I live in New York City and try to practice drawing daily (and post a lot of sketches here). I'm a self taught visual artist, but can "really" draw now. Got my education in Poetry. Wrote a children's book... blah, blah, blah.
art; music; poetry; illustration; tattoos & tattooing; movies; books; children's books; anatomy; design; marketing; business; typography; Old Master Artists (like Durer, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Prud'hon, Rubens, Del Sarto, Carravagio and both Tiepolos); the metal; cats; running; sharing tables at tattoo conventions; sharing hotel rooms and carpooling at tattoo conventions...
The good the bad and the ugly.
I'm not doing this... it'll take forever... lets just say LOTS of bands, lots of styles, lots of songs... lots of favorites...
The Outsiders; Dead Poets Society; Princess Bride; Johnny Dangerously; Hellraiser; Shawshank Redemption; Drugstore Cowboy; State Of Grace; Bad Boys (the Sean Penn one... not the hip-hop one); American Beauty; True Romance; Pulp Fiction; Goodfellas; Young Frankenstein; Blazing Saddles; The Hustler; Conan The Barbarian; Deadman (the Jonny Depp one); Indiana Jones (1 and/or 3); The King Of New York; Snatch; Office Space; Say Anything; Secretary; Legend; Stigmata; Memento; The Jerk; The Name Of The Rose... etc, etc, etc...
Absolute favorite: Norman Lear 70's sitcoms... followed by 2001 - 2006 HBO Sunday nights... and I've gotta' give props to Southpark and The Daily Show, too.
Mommy Has A Tattoo, and Tattoo Coloring Book No. 1 also a big fan of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Ted Hughes (they're tattooed on my forearm); as well as Twain, Hemingway...
My father and grandfather were the original (and still greatest) heroes in my life. I also look up to RW Emerson; Ted Hughes; Michelangelo Buonarroti; the Conan artwork of John Buscema and Ernie Chan; Jim Morrison; John Lennon; Shannon Hoon, Artur Rimbaud; Ernest Hemingway, and Clive Barker.