Graphic Design, Painting, group art projects, comix/graphic novels (I collected in the second golden age - the 80's, but I am getting back into it),playing freaky music with my friends, real hitchiking stories, hiking into crazy gnarly backcountry and camping, a nice thick rib steak seared on a super hot grill, playing video games all night, teaching myself HTML and CSS, drinking wine straight from the bottle, listening to old time country and drinking iced tea on the porch, tying a life jacket to the handlebars of a BMX bike and jumping it off a ramp into a lake, playing frisbee across big empty streets late at night, travelling and being a tourist, gazing at the night sky on warm summer nights, herbal remedies and naturopathic medicine, folk art and superstition, modern mythology, tarot cards, people who fall in love easily, home made art, my awesome dog, pretty gardens, inspired photography, all that resembles beauty for beauty's sake.
Creative, wacky, damaged artist types who aren't in it for the money. People who generally got picked on in Jr. High (or any other time) for being a "geek," but never really believed them - and actually ended up with a "superiority complex" as a result... People who create "found art" - who ARE these people??... People who make up and sing silly songs to their pets in falsetto. People who like to stay up all night and people who get up early. People who have figured out how NOT to have a job and still be "rich". People who are into cooking up some really delicious spicy food and then gorging themselves until they sweat profusely. "Neophytes"- people who are always looking for a new thing to feel or experience beyond what's ordinary. Extraordinary people. People who are into improving the general quality of reality for everyone, and who are in possession of even the remotest understanding of what that entails. Beautiful, independent, free thinking people, people who see things differently than me. People who like to argue, in a friendly way.
Blue Oyster Cult (since I was but a wee met-al head); Sonic Youth; Amon Duul; Samla Mammas Manna; Henry Cow; Fred Frith; Herbie Hancock; Small Faces; Caetano Veloso; Iron Maiden; Bongwater; Spirit; Black Sabbath; ENO; Jackie Mittoo; Phil Manzanara; Rush; Anekdoten; AR & Machines; Robert Fripp; Art Bears; Banda Elastica; Tom Ze'; Marillion; Bondage Fruit; Melt Bannana; Woody Guthrie; The Feederz; Robert Zimmerman; Spade Cooley; Bob Wills; Milton Brown; The Carters (all);Link Wray;Flaming Lips (especially older stuff); Deep Purple (Gillan era); Beck; Wesley Willis; Beatles; High on Fire; Al Green; Miles Davis; Ozric Tentacles; Shug Otis; Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs; Os Mutantes; ABBA; Early YES; Bauhaus; Porcupine Tree; Brentford Allstars; Bowie; Alice Cooper; Neil Young; Captain Beefheart; Frank Zappa; Cat Stevens; The Police; Curtis Mayfield; Harry Nilsson; DIO; Opeth; Billy Preston; Ween; Lou Reed; ZZ Top (pre-"eliminator"); Poster Children; Thinking Fellers Union Local 282; Motorhead; Judas Priest; Gentle Giant; Cake; Hawkwind; Otis Redding; Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; Idiotflesh; Bonefish Sam; Lee Perry; Dawn Penn; Leonard Cohen; Junior Brown; Scientist; The Residents; David Byrne; Thelonius Monk; Marvin Gaye; Scott Walker; Jimmy Rogers; Hank Snow; Dead Kennedys; Devo; King Crimson; Bee Gees; Marva Whitney; Groundhogs; James Brown; Soft Machine; Blue Cheer; Renaldo & the Loaf; King Tubby; Negativland; N.W.A.; Public Enemy; Butthole Surfers; Adolescents; Don Caballero; Kinks; Pentagram; Trilliant; Rik Agnew (Adolescents, Christian Death); Jackson 5; Buddy Holly; Red Foley; Syd Barrett; Air; Stereolab; Gilberto Gil; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Bollywood Soundtracks; CAN; System Of A Down; Guided By Voices; The Hollies; 13th Floor Elevators; Chocolate Watchband; Kraftwerk; Fela Kuti; Einsteurzende Neubaten; Throbbing Gristle; Funkadelic; Talking Heads; Magma; Bad Brains; Vanilla Fudge; Roxy Music; M.D.C.; Crass; Richard Brian Elerick (R.I.P.); Wipers; The Brain Surgeons; When ?
PI, Huckabee's, Rushmore, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, They Live, Night of the Living Dead, Re-Animator, This is Spinal Tap, Taxi Driver, Time Bandits, THX1138, The Ladie's Man, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssee, The Empire Strikes Back, Napoleon Dynamite, Santa Sangre, U-Turn, Soylent Green, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Blob, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (ONLY the 1st one), Desperate Living, Mulholland Dr., Suicide Club, The Spanish Prisoner, The Wind (1920's)
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Communication Arts Magazine (especially the print annuals),
Phillip K. Dick ,
D. Manus Pinkwater ,
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ,
John Barth ,
H.P. Lovecraft ,
G.I. Gurdjieff ,
Friedrich Nietzsche ,
Tom Robbins,
Aleister Crowley ,
Israel Regardie ,
David Icke ,
Zecharia Sitchin ,
The Protocols of the
Learned Elders of Zion ,
The Skeptics Annotated Bible ,
Principia Discordia ,
The Phantom Tollbooth,
Where The Wild Things Are,
Shel Silverstein,
Tom Wolfe,
Audels tech manuals.
Comics include :
Powers ,
The Invisibles ,
Hellboy ,
Bernie Wrightson,
Bob Burden,
...I also love maps of all kinds.
The Flaming Carrot , GILES Goat-Boy, Horselover Fat, Ignatius P. Reilly - records clerk, Emperor Joshua Norton , Thomas Nast, KALI, RAMA, ERIS, EL, ENLIL, Cthulhu
Our Savior and Creator
May you be touched by his noodly appendage.