Art, Illustration, PAINTING, drawing, art education, looking at art, talking about art, your art, comic books, live painting, collaborating with other artists, underground and indie comixs, graphic novels, zines, lowbrow art, bad art, good art, prison art, folk art, children's books, chicano art, native south american art, native american art, indigenous art, hand-lettering, carnival/circus culture and art, tattoo flash, painting on unusual surfaces, self-taught artists, oil painting, reading, teaching art, community art programs, going to museums/galleries, art openings/events, doodling, life drawing, D.I.Y. ethic, bookstores, running esp. on trails, nature, snorkeling, canoeing, yoga, hiking, laughing, hablando Espanol, Anthropology, world cultures, Taoism, traveling, sleeping and dreaming,
painters, illustrators, artists of any kind, art directors, concept artists, art teachers, art students, art historians, art lovers, performance artists, children's book authors, cartoonists, crafters, animators, comic book enthusiasts, creatives, doodlers, collaborators, philosophers... and you can meet me at this art opening, I'll be showing some paintings at The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center on Guadalupe St. in San Antonio. Or here for this live painting event and you can watch me paint a 24"x24" painting before your very eyes!!!
Minor Threat, Modest Mouse, The Vandals, Rilo Kiley, NOFX, Dead Kennedys, Manu Chao, Mano Negra, Dead Milkmen, Leonard Cohen, MANA, Misfits, Bowie, Marley, The Band, Chambao, Daniel Johnston, Frank Zappa, Tool, NTM, Nellie McKay, New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Cramps, Camera Obscura, The Decemberists, Linda Ronstadt, Lambchop, Ani DiFranco, Deathcab for Cutie, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Magnetic Fields, Neko Case, Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, Tom Petty, Le Tigre, Oingo Boingo, Queens of the Stone Age, Chicks on Speed, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Debussy, P.J. Harvey, Melanie, Joni Mitchell, Black Flag, Taj Mahal, Perfect Circle, Mr. Plow, Control Machete, Cafe Tacuba, Rollins Band, Morrissey, The Smiths, Danzig, Circle Jerks, Thrill Kill Cult, Big Boys, MDC, Social Distortion, Jullieta Venegas, Violent Femmes, No Use For a Name, Mason Jennings, Scotty and the Metaphysics, Rachmaninoff, Lila Downs, The Specials,
I like wierd... The City of Lost Children, MirrorMask, Brazil, Barfly, True Romance, Slam, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, How to Draw a Bunny, American Beauty, Mystery Science Theater 3000, any Woody Allen or Mel Brooks, Fubar, I love Japanese films like Akira Kurusawas Ikiru but also contemporary stuff like Oldboy, films from Spain like Boca a Boca, Talk to Her, any Almodovar, Mexico: Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Russia, Norway, Hungary: Control, Brazil: City of God, Art Documentaries, any and all David Lynch esp. Twin Peaks -Fire Walk with Me, Blue Velvet, Sid and Nancy, The Brothers Quay, RIZE, Strange Brew, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Prestige, Sherman's March, Grizzlyman, The Triplets of Belleville, documentaries, movies about painters,
I need funny... The Daily Show, Adult Swim esp. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Futurama, Los Simpsons, Absolutely Fabulous, Gerhard Reinke's Wanderlust, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain,
I love to read... Apocalypse Culture, Kahlil Gibrans The Prophet, Saul Williams, Catcher in the Rye, Burroughs, H. S. Thompson, Lord of the Flies, A Confederacy of Dunces, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, Cats Eye by Margaret Atwood, artists biographies, The Martian Chronicles, I Never Promised you a Rose Garden, Cut, The Teachings of Don Juan, Bhagavad-Gita, So Far From God, Child of God, Cosmic Consciousness, Stranger on Earth, Juxtapoz Magazine, Post Office, Factotum, Ham on Rye, Pulp, The Days Run Away like Wild Horses over the Hills, anything by Bukowski, Sula, The Bluest Eye, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, anything by Cormac McCarthy or Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, Love and Rockets, Dori Stories, Last Gasp Comics and Fantagraphics, The Archies, Into the Wild, Calvin and Hobbes, The Tao of Teaching,
Let's change that to favorite painters/illustrators: Marc Burckhardt, Grandma Moses, Frida Kahlo, Lucien Freud, Mark Ryden, Vermeer, Albrect Durer, Jan van Eyck and his brother Hubert, The Clayton Brothers, Joe Coleman, Artemisia Gentileschi, Henry Darger, Egon Schiele, Rubens, Dali, Hiernoymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Vincent, all the Wyeths, Daniel Johnston, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, Robert Crumb, Dave McKean, Dori Seda, Spain Rodriguez, Daniel Clowes, Frank Miller, Terry LaBan, Eve Gilbert, Joe Sacco, Jessica Abel,