Rob Zombie, the former metal guru from White Zombie, has seemed to get more into movies (House of 1,000 Corpses, Halloween, etc). I always love reading interviews with him, because he is really into collecting things.

I'm bummed that when I saw him at NAMM in Anaheim years ago, I didn't have him autograph anything.

Anyways...in a Spin Magazine from April, they had him in the "In My Room" segment, where they show a photo of him in a room, and 10 things are listed and what they are. Very bizarre stuff, that included a guitar signed to him from Joey Ramone (inscribed "to my best pal").

A tombstone from his remake of Halloween. He mentions having other tombstones from movies he did, like Dr. Satan and House of 1,000 Corpses. He adds "I save tons of props from my movies -- now I have way too much stuff." (we all understand that feeling, Mr. Zombie).

One of the cooler items was a piece of the Hollywood sign. Rob says "This is a gift from Alice Cooper. Back in the 70s, the sign was falling apart, so all these different celebrities sponsored new letters. Alice took O. He chopped the old one up, encased the pieces in Plexiglas, and gave 'em away."

He has a rifle used in the original Planet of the Apes, which he says he was obsessed with as a kid. He also owns suits from the film.

He has a script from Halloween, saying "This is the original script for John Carpenter's Halloween. P.J. Soles, the actress who played Lynda, gave it to me for my 40th birthday, which was pretty amazing. It has all her handwritten changes to the dialogue."

My favorite movie by Hitchcock is Vertigo. He has a death mask used in that.

There's a bust of Johnny Ramone that he had made, and a vampira portrait. He explains "This is a self-portrait by Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira. After she died a cuple of years ago, they needed to raise money to pay for her funeral, so I bought a bunch of artwork she had done -- self-portraits and some weird s**t like crazy drawings of the Campbell's Soup kids."

Not as crazy as his taxidermy collection, with a huge polar bear holding court over the room.

Imagine a burglar running into that thing.