Design, printmaking, book arts, music, literature, Macs, comics, good grammar, letterpress, typography, sex, food, ganja, beer, science fiction, zombie movies, metaphysical quandries, beautiful women, the Future, the Past, theatre, film . . .
um, people, mostly. Although I have had ocasion to want to meet aliens, mole people, interesting-sounding pets, historical dead people (Jesus, Marley, Lennon, and Ghandi come to mind. That would be one hell of a resonin' session), sumatran rat-monkeys, zombies, or an honest politician (good luck on that one). A beer or two with an interesting real person wouldn't hurt, tho...
Marley, Cultura Profetica, Silvio Rodriguez, Bjork, CafeTacvba, Steel Pulse, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sublime, Ozomatli, Luis Diaz, EA Flow, 79, Nes y el resto de los muchachos, Madlib, Manu Chao, Jack Johnson, John Brown's Body, Natiruts, Hector Lavoe, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Medeski Martin & Wood, Beastie Boys, Gombah Jahbari, Welmo, Wilco, Herbie Hancock, Gang Starr, Finley Quaye, Fela Kuti, Citizen Cope, Parliament Funkadelic, Weezer, Zap Mama, Weezer (thanks Liz!), M.I.A., Al Greene, El-P, L'Maestro Presents, Mos Def, Buju Banton, Jurassic 5, Radiohead, Sabina, Pacha Massive, Groundation, and on and on and on . . .
Most anything directed by: Akira Kurosawa, Luc Besson, Michel Gondry, Jean Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, Stanley Kubrick, Wong Kar Wai, Wes Anderson, pre-Hollywood John Woo, Bryan Synger, Fellini, Alfonso Cuarón, Werner Herzog, Darren Aronofsky, Danny Boyle, Quentin Tarantino, Robert RodrÃguez, anything inspired by Frank Miller. . .
Family Guy, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Venture Bros., House MD, Lost, Arrested Development, Heroes, Entourage, Farscape, Lost...
Currently Reading: Spaceman BLues: A Love Story, by Brian Francis Slattery The Walking Dead trade paperbacks, by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
Marti, Bolivar, Lenin, Guevara, Albizu, Newton, Marcos, and the rest of those rabble-rousing revolutionaries. Fidel Castro, Evo Moralez and Hugo Chavez, for keeping everyone on their toes. MAD PROPS to Rafael Tufino & Lorenzo Homar, and grudgingly to Martorell. Lennon, and more importantly, Harrison, cause he knew how to age gracefully. Rose Adler. Paul Bonnard. Alphonse Mucha. Frank Kozik, Shephard Fairy. Swoon. Isaac Asimov. Half-Cocked Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds, aka Quicksilver, aka l'Enmerdedeur. The crew of Serenity. Frank Miller. Alan Moore. Galielo Galilei. Richard Dawkins. The Devil. JM Turner. WA Dwiggins. Braque, 'cause Picasso gets all the credit and I'm a sucker for the underdogs. Velazquez. The Futurists. The Unabomber. Tyler Durden. Lolita Lebron.