List your influences

GregN

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Could be writers, artists, musicians, whatever.

Music:
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Cabaret Voltaire
Throbbing Gristle
Nine Inch Nails
Skinny Puppy
Psychic TV
Frontline Assembly
KMFDM
Garbage
Atari Teenage Riot
The Prodigy
The Crystal Method
Chemical Brothers
Daft Punk
Ministry
Butthole Surfers
Green Day
Bad Religion
The Ramones
Social Distortion
Psychosonik
Meat Beat Manifesto

Art
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Dadism
Futurism

Literature
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The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Brave New World
Matt Groening's Hell comics

Movies
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Idiocracy
The Big Lawbowski
Ghost World
American Splendor
Crumb
Star Wars original trilogy
 

GregN

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Hey Greg, how do all those things influence you?

How I think, how I relate to the world I guess I dunno. If I were in a band, it would be like punk mixed with aggressive dance floor stuff.
I've been working on a zombie novel set in a cyberpunk apocolypse for years off and on. How would zombies be if they'd have cybernetic implants?
 

LoneSage

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OK. I'm just kind of confused because it seems like you just wrote a list of things you like. When people say something influences them, it means influencing them in what they create - be it in writing, music, video, etc.
 

LoneSage

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Apparently he's been working on a zombie novel set in a cyberpunk apocalypse for years off and on.

Greg go and post some of what you've written, we'd like to see.
 

Heinz

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Anything and everything, whos to say what particularily? Unless youre talking about specific actions or something like art.
 

evil wasabi

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How I think, how I relate to the world I guess I dunno. If I were in a band, it would be like punk mixed with aggressive dance floor stuff.
I've been working on a zombie novel set in a cyberpunk apocolypse for years off and on. How would zombies be if they'd have cybernetic implants?

Yeah but you listed Green Day and so your entire list is shit now.
 

LoneSage

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Zombies in a cyberpunk apocalypse walk a lonely road, the only one that they have ever known.
 

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Muppet Babies - Money isn't everything. Find a career that you're cool with
Scrooge McDuck (& my dad) - Work smarter, not harder
Joe (from Family Fun Arcade) - Don't take shit too seriously
Michael Jordan - Worshiping pros is fucking stupid. They're usually assholes in real life or fake ass people.
My Aunt & Grandma - When the chips are down nobody is going to give a shit about you except you. If you want to get out of a hole figure it out yourself.
 

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Greg its pretty lame to list dadaism as virtually your only "influence" and not have any other strong, formative opinion on any other kind of art. For a variety of reasons. It especially looks gay because nearly all of your musical influences are teenage angst oriented punk/goth electro/metal stuff, typical for an anti-establishment type who fancies Dada of the 20th century......
 
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Taiso

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Batman '66
The Spider-Man cartoon from the 60s.
Jack Kirby's Captain America run circa the Madbomb era.
Star Wars
Robert E. Howard (especially Conan and Solomon Kane)
Michael Moorcock (Eternal Champion cycle, especially Elric and Corum).
Most of John Byrne's comic book work for Marvel and DC (although I liked Next Men as well).
Frank Miller's Daredevil run.
Roy Thomas' Invaders comic book, especially the issues where Captain America was dragged through the streets as a prisoner of Adolf Hitler's Nazi supervillain team. That imagery has always bugged me, and maybe scared me enough as a kid to understand the dangers of facist ideology because my childhood heroes were being threatened by it.
The artwork of Adam Hughes in the 80s and 90s.
The excellent Spider-Man story Kraven's Last Hunt.
The 80s and 90s era Chicago Bulls.
Berserk and, really, the works of Kentaro Miura in general.
The Universal Century era of Mobile Suit Gundam.
Castlevania series
Ninja Gaiden series
Devil May Cry series
The Walking Dead when I worried about the characters (pretty much from issues 1-75 or so)
LOST-It's no lie to say that this series is the only thing that kept me alive when I was thinking about killing myself. As bad as it became after season 3, I needed to know how it ended. It was my piece of driftwood when I was in the sea of my own misery.
European History (specifically the viking expansion up into the early years of the renaissance).
Professional wrestling
Music
Anime and manga (mostly manga these days)
A Song of Ice and FIre by George R.R. Martin
Some movies (too numerous to list here)
Tabletop gaming.
GUNPLA

These things have all, in one way or another, inspired me at different times to be thoughtful, creative and introspective, thereby advancing my consciousness as a person.
 
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sylvie

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My first artistic influence was Yoshitaka Amano, specifically and most notably his artwork for Final Fantasy IV and then Final Fantasy II (J) when I saw the art in Final Fantasy Origins. When I was in elementary school I would draw all kinds of flowy, feminine dragon sword oriented Amano rip-offs, I was especially obsessed with the image of Kain Highwind.

Since then I've been influenced by tons of shit despite not producing a terrible lot of artwork...

  • Robert Crumb and any other cool dark/psychedelic underground comix type shit
  • Nick Blinko (frontman of the band Rudimentary Peni) although this was really shortlived and only stood to reinforce my fondness of ink and dark psychedelia
  • Heavy Metal magazine (70s and 80s stuff)
  • Suehiro Maruo and some other ero-guro works and I stress the "ero" part to reflect that ultimately I prefer an artistic direction over a strictly sexualized and violently pornographic one (although I love that shit too)
  • Shapes of modernism

There's a lot of things I like artistically but I wouldn't describe them as influences. Dadaism, sure, but that has branched out into so many different things that it feels irrelevant to reference it in this day and age especially because much of it was relevant to its time or place. Sure. dadaism and learning about it opened up my mind as a high schooler and reminded me that I could push any kind of ridiculous boundary and be free to think so far out of the box that it hardly concerned anyone, allowing me to force them into my box with some weird tools and angles.

I won't bother talking much about music. Punk rock and rock n roll formed me in my teen years but throughout my life so has disco/soul music. I think much of my other tastes inbetween dance along the edge of rebellion and soul, so I'll leave it at that.
 

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The only dada I care about is bulldada.

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A younger me would've said Henry Rollins. Present day me would credit Al Bundy.
 

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Oh yeah, Iggy Pop. If one man were qualified to be my boyfriend.... it would be a 26-year-old Iggy Pop. the album Raw Power is like so important to me, it definitely has some serious fucking weight in my life. He was my age when he recorded that album. :')
 

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The Third Reich 'n Roll, obviously, but before anything else: the 20's of the last century.
 
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