Favourite colours: black, purple, green

Favourite smells: fresh film stock, baking bread, cedar, garlic, The Body Shop's "White Musk",

Favourite foods: anything Indian or Middle Eastern, TexMex, cheese, peanut butter

Favourite beverages: milk, coffee, ginger ale, Carlsberg, Harp, Keith's, Absolut & o.j., Jack & ginger

Favourite bands: The Sisters of Mercy, Curve, Daisy Chainsaw/Queen Adreena, Lamb, too many to mention (see music collection)

What I'm listening to lately: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, The Curse

Favourite films: everything Hal Hartley has ever made, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Run Lola Run, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Naked Lunch, Seven, The Fifth Element, Withnail and I, The Crow, Brazil, Time Bandits, Soylent Green, A Clockwork Orange, The Neverending Story, Labyrinth, Naked, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Philadelphia, Pump Up The Volume, all the 80's Brat Pack movies, oh how I could go on...

What I've seen in the cinema or rented lately: The Return Of The King, Pirates Of The Carribean

Favourite books/ authors/ poets: The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley), Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Kicking Tomorrow (Daniel Richler), Anthony Shriek (Jessica Amanda Salmonson), The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea), Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman), His Dark Materials Trilogy (Philip Pullman)

-Timothy Findley, Janette Turner Hospital, Neil Gaiman, J.D. Salinger, James Baldwin, O. R. Melling, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Philip Pullman, Dr. Seuss, Edgar Allen Poe

-Leonard Cohen, T. S. Eliot, Dennis Lee, Sylvia Plath, Christopher Dewdney

What I've read lately: The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde),The Little Friend (Donna Tartt), The Silmarilion (J.R.R. Tolkien), Due Preparations For The Plague (Jeanette Turner Hospital), Counterparts (Nicholas Royle), Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson), The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson), Spadework (Timothy Findley)

Favourite cultural revolutionaries: David Bowie, The Tuatha De Danann, Lao-Tzu, Tzara, Jarry, Artaud, et. al., Burroughs, Ginsberg, et. al., John Dillinger, Carlos Castaneda, Genesis P. Orridge, Iggy Pop, Andrew William Harvey Taylor, Lydia Lunch, Jubal Brown

Favourite tv shows: The Simpsons, The West Wing, The Family Guy

Favourite non-photo-based artists: H. R. Geiger, Francis Bacon, many of the Pre-Raphaelites, Dave McKean, Gustav Klimt, a number of my ex-schoolmates from OCA

Favourite photographers: Floria Sigismondi, Joel Peter Witkin, Helmut Newton, Gottfried Helnwein

What I shoot with: a Canon EOS Rebel G (28-80 zoom, f3.5-5.6 and a 50mm f1.8) with a 380EX speedlight, and a Mamiya 645 1000s with a complement of 3 lenses.
For stills, I like to use Kodak Royal Gold 100 and Ilford Delta 100 film, and I use Kodak VPS 120 roll film when I shoot medium format.
For 16mm motion work, I usually shoot Kodak Vision stock, with the 7277 (E.I. 320) being my favourite (for its sharpness, speed and overall versatility). When I've got lots of light, then I love the fine grain of 7248.
I have a Sekonic L-328 light meter that I like to use when I want to meter light from the sky or my Alien Bees B800 studio flash heads.

Miscellaneous Things I Like: my adorable-but-psychotic cat Mishu, cigarettes, Soviet submarines, a quality pen, glass, my bicycle, thunderstorms, lilies and irises, shoes and boots, being nicknamed "Killer", etymology, 'dead' civilisations and languages, modern dance, mythology, fun fur, proper spelling and grammar, the idea of 'home', complicated mechanical devices, sleeping, power, cute furry animals, medicine, bad translations from the Japanese...


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