Photographing a variety of subjects. Manipulating the refuse produced by those sessions into a variety of half-assed collages that entertain and confuse a small amount of misguided individuals. A smattering of breaking and entering in condemned buildings and homes to add to the collection of asbestos in my lungs. Crawling in basements of small town bookstores for the rare, mold spotted copy of Joyce, Burroughs or Dick. Drinking and watching the fine cinema of Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Cronenberg, Fellini, Gilliam, Fassbinder, Coen and Bergman. Wandering the roads of the south, visiting small towns....
Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, CCR, CSNY, Tori Amos, The Beatles, The Band, Bob Dylan, The Roots, Scott Walker, Iron and Wine, The Pogues, Pink Floyd, Pg. 99, Small Brown Bike, Beck, Operation Ivy, Minutemen, DS 13, Severed Head of State, Rancid, Blackalicious, Skinny Puppy, Philip K. Nixon, Bob Marley, Wilco, William Elliot Whitmore, Modest Mouse, The Jam, New Pornographers, The Decemberists, Bloc Party, Feist, Chemical Brothers, Madvillian, Dangerdoom, Whiskeytown, Arcade Fire, Air, Atmosphere, Battles, Beck, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips, Kaizer's Orchestra, John Coltrane, Magnetic Fields, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Neutral Milk Hotel, NIN, The Stone Roses, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists,
Brazil, Naked Lunch, Seven Samurai, Seventh Seal, Andrei Rublev, Children of Paradise, Hana-Bi, Rashomon, Last Waltz, Rules of the Game, Ran, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Brother (Brat), Amelie... Fassbinder, Gilliam, Tarkovsky, Eisenstein, Fellini, Kitano, Miike, Coen, Jeunet, Wells and multitudes more....
Carnivale, Twin Peaks, Deadwood, The Prisoner, Family Guy, Daily Show, Millenium, Firefly, The Wire
Catch 22, Naked and the Dead, The Master and the Margarita, Tale of Two Cities, Holy Blood Holy Grail, Course in General Linguistics, Watchmen, Invisibles, From Hell, Transmetropolitan, The Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch, Naked Lunch, Female Man, People's History of the USA, Sinews of Power, Zorba the Greek... currently have a library of 400+ books in my overfilled closet area, too damn many to name.
The homeless man who sits in front of Hungry Howies... I wish I had his people skills and drive.