Motorscooters, film, art, music, computers, photography, video editing.
Your mother
Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, XTC, Lou Reed, Heartbreakers, MC5, T. Rex, The Clash, The Jam, The Ramones, X, Television, Richard Hell, Dead Boys, The Stranglers, John Cale, Bob Dylan, Rick Danko, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (especially the Mick Taylor era), Elvis Costello, Warren Zevon, Led Zeppelin, Art Pepper,
Paul Desmond, Wes Montgomery, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Sarah Vaughan, Anita O'Day,
Dee Dee Bridgewater
My DVDs
Directors I Admire:
The Honeymooners, Dragnet, Fernwood 2-Nite, The Gong Show, Larry Sanders, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks, Alias, Wonderfalls
A Man With A Camera, Roman by Polanski, The Devil's Dictionary, The Portable Curmudgeon, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, and...
My Dad
For instilling in me a sense of
independence, self-reliance, and
conservatism from an early age.
Warren Oates
For being a god among men.
Patti Smith
The show that changed me for life
and opened my mind to possibilities
heretofore unrealized.
It was literally epiphanic.