I am in several bands and love them all. Including-The Tiki Tones, The Calypso Cats, Trucker Up!, and Swamp Zombies. I love books, art, films, and hanging with smart people who have a sick sense of humor. I am a nearly reformed misanthrope looking for examples of the species that can show me I was wrong in my previous preconceived notions. The artists I currently dig are Shag, Mark Ryden, Camille Rose Garcia, some Tim Biskup and Frank Frazetta (why not?) I spend my days contemplating what it means to be happy, so if I get there I won't miss it.
"Red Octopus" Camille Rose Garcia
"Beauty and the Beast" Frank Frazetta
I don't know where to begin so I will start with extremes and focus in, maybe. Pixies, Ventures, Kronos Quartet, Dick Curless, Sex Pistols, Capenters, Rasputina, Astrid Gilberto, Alkaline Trio, The Shadows, The Tiger Lillies, Davis Essex, Eisley, Esquivel, Public Enemy, Clash, Johnny Cash, 60's Go-Go instrumentals, Dead Can Dance, Nina Simone, Phranc, and so much more, but I'm stopping now my brain hurts and I want to listen to music now after listing all this great stuff.
Bad Ronald, Devil's Rain, Wise Blood, Thriller (a cruel picture), Santa Sangre, all Takashi Miike, Suicide Club, The Little Mermaid, Boondock Saints, Sin City, Voyage Into Space, Eraserhead, H.G. Lewis, Mad Monster Party, Devil's Rejects, Bound, Capote, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, P.T. Anderson, Kill Bill, the new King Kong, The Incident
Rome, Carnivale, 6 Feet Under, Good Eats, The Frugal Gourmet
I love Vonnegut, Steinbeck, Bukowski, David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, Katerine Dunn, Roald Dahl. I also dig Chuck Palahniuk and anything else that peaks my interest in the strange.