Dan West
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | Dan West: 1) Contains a minute amount of great white shark DNA 2) Liquifies solid food with regurgitated stomach acids like a giant, human-shaped housefly 3) Seeks the elusive Yeti 4) Make sexy sexy boom boom with nude lady wearing protective helmet and breathing apparatus 5) Point at rainbow in sky for to rejoicing God's magic 6) Paints and draws strange things and likes to string funny words together on this blog and in his numerous books and screenplays. He is the co-writer and co-director of the films Monsturd and its sequel RetarDEAD and the author of the stomach-churning collection of short stories, Homemade Embalming Fluid and the comic horror novel, The House That Dripped Gore |
| Interests | Movies. Horror films, comedy films, true crime, oddities, playing the drums, humorous essays, comedy in general, horror films in general. Herschell Gordon Lewis, John Waters, John Carpenter, Charlie Watts, Dario Argento, Laurel and Hardy, Roger Corman, George Romero, Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, James Ellroy, David Sedaris, Woody Allen, Monty Python, L-7, twangy 1960s instrumental music, Bernard Herrmann's film scores, George Peed album cover art, Ed Wood Jr., thrift stores, flea markets, spiders, shitty music and shitty films, The Marx Brothers, The Cleavland Torso murderer, haunted houses, Keith Moon, David F. Friedman, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Mel Brooks, Larry David, Amy Sedaris, Russ Meyer, Costume design, Buster Keaton, Harold Loyd, Peter Cook, Mink Stole, crazy, old records, hats, gore films, Mario Bava, John Houston, cleavage, beer, independant filmmaking, Billy Bob Thorton, The Cohen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, P.T. Anderson, Ben Stiller, Tom Savini, Quentin Taratino, Robert Rodriguez, Cheech and Chong, Tobe Hooper, David Cronenberg , Ray Harryhausen |
| Favorite movies | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Parts 1 &2 (original),L.A.Confidential, Boogie Nights, Duck Soup, Halloween, Dawn of The Dead (original), Journey To The Center of The Earth, A Night At The Opera, Deep Red, Suspiria, Up In Smoke, Blue Velvet, Pink Flamingoes, Plan Nine From Outer Space, Shriek Of The Mutilated, Two Thousand Maniacs!, The Car, The Fog, Escape From New York, The Good,the Bad and The Ugly, Casino, The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad, Mysterious Island, Psycho, Frenzy, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Comedy Of Terrors,Dolemite, The Human Tornado, The House Of Usher, Masque Of The Red Death, Tales Of Terror, The Brood, Phenomena, Army of Darkness, Horse Feathers, The Meaning of Life, Blood Feast, A Taste of Blood, The Swarm, The Curse of Bigfoot, Walk Hard, Quatermass And The Pit, First Men In The Moon, Jason And The Argonauts, Basket Case, Silence of The Lambs, Desperate Living, Lifeforce, The Omen, The Exorcist, Freeway, Crumb, The Filth and The Fury, American Movie, Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol 1 &2, Desperado, Sin City, Planet Terror, Poleyester, Hairspray (original), Abbot and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Love and Death, Sleeper, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Zelig, Annie Hall, Husbands and Wives, Hanna and Her Sisters, A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy, Shadows and Fog, For A Few Dollars More, Tombstone, Zodiac, From Hell,Blood Feast, Serial Mom, Cecil B. Demented, The Hills Have Eyes (both versions), Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Sunset Boulevard, Moby Dick (John Houston version), No Country For Old Men, The Limey, Batman Begins, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow,King Kong Lives, Wild At Heart, Blood For Dracula, Flesh for Frankenstein, The Thing (from Another world) both versions, The Maltese Falcon, Rosemary's Baby, Goodfellas, Peatey Wheatstraw, The Life Of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Naked Lunch, the Dead Zone, Scanners, It's Alive, Re-Animator, Escape From L.A., Modern Times, The Great Dictator, The Producers |
| Favorite music | Bernard Herrmann, Twangy 1960's instrumental rock, L7, Pixiess, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, James Bernard |
| Favorite books | L.A. Confidential, Anything by David Sedaris or Woody Allen..True Crime literature, James Ellroy, The Alienist by Caleb Carr, |