Favorite visual artist seraphine louis, ernst haeckel, breughel sr., h. bosch, yoshitoshi, kay nielsen, harry clarke Favorite movies adaptation, sergio leone, alien, the fly, cool hand luke, d. cronenberg, d. lynch, lust caution, the thing, district 9, being john malkovich Favorite bands / musical artists nick drake, alabama shakes, reggae, air, velvet underground, bob dylan, tv on the radio, fela kuti Favorite books mosquito coast, heart of darkness, oryx and crake, the fountainhead, the road, orlando, wuthering heights, a scanner darkly, island of dr. moreau Favorite writers rilke, baudelaire, nabokov, m. atwood, j.c. oates, yeats, i.babel, v. woolf, w. carlos williams, j. konrad, c. maccarthy, octavio paz Tools of the Trade watercolors, inks, bamboo brushes, pen Other Interests bookplates, herbals, cosmology, solitude, woodcuts, ancient history, carboniferous period, angiosperms, the sea