Music:
My first concert was Van Halen - 1984, but I always liked Motley Crue better-Buddy Holly, Frank Black, Elvis Costello, the Cars, the Who, Clash, (old) Rolling Stones, Beach Boys, Harry Nillson, Iggy, Bowie, John Lennon, JMC, Cure, the Smiths, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams Sr. & anything old, gritty, goth & -ole country ballads.
Movies:
The Last Picture Show, Gloria (the original), Jaws, Blade Runner, Mildred Pierce, Gregery's Girl, Coal Miner's Daughter, O' Brother, Urban Cowboy, Amadeus, Giant, The Passion of Joan of Arc.
Television:
Slave to Reality, Food Network, Biography and History channel.
Books:
some, but mostly I look at a lot of artist. Favorites--dutch painters, Vermeer, Goya, Bernini, Caravaggio, Delacroix, El Greco, Michelangelo, Bosch, Alice Neel, Munch, Cezanne, Mondrian, Van Gogh, Ed Hopper, W. Thiebuud, Pollock, Janet Fish, Nancy Rubins, Hockney, Warhol, Kahlo, Dekooning, Kathy Kolowitz, Andy Golsworthy, Luis jimenez, Terry Winters, Rihcter, Red Grooms, Bacon, Peter Saul
Heroes:
Janis Martin and Buddy Holly