Skin, color, texture, debates with Clif about pigments and shades and the psychology of color, collage, anything French (like Nest on Fillmore), singing, live music, travel, monotypes, sun, getting lost in cinema, home improvement projects, staying connected to pals who've moved from here (that's like 90% of my friends), yoga, perfumery, alchemy (not really), East coast work ethics, West coast food, Northern attitude, Southern charm & hospitality, European lifestyles, Highway 1 roadtrips, liquid eyeliner, 80's records, Williamsburg and NYC, collaborative photo shoots with Clif, Seattle and British Columbia, hords of ridiculous glossy fashion mags, Mary Jane shoes, tattoos, headshots, portraits, skate videos & documentaries. KALX in Berkeley, KEXP in Seattle, Cinema Secrets in Burbank, kits on wheels!!...
The Warrior girls, the ghosts of: Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, Cole Porter... YSL, Al Gore, Mike Potter, Faith Ringold, Elvis C, the Sonoma State printmaking department.
Ramones, Long Ryders, Clash, Echo and the Bunnymen, Johnny Thunders, English Beat, Bowie, The Cuts, Joy Division, Thee Headcoatees, Killing Joke, The Jam, Chrome, The Doors, Peter Frampton, The Knockoffs!, KRS-One, Iron and Wine, The Selecter, Elvis Costello, Bouncing Soles, Siouxsie, The Kinks, Youth Brigade, early Ultravox & OMD, Beatles, X, John Coltrane, Futureheads, The Velvet Teen, Thin White Rope, Natural Fonzie, Magnetic Fields, V. Underground, J.Cash, Beautiful Skin, Big Star, Bim Sherman, Donovan, Modern Lovers, Badfinger, Aretha Franklin, P. Furs, King Tubby, RJD2, Jurassic 5, Buzzcocks, Elephone, Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66, Jimi Hendrix, Aztec Camera, Brendan Benson, Peter Murphy, Modern English, Shins, I like torch songs, jazz and swing and be-bop are quite satisfying too...
Capote, The Illusionist, House of Flying Daggers, The Warriors, Style Wars, BRAZIL, Amelie, Spirited Away, The End (Birdhouse Skate Video), Paper Moon, Times Square, Hedwig, Memento, Stranger Than Paradise, TRON, Logan's Run, Say Anything & Better Off Dead (all old John Cusack films!), Blood Simple (early Coen Bros), Raise the Red Lantern (and all of Gong Li's films), Bladerunner, West Side Story, Cabaret, Some Like It Hot, The Philadelphia Story, Legend of Drunken Master, Rumble in the Bronx! Jackie Chan rules the universe.
Friday Night Lights
Just read Sidney Poitier's autobio- loved it, Bel Canto, White Oleander, Le Petit Prince, Andy Warhol's A to B and Back Again, Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Diet For A New America, Night (by Elie Wiesel), various Alan Watts and Harlan Ellison titles, Les Enfants Terribles, Fast Food Nation, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, The Maltese Falcon, Five Quarters of the Orange, She's Come Undone, James and The Giant Peach, Poetry by: e.e. cummings, Ferlinghetti, Emily Dickinson & Czeslov Milosz. I read different translations of the Bible. Tom Wolfe is cool, I loved From Bauhaus To Our House. When I was a kid I'd spend hours in the library reading entertainers' biographies. I wanted to be Anita Loos. I collected Rolling Stone and Interview magazines for years too. I guess I am still addicted to magazines...especially Vanity Fair and W.
Jackie Chan, Pablo Picasso, Doisneau, YSL, Mike Potter (hair and makeup genius- have you seen Hedwig?), WAY BANDY, George Harrison, Maurice Stein, Squeak Carnwath, Leonardo da Vinci, Cliffie, my mom, my friends... People who say what must be said. writers, players, painters, innovators, poets, parents, coaches, adventurers, believers...