Swedish rock, Spaghetti westerns, pop surrealism (a catch all phrase, but I don't know what else to call it), sushi, British social realist films, horror movies, transgressionist fiction, Kandinsky, human-sized Muppets and human-sized Muppet-like creatures, black comedy, religions, cults, cheeses, power pop, Vegas hypnotists, Xbox, and comics.
Music
The Old 97's, Bob Hund, Brainpool, The Second Band, Misophone, the Corb Lund Band, Jane Jensen, Willie Wisely, Tsar, Stingray Green, The Vandalias, Jellyfish, Elvis Costello, You Am I, Teenage Fanclub, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Alice Cooper, Queen, Weezer, The Ark, Wannadies, Monster, Moneybrother, Rooney, The Knack, Fluid Ounces, Sloan, Cody ChestnuTT, Apples in Stereo, Todd Rundgren, Ben Folds, Cheap Trick, The Replacements, Archers of Loaf, David Bowie, Lloyd Cole, Jonathan Richman, Super Furry Animals, Terra Naomi, X
Movies
13 Tzameti, 2046, 28 Days Later,
The 400 Blows,
After Hours,
Annie Hall,
Audition,
Babe,
Baby Doll,
Bad Santa,
Barry Lyndon,
Basket Case,
Battle Royale,
Belle de Jour,
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,
The Birds,
Blow Out,
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,
Bonnie and Clyde,
Bottle Rocket,
Braindead,
Bride of Frankenstein,
The Brood,
The Celebration,
Chopper,
Chinatown,
City of God,
The Conversation,
Crimes and Misdemeanors,
Dancer in the Dark,
Dawn of the Dead (1979),
Dawn of the Dead (2004),
Dazed and Confused,
The Daytrippers,
Deconstructing Harry,
The Devil's Rejects,
Dog Day Afternoon,
La Dolce Vita,
Donnie Darko,
Escape from New York,
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Evil Dead II,
Exotica,
The Eye,
Faces,
Fallen Angels (1995),
Far from Heaven,
Fong Sai Yuk,
The Fly (1986),
For a Few Dollars More,
Fucking Amal,
Funny Games,
Galaxy Quest,
The Godfather,
The Godfather Part II,
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,
The Great Silence,
Groundhog Day,
The Gunfighter,
Hail the Conquering Hero,
Hannah and Her Sisters,
Happiness of the Katakuris,
Hard-Boiled,
Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages,
Heavenly Creatures,
Hero (2002),
Heroic Trio,
High Noon,
High Plains Drifter,
A History of Violence,
Hostel, In the Mood for Love,
The Insider,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956),
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978),
It Happened One Night,
Jackie Brown,
Jaws,
Kill Bill Vol 1,
Kill Bill Vol 2,
The Killer,
Kung Fu Hustle,
Life of Brian,
LolliLove,
The Long Goodbye,
Martin,
Matewan,
Match Point,
The Matrix,
Mean Streets,
Mifune,
Monty Python and the Holy Grail,
Mudhoney,
The Naked Kiss,
Naked Lunch,
Napoleon Dynamite,
Night of the Living Dead,
No Country for Old Men,
Obsession,
Oldboy,
Once Upon a Time in the West,
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest,
Out of Sight, Pan's Labyrinth, Planet Terror,
Point Blank,
Pretty Poison,
Red to Kill,
The Return of the Living Dead,
The Right Stuff,
Robocop,
Room at the Top,
Rosemary’s Baby,
Safe,
Saw,
Seven Samurai,
Sexy Beast,
SLiTHER,
The Specials,
Spider-Man 2,
Starship Troopers,
The Station Agent,
La Strada,
Sullivan’s Travels,
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story,
Sweet Smell of Success,
Swingers,
A Tale of Two Sisters,
Taxi Driver,
The Thing,
Three Kings,
Together (2000),
Tootsie,
Touch of Evil,
Toy Story 2,
Tremors,
Tromeo and Juliet,
Turkish Delight,
Twelve Monkeys,
Unforgiven, United 93, Vertigo, Visitor Q,
The Wanderers,
The Weather Man,
The Wild Bunch,
Y tu Mama Tambien
Television
The Wire, Wonder Showzen, Deadwood, The Larry Sanders Show, The Office (American), The Office (British), Lost, Big Brother, Meerkat Manor, The Joe Schmo Show, The Singing Detective, Lipstick on my Collar, The Sopranos, Dexter, The Deadliest Catch
Books
The Toy Collector by James Gunn, Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes, Arthur Rex by Thomas Berger, the works of Alan Moore, the works of Walker Percy, Ask the Dust by John Fante, The Low Life by Luc Sante, Everything I Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, Factotum by Charles Bukowski, Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, Story of the Eye by Georges Batailles, the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, the works of Philip K. Dick, the works of Stephen King, The Counterlife by Philip Roth, Replay by Ken Grimwood, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, the works of Jonathan Ames, Marbles in My Underpants by Renee French, Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson, Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century by Greil Marcus, The World's Most Dangerous Places by Robert Young Pelton, The Accidental Office Lady by Laura Kriska, the works of James B. Twitchell, Amok Journal Sensurround Edition, Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films, Amok Fifth Dispatch: Sourcebook for the Extremes of Information, the works of Donald Barthelme, the works of Larry Brown, the Codex Seraphinianus
Heroes
David Cronenberg, Frank Henenlotter, John Carpenter, Martin Scorsese, Alice Cooper, Alan Moore, Lukas Moodysson, Quentin Tarantino, Johnny Rotten, Stephen King, Sergio Leone, Tobe Hooper, Preston Sturges.
About me:
This is the OFFICIAL MYSPACE PAGE of James Gunn, the writer/director of SLiTHER, as well as the writer of the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake, THE SPECIALS, TROMEO & JULIET, THE TOY COLLECTOR novel, and a bunch of other shit. Watch out this fall for my new webseries on Spike.com, JAMES GUNN'S PG PORN, my new show on XBox Live, HUMANZEE!, and my new VH1 reality show, SCREAM QUEENS!
Check out Aria Giovanni and I discussing JAMES GUNN'S PG-PORN, which premieres October 8 on Spike.com and at PGPorn.tv:
Because I get so many messages on MySpace, I can unfortunately no longer respond to them all. If you have a question, you'll be better off joining the James Gunn Appreciation Society HERE and going to the James Gunn Q&A in the Forums. There, I answer everything. Thanks!
Also, I cannot legally read any scripts, story ideas, synopses, or treatments -- please do not send them to me!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
SLiTHER is currently showing on Cinemax and HBO. Check it out when you can!
Thanks to everyone for voting for SLiTHER at the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. SLiTHER is now the proud recipient of the Fangoria Chainsaw Award 2006 for Highest Body Count!
Also thanks to ROLLING STONE magazine for putting SLITHER in the TOP 25 DVDs of 2006!
And RUE MORGUE magazine for naming SLITHER the BEST FEATURE FILM of 2006!
And, while we're at it, ROTTEN TOMATOES, for calculating that SLITHER was the 8th most well-reviewed wide-release feature film of 2006!
And, hell, fuck it, let's also thank AOL-MOVIEFONE, THE ONION, YAHOO MOVIES, CHUD, BLOODY-DISGUSTING, and all the others who put us in their BEST-OF-2006 LISTS!
The SLiTHER DVD is available everywhere RIGHT FUCKING NOW!
SLiTHER DVD RELEASE
The DVD is jam-packed with special features, including audio commentary by James Gunn and Nathan Fillion, as well as deleted and extended scenes, a blooper reel, a making-of documentary, a documentary on the visual effects, Lloyd Kaufman's set diary, James Gunn's special roasting of Nathan Fillion, and MORE!
TROMEO & JULIET 2-DISC DVD 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
This special edition includes 4 audio commentaries, including a brand new commentary by James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman, and a long-lost commentary by James Gunn and Sean Gunn that was originally deemed too controversial by Troma Inc! There will also be a new documentary by the cast and crew, James Gunn and Lloyd Kaufman's visit to Eli Roth's birthday party, and much, much more!
Who I'd like to meet: I've met Stan Lee, Alice Cooper, and Elvis Costello, so I can die happy. I also wanted to meet Michael Rooker, then I did, now I'm fucked.
Dude, MJH removed and blocked me from her friends and I think it all has to do with that PG-Porn spot I posted in her comments. Has this Darklady gotten to everyone?
In an attempt to lighten the mood for just a minute, I ran across 3 girls sitting on a park bench the other day and one of them looked a little familiar... ...not to mention the fact that they looked like they might have been caught in a time warp.
Well, well, well, it seems that even in my small hamlet you are a known entity. Slither will be playing at the local cinema Oct 31. I thought this town was backwards but perhaps that is some hope after all. Probably not.
