The golden age of children's illustration, surrealism (from the past AND modern pop surrealism, handlettering, pin ups, religious iconography and art subject matter relating mostly to Catholicism. Politics, philosophy, Objectivism, music, poetry, herbs, the zen of part time spa work,doing ocassional vocals and writing for my friend Mike at SpreadByContact Records, collecting head vases and other odd objects, making paperweights and any creepy cabinet of curiosities.
Ayn Rand, Xavier Hollander, Dita Von Teese, Leonard Peikoff, Shirley McLaine, Winston Churchill, Chris Cornell,Bob Guccioni Jr., Condoleeza Rice, Tammy Bruce,John Ramsey,Jeanette Winterston, Sylvia Plath,Henry Miller, Mark Ryden, Catherine Denueve, Martha Stewart, and Mary Engelbreit, People who love and help animals...rationally..
David Bowie, Joan Armatrading, Leon Russell, Bjork, Lamb, Alison Kraus, Rasputina, Portishead, Chemical Brothers, Josh Redmond, Outkast, Nadja Solerno Sonenberg, Julie Cruz,Ellen Mcelwaine, Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry, Lucinda Williams, Clutch, Stan Ridgeway and the Wall of VooDoo, Chris Issac,The Kontact, Shelby Lynn, Diamonda Galas, Anything Chris Cornell has ever done, Alice in Chains, Elton John early years, Queen, David Gray, Fiona Apple, Marilyn Manson, ,Bill Monroe, Kitty Wells, Mother Mabel and the Carter Sisters, June Carter Cash ( before it was cool), Johnny Cash, Johny Hott and the Peidmont Souprize, The Staple Singers, Shirley Bassie, KD Lange, Abba, Frank Zappa, Dolly Parton, Mudvayne, Sounds from the Asian Underground, The Sneaker Pimps, and yes I said it..."Lynyrd Skynyrd".
Heavenly Creatures, Sister my Sister, Capote...and now "Infamous" as well, The City of Lost Children, Being There, Wizard of Oz, Blue Velvet,One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Clockwork Orange,Pleasantville, Texas Chain Saw,(the 1st one),Most of Brad Pitt's films except for Legends of the Fall and Troy,...not so much. , Dead and Buried, Gone with the Wind, Intersection, The Nesting, Henry and June,The Hunger, The Other, My Brother's Keeper, The Triplets of Bellville, Life is Beautiful, Jacob's Ladder, documentaries by On the Fence Films, R. Crumb,A Nightmare on Elm Street, Schindler's List,The Planet of The Apes, Idlewild, Jungle Fever, Malcomn X, all things Hitchcock.
Deadwood, Dexter,The Dog Whisperer, Nancy Grace, Dr. Phil, and The American Idol,( guilty as charged for the 3), Dexter, Sixfeet Under, Penn and Teller's Bullshit,
The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, The Immutable Laws of Branding, Anthemn, Presentations of Gender, The Poet, The Giving Tree, Disco Bloodbath, My Dark Places, Tropic of Caner, Little Birds, The Conscience of a Conservative ( Goldwater) , anything by Tammy Bruce, Written on the Body, The Ominous Paralells, Creativity and Madness, The Last Victim, Who is Mr. Winkle?, Phantoms of the Brain, Bizarre and Eccentric Behaviors,
Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Ayn Rand, and Winston Churchill, people with actual balls.