Bolt_DMC
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Hiya! I'm a "Bolt" fanfiction author, with stories currently found under
"Bolt_DMC" over at the AO3 website. Love art and culture in most all
forms. Avid reader of fanfiction and non-fanfic.
Favorite authors: Scads and scads. And scads. Some favorite non-fanfic
writers in alphabetical order: Lewis Carroll, Clark Coolidge, e.e.
cummings, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, O. Henry, Gerard Manley Hopkins,
C.S. Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, A.A. Milne, Wilfred Owen, Dorothy
Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki (H.H. Munro), J.D. Salinger, William
Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Wallace Stevens, Tom Stoppard, James
Thurber, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Harriet
Zinnes. Favorite fanfic authors include: Aninat131, Charles_Rockafellor, Lieutenant Saavik, PenNameSmith, Piandaoist, Plonq, shalomdebbie, Tempe O'Kun, thememoryofthatday, TG Weaver, WitchFlame, Yotsubadancesintherain5.
Favorite composers, Classical: It might be easier to list those I don't
like. Some special favorites: Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, Ludwig
Van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Johannes Brahms, Elliott
Carter, Frederic Chopin, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Lee Hyla, Charles Ives, Leos Janacek, Josquin des Prez, Gyorgy Ligeti, Guillaume de Machaut, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Henry Purcell, David Rakowski, Maurice Ravel, Steve
Reich, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Roger
Sessions, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern.
Favorite jazz artists: Not as knowledgeable in this genre, but have thus
far enjoyed what I've heard of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Duke
Ellington, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk,
Charlie Parker, Art Tatum.
Favorite pop/rock groups/musicians: As above with Classical. Desert
island acts include: The Beatles, Elvis Costello (to "Punch the Clock"),
Buddy Holly, Joni Mitchell (to "Hejira"), R.E.M. (to "Green"). Plenty
of honorable mentions: The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Blondie, Billy
Bragg, James Brown, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, The Clash, Eddie
Cochran, Leonard Cohen, The Cramps, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival,
Marshall Crenshaw, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dave Clark Five, Derek and
the Dominos, Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Flamin' Groovies, The Four
Tops, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, The
Hollies, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, Katrina and the Waves, The Las, Little
Richard, Lovin' Spoonful, Nick Lowe, The Mamas and the Papas, The
Monkees, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, The Ramones, Lou Reed, The
Replacements, Jonathan Richman, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The
Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Simon and Garfunkel, The Smithereens, The
Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, The Supremes, Talking Heads,
Television, The Temptations, They Might Be Giants, Translator, Velvet
Underground, The Who, Stevie Wonder, X, XTC, The Yardbirds.
Favorite films: I can only get my list down to 20. I skew towards older
films, films that make me laugh, films that are well written, and films
that I find structurally interesting. In alphabetical order: All About
Eve, Battleship Potemkin, Bolt, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Duck Soup, The
General, The Gold Rush, Groundhog Day, Hannah and Her Sisters, A Hard
Day's Night, The Lion King, Manhattan, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, The
Philadelphia Story, Rashomon, Singin' In the Rain, Some Like It Hot,
Vertigo, The Wizard of Oz.
Favorite TV shows: Again, down to 44. Also skew older on many of these, most
being sitcoms: The Addams Family, Are You Being Served, Barney Miller, Becker, The Big Bang Theory (mostly the first three seasons), The Bob Newhart Show, Cheers, Columbo, Corner Gas, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Dick Van Dyke Show, F Troop, Fawlty Towers, Frasier, Friends, Futurama, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Golden Girls, Green Acres, I Love Lucy, Keeping Up Appearances, Leave It to Beaver, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, Matlock, Monk, The Monkees, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, The Munsters, My World and Welcome to It, The Nanny, Newhart (mostly from season 3 onwards), The Office, Perry Mason, The Phil Silvers Show, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Suits, Taxi, The Twilight Zone (1959), WKRP in Cincinnati, Young Sheldon.
Favorite comic strips: Yes they're an art form. Narrowed to 12 newspaper and two online-only examples: Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, The Dogs of C-Kennel, Doonesbury, The Far Side, Krazy Kat, Life in Hell, Lio, Peanuts, Pearls before Swine, Pogo, Sam's Strip (newspaper); Faux Pas, Housepets! (online only).
Favorite visual artists: Sensing a pattern here? Loads of stuff,
favorites include: Hieronymous Bosch, Caravaggio, Max Ernst, Theodore
Gericault, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Frans Hals, Duane Hanson, Winslow
Homer, Paul Klee, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Claude Monet, Pablo
Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Auguste Rodin,
John Singer Sargent, Georges Seurat, Tintoretto, Titian, J.M.W. Turner,
Vincent Van Gogh, Johannes Vermeer. Favorite outsider artists include Henry Darger, Howard Finster, James Hampton, Grandma Moses.
"Bolt_DMC" over at the AO3 website. Love art and culture in most all
forms. Avid reader of fanfiction and non-fanfic.
Favorite authors: Scads and scads. And scads. Some favorite non-fanfic
writers in alphabetical order: Lewis Carroll, Clark Coolidge, e.e.
cummings, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, O. Henry, Gerard Manley Hopkins,
C.S. Lewis, Edna St. Vincent Millay, A.A. Milne, Wilfred Owen, Dorothy
Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki (H.H. Munro), J.D. Salinger, William
Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Wallace Stevens, Tom Stoppard, James
Thurber, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Harriet
Zinnes. Favorite fanfic authors include: Aninat131, Charles_Rockafellor, Lieutenant Saavik, PenNameSmith, Piandaoist, Plonq, shalomdebbie, Tempe O'Kun, thememoryofthatday, TG Weaver, WitchFlame, Yotsubadancesintherain5.
Favorite composers, Classical: It might be easier to list those I don't
like. Some special favorites: Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, Ludwig
Van Beethoven, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Johannes Brahms, Elliott
Carter, Frederic Chopin, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Lee Hyla, Charles Ives, Leos Janacek, Josquin des Prez, Gyorgy Ligeti, Guillaume de Machaut, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Modest Mussorgsky, Henry Purcell, David Rakowski, Maurice Ravel, Steve
Reich, Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Roger
Sessions, Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varese, Anton Webern.
Favorite jazz artists: Not as knowledgeable in this genre, but have thus
far enjoyed what I've heard of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Duke
Ellington, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk,
Charlie Parker, Art Tatum.
Favorite pop/rock groups/musicians: As above with Classical. Desert
island acts include: The Beatles, Elvis Costello (to "Punch the Clock"),
Buddy Holly, Joni Mitchell (to "Hejira"), R.E.M. (to "Green"). Plenty
of honorable mentions: The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Blondie, Billy
Bragg, James Brown, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, The Clash, Eddie
Cochran, Leonard Cohen, The Cramps, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival,
Marshall Crenshaw, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dave Clark Five, Derek and
the Dominos, Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Flamin' Groovies, The Four
Tops, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, The
Hollies, Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, Katrina and the Waves, The Las, Little
Richard, Lovin' Spoonful, Nick Lowe, The Mamas and the Papas, The
Monkees, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, The Ramones, Lou Reed, The
Replacements, Jonathan Richman, Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The
Rolling Stones, Roxy Music, Simon and Garfunkel, The Smithereens, The
Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, The Supremes, Talking Heads,
Television, The Temptations, They Might Be Giants, Translator, Velvet
Underground, The Who, Stevie Wonder, X, XTC, The Yardbirds.
Favorite films: I can only get my list down to 20. I skew towards older
films, films that make me laugh, films that are well written, and films
that I find structurally interesting. In alphabetical order: All About
Eve, Battleship Potemkin, Bolt, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Duck Soup, The
General, The Gold Rush, Groundhog Day, Hannah and Her Sisters, A Hard
Day's Night, The Lion King, Manhattan, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, The
Philadelphia Story, Rashomon, Singin' In the Rain, Some Like It Hot,
Vertigo, The Wizard of Oz.
Favorite TV shows: Again, down to 44. Also skew older on many of these, most
being sitcoms: The Addams Family, Are You Being Served, Barney Miller, Becker, The Big Bang Theory (mostly the first three seasons), The Bob Newhart Show, Cheers, Columbo, Corner Gas, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Dick Van Dyke Show, F Troop, Fawlty Towers, Frasier, Friends, Futurama, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, The Golden Girls, Green Acres, I Love Lucy, Keeping Up Appearances, Leave It to Beaver, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H, Matlock, Monk, The Monkees, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, The Munsters, My World and Welcome to It, The Nanny, Newhart (mostly from season 3 onwards), The Office, Perry Mason, The Phil Silvers Show, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Suits, Taxi, The Twilight Zone (1959), WKRP in Cincinnati, Young Sheldon.
Favorite comic strips: Yes they're an art form. Narrowed to 12 newspaper and two online-only examples: Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, The Dogs of C-Kennel, Doonesbury, The Far Side, Krazy Kat, Life in Hell, Lio, Peanuts, Pearls before Swine, Pogo, Sam's Strip (newspaper); Faux Pas, Housepets! (online only).
Favorite visual artists: Sensing a pattern here? Loads of stuff,
favorites include: Hieronymous Bosch, Caravaggio, Max Ernst, Theodore
Gericault, Francisco Goya, El Greco, Frans Hals, Duane Hanson, Winslow
Homer, Paul Klee, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Claude Monet, Pablo
Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Auguste Rodin,
John Singer Sargent, Georges Seurat, Tintoretto, Titian, J.M.W. Turner,
Vincent Van Gogh, Johannes Vermeer. Favorite outsider artists include Henry Darger, Howard Finster, James Hampton, Grandma Moses.