Favorite visual artist Maxfield Parrish, Alex Raymond, Edward Hopper, N.C. Wyeth, Frank Frazetta, Rafael, Rembrandt, Basil Gogos, Alex Grey, Bernie Wrightson, Peter Max, Gray Morrow, Hildebrandt Brothers Favorite movies Rio Bravo, 2001, North by Northwest, Citizen Kane, Star Wars, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, The Matrix, Bringing Up Baby, The Searchers, Mulholland Dr., Bride of Frankenstein, Three Amigos, Horsefeathers, Red River, The Long Goodbye Favorite TV shows The X-Files, The Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica, Twin Peaks, The Prisoner, Fringe, The West Wing, Family Guy, Dark Shadows, So You Think You Can Dance?, True Blood Favorite bands / musical artists Brian Wilson, Frank Zappa, Stan Kenton, Brian Eno, Charlie Parker, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Cole Porter, Dave Brubeck, The Police, Philip Glass, Claude Debussy, Tom Waits, Bernard Herrmann, George Gershwin, Talking Heads, Frank Sinatra, Gerry Mulligan Favorite books Dracula, Foucalt's Pendulum, Lord of the Rings, The Historian, Dr. No, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Illuminatus!, Leaves of Grass, The Long Goodbye, The Mothman Prophecies, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Wasteland, Dharma Bums, The Great Gatsby, G Favorite writers Ian Fleming, H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Robert Anton Wilson, William Shakespeare, Stephen King, Walt Whitman, Neal Stephenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tom Robbins, Raymond Chandler, Peter Straub, T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Arthur C Clarke, Algernon Blackwood, Tools of the Trade Windows 7, Paint Shop Pro X2, Mandelbulb 3D 1.8.9., Sterlingware 2, JWildfire, Gimp 2 Other Interests Cooking, history, ufology, NASCAR, barbecue, the occult, dogs, fringe science, psychedelia, pipe smoking, astronomy, cats, bourbon whiskey, politics, pretty women, the Chicago Bears, conspiracy theory