karloff

The Beatles, David Bowie, Ray Charles, Moondog, The Breeders, Link Wray & his Ray-Men, Johnny Cash, Franz Ferdinand, Charles Mingus, Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys, The Ramones, X-Ray Spex, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Tom Waits, the Nat King Cole Trio...

Network, Big Fish, SX-70, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Murder by Death, Human Remains, Forbidden Planet, The Crime of Monsieur Longe, Polyester, Dr. Strangelove, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Powers of Ten, The Journey (by Australian director Christopher Tuckfield, follows an aging deaf-blind man on a trip through Asia - I am absolutely dying to get a copy of this!), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea...

lamp making, recycling/repurposing stuff, papercraft, designing and pressing buttons, plastic resin casting (soon), jewelry, lite metalsmithing (when I can get back to a torch!), clockmaking...

my family consists of a brainiac feminist partner and a shaggy half-pug named apple. i love making things (perhaps even creepily so) and i'm a geekyliscious trekkie with emo glasses to boot. a total music snob with a film degree who's got a cute little workshop in his parents' basement and some serious high hopes that said workshop will be able to fit into whatever chicago apartment we can wrangle up...