"I like the prince who was reading a book when the executioner touched him on the shoulder telling him that it was time, and he, arising, laid a papercutter between the pages to keep his place and closed the book." - Djuna Barnes
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Sex: male Age: 33 Location: Chicago,
Illinois, United States
Member since: May 17, 2010 Account: Free Account Orientation: Straight Status: Married Occupation: Writer
My name is Connor and I'm a writer of experimental Gothic... "Gothic Funk" to be precise.
My novel Hungry Rats -- a Gothic noir involving religious fanatics, dying industrial cityscapes, and homicidal lumberjacks -- has been published by the Gothic Funk Press. They have helped me put together a few videos to promote the novel.
VIDEO #4
VIDEO #3
VIDEO #2
I'm offering a free CD with all Hungry Rats music for anyone who can tell me the name of the neighborhood featured at 1:16/1:18/2:48.
I am also a Catholic Socialist from Flint, Michigan. I have lived in Chicago and New York City, and am a founding member of the Gothic Funk Nation. I have a wonderful wife, and became a father less than a month ago.
Likes
I like a lot of things. I have very eclectic taste.
I like taking long walks. I'm kind of obsessed with my hometown of Flint, MI, and the whole history of the American Midwest, as well as Romania, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, and now Brazil. Travel is intoxicating to me...
I like books: Ann Radcliffe, William Beckford, Matthew Lewis, Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, E.A. Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Victor Hugo, The Bible, Andy Kaufman, Antonin Artaud, Jane Austen, William Thomas Beckford, Ray Bradbury, Mark Bibbins, Italo Calvino, Anton Chekhov, Fantasy, Tracy Hickman, Kay Redfield Jamison, James Joyce, C. S. Lewis, Matthew Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, Madeleine L'Engle, Noir, Post Postmodernism, Thomas Pynchon, Romanticism, J. K. Rowling, Sci Fi, William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Laurence Sterne, J. R. R. Tolkien, Margaret Weis, Djuna Barnes, Anne Carson, William Faulkner, Neil Gaiman, Denise Mina.
As far as gothic literature is concerned, I like early British gothic, contemporary with the French Revolution, and Ann Radcliffe is my personal favorite.
Movies: The Passion of Joan of Ark, Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrman, Watcher in the Woods, Young Frankenstein, Pirates of the Caribbean, Man on the Moon, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, WALL•E, Magnolia, Idlewild, Cast Away, In Search of the Castaways, Punch-Drunk Love, Eve's Bayou, Nature, Sharks, Monkeys, Chimps, Baboons, Jane Goodall, Apocalypse Now, American Graffiti, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Gangs of New York, Mutiny on the Bounty, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock, The Ice Cream Man, Pinocchio's Revenge, The Evil Dead, Back to the Future, This Is Spinal Tap
Television: Veronica Mars, My So-Called Life, Taxi, Deadwood, Rome, The O.C., The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Monk, Fraggle Rock, Lost
Dislikes
Fallacy: Writers should show, not tell. Correction: In fiction, telling is sometimes better than showing. A good example is David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident
Fallacy: Every story needs a beginning, middle, and end. Correction: Some stories do not. A good example is La Maison de Rendezvous by Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Also, I hate the songs Loveshack, YMCA, and Roxanne. I have heard them too often, and they piss me off.
Finally, I dislike closed-mindedness and bigotry.
Favorite Music
Smashing Pumpkins, Bjork, Lush, Eminem, Sufjan Stevens, R.E.M., Tori Amos, Radiohead, Ladytron, Elisabeth Blair, James Brown, Joy Division, Michael Gira, Swans, Stevie Wonder, Orbital, Velvet Underground, Professor Longhair, R. L. Burnside, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, Pearl Jam, Aphex Twin, P-Funk, The Go! Team, Joy Division, Jane's Addiction, Oasis, The Cranberries, Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Beatles, Rush, Doris Henson, Gogol Bordello, The Ting Tings, The Octopus Project, White Zombie, Bruce Springsteen, Saul Williams, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Temptations, The Supremes, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Glenn Miller, Underworld, The Lords of Acid, Utah Saints, Infected Mushroom, Juno Reactor, House music, Trance music, Techno, Psychedelic trance, IDM, Glitch, Assorted Electronic, The Meters, Charles Wright and the Watts, Isaac Hayes, Moby, Aqua, Vengaboys, Spice Girls, Natalie Imbruglia, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Teena Marie, Monica, Missy Elliott, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop Dogg, N.W.A, LL Cool J, Run DMC, MC Breed, Fugees, The Roots, Esham, Dayton Family, Taraf de Haidouks, Beastie Boys, Jay-Z, Michael Jackson, Lovers In Arms, The Gun Show
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