Other painters, writers, artists and musicians of all types and temperaments, gallery owners interested in showing my work, and people who want to buy my paintings or commission me to do new work.Would that I could have met: David Alfaro Siquerios, Mexican Muralist and artist supreme. If not for him, I would probably still be doing ink drawings of dead rock stars. He showed me there was magic to be created, and I have been trying ever since to create some of my own....................Alexander Calder, because he loved what he did so very, very much and he made others love it, as well. True joy leaps and bounds about in his work. He always makes me smile all the way through my being....................Charles Mingus, just to be in the same room as him would have been enough and too much at the same time. I would have liked very much to have had a bunch of drinks with that man, that genius....................Eric Dolphy, it would have been like being in the same space as God's favorite child. I would have just wanted to see his hands in person, to witness where all of the unbelievable beauty came from.......................Kathe Kollwitz, if she would have let me watch her draw, if I could have seen her face as she created...................John Steinbeck, we could have walked through the hillsides and he could have described them to me and I would have been completely entranced forever....................Jean Michael-Basquiat, so I could have told him to stop worrying about being famous so damn much and concentrate on his painting. He was on his way to being a true great, a lifelong wonder. Instead, he threw so much away. A shame, a damn shame..........................John Coltrane, to feel the glow that must have emanated from that man and to see his eyes that seemed to know so much while at the same time to be asking so many questions.........................John Lennon, both to thank him and to tell him to stay home that horrible evening back in 1980...........................There are so many, many more..........................
Trouble Funk, Minutemen, Eric Dolphy, REM, Replacements, The Clash, Public Enemy, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Molotov, Three Bean Salad, Jake La Botz,Jimi Hendrix, Thelonious Monk, The Jam, Alejandro Escovedo, Duke Ellington, Los Lobos, Black Uhuru, Heptones, Mutabaruka, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Culture, Toots and the Maytals, Tito and Tarantula, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Emmylou Harris, Blue Aeroplanes, The Birthday Party, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, Meat Puppets, Kukuruza, Richard Thompson, Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading, Iris DeMent, Eminem, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Run DMC, KRS-One, N.W.A., Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Allman Brothers, Yardbirds, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jackson 5, Four Tops, Tower of Power, Earth Wind and Fire, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, King Crimson, Stooges, Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers, Pete Yorn, Dream Syndicate, That Petrol Emotion, Ice Cube, Paris, Kemo the Blaxican, Husker Du, Firehose, Sonic Youth, Tar Babies, SST Records, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Adolescents, Butthole Surfers, Jesus and Mary Chain, Manic Hispanic, Screaming Trees, Motocaster, Elvis Costello, Elvis Presley, Thelonious Monster, Gun Club, X, The Blasters, Dave Alvin, Graham Parker, Mano Negra, Cafe Tacuba, The Picketts, Mike Watt, The Geraldine Fibbers, Terence Trent D'Arby, Leonard Cohen, Public Image Ltd., Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Gustav Mahler, Talking Heads, James Brown, Ministry, Pantera, Skinny Puppy, Captain Beefheart, Wire, David Bowie, Radwaste, Echo and the Bunnymen, Big Audio Dynamite, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Cream, Donovan, Fairport Convention, The Figgs, The Plimsouls, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Joe Ely, King Sunny Ade, Loketo, Remy Ongala, Jack Johnson, Sonny Sharrock, Angel City, Desmond Dekker, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Tenderloin, TOM WAITS, and so many more.......
Angels With Dirty Faces, Manhattan, Deconstructing Harry, Broadway Danny Rose, Play It Again Sam, The Front, Sleeper, Love And Death, Annie Hall, Stardust Memories, Radio Days, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Curse Of The Jade Scorpion, Basquiat, Fargo, Defending Your Life, 25th Hour, Clockers, Crooklyn, Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Down By Law, Donnie Brasco, About Schmidt, Narc, The Cooler, Stranger Than Paradise, Mystery Train, The Godfather, The Godfather Part Two, Goodfellas, Dominick and Eugene, Life of Brian, Jackie Brown, Wild Bunch, Gridlock'd, Stuart Saves His Family, Ed Wood, Zelig, Purple Rose of Cairo, Diner, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Punch Drunk Love, The World According To Garp, Up In Smoke, Casablanca, Raging Bull, It Happened One Night, In The Heat Of The Night, The Pawnbroker, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Barfly, Bukowski: Born Into This, Paths Of Glory, The Party, My Left Foot, Track 29, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, 12 Angry Men, Being There, Bonnie and Clyde, A Christmas Story, The Ref, El Norte, M, On The Waterfront, Paris, Texas, Repo Man, Raging Bull, This Is Spinal Tap, House Of Fools, Dirty Pretty Things, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot, Stalag 13, Seven Year Itch, Dead End, The Roaring 20's, White Heat, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother Where Art Thou, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Warriors, Love At First Bite, Lone Star, Field Of Dreams, American Me, Blood In Blood Out, Kill Bill, Kill Bill Voulme Two, Melvin And Howard, Harold And Maude, Scarecrow, Finding Nemo
Six Feet Under, Law and Order, old NYPD Blue, Laker games, Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Mind of Mencia, COPS
Jailbird, Fates Worse Than Death, Bluebeard, Galapagos, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, The Complete Stories, Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, Tortilla Flat, Of Mice And Men, Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren, Machineries of Joy by Ray Bradbury, The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabelle Allende, The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, Watchmen by Alan Moore, Ham on Rye, War All the Time, Factotum, Women, Post Office, Hot Water Music, Bone Palace Ballet, South Of No North, Hollywood, by Charles Bukowski, Wait Until Spring, Bandini by John Fante, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Enormous Changes At The Last Minute by Grace Paley and many others......
Joe Strummer, Chick Hearn, Mel Blanc