Barney

About me

Gender Male
Industry Accounting
Occupation Bookseller and freelance writer
Location Allentown, PA., United States
Introduction Bookseller, writer.
Interests Mark Twain - History
Favorite Movies The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Fitzcarraldo, Bride of Frankenstein, Loose Change, The Corporation, The Man Who Would Be King, Harold and Maude, Galaxy Quest, White Hunter, Black Heart, Young Frankenstein, V For Vendetta, Cape Fear, Cat People, Lost Horizon, Kill Bill Vol. 1 &; 2, The Seven Samurai, The Magnificent Seven, The Harder They Fall, Mountains of the Moon, Unforgiven.
Favorite Music Fiona Apple, Tom Waits, Dr. John, Bad Brains, Frank Zappa, Beastie Boys, Dandy Warhols, Springsteen, The Clash, Cabaret Voltaire, Billy Childish, Dyan, Beck, Bauhaus, Brahms, Dropkick Murphys, Drive By Truckers, Dick Dale, Doors, Flaming Lips, Hammel On Trial, Iggy Pop, Kid Rock, Led Zeppelin, LEZ Zeppelin, The WHO, early Stones, later Lou Reed, Mila Javovich, Mountaingoats, Nina Hagen, Klaus Nomi, Pere Ubu, Richard Thompson, Dizzie Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Coltrane, Django, Shonen Knife, Soul Coughing, X, Stiff Little Fingers, Live Bowie, Nick Cave, The Fugs, The Cure, Warren Zevon, XTC, you know ... stuff.
Favorite Books Mark Twain, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling, Hunter S. Thompson, Jim Thompson, Hardboiled Fiction, Science Fiction, T.C. Boyle, Robertson Davies, Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, Thom Jones, Donald Westlake, J.G. Ballard, James M. Cain, Avram Davidson, Mary Sheeley's FRANKENSTEIN, Carter Beats the Devil, Seven Who Fled, Pop. 1280, Farenheit 451, William S. Burroughs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, about half of Tom Wolfe and half of Gene Wolf and I really liked WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? by Albee but I don't care all that much for Virginia Woolf. Dorothy Parker was a genius and so was James Thurber.