I’m trying to decide why I chose to follow Clive Barker, horror author and artist, on facebook, since I’m not particularly a fan of his works. I’m aware of them. I’ve seen snippets, and I like them, but I can’t say I’m “into” it all. Then I decided he’s awesome, and everything he does is awesome.
Facebook is a place where conceptions go to die. It’s all your relatives that don’t like you, co-workers you don’t like, and people in high school you don’t remember. The average post on facebook is either a wedding, or a baby, or babies at a wedding. Clive Barker is an openly gay artist riding on the coat-tails of his one accomplishment. Hellraiser was never really a big thing, but it was a thing. I personally can’t even remember is it peaked in the 80’s or the 90’s, but he’s putting up more than one post a day about Hellraiser, like it just happed yesterday.
With success, there’s three kinds of people. There’s people who create their magnum opus early in life, and then everything they do revolves around it for the rest of their lives. Kevin Smith made Clerks, and every day he post something about it. Maybe it’s a picture of him holding up the mix-tape he used to make the soundtracks, or maybe it’s him posting a “fun” fact about Clerks, but it happens every day. Then there’s the come-back kid, like William Shatner, who did one big thing, and keeps coming back to it, but at the same time branches out into other areas. They’re always up to something, but you remember them for one big thing. Then there’s people like James Cameron, who try and hit you as hard as they can with their dicks.
Clive seems like he’s in the first category, but he’s happy with it, and it works. Hellraiser is pretty memorable, and his facebook page shows he’s always working, and he’s artistic and eclectic. In other words, he doesn’t suck.
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