gothic, Theology, Romanticism, Classics, Any and All kinds of Art, Postmodernism, Literary theory, History, Flint, Michigan, Midwest, Romania, Ireland, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, Belize, Italy, Greece, Israel, Mesopotamia, Crete, Tanzania, Polynesia, also, Dark Ages, Italian Renaissance, French Revolution, Languages, English, Romanian, Irish, Old English, Spanish, Bengali, ASL, Geoscience, Cosmology, Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Geometry, Hyperbolic Geometry, Topology, Number Theory, Complexity Theory, Dungeons and Dragons, D&D, Risk, Cards, Dominoes, Fortunetelling, Baseball, Tigers, Detroit Tigers, RPGs, video games, board games, Psychosis, Schizophrenia, Social Psychology, Monkeys, Sharks, Fish, Octopuses |
| Favorite movies | Man on the Moon, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Passion of Joan of Ark, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Strictly Ballroom, anything by, Baz Luhrman, Pirates of the Caribbean, especially, Dead Man's Chest, and, At World's End, the Dark Knight, WALL-E, Magnolia, Little Miss Sunshine, Watcher in the Woods, (especially the version with the crazy acid trip ending), Young Frankenstein, Cast Away, In Search of the Castaways, Punch Drunk Love, Eve's Bayou, Pleasantville, Captain Jon's Shark Safari, Island of the Sharks, The Great Sharks, Escape to Witch Mountain, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, not Land of the Dead so much, Fantasia, Akira, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Star Wars III - VI, Star Trek II-VI, (not a groupie, though, and unacquainted with trivia), Pi, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Wizard of Oz, Gangs of New York, Mutiny on the Bounty, (in all its colorful incarnations), (especially that really bizarre version with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins), 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Shining, and anything Stanley Kubrick, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and anything Alfred Hitchcock, The Ice Cream Man, Pinocchio's Revenge, and other assorted horror flicks, The Black Hole |
| Favorite music | Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Tori Amos, Bjork, Lush, Outkast, Radiohead, Eminem, Sufjan Stephens, Elisabeth Blair, Rolling Stones, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Orbital, Professor Longhair, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode, Ladytron, Aphex Twin, Doris Henson, Esplèndidos, P-Funk, (and the whole George Clinton empire), John Lee Hooker, Missy Elliott, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, The Go!Team, Gogol Bordello, The Ting Tings, The Octopus Project. Jane's Addiction, Oasis, Cranberries, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Velvet Underground, Beatles, Rush, Journey, White Zombie, Bruce Springsteen, Saul Williams, Brazilian Girls, Joy Division, New Order, Depeche Mode, the Cure, various New Wave players, Buddy Holly, the Temptations, the Supremes, Motown, Charlie Parker, R.L. Burnside, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Underworld, the Lords of Acid, Infected Mushroom, Juno Reactor, Aphex Twin, house, trance, techno, goa, IDM, glitch, assorted electronic, the Meters, Charles Wright and the Watts, Maraczec Orchestra, Moby, Aqua, Vengaboys, Spice Girls, Natalie Imbruglia, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, occasional other Jackson, Teena Marie, Monica, Public Enemy, Wu Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, NWA, LL Cool J, Run DMC, MC Breed, Fugees, The Roots, Esham, Dayton Family, Taraf de Haidouks, Beastie Boys, (in small doses), ditto, Jay-Z. |
| Favorite books | Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and its Double, The Cenci, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, Djuna Barnes, Ryder, Nightwood, William Beckford, Vathek, Beowulf, The Bible, Peter Brook, The Empty Space, Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, Anne Carson, Plainwater Caryl Churchill, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Donald Davis, The Nature and Power of Mathematics, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, John W. Fitzmaurice, the Shanty Boy James Gleick, Chaos, Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Tony Kushner, A Bright Room Called Day, Angels in America, Madeleine L'Engle, The Time Quartet, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Alan Moore, Watchmen The Qu'ran, Harold Pinter, Betrayal, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Marco Rafala, I See the Branch of an Almond Tree J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Bram Stoker, Dracula, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Dragonlance, A whole bunch of early English romantic and gothic junk and stuff. |
If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?
No.