interests: photography, junk yards, abandoned buildings and machinery, overgrown gardens, New Orleans, Savannah, GA, NM, carnivals and amusement parks, singing, 70s soul and funk, puppetry, stop-motion animation, biographies about lost souls, aquariums, silent films, horror movies, American folk tales and ghost stories, very old houses, Latin American folk art, bones, shells, insects, plants and creatures of all shapes and sizes
creative types, fun-loving hedonists, folks with an open mind and strong convictions
a few that come to mind: Howlin' Wolf, ACDC, Led Zep. Gillian Welch, Patti Griffin, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Ralph Stanley, Amalia Rodriguez, Bert Jansch, The Velvet Underground, Steve Earle, Calexico, Martha Wainwright, Hem, Fred McDowell, Son Volt, Buddy & Julie Miller, Aimee Mann, Al Green, The Silly Sisters, Jeff Buckley, PJ Harvey, Jo Ann Kelley, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Neil Finn, George Clinton, Muddy Waters, Funkadelic, Nic Jones, Nick Drake, Nick Cave
favorite flicks (for now): 8 1/2, Wings Of Desire, Fanny & Alexander, Aguirre, The Wrath Of God, Night of The Living Dead, Cocteau's Orpheus, Blue Velvet, Dr. Strangelove, Brazil, Paris Texas, Alice, Ran, The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari, Collected Short Films by The Brothers Quay, Funny Face, A Place In The Sun, Mrs. Parker & The Vicious Circle, Carrington, Reds, Rosemary's Baby, The Innocents, Dead Ringers, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Shining, The Reflecting Skin, My Neighbor Totorro, Spirited Away, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Deadwood, The Addams Family, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Six Feet Under, King of The Hill, Antiques Roadshow
favorite books (for now): Alice In Wonderland, The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Heart Of Darkness, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis & The Hunger Artist, Geek Love, The Blind Owl, America Day By Day, Timbuktu, Journal Of Solitude, Notes From Underground, The Road To Oz, Doctor To The Dead; Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston, The Nose, The Double, Grand Ambition, The Insect God, The Lorax, Gloom Cookie comics, Little Black Book Of Stories, Wisconsin Death Trip and bios of the following artists: Frida Kahlo, Dora Carrington, Marina Tsvetaeva, Jane Bowles and Diane Arbus
Stanley Kubrick, A.S. Byatt, Julia "Butterfly" Hill, Julie Taymor, Dr. Seuss, Patssi Valdez, Jan Svankmajer, Ralph Stanley, Rick Heinrichs, David Cronenberg, Joni Mitchell, PJ Harvey, my friend Teresa, my father, husband and grandfather