Iain
Blogs I follow
- 2000AD Covers Uncovered
- Action Figure Blues
- Action Figure Blues
- blue battery-tasting fingers
- CONFESSIONS
- Funrama
- Grantbridge Street & other misadventures
- Has Boobs, Reads Comics
- Idle Hands
- Ink and Thunder
- jimrugg
- LISTEN TO JIMMY
- Paper Foldables™ Blog
- the art room plant
- THE CLASSIC MARVEL FIGURINE COLLECTION
- This Is White Disco
- Tiny Aviary
- Toy-A-Day
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Introduction | i come in a 4-colour window box with an assortment of accessories and a base. keep me in my packaging and sell me on ebay in 5 years for a 500% mark-up. |
| Interests | art, history, art history, drawing, painting, reading, the 1940's, the 1960's, the 1970's, music, europe, cinnamon, gin, nerds, douglas coupland, more painting, freckles, film, red wine, hips, IKEA, books, nostalgia, bookshops, museums, caffeinated beverages, people-watching, italian food, alex borstein, quiet, 45's, glasses, ebay, side-partings, theatre, vaudeville, burlesque, pin-up art, salt, libraries, headphones, records, film noir, autumn, cupcakes, corduroy, scent, snow, badgers, puffins, the number 7, three-part harmonies, flo the progressive insurance girl, cynicism, sarcasm, comics, graphic novels, mocking militant vegans, dr pepper, pop culture, sandwiches, stephen king, gateau, anything kitsch or retro, action figures, nail-biting, comic books, toronto, stockholm, amsterdam, the cello, scones, hiro nakamura, misfits, cactii, shrimp, varnish, pepper, cherries, watching the gradual decline of western civilization, cultivating my own eccentricity |
| Favorite Movies | blade runner, dr strangelove, lars and the real girl, all about eve, cabaret, some like it hot, the last picture show, wings of desire, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, in search of a midnight kiss, say anything, hallam foe, harold and maude, invaders from mars, paris texas, pollock, me and you and everyone we know, art school confidential, almost famous, ghost world, american graffiti, hedwig and the angry inch, dazed and confused, american splendor, rocket science, the baxter, the station agent, black narcissus, rushmore, being there, he loves me he loves me not, i know where i'm going, almost famous, the dog problem, everything is illuminated, cashback, brick, the reckless moment, withnail and i, amelie, every comic book adaptation ever. . . well, most of them |
| Favorite Music | early 70's stones, brian eno era roxy music, 70's david bowie, the who, television, led zeppelin, the decemberists, sloan, the pixies, early belle and sebastian, the band, mid to late era replacements, throwing muses, late beatles, early peter gabriel, old jazz, motown, rock and roll, northern soul and blues, belly, red house painters, buffalo tom, toad the wet sprocket, echo and the bunnymen, peggy lee, elvis costello, IRS era REM 'gish' era smashing pumpkins, tim buckley, tim hardin, tim finn, nick drake, sandy denny era fairport convention, any beach boys song sung by carl wilson, 'transatlanticism' era death cab for cutie, 'oh inverted world' era shins, the rheostatics, amiina, audrey, dvorak, rachmaninov, journey, love, fleet foxes |
| Favorite Books | 'the secret history', by donna tartt, 'generation x', by douglas coupland, 'espedair street', by iain banks, 'the world according to garp', by john irving, 'the dante club' by matthew pearl, 'everything is illuminated', by jonathon saffran foer, 'popular music' by mikael niemi, lots of comics, lots of stephen king |