Tony J.
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Freelancer |
| Location | St. Paul, MN, United States |
| Introduction | Painter, cartoonist, muralist, toy designer, circus / theater / animation festival producer, filmmaker, photographer, art teacher and jerk of all trades. |
| Interests | Horror and underground comics, pinhole photography, filmmaking, Super-8mm, painting, Buddhism, World War One, the Spanish Civil War, the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, pirates, late 19th century and early 20th century outlaws and bank robbers, old radio shows like "The Shadow", Ernest Shackleton's failed Antarctic expedition on the ship "Endurance", vampire movies made between the 1920's and 1970's, German expressionism (especially the die Brucke group), Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Basil Gogos, Shag, Mark Ryden, Niagara, Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde, Kirchner, Post-Impressionism, film noir, French and Asian new wave, no-wave cinema, Hammer, hardboiled fiction, DVD collecting, old barns, country roads, trains, train tracks, cities, horses, cows, cats, dogs, people, pudding. |
| Favorite movies | Ace in the Hole, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Alucarda, Band of Outsiders, Basket Case, Beyond the Valley of The Dolls, Billy the Kid vs. Dracula, The Black Cat, Breathless, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Blue Velvet, The Crawling Hand, Crazy Fat Ethel, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, Diary of a Lost Girl, Detour, Dracula (1931), Edvard Munch, Ed Wood, Evil Ed, Gun Crazy, Faster Pussycat... Kill! Kill!, Flesh and the Devil, Frankenstein (1931), Ed Wood, Eyes Without a Face, Female Vampire, Geek Maggot Bingo, Girl Gang, Godzilla (1954), The Golden Boat, Hail Mary, High School Caesar, Horror of Dracula, The Horror of Party Beach, Hothead, The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, I Am Cuba, I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, In a Lonely Place, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, Irma Vep, The Iron Rose, In the Mood for Love, Johnny Guitar, L’Atalante, Killer of Sheep, La Vie de Bohème, Le Samouraï, Les Vampires, Late Spring, Little Fugitive, The Lusty Men, M, Man Bites Dog, Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Man Who Laughs, Messiah of Evil, Millennium Mambo, The Mirror, The Misfits, Mouchette, Mystery Train, The Mother and the Whore, Ms. 45, Nadja, Night of The Creeps, Night of The Demon (1980), Nosferatu, Onibaba, Ordet, Pandora’s Box, The Passenger, Paranoid Park, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Pickpocket, Possession, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), The Public Enemy, Rashomon, Repo Man, Requiem for a Vampire, Samurai Rebellion, Shadows, The Shooting, Shoot the Piano Player, The Sin of Nora Moran, Stalker, The Station Agent, The Straight Story, Stranger Than Paradise, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Tabu, They Live By Night, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, Thieves’ Highway, Tokyo Story, The Turning Horse, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Ugetsu, The Vampire Bat, Van Gogh (1991), Venus in Furs, A Virgin Among the Living Dead, Wages of Fear, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Werckmeister Harmonies |
| Favorite music | Thee Headcoats, Thee Headcoatees, Thee Mighty Caesars, Thee Milkshakes, Pop Rivets, Buff Medways, Billy Childish, Masonics, Armitage Shanks, The Sonics, Link Wray and his Raymen, Leadbelly, Tom Waits, Howlin' Wolf, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Hasil Adkins, Ramones, Son House, The Birthday Party, Pixies, The Smiths, Mazzy Star, The Sundays, The Fall, Can, Fireworks, Lush, The Earls of Suave, Lee Hazlewood, Black Time, The Gories, Stereo Total, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Trashwomen, The Ronettes, Skip James, Rufus Thomas, Little Junior Parker, Robert Nighthawk, Wu-Tang Clan, RZA, Little Jimmy Scott, DNA, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Chance and the Contortions, Blind Willie Johnson, Rev. Gary Davis, Helen Kane, Josef K., Gustav Mahler, Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Frederic Chopin, J.S. Bach, Sexton Ming, The Deptford Beach Babes, Mihály Vig, The Mummies, The Antlers, The Tet Offensive, enokizu78, Frightened Rabbit, Josephine Baker, The Oblivians, De La Soul, Django Reinhardt, Robert Johnson, Roy Orbison, The Damned, Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto, Charlie 'Bird' Parker, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds. |
| Favorite books | Frankenstein, Ask The Dust, Crime and Punishment, The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge, Diary of a Madman, Camus, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, My NY Diary, I Never Liked You, Big Baby, There's a Hair in my Dirt!, Why I Hate Saturn, Bone, Preacher, Madman, Strangers in Paradise, Sandman, Sandman Mystery Theater, The Adventures of Barry Ween, The Tick, MAD Magazine, The Book of Monelle, Dr. Mabuse, Ride the Pink Horse, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventures of Pinocchio, Barnaby, 1984, Animal Farm, The Trial, Homage to Catalonia, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Storm of Steel, Death on the Installment Plan, Devil In the Flesh, A Hell of a Woman, Moon in the Gutter, Nightfall, Black Wings Has My Angle, Madame Bovary, Tough Call: Hard-Hitting Phone Pranks, Haunted Horror (banned comics from the 1950's). |