music, painting, drawing, collage, folklore, Sidhe, children, their books and movies, the drawings they make, anonymous texts, dreams, illustration, torn edges, geneology, Magic the Gathering, Stuckism, carpentry, fidchell, cooking, beer, cats, peachfish, catharsis, astrology, geometry, ceramics, bonfires, role playing and strategy video games (RIP Black Isle), Art Nouveau, homemade furnishings in houses and vehicles, gizmos and contraptions, castle Legos, Mother Nature, gardening, book and album covers, Zanac, pictures of people dressed up at Comic Book Conventions, cichlids, Community Dark Roast, Zapp's Cajun Crawtators, blacklight posters, pizza, mood rings, olde tymes, clear colored plastic, Pink Hearts, Yellow Moons, Orange Stars, Green Clovers and Blue Diamonds cuz they're Magically Delicious
friends, artists, musicians, photographers, writers
Melvins, The Jesus Lizard, The Church, My Bloody Valentine, Skinny Puppy, The Cramps, Van Morrison, Them, The Byrds, James Brown, The JB's, The Meters, The Waterboys, Captain Beefheart, Concrete Blonde, Dead Can Dance, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Jimmy McCracklin, Chrome, Pere Ubu, The Dead Boys, Rocket From the Tombs, The Stooges, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Booker T and The MG's, Public Enemy, Wu Tang Clan, Gravediggaz, Minutemen, The Sisters of Mercy, The Dead Milkmen, Bad Brains, Neurosis, Cranes, PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, The Zombies, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Ella Fitzgerald, Louie Armstrong, Charles Mingus, MC5, Love, Mazzy Star, Mekons, Rocket From the Crypt, Jessamine, The Shadows of Knight, The Turtles ("Eve of Destruction"), The Mamas and the Papas, ? and The Mysterians, William DeVaughn, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, A Tribe Called Quest, Gang Starr, Digable Planets, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Tricky, Brian Eno, King Crimson, Talking Heads, Gorillaz, Deltron, Howlin' Wolf, Sly and The Family Stone, T.Rex, Meat Puppets, Eric's Trip, Elevator to Hell, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Grifters, Boss Hog, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverend Horton Heat, Southern Culture on the Skids, Portishead, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Chameleons UK, The Go-Betweens, Parliament, Funkadelic, Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, EPMD, The Roots, The Pharcyde, WAR, The Chambers Brothers, Ray Charles, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, De La Soul, MF DOOM, El-P, DJ Shadow, Massive Attack, Gil Scott-Heron, Johnny Cash, Marvin Gaye, Etta James, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Kyuss, Wire, Television, Sex Pistols, The Clash, X, Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth, Prince, Sam Cooke ("A Change is Gonna Come"), Beastie Boys, Freddie King, LaVern Baker, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Claude Debussy, Modest Mussorgsky, Karol Szymanowski, Gabriel Faure, Samuel Barber, Bjork, Big Star, Blue Cheer, The Who, The Seeds, Gong, Soft Machine, Brian Eno, Cowboy Junkies, The Flatlanders, The Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Soft Boys, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, The Specials, Mission of Burma, The Replacements, Mojo Nixon, Angry Samoans, Quicksand, Fugazi, The Stone Roses, Tom Waits, Yo La Tengo, Half Japanese, Spacemen 3, Slowdive, Coil, Kompressor, Nitzer Ebb, etc...
Scanners, Phantasm, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Point, Allegro Non Troppo, Wizards, Fantastic Planet, Escape From New York, Mad Monster Party, The Dark Crystal, Tampopo, Sanjuro, Smoke, Montenegro, Antonia's Line, The Triplets of Belleville, Microcosmos, Amadeus, The Road Warrior, Trancers, Five Deadly Venoms, The Elmchanted Forest, M*A*S*H, Flesh + Blood, Ghost Dog, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Big Night
fuck TV
The Charwoman's Shadow- Lord Dunsany, The Worm Ouroboros-E. R. Eddison, The Gormenghast Novels- Mervyn Peake, The Last Unicorn- Peter S. Beagle, 1984- George Orwell, Frankenstein- Mary Shelley, The Mabinogion, Njal's Saga, Lilith- George MacDonald, A Canticle for Leibowitz- Walter M. Miller Jr., Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison, Pan- Knut Hamsun, Little, Big- John Crowley, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath- H. P. Lovecraft, The Decameron- Giovanni Boccaccio, Grendel- John Gardner, A Voyage To Arcturus- David Lindsay, A Scanner Darkly- Philip K. Dick, Creatures of Light and Darkness- Roger Zelazny, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales- Ed. W. B. Yeats, Hamlet- Shakespeare, My Life and Hard Times- James Thurber, City- Clifford D. Simak, More Than Human- Theodore Sturgeon, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest- Ken Kesey, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead- Tom Stoppard, Perfume- Patrick Suskind, Goblin Market- Christina Rossetti, Tales from the White Hart- Arthur C. Clarke, The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World- Harlan Ellison, Neuromancer- William Gibson, Hex- Arthur H. Lewis, The Futurological Congress- Stanislaw Lem, Still Life With Woodpecker- Tom Robbins
Hazel (my daughter), Barbara and Drew Rieben, Boudicca, Brian Boru, Sidney Sime, Kevin O'Neill (Nemesis the Warlock), Ian Miller, Mervyn Peake, Van Gogh's ear, Theodor Kittelsen, Philip Guston, James Ensor, Akira Kurosawa, Jan Toorop, Caspar David Friedrich, Gerald Brom, Clark Ashton Smith, Michael Collins, Giotto, Klimt, Larry Stroman (Alien Legion), Kandinsky, Gustave Dore, W. B. Yeats, Helen Frankenthaler, Roky Erickson, H. P. Lovecraft, Bob Dylan, Blair Lent, Arthur Rackham, George MacDonald, James Thurber, The Church, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Bernie Wrightson, Robert Crumb, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Jon J. Muth (Moonshadow), Ghandi, Steve Biko, Syd Barrett, Mary Shelley, Grendel, Zdzislaw Beksinski, Schmendrick
You Are Animal
A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts.
You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary.
But you sure can beat a good drum.
"Kill! Kill!"
The Muppet Personality Test
the cover of The Green Door number one--
some of Barbara's work
etching