Personal Info:
-Name: Cameron
-Age: 21
-Sex: Male
-Education: Junior at Rockhurst University
-Location: Kansas City, MO
-Employment: Food Service
-Politics: Leftist/Socialist
-Religion: Catholic -- Process Theology
Artistic Influences:
Literary:
-Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
-H.P. Lovecraft (The Cthulhu Mythos)
-China Miéville (The Bas-Lag books and King Rat)
-K.J. Bishop (The Etched City)
-Tim Powers (the Fault Lines series)
-Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World)
-John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)
-J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye and Franny & Zooey)
-Neil Gaiman (American Gods and Sandman)
-Michael Swanwick (The Iron Dragon's Daughter and Jack Faust)
-Joseph Conrad (The Heart of Darkness)
Poetic:
-Gerard Manley Hopkins (The Windhover and Not, I'll not Carrion Comfort(
-Matthew Arnold (Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse and Dover Beach)
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan)
-William Blake (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell)
-T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and The Hollow Men)
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Vastness, The Lotos-Eaters, and Ulysses)
-W.B. Yeats (The Second Coming and Among School Children)
-Goethe (Faust)
Dramatic:
-Aeschylus (The Oresteia)
-William Shakespeare (The Tempest)
-Christopher Marlowe (The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus)
-Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead)
Cinematic:
-Fight Club
-Yojimbo
-Seven Samurai
-Jacob's Ladder
-Pan's Labyrinth
-Shaun of the Dead
-Blazing Saddles
Video Games:
-the Koudelka series (Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts: Covenant, especially.)
-the Shin Megami Tensei series (Nocturne and Digital Devil Saga/Avatar Tuners Especially.)
-Fallout
-Silent Hill
-Xenogears
Musical:
-Tom Waits (Real Gone and Blood Money have had the biggest influence on me.)
-Rocky Votolato (Suicide Medicine is one of the best albums I've heard in the past decade.)
-Cursive (recently discovered; or rather, I was recently introduced to it by a number of people. I only own The Ugly Organist, but I really enjoy it.)
-Waxwing (all of this band's albums are good.)
-The Blood Brothers (Their older albums, especially Burn, Piano Island, Burn, are brilliant.)
-Johnny Cash (Everything by him is good, in my opinion.)
-Richard Buckner (perfectly encapsulates heartbreak. He's good.)
Graphic Novels:
-Blade of the Immortal (a manga; not done in a typical anime style...it's quite gritty and quite good.)
-The Filth (a surrealist graphic novel; brilliantly done.)
-Watchmen (Excellent deconstruction of the whole "superhero" concept.)
-The Life-Eaters (Based on a short story by David Brin. Excellent concept, somewhat weak execution.)
-Hellboy (I'd be lying if I don't love the idea of a bright red Roman Catholic half-demon working for the U.S. government to kill Lovecraftian horrors. Using a giant six-shooter.)
Television:
-Lost (I enjoyed the first season; haven't seen more than a bit of the second.)
-Heroes (haven't been watching much, lately, but I loved the first season.)
-Doctor Who (probably my favorite television program, at the moment. I can't wait for the sci-fi channel to bring the next season on over.)
-Neon Genesis Evangelion (psychological/religious/science fiction anime. Quite good.)
-Hellsing (probably the only thing with vampires in it that I actually enjoy; the Manga and Hellsing Ultimate are the best, though.)
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