Arbogast

• Gender: Male
• Industry: Telecommunications
• Occupation: Rag and bone man
• Location: United States

About Me

A ubiquitous print and Internet critic blogging under an alias just for the love of the game.

Interests

• Outmoded medical practices
• comparative religion
• religious mania
• Negroiana
• urban legend/urban archeology
• funeral rites
• skin conditions
• Halloween
• Mexican ephemera
• semantics
• plus-size lingerie models
• scars

Favorite Movies

• The Mission (Johnny To not Roland Joffe)
• The Sweet Ride
• Getting Straight
• Babette's Feast
• Blood Feast
• Follow the Fleet
• Sahara ('43)
• Dawn of the Dead ('78)
• Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
• Wild Strawberries
• Citizen Kane
• Spider Baby
• Carnival of Souls ('62)
• Psycho ('60)
• El Dorado ('67)
• 3 Godfathers
• The Killers (both)
• The Band Wagon
• Santa Sangre
• Night of the Living Dead ('68)
• The Haunting ('63)
• King Kong ('33)
• The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
• Mildred Pierce
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
• Nosferatu
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• The Killing
• The Birds
• The Brides of Dracula
• Shadow of a Doubt ('43)
• The House on Haunted Hill ('59)
• Close My Eyes
• Truly Madly Deeply
• Dracula's Daughter
• The Werewolf of London
• Kiss Me Deadly
• Best Boy
• 1776
• The Omega Man
• Chungking Express
• The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
• Mysterious Island
• Island of Lost Souls
• Goke The Body Snatcher from Hell
• Matango/Attack of the Mushroom People
• The Parent Trap ('61)

Favorite Music

• Ennio Morricone
• Pat Benatar
• Krzysztof Komeda
• Lucinda Williams
• Raul Malo
• Fats Waller
• Marty Robbins
• Poe
• Sam Cooke
• Aimee Mann
• Costeau
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Barry Adamson
• Duke Ellington
• Petulia Clark
• Los Lobos
• Charles Mingus
• Nat Gonella
• Fred Astaire

Favorite Books

• Down and Out in Paris and London
• Dracula
• On the Road
• A Farewell to Arms
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Sun Also Rises
• Anno Dracula
• The American Way of Death
• The Puritan Way of Death
• Stagger Lee Shot Billy
• The Choking Doberman
• A Heritage of Horrors