John Glock was born and raised in Montana. He began drawing around three years old. His first works were road signs, dozens of them. Stop signs, yield signs, detour signs, it didn't matter, John was all about signs.
At ten, John wrote and illustrated his own "choose your own adventure" novel. "The Discovery of the Diamond of Novastva" was a massive 41 pages and an utter commercial failure. John was left penniless and completely dependent on his parents, but it was clear that this boy was meant to illustrate something.
Depressed over the novel's failure, John turned to role-playing games, comic books, filmmaking, martial arts, sarcasm, irony, and at the age of twenty-one discovered tarot cards. He was enamored with the medium and illustrated his own deck, "The Eternal Dream Tarot", which was far more successful than his novel.
He graduated Montana State University with a Bachelor's of Arts in Philosophy (focusing on film and aesthetic philosophy) and worked eight years in mental health care. John is currently plotting a career in the art and filmmaking field and hopes to inspire creativity in others around the world.
According to all the signs, I'm a very sensitive chap. My astrological sun fell in Aquarius on the cusp of Pisces. My moon is dressed in Virgo. On the Myers-Briggs (MBTI), I come out to be an INFP (introverted intuitive feeling perceiver) which translates to an Idealist Healer in the Keirsey Temperment Sorter.
My Venus is in Capricorn and my Mercury is in Aquarius, and they form the strongest conjunction in my chart. Of course, they are both opposed by Saturn in Cancer, thus I often struggle to manifest the energies of those planets.
I am also a Fire Dragon in Chinese Astrology. Check with many Chinese Restaurant placemats for the details on that sign.
The Lord of the Rings, The New World, The Thin Red Line, Badlands, Punch Drunk Love, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Tampopo, Ravenous, Fight Club, Moulin Rouge, Return of the Dragon, Bamboozled, 12 Angry Men, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Mulholland Drive, The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Shining, The Big Lebowski, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Sideways, House of Flying Daggers, School of Rock, Wonder Boys, Mystic River, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, He Got Game, Memento, Baraka, The Illusionist, The Fountain, The Children's Hour, The Bicycle Thief, The Painted Veil, A History of Violence, A Very Long Engagement, Being There
Bjork, Damien Rice, Tori Amos, Queen, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Rufus Wainwright, Missy Elliot, Prince, The White Stripes, Claude Debussey, Sigor Ros, Scott Walker, M.I.A.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm, The Canterbury Tales, The Divine Comedy, The Mists of Avalon, Lord of the Flies, The Fig Eater, Calvin & Hobbes: The Complete Collection, Freud and Man's Soul, The Tao of Pooh, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, The Crow, On The Human Condition, Anansi Boys, The Wolves in The Walls, Getting Things Done, The 4 Hour Work Week
Edward Gorey, Vermeer, N.C. & Andrew Wyeth, Brian Froud, Alan Lee, Dali, Alex Grey, Rembrant, Albrect Durer, William Blake, Edgar Allen Poe, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, David Fincher, Pedro Almodovar, Spike Lee, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Zhang Yimou, Jim Henson, Merlin Mann, GTD, Screenwriting, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Socrates, Aristotle, Zeno, St. Augustine, Bruce Lee, Brandon Lee, Film-Philosophy, Buddha, Tarot, Astrology, Qabalah, Puns, Sight Gags, Psychoanalysis, Gothic Fantasy, The Colors Black & Grey, RPG's, E=mc2, Felines, Freud, Romani culture, Immortality, Grieving, Persian Food, Gypsies-Romani, U.S. Government owning up to crimes before the World Court, Equal pay & education for women and minorities, Capitalist societies treating people like people rather than products