NameBonnie Lee "Jude Avery Ted Bonzo Pippin Pitcairn Sebastian Ishmael Terry Robyn" Conlee [insert real surname here]. More commonly known as Jude, Jude Conlee, J.A. Conlee, or Pippin (as a few friends still remember me as).
InterestsOld rock music, Victorians, surrealism, insanity, serial killers, subcultures, absinthe, science fiction, tulips, invalid terraces, hamsters, cosmic mysteries, lolita outfits, the things that no one likes to think about but that we must, and strawberries.
Music preferencesLegendary Pink Dots, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Robyn Hitchcock, the Doors, Bauhaus, David Bowie, Rasputina, Led Zeppelin, the Dresden Dolls, Brian Eno, the Clash, the Decemberists, Emilie Autumn, the members of the Elephant 6 collective, and more that I'm simply too lazy to mention.
Film preferencesA Christmas Story, My Left Foot, Napoleon Dynamite, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Children Of Men, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (and the Flying Circus, too), The Princess Bride, What About Bob?, and Disney and Pixar films.
Literature preferencesWorks by Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Lewis, Lemony Snicket, Ray Bradbury, Richard Adams, Oscar Wilde, Douglas Adams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Isaac Asimov, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, John Steinbeck, and the like. Plus friends
MustardProphet,
ClassicRocker47, and
MourningOrphanage.
Artistic preferencesDali, Van Gogh, Warhol, Roger Dean (who does the Yes album covers), Carson Ellis (who does the Decemberists album covers), and fellow deviants
L-M-Strange,
electricsorbet,
TheBalloonMan,
LittleDollhouse, and
mahinaz.
Other assorted factsMy favorite numbers are 9, 27, 42, 69, and 93. (It pleases me that my birthday is on May
27.) I have a great fondness for
italics. I have Aspergers' Syndrome, depression, synthesia, and...well, probably a whole host of other things. I'm just generally insane, is all. I like to sew small stuffed dolls of my friends, my fictional characters, and other favorite assorted personages. I am a panromantic asexual (which is, I suppose, a way of saying "no sex please, bring on the love"). I attend the Orange County High School of the Arts for Creative Writing, despite the fact that I actually don't get around to doing much writing these days. I have quite a few people in my head, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are absolutely benign, a few of whom make me positively manic and mad when they take over, and almost all of whom have featured in something I've written at some time or another. I have an overwhelming
obsession fascination with absinthe. I am quite insane.
Happy Twelfth Night, everybody.
Current Residence: I go between Mars, Narnia, Pitcairn Island, psychedelic land, the world in my closet, and my mind.
Favourite genre of music: classicrock indie PSYCHEDELIC Celtic krautrock freakfolk alternative classicpunk shoegaze
Favourite photographer: Anyone who takes good photographs.
Favourite style of art: Surrealism, avant-gard, dada, expressionism, impressionism, PSYCHEDELIC, abstract...
Operating System: My computer...
MP3 player of choice: I have an iPod that I named Hammond.
Wallpaper of choice: I cut out the pictures from calendars and put them on my walls.
Skin of choice: I love how everyone misinterprets this question.
Favourite cartoon character: Pinky (from Pinky and the Brain). Narf!
Personal Quote: We have nothing to hate but hate itself.