Favorite visual artist M. C. Escher, Gerald Scarfe, Lynd Ward, Edward Gorey, (do directors count? David Lynch) Favorite movies Amadeus, Brazil, Blade Runner, Dark City, Blazing Saddles, Boy, The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, Bringing Up Baby, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Favorite TV shows Twin Peaks, BBC Sherlock, Adventure Time, MLP Friendship is Magic Favorite bands / musical artists Mozart, Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, old Genesis, Verdi, Rossini, Beethoven, Vivaldi, The Smiths, Alt-J, Ravi Shankar, Muse, Wild Beasts, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Bryan Ferry, Gary Numan, La Shark, Klaus Nomi, Beirut Favorite books Sea of Poppies, Heart of Darkness, Gulliver's Travels, Mrs. Dalloway, Fahrenheit 451, Trigun, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dante's The Divine Comedy, Beloved, The Canterbury Tales (untranslated), Pride and Prejudice, Waiting for Godot Favorite writers Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Ray Bradbury, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Beckett, Amitav Ghosh, Virginia Woolf, Fyodor Dostoevsky, T.S.Eliot Favorite games Myst (I, II, III, & IV), Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Portal 1&2 Favorite gaming platform computer Tools of the Trade pencil, pen, Photoshop, ink, bamboo pen, markers, charcoal Other Interests Animation, Writing, Singing opera, Acting