ME! ME! ME! ha ha--some call it introspection, the state of the world and the human condition, making trade fair, aids awareness and education, race, class and gender etc., working with a variety of artists, running my own show, saltwater ocean, sand, sun and palm trees, freedom and salve.
No one. They're all dead.
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! You name it I've skunked it: Ronnie and the Ronnettes, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Luther Allison, Bill Withers, the Allman Brothers Band, Neil Young, Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Ann Peebles, Billie Holiday, Joan Jett, Desmond Dekker, the Clash, Sex Pistols, Dolly Parton, Muddy Waters, Beethoven, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Raul Midon, Bob marley, Peter Tosh, Zaki Ibrahim, Lye, Annique....
I did those for a time but that was another life.... all Jim Jarmusch movies except Dead Man, Fame, City of God, Bus 174, Raging Bull, Black Orpheus, Nobody, Color Purple, Fear of a Black Hat, Good Burger, Goodfellas, Casino, Heat, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Harder They Come, Rockers, documentaries, blaxploitation flix....
no time like the wasted....
Autobiography of Malcolm X, Shakey, Copper Sun, A Prayer for Owen Meaney, Catcher in the Rye, The Alchemist, The Bell Jar, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Robert Frost, Woodsworth, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou....
...are for suckas!