Favorite visual artist seraphine louis, ernst haeckel, breughel sr., h. bosch, yoshitoshi, kay nielsen, harry clarke Favorite movies adaptation, once upon a time in the west, alien, d. cronenberg, d. lynch, adrien brody, district 9, gary oldman Favorite bands / musical artists black keys, satie, prototypes, air, velvet underground, bob dylan, tv on the radio, fela kuti Favorite books mosquito coast, heart of darkness, oryx and crake, the road, orlando, wuthering heights, a scanner darkly, island of dr. moreau Favorite writers rilke, baudelaire, nabokov, m. atwood, j.c. oates, i.babel, v. woolf, j. konrad, c. maccarthy, octavio paz Tools of the Trade watercolors, inks, bamboo brushes Other Interests bookplates, herbals, cosmology, solitude, woodcuts, carboniferous period, angiosperms, the sea