politics, film, music, mass media, radio, bloodlust, guitar amplifiers, and public debate.
habitual drug users, small town grifters, teenagers in trouble, sinister young alchemists, former cultists, missing dock workers, and a reluctant murderess.
Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, Black Heart Procession, Black Ice, Black Eyes, This Moment In Black History, The Black Keys, Black Lips, Big Black, The Black Angels, Black Flag, Black Dice, and The Black Swans.
hitchcock, lynch, sam fuller, sam peckinpah, seijin suzuki, dario argento, tarantino, john waters, cassavetes, kurosawa, robert altman, godard, '70s car films and spy films, noir, and almost anything with steve mcqueen or harry dean stanton.
Two Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, Bullitt, The Getaway, Race With The Devil, Cannonball, Over The Edge, Rope, The Long Goodbye, Nashville, The Hustler, Band Of Outsiders, Vertigo, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, Blow Up, The Thomas Crown Affair, most of the James Bond films, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Slacker, 8 1/2, The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, Straw Dogs, DIG!, Gimme Shelter, California Split, Point Blank, Frenzy, Trouble Man, The Warriors, The Taking Of Pelham 123, The Long Good Friday, Shock Corridor, Pickup On South Street...
fishing with john
bukowski, burroughs & burroughs jr., raymond chandler, irvine welsh, elmore leonard, george higgins, hemingway, kenneth anger, al burian, celine, lester bangs, nick cave, mickey spillane, pretty much anything about JFK or RFK, my magpie eyes are hungry for the prize - the creation records story, house of leaves, various coffee table books, generally involving either photography, movies, or both.
I have no heroes.