Music: (Garage, "Old School" Punk, Deathrock, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Goth, Darkwave, Psychedelic, Blues, 60's, '70's, '80's, some Industrial, some Jazz, most Classical, more), Drumming, Art, History, Tattoos, Ingenious Engines, Steam-driven Monstrosities, Clockwork Enigmas, Necropoli, Classic Cars, Shoebox Fords, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Long Black Hearses and Funereal Contrivances, Egyptian Avenues, Books, Libraries, Tomes, Travel, Trilobites, Tatterdemalions, Toboggans, Cheops, Clubbing (not seals), Rhomboids, Release the Bats, Camping, Crustaceans, Hiking, Hieroglyphics, Backpacking, Misty Mountains, Painted Deserts, PVC and Latex, John Santerineross and Joel-Peter Witkin, Deserted Beaches, Glittering Sea Beasts, Sunken Treasure, Tiki Kulture, Shrunken Heads, Shibari, Blowguns and Poisoned Darts, Kinoscopes, Cinema, Theatre, Wyeth, Waterhouse, Pyle, Pulps, Pin-ups, Pirates, Jolly Roger, Photography, Boots, Burlesque, Bettie Page, Grue, Graveyards, Creepy Catacombs, Cacophony, Canopic Jars, Mummies, Mausoleums, Buccaneers, Witches, Black Cats, 1920's, 1930's, Victoriana, Creepy Stuff, Haunted Houses, Esoterica, Ghoulies and Ghosties and Long-legged Beasties, and Things that go Bump in the Night...
I'd like to meet:
Take this down. I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists...O.K., lets forget about the Methodists...
Music:
The Damned, The Chameleons U.K., The Ramones, X, Cheap Trick, The Kinks, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Pogues, The Dickies, The Cramps, The Germs, Buzzcocks, The Gun Club, The Birthday Party, Sixteens, Grinderman, The Phantom Chords, Social Distortion, Nardwar, Guitar Wolf, Graveyard Farmers, Meteors, Carl Perkins, Link Wray, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, The Ventures, Dick Dale, Lords of Altamont, The Ghastly Ones, Coffin Draggers, The Fuzztones, The Leaving Trains, The Dagons, Fangs on Fur, SPF1000, Sluts for Hire, Black Angels Death Song, Backbiter, EMA3, The Birthday Massacre, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The Creation, The Humpers, Texas Terri, The Stooges, Ausgang, The Monks, Iggy Pop, Faith and the Muse, Scarlett's Remains, Screaming Lord Sutch, Lords of the New Church, Sex Gang Children, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Sisters of Mercy, Skeletal Family, Catherine Wheel, Daisy Chainsaw, Pink Floyd, Insect Surfers, Man or Astroman?, Beethoven, St-Saens, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, Love & Rockets, Dead Boys, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Creatures, The Vanishing, Switchblade Symphony, Gary Numan, The Faint, Babyland, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, King Crimson, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Electric Prunes, Count Five, The Cure, The Smiths, Bowie, Joy Division, Tiger Lillies, Poe, pat mAcdonald, Timbuk3, Morphine, Skeeter Truck, Bill Monroe, Flat & Scruggs, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, The Grateful Dead, Duke Ellington, deathrock, punk, rockabilly, psychobilly, goth, surf, jazz, classical, blues, bluegrass, you get the picture...
Movies:
Blade Runner, Brazil, Big Trouble in Little China, Raising Arizona, Wild at Heart, Casablanca, Donnie Darko, Buckeroo Banzai, The Great Race, Hammer Movies, Classic Horror, Three and Four Musketeers, The Thing, Alien, Young Frankenstein, City of Lost Children, Dangerous Liaisons, Apocalypse Now, Kurosawa, Dr. Strangelove, Willy Wonka, Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Dark City, Clockwork Orange, Diva, Sullivan's Travels, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Harvey, The Big Sleep, Shaun of the Dead, The Howling, The Mummy (Karloff), Titus, Blue Velvet, The Royal Tenenbaums, Local Hero, That Sinking Feeling, The Thin Man, Mystery Train, The Kids are Alright, Quadrophenia, Being There, Sid and Nancy, The World According to Garp, King of Hearts, Ed Wood, Harold and Maude, many more...
Television:
The Addams Family, The Simpsons, The Avengers, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones, The Mighty Boosh, Mystery!, Buffy, Get Smart, Black Adder, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bob Newhart, The Tick, Twin Peaks, Twilight Zone, Nova, The Power of Myth, The Civil War, Jazz, Junkyard Wars, X-Files, Jeeves and Wooster, Bottom, Classic Arts Showcase
Books:
H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Bloch, Blackwood, Twain, Gorey, Tolkien, Charles Addams, Douglas Adams, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Ramsey Campbell, Mark Danielewski, Fritz Leiber, R. E. Howard, Joseph Campbell, E. A. Wallis Budge, Carl Sagan, Shakespeare, Shelly, Flashman, Arthur Rackham, Howard Pyle, Tom Robbins, Tony Millionaire, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, fiction, history, mythology, archaeology, poetry, graphic novels, beer labels and bubblegum wrappers...
Heroes:
Mom and Dad, my brother Greg and sister in law Brandi, all my friends who put up with me, and to a lesser extent, Beowulf, Frankenstein's Monster, Herbert West, Ardeth Bey, Professor Fate, Keith Moon, Rat Scabies, MadDog Karla, D.J. Bonebrake, Joe Morello, Clem Burke, Bun E. Carlos, John Bonham, Captain Sensible, David Vanian, Mark Burgess, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, John Entwistle, Messrs. Murphy, "J", Ash & Haskins, Siouxsie and Budgie, Mel Brooks, Blake Edwards, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Gilliam, Jimmy Stewart, Orson Wells, The Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Harold Lloyd, James Graham Marquis of Montrose, Joshua Chamberlain, explorer Sir Richard Burton, and the guy who invented beer...
