Kara, Tattooing, painting, drawing, photoshop, my fender aerodyne bass, hangin with my bandmates, writing music, getting tattooed, playing shows, crazy japanese horror movies, heineken, negro modello, late night taco bell runs, finding waldo, travel, food
people who want me to go crazy with a tattoo machine on them.
all that remains, drop dead gorgeous, he is legend, vanna, senses fail, from first to last, deftones, thrice, finch, alexisonfire, hopesfall, everytime i die, glassjaw, thursday, eighteen visions, deftones, atreyu, misery signals, trivium, underoath, fata, evergreen terrace, blood brothers, across five aprils, head automatica, postal service, give up the ghost, pinback, rjd2, bonobo, dj shadow, rage against the machine, snot, lost profits, amon tobin, telephon tel aviv, squarepusher, aphex twin, mars volta, cohead and cambria, the song "white lines" by grandmaster flash and the song "mississippi queen" by mountain
fight club, Audition, ichi the killer, Battle royal, full time killers, heat, full metal jacket, clerks, chasing amy, mallrats, point break, leon the professional, shaun of the dead, princess mononoke, city of god, akira, appleseed, equilibrium, house of flying daggers, murderball, , evangellion, ghost in the shell, serial experiments lain, swingers, labrynth, neverending story, army of darkness, evil dead 2, jacobs ladder, american history x, little monsters, napoleon dynamite, old school, eternal sunshine, garden state, GI joe the movie, true romance, the deer hunter
family guy, iron chef, headbangers ball, sienfeld, bsg, I'll watch pretty much any reality show crap thats on tv
big fan of chuck palahniuck, choke is my favorite, stranger than fiction, his book of non fiction stories is also really good and overlooked. Also just read, and loved rust and bone stories by craig davidson, slaughterhouse 5, 1984, james kern's advanced coverups for tattooists, the illustrated man, indie comics, America the book, find waldo now
artists who influence my work are: Dan and Tim plumley, Nick baxter, Joshua carlton, nico, mike devries, mike demasi, monte agee, jeff ensminger, guy aitchison, craig driscoll, bob tyrell, nate banuelos, adrian lee, tom renshaw, james kern, frank frazetta, mark ryden, todd schorr, glenn barr, coop, lucian frued, caravaggio, mucha, egon schiele, sargent, giacometti, giotto, jhonen vasquez, ashley wood, rob schrab, ben templesmith, sam keith, jim mahfood, steve brodner, ralph steadman, and tons others