Art, painting & music. Books, movies, Road trips. Adventures. The Old West. voodoo, shrunken heads, New Orleans, NYC, Hawaii and Ireland. Mischief, mayhem and malarkey. The 50's and 60's, Mid-century archetecture and decor, Hawaiiana, thrift store shopping, vintage travel trailers, playing pranks, sleeping in late, being a total goofball, snowglobes, ray guns, X-Ray glasses, junk-hoarding, alley hunting, collecting weird creepy stuff, monsters, cartoons and animation, collecting drawings that little kids leave behind in restaurants. Rainy days. Bike rides. Log Cabins. Thunderstorms, the smell of the ocean. My cat, Kalia. Love for my friends and family.
O.K..... here goes: X is my all-time favorite. The Pogues, the Blasters, the Knitters, DEADBOLT, The Gun Club, the Clash, the Ramones, the Detroit Cobras, King Louie One Man Band, Thee Headcoats(ees), April March, Holly GoLightly, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Elvis (both elvises...and El VEZ too), M.O.T.O., the Real Kids, Supersuckers, Sonics, Social D., Stiff Little Fingers, RFTC, Buzzcocks, B52's, Devo, Cheap Trick, Cracker, Nerfherder, Crack (R.I.P.), the Makers, White Stripes, Stooges, the Lyres, The Reigning Sound, Reatards, Jack O. and The Tearjerkers, the Lost Sounds, the Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Greg Oblivian and the Tip Tops, (or any band that has GREG CARTWRIGHT or JACK YARBER in it). Grave Danger, Thee Oh No's, the Preacher's Kids, The Cool Jerks, BBQ, Johnny Cash, RFTC, Blondie, The Jam, Cramps, Link Wray, the Bomboras, Testors, the Mummies, Booker T. & the MG's, Dirtbombs, Big Sandy, Riverboat Gamblers, Tom Petty, Television, T Rex, the Brentwoods, the Penetrators, the Beat, the Jags, Jonathan Richmond & the Modern Lovers, the Ne'er Do Wells, AC/DC, Dead Moon, Man or Astroman, the Swinging Medallions, the Donnas, Los Straightjackets, the Undertones, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Hasil Adkins, Hank Williams, Willy Nelson, Merle Haggard, Dusty Springfield, Astrud Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Nikki & the Corvettes, Trucker songs, 60's French girl pop, old ska & rocksteady, Ukelele music (Uke til' ya Puke!), bands that wear masks and sing about snack food, most stuff outta MEMPHIS, ...all kinds of Dirty, Loud, Campy rock-n-roll!
True Romance, Harold & Maude, the Princess Bride, Raising Arizona, The Party, The Unheard Music, Little Miss Sunshine, The KISSING scenes from Cinema Paridiso... Also, I LOVE documentaries, I am starting to collect them, so if anyone knows of any cool or interesting ones...please turn me on to them.
I love The Sopranos...I like Tivo-ing things. and Denis Leary's Rescue Me is my favorite show right now. I want to MARRY him!
Anything by Dorothy Parker. A Confederacy of Dunces, A drink with Shane Mac Gowan, Jackie Susann novels, David Sedaris, Oscar Wilde, Charles Bukowski, Will Eisner's graphic novels are beautiful. Aaron Cometbus rocks my world, JD Salinger. Despite Everything, Los Bros Hernandez, Burn Collector, The Bible, High Fidelity...and many more. Favorite mags: Juxtapoz, Mojo and BUST.
THESE TWO PEOPLE RIGHT HERE: Gary Baseman,Dan Kennedy, Johnny Cash, Dorothy Parker, My Aunt Donna (R.I.P.), My Grandma Pat (R.I.P.), God rest her soul, Veronica Lake, Audrey Hepburn, Tom Waits, Jimmy Stuart, Elizabeth McGrath, Anne Margaret, Bridgette Bardot, Picasso for his attitude and views on art, Shane Mac Gowan, JFK, Walt Disney, Katherine Hepburn & Spencer Tracy, because I think they knew what true love is. Mae West. And some certain friends of mine....