The Hall of Bright Carvings
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Introduction | A speakeasy bar in a neon noir Neverland, Lantern Jawed Heroes busting Disney sponsored back alley brothels, Salome with a switchblade, Sam Spade in Wonderland, a flamenco Sin City; Las Vegas through the wardrobe, a love-drunk bellow in the labyrinth of lost Soho, divining mystical truth at the bottom of the bottle...the clockwork hangover... |
| Interests | Glamour, sumptuous colour, stark monochrome, the Belle Epoque, rainbow-tinted augenpulver, magic realism, mystery, decadence, intelligence, all things cerebral, sexy and sensuous and perhaps a little shitfaced |
| Favorite movies | Alice, Amelie, La Antena, Beat Girl, Beetlejuice, Blue Velvet, Brazil, Cabaret, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Carnival Of Souls, Carry On Screaming, Cat People, Children's Film Foundation stuff, The City of Lost Children, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Cyrano de Bergerac, Dark City, Delicatessen, Edward Scissorhands, Frankenstein, The Haunting (1963), The Invisible Man,Kind Hearts & Coronets, The Ladykillers, M, Metropolis, Night Of The Hunter, Nosferatu, Of Freaks & Men, Parents, The Phantom Tollbooth, Prospero's Books, Ratatouille, The Red Balloon, The Saddest Music In the World, The Sandman, School For Scoundrels, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, The Tempest, A Trip To the Moon, Les Triplettes de Belleville, La Vie En Rose, Village Of The Damned, The Wicker Man, Wild At Heart, Wisconsin Death Trip, The Wizard of Oz (Television: Beasts, Beat Club, The Bridge, The "Bring On The Trumpets" ad, Doctor Who (1963-1981), The Double Deckers, Eerie Indiana, Freakazoid, Hinterland, The Killing, Northern Exposure, The Owl Service, Twin Peaks, The X-Files) |
| Favorite music | ABBA, JS Bach, Al Bowlly, Kate Bush, The Carpenters, Nick Cave, Shirley Collins, The Dead Brothers, dEUS, The Doors, Fanny, Florence + The Machine, Serge Gainsbourg, Hanoi Rocks, PJ Harvey. Jimi Hendrix, Hollywood Brats, John Lee Hooker, LOTNC, Lotte Lenya, Moondog, Mozart, Mr Airplane Man, The Muffs, New York Dolls, Edith Piaf, TPOH, The Real Tuesday Weld, Django Reinhardt, The Runaways, The Shangri-Las, Charles Trenet, Tom Waits, Vaughan Williams |
| Favorite books | Alice In Wonderland, Candide, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Collector, Crow, Dandy In the Underworld, Dead Babies, Dora Suarez, The Fairies Of New York, Fast & Louche, The First Men In The Moon, The Gormenghast Trilogy, Great Expectations, The Great Gatsby, The House of Leaves, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Infinite Variety - The Life & Legend of Marchese Luisa Casati, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Le Petit Prince, Lemony Snicket, The Long Firm, Macbeth, Master of the World, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mr Corbett's Ghost. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Le Petit Prince, The Red Riding Quartet, The Sandman, Sherlock Holmes, Sick On You, Soho, Storyville, A Tale of Two Cities, Tales of Mystery & Imagination, The Tempest, The Wasp Factory, Watchmen, The Whitsun Weddings, The Witches, The Wizard of Oz, Wonderland Avenue, Young London, good comics esp stuff by Steve Gerber, Michael Allred, WIll Eisner, Alan Moore, and all the punk packers (Messrs Kane, McCarthy, Ewins, Hewlett etc) |
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