My awesome wife Lisa (Have you met her? She's my reason for livin'!), playing in my band, makin' paintings, drawin' stuff, listening to music, playing my drumset, playing my bass, dorking around on an internet, screenprinting stuff onto other stuff...
Sam Phillips, Warren Oates, Peter Sellers, Otis Redding, Berry Gordy, Brian Eno, Jack Kirby, Brian Michael Bendis, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Wally Wood, Bill Murray, Mark Mothersbaugh, Ralf & Florian, Mark Ryden, Frank Auerbach, Terry Southern, Richard Pryor, John Bonham, Art Blakey, Al Jackson Jr, Ed Roth, P.T. Barnum, All members of the Who, & Bob Moog just to name a few off the top of my head...
RIGHT NOW: Pack (!!!), Wax Museums, Gentleman Jesse & his Men, the Pets, Hex Dispensers, Hipshakes(!!!), Manikin, Headache City, Fe Fi Fo Fums, LAMPS, Okmoniks, the Scruffs, Tokyo Electron, Sultanas, Busy Signals, Rat Traps, Angry Angles, Demon's Claws, Gris Gris, Turpentine Brothers, Black Time, the Mirrors, Mind Controls, Jack Oblivian, Tennessee Tearjerkers, Black Time, A Frames, River City Tanlines, Black Sunday, the Time Flys, Flakes, We March, Hunches FOREVER: Captain Beefheart, John Cale, Eno, ESG, Birthday Party, Devo, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Oblivians, Gories, Monks, Kraftwerk, Wire, Otis Redding, Bo Diddley, Animals, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Link Wray, Beach Boys, 13th Floor Elevators, Them, Flamin' Groovies, Shadows of Knight, Richard & the Young Lions, Reigning Sound, Dirtbombs, Spaceshits, Cramps, Mummies, BBQ, (and) King Khan & BBQ, Black Lips, Gary Numan, both Elvis', Howard Tate, Richard Berry, Darrell Banks, Baby Huey, Curtis Mayfield, Prince, Alice Cooper, Tommy James & the Shondells, Dave Clark Five, Small Faces, Bowie, Stones, the Who, the Move, lotsa old soul and R&B, etc, blahblahBLAH, I dunno... lotsa stuff... I gotta lotta LPs & CDs...
Evil Dead(s), Zombie, Night of the Living -- Dawn of the -- Day of the -- Dead, Carnival of Souls, the Lord of the Rings movies were good, Parallax View, Bullitt, Mad Love, Sweet Sweetback's Baaadass Song, Lawrence of Arabia, Suspiria, Slade In Flame, Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back, THX 1138, Alphaville, the Conversation, Magic Christian, Fireworks, Candy, Eyes Without A Face,...lots more...
Comic books.....no, seriously.
My heroes... have always... been cowboys...