Radial Tires with Tread Patterns like spiderwebs on Big Chrome rims with Iron Cross Spinners. With Skully valve caps.
Music. Motorcycles. Anything that runs on Gasoline. Most things that run on steam. Microphones. Fast cars. Fast Girls. Retro Futurism. Victoriana. Science Fiction. Victorian Science Fiction. Books. Book Binding. Vinyl (on girls AND turntables) The politics of ethnicity. Stunnin. Surrealism. Symbolism. Contemporary symbolism, particularly symbols associated with "luck". The Occult. Horror movies. Impressionist horror movies. Film Noir. Antique Apothecary supplies. Lowbrow Art. High brow art. Performance art. Fetish. The mysteries of the Orient. American pop culture. Specificly the 20 year windows both ways of pre and post WWII -the 1920s Through 1960's. The power of myth. The Internet. Burlesque. Gangsters. Gangsta-riffic rope chains. Chelsea boots. Chuck Taylors. Tattoos. Horology and watches. The underlying truths of religions. Jug Music. 3 Button Suits. Mardis Gras. Famous Dope Fiends. Famous Drunks. Sex. Martial Arts. Antique Typewriters. Whiskey.
True Love.
my cat
my paper.
Music:
Hell Yeah. I wish music could adopt me.
Old school R&B, Doo Wop, Oldies, Hip Hop, New York Junky art Rock, Dark Americana, East Bay gangstah Rap, Delta Blues, Dark Ambient Electronica, Torch Singers, Old Rock, Old school Goth and Death Rock, Cabaret, Carny, Dance Industrial, Anything Deconstructionist including avante guarde classical, Singer Songwriter Stuff, Justin Timberlake (no-really),Justice, Most Fat Possum, In The Red, Stax, Sun, Trojan, Motown. Examples would be: Bauhaus, Mr Scarface,Tom Waits, Iron and WIne, Diamanda Galas, Moondog, Johnny Cash, L Cohen, 16hp, Coil, The Nicks(Cave, Drake)Prince, Outkast, X, JoyDivison, Demented, Calexico, PJ Harvey, curreny 93, The Cramps, Misfits, Turbonegro, Motorhead, Deadbolt, Neubaten, Headcoats, Dungen, Siouxsie, BlackHearts, KateBush, 2Pac, Rakim, Sabbath, 2 Short,Teddy Pendegrass, Alison Goldfrapp, Damien Rice, Elliot Smith, RJD2, Jeff Buckley, The Roots, Christian Death, Sisters of Mercy, THE VELVET UNDERGOUND, Stravinsky, NIN, Fischerspooner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Dramatics, Jefferson Airplane,Outlandish, Immortal Technique, full on flyhead, Led Zep, THE FUCKING STOOGES! THE STONES (up till Goats Head Soup anyway), Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Tav Falco, John Spencer, John Coltraine,Hot Chip, Joanna Newsome, Junior Boys, Miles Davis, The Sonics, Turn me on Dead Man, Kula Shaker, E-40, Sabicas, John Renbourne, Rufus "hella gay" Wainwright, Mark Growden, The Game... Any way you get it. That's the highlights of the playlist open on my magic box right now.
Movies:
Lemony Snickets, Nightmare before X-mas,Oh Brother Where Art Thou? Black Orpheus, Blue Velvet, A Touch Of Evil, Mad Max, Apocalypse Now, CrouchingTiger/Hidden Dragon,Session 9,Taxi Driver, CityOf LostChildren, Night of The Hunter, Easy Rider, Repulsion, SoreLosers, Mystery Train, Don't Be A Menace, Baraka, Dracula, any HAMMER FILMS, Kill Bill, Dusk till Dawn, Romeo and Juliet, Hustle and Flow, The lost weekend, Absolute Begginers, The Cooler, or any Alfred Hitchcock, Sucka Free City,Match Point,Dracula (all of them...especially Olman), True Romance, Othello, Titus, Suspiria (and all 70's D'argento), Royal Tenenbaums, Napolean Dynomite, Carnival of Souls, Fight Club, Vampyr, Eyes without a face...oh yeah,and Porn.
Books:
This month:The Torah,The Q'ran, 1984, Island, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Procession,Edward Gorey,The Tao Te Ching,The Dharma Bums,Still life with Woodpecker,Among the Thugs, King Ink,Garcia Lorca,Revolutionary Suicide,Stanyan Street and Other Sorrows,Any Andre Breton,hunter thompson,TS Elliot, Any of Shakespeares tragedies, Bukowski, Burroughs, The Big Book, and I'm stlll waitin' fer Dais' 2 send me a copy of hers so I can read that cuz I like her writing a lot.
Heroes:
My momma. After that, in no order:
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