Art in all it's purest expressions, Nature, Mythology, Anthropology, Jungian Psychology, the Collective Unconscious, Human and Animal Anatomy, Sacred Geometry, the Golden Spiral, polyrhythmic drumming, mandalas, meditation, metaphysics, preternatural feats, the Alchemy of Words and Pictures creating a Sequential Narrative, the delicate equilibrium of Light and Shadow, interdimensional depth, Taxidermy, Phrenology/Cranioscopy, fine cutlery, fermented grape imbibements, raven-haired rubenesques, '50s pin-ups, vintage Buicks, hood ornaments, folicular growth, storytelling, Hitchcockian suspense, progressive music, film, animation, storyboards, comics, graphic novels, art books, action effigies, superheroines, ninjas, grappling hooks, deviled eggs, sporks, greyhounds, creating, reading, shooting billiards, visiting museums, learning, improvement, the occasional video game, the power of belief, steak, ribs, skulls, swashing bucklers, shedding snakes, rebirth, survival
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TOOL, A Perfect Circle, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Mark Lanegan, Soundgarden, Audioslave, The Mars Volta, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Wolfmother, King Crimson, Radiohead, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, James Brown, Fishbone, The Beatles, The Who, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Bjork, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, P.J. Harvey, Deftones, CLUTCH, Portishead, Johnny Cash, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Meters, Tenacious D, The Beastie Boys, MF DOOM, Devo, Helmet, Failure, Ween, Interpol, Aloke Dutta, Frank Sinatra, Joao and Astrud Gilberto, Righteous Buddha, BIG WHUP
Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, James Bond in You Only Live Twice, Predator, Die Hard, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol.2, Sin City, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Magnolia, 2001: A Space Oddessey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Apocalypse Now, Goodfellas, Schindler's List, Duel, Chinatown, Batman, Willow, The Goonies, Army of Darkness, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Princess Bride, Logan's Run, TRON, The Rocketeer, Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cogliostro, The Incredibles, Fantasia, The Iron Giant, The Getaway, The Wild Bunch, Vertigo, Rear Window, Rope, Psycho, Star Wars: A New Hope, Akira, This is Spinal Tap, Yellow Submarine
The Simpsons, [adult swim] especially Venture Bros., aeon flux, Batman: The (old) Animated Series, Freakazoid, Samurai Jack, DOG: The Bounty Hunter, Miami Ink, Mythbusters, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Mr. Show, Reno 911, Chappelle's Show, Jiminy Glick, Strangers With Candy, South Park, Wonder Showzen, My Name is Earl, The Colbert Report
My Wicked, Wicked Ways by Errol Flynn, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Beowulf, Lord of the Flies, The Pearl and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, The Necronomicon, The Seven Habits of the Highly Infected Calf, Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz, A Joyful Guide to Lachrymology by Ronald P. Vincent, U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76, Malicious Resplendence by Robert Williams, Alex Grey's Transfigurations, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Figure Drawing For All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, Acme Novelty Library, The Watchmen, Kingdom Come, Uncle Sam, Hellboy, Madman, Body Bags, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Ronin, Sin City, Hard Boiled, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, Gunsmith Cats, Uzumaki, Blankets, The Comics Journal, Juxtapoz Magazine
My Dad (aww), Errol Flynn, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Campbell, Jimi Hendrix, John Bonham, Danny Carey, Aloke Dutta, Adam Jones, Alex Grey, Alex Toth, Alex Ross, Bob Ross, Cam Deleon, Chet Zar, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Robert Crumb, Chris Ware, Frank Frazetta, Bruce Timm, Mark Schultz, Scott Hampton, George Pratt, Paul Hudson, Brian Stelfreeze, Roland Paris, Batman, Chris Cornell, Josh Homme, Norman Rockwell, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stanislav Szukalski, Hieronymus Bosch, Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Hideo Kojima, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincent Price, Edgar Allan Poe