Drawing, painting, writing, playing bass, adding to my bloated DVD collection, films generally. 50'S 60'S 70'S retro, vintage burlesque, underground comics, Retro clothing (especially shirts)
Artists, animators, musicians, film geeks and anyone who loves retro kitsch!!
Wide range of music from modern guitar bands, jazz, funk, soul, samba beats, 60s and 70s etc. Favourites include: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Jaco, Headhunters, the Doors, Gorillaz, Francoise Hardy, Captain Beefheart, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Small faces, The Jam, Japan, David Sylvian, Primus, Les Claypool. Also concept albums like Deltron 3030. I like music that inspires me visually as well as phonically.
My taste in movies is contradictory. I like mainstream films but my guilty pleasure is Euro cheese and sleaze. I like films that are not afraid to cross genres. This is usually low budget gems. Films that the popcorn massive would dismiss as utter crap! Maybe they are but I love 'em. Favourites in my collection include: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Switchblade Sisters, Big Doll House (see a theme? Pam Grier/Jack Hill, big faves) Planet of the Apes (1968) Barberella,Faster Pussycat, Kill Kill!, Mario Bava especially Danger:Diabolik! Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Roger Corman, Bullitt, Peter Fonda, Road movies generally,Akira Kurosawa, Toshiro Mifune, Jean Cocteau, Sci-Fi pulp.Carry On films, Zeta One etc... You get the picture. Pretty random and varied.
Not a huge reader. Read "Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov recently. It will probably worm it's way into a painting or two. Reading the "Iliad" and "Beauty and the Beast:Diary of a film" by Jean Cocteau at the moment. I like books about films and filmmaking. I have a big collection of coffee table art books and comic/cartoon volumes. I am a very visual person I guess; 'tis why I is an artist not an academic!
People who have a definite idea of expression and talent. People's work I admire greatly: Vaughn Bode, Andre Franquin, Frank Frazetta, Gary Larson, Glenn Barr, Eldon Dedini, Sokol, Kiraz!!!