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Old 08-27-2014   #1
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Re: Your personal gods?
Gods of Literature: Proust, Mann, JC Powys
God of Painting: Magritte
God of Music: Anton Webern
God of Cinema: n/a as I hardly ever watch cinema.
My all prevailing Goddess: Elizabeth Bowen
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Re: Your personal gods?
My gods of literature: the dark and deadly Christopher Marlowe and the so-funny-it-hurts Samuel Beckett.
My god of theater: Jerzy Grotowski.
My god of art: innovative Jack B. Yeats.
My god of movies: Alfred Hitchcock (still the best).
My gods of music: Andres Segovia, Miles Davis.
My goddess of photography: Diane Arbus.
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Re: Your personal gods?
There isn't a human on this planet that I would call a hero, and most certainly not a god. But, I do appreciate the works of certain individuals.

Literature: I'm admittedly not very well read, relatively speaking, but I'd have to say Pessoa, Powys and Ligotti.
Film: Noe, Bergmann, Von Trier, Malick.
Visual Art: Beksinski, Ernst, Alexander Jannson, Leszek Andrzej Kostuj.
Music: Debussy, Ben Frost, Tigran Hamasyan, Tim Hecker, Frederik Thordendal, Mikael Akerfeldt, Ben Weinman.
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Re: Your personal gods?
Gods of Literature: J.K. Huysmans, Dennis Cooper, Grant Morrison, H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Carson McCullers, Clark Ashton Smith, Virginia Woolf, Kenneth Grant

Gods of Art: Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, William Blake, Austin Osman Spare, Gilbert & George, Louis Wain, Edward Gorey, Leonora Carrington, Odilon Redon, Max Ernst, H.R. Giger, CL Martin, Benedetta de Alessi

Gods of Cinema: Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch

Gods of Music: too many to name, but off the top of my head: Coil, Current 93, Dead Can Dance, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Nico, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Residents, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Suzanne Vega, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Yes
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Re: Your personal gods?
My Gods of Literature:H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Jorge Luis Borges, Michel Houellebecq, Roberto Bolaño, Enrique Vila-Matas, Michael Cisco.
My Gods of Art: Zdzisław Beksinski, Francisco de Goya, Hieronymus Bosch, Santiago Caruso, H.R. Giger.
My Gods of Music: Dead Can Dance, Deathspell Omega, Drudkh, Summoning, Bethlehem, Empyrium, Devil Doll.
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Re: Your personal gods?
I wouldn't particularly give anyone in the arts the title of a "god" but here are my greatest hits, most of which are relatively mainstream.

Written: Bill Bryson, H.G. Wells, Philip K Dick, William Gibson, Bret Easton Ellis, and I do really like Thomas Ligotti but have not had much exposure to his work yet.

Cinema: Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Winding Refn,

Painters/ visual art: Not much into painters, but do like the work of John Atkinson Grimshaw and H.R. Giger

Music: John Williams (his film scores are legendary)
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Re: Your personal gods?
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There are plenty of others in these fields that I appreciate yet the above named have had the most profound influence upon me. And I am interested in hearing whom your heroes are. So whomever are your personal gods?
Authors: Laird Barron, Thomas Ligotti, Bret Easton Ellis, George RR Martin, frank herbert, alan watts, david rees,
movie/tv shows and makers: Marvel, Wes Anderson. Blumhouse, Moustapha Akkad (Halloween franchise), Legend of Korra/Avatar the last airbender, Adventure Time. Madoka Magika, Sword Art Online, Attack on Titan.
Knifemakers: Jake Hoback, Chris Reeve, Lionsteel
Media Personalities: Carl Sagan, Mr Rogers
Mythical Figures: Crom, Cthulhu, The Many Faced God, The Old Gods of the North, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs
music: Rick Astley, Gunther and the Sunshine Girls (that Ding Ding Dong song gets stuck in my head and his name reminds me of the penguins from Adventure Time), Morrissey, Joy Division, This Mortal Coil, Psy
Food/Drink: Iced coffee, candied bacon, sriracha, stilton

edit: compressed several sublists of fictional things into the "movie/tv makers" list.
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Re: Your personal gods?
Alan Moore, Alfred E. Neuman, Art Spiegelman, Bob Dylan, Cthulhu, Darren Aronofsky, Dave McKean, David Lynch, David Mazzucchelli, David Peace, David Simon, Eddie the Head, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Hopper, Edward D. Wood Jr., Eric Hobsbawm, Eris, Frank Miller, Franz Kafka, Glycon, H.P. Lovecraft, H.R. Giger, Invisible Pink Unicorn, J.R. Bob Dobbs, James Ellroy, Jeff Lebowski, Jorge Luis Borges, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Shields, Konrad Kujau, Mike Mignola, Miles Davis, Neil Gaiman, Patti Smith, Paul Pope, Robert Anton Wilson, Spaghetti Flying Monster, S.T. Joshi, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King, Terrence Malick, Thomas Ligotti, Umberto Eco and a lot more I forget.
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