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About Me

NyC Illustrator(Click on "PICS" to view my ArtWorks)/Musician/Writer/FilmMaker...Currently Studying: WaterColor Painting at the ART STUDENTS LEAGUE in Manhattan(www.theartstudentsleague.org).Flamenco/Spanish Gypsy Guitar Con Maestro Pedro Cortes(www.canastero.com).Music/Guitar Theory with Maestro Chardiet (www.simonchardiet.com)Japanese Shamisen Lessons with Sensei Ishiguri/Sawai Koto School(www.letsplaykoto.com).Iaido(Art Of The Drawing Sword)with Sensei McConnell/Tozai School Of Iaido(www.dojos.com/tozai).Okinawan Shoto-Kan at World Champions Karate in Far Rockaway(www.aaukarate.org)."A YAKUZA am I, A Bakuto who may never win..."

My Interests

Jingi/Sukebans/ Yokai/Chinpira/Ronin/ Shamisen/Kaiju/Eiga/ Flamenco/Gypsys/NYC/ & All Else About & Within The Human Soul That Inspires me to Create Beautiful Works of Art...

Music:

Anything that has gut-feeling & soul; dark, primal & sexy....

Movies:

Most with/or by:BELA LUGOSI/SOLEDAD MIRANDA/ SIMONE SIMON/AQUANETTA/ PAM GRIER/FRED WILLIAMSON/ TURA SATANA/MEIKO KAJI/ REIKO IKE/YUMIKO NOGAWA/ TOMAS MILIAN/RUGGERO DEODATO/ MARIO BAVA/SERGIO CORBUCCI/ UMBERTO LENZI/LUCIO FULCI/ ROMAN POLANSKI/JACK HILL/ BUNTA SUGAWARA/EIJI TSUBURAYA/ TOD BROWNING/HAMMER/ VINCENT PRICE/ROGER CORMAN/ PETER CUSHING/INGID PITT/ CHRISTOPHER LEE/JESUS FRANCO/ NOBUO NAKAGAWA/JO SHISHIDO/ SHINTARO KATSU/KINJI FUKASAKU/ ERLE C. KENTON/TERUO ISHII/ SEIJUN SUZUKI/ETSUKO SHIHOMI/ NOBORU ANDO/JUNKO FUJI/ TAKASHI MIIKE/TETSUYA WATARI/ NORIFUMI SUZUKI/MIKI SUGAMOTO/ SHOHEI IMAMURA/...

Books:

Works Of EDOGAWA RAMPO/ BUSHIDO(Hagakure)by Yamamoto/ KARATE-DO KYOHAN by Sensei Funakoshi/ THE WORLD DON'T OWE ME NOTHING by Honeyboy Edwards/ Works Of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS/ CHRISTIANE F/PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK by James Mills/ BRAM STOKERs' DRACULA/ SHORT EYES by Miguel Pinero/ The HERBERT HUNCKE Reader/...

Heroes:

Any HotBlooded Human Soul that Inspires my Art & Life...