Gerry Mak

University of Chicago, Hackley School

University of Chicago, Attended 1997 - 2001, Class of 2001, Bachelor's Degree, Visual Art

Poland

The Black Hand (we started WWI, bitch!)

alcohol-induced ranting, anarchism, dinosaurs, dogs, heavy metal, horror films, making stews and roasts, painting portraits of my family, zombies

A Moveable Feast, American Psycho, Day of the Locusts, Factotum, The Getaway, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Killer Inside Me, Lords of Chaos, Ming's Master Recipe Cookbook, Miss Lonelyhearts, Post Office, Savage Night, Tropic of Cancer

Alien, Aliens, Airheads, Candyman, Dawn of the Dead (remake and original), Desperate Living, Henry Fool, Leviathan, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Nightbreed, Sleep Away Camp, Starship Troopers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Thing, Wild Zero (I also like French New-Wave and Sam Brackage and Nick Zedd crap, but everyone says that.)

Anal Cunt, Anal Blast, Johnny Cash, Cattle Decapitation, David Allen Coe, Cephalic Carnage, Crass, Cryptopsy, Deicide, Discharge, Dissection, Eyehategod, Buddy Guy, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Hypocrisy, Kreator, L7, Lair of the Minotaur, Mayhem, Misfits, Motorhead, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Willie Nelson, Rolling Stones, Ruins, Nina Simone, Slayer, Stiff Little Fingers, Sweet, US Maple, Abigail Washburn (bluegrass in Chinese!), Yanni, Zeni Geva, Zhou Xun

Surreal Life and Fear Factor always suck me in. Also, American Choppers.

Capricorn

I think I'm a lesbian redneck trapped in a little Asian man's body. I like metal and horror movies, and that puts some people off. Those people would be what scientists call "retarded." I hosted a tv show in Beijing, and every time I was on screen, a little heart popped up with my name on it. I also got arrested in Beijing once because I keyed some cars when I was drunk. It won't happen again. I promise. Another time, in Chicago, a toothless homeless woman came up to me and said "You got a dollar?" "No," I said. "Then give me a kiss!" I was afraid she might have a knife, so my quick thinking told me to listen to her. I give her a peck on the cheek, and she said, "Is that all you got?" So I planted a good one somewhere near her mouth, and I ran. When I turned the corner, I went "blechtphtbpthbtthb," and I wiped my mouth on a brick wall. I hope I gave that woman at least a moment of happiness, though.

Do you have positive associations with the term "hesher?" Ok, you're in.