Jim Higgins
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Writer/Editor, mostly comics |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | I'm pretty easy-going, chatty, open-minded, occasionally charming, usually unshaven, live with chronic fatigue, will dance a jig if necessary, am kind to children and small animals, am sometimes forgetful, and often wonder what's going to happen next. |
| Interests | Film, comics, literary fiction, medicine and biology, art, Asian Cinema, sex, myths and fairy tales, politics, science, cool retro sneakers, graphic design, cooking, what street people talk to themselves about, crime fiction, education, coffee, new ways to cook chicken cutlets |
| Favorite movies | Alphaville, Touch of Evil, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Chungking Express, Annie Hall, Point Blank, Bladerunner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Tingler, In The Mood For Love, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Videodrome, The Royal Tennenbaums, You Can Count On Me, The Company of Wolves, American Beauty, West Side Story, The Bandwagon, Ghost in the Shell, films by Kim Ki-Duk, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Orson Welles, Jean-Luc Godard, Melville, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lars von Trier, Fritz Lang, Olivier Assayas, Francois Ozon, and Wong Kar-Wai. |
| Favorite music | Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Coldplay, Radiohead, Bjork, Moby, Neil Young |
| Favorite books | Strange Wine by Harlan Ellison, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, American Tabloid by James Ellroy, Burning Chrome by William Gibson, Cathedral and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, Valis by Philip K. Dick, The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha, The Hunter by Richard Stark, The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford, Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill |
What's the earliest you've gotten up to watch cartoons and what did you see?
I got up at 7am and saw a beautiful version of The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde which was so poignant I cried for five minutes when it ended.