My Catholic Art Fetish, El Dia de Los Muertos, Trains, Tattoos, Pirates, Lone Star, Dollar Beer Nights, Road Trips, Skulls, Frank Kozik Poster Art - or Poster Art in General, Reading, Sewing, Collecting Odd Things, Meeting Odd People, Human Oddities, Freaks, Freakshows. Sex, Bondage, Sex in Unusual Places. Italian food, BBQing, Beer, Peche Lambic, Whiskey, Tequila, Yummy Cider (the boozy kind)...Redneck boys who like to drive trucks & shoot guns, Greasy guys with tattoos & hot rods. Margaritas on the patio. Traveling. Trying new things. Good Bands, Live Music. My Friends, My Family & Texas.
A gaggle of Mexican Midget wrestlers so I can have my own Lucha Libre BBQers and Beer drinkers A good and honest mechanic, someone to clean my house, do my laundry and give me regular massages! Or Just some good ol' company.
I listen to a wide variety of music but my favorites are (to narrow it down) probably Hank III & the Nekromantix...but I also love what some would call "Alt Kuntry" or "Cowpunk" ~ The Von Erich's, Mulehead, Old 97's, Jon Wayne, Wayne Hancock, DBT, Slobberbone, The Gourds, and Scott H. Biram. I also listen to Western Swing, really old country & Texas country. I also like the 70's country that I grew up listening to, and some 80's stuff thrown in...like Jesus & Mary Chain, UVS, Love & Rockets, Pet Shop Boys...etc. I love songs that are stories & ones that make me think. I also have a regular hankering for some good old Rockabilly &/or Punk Rock... My cd player usually includes: what's listed above & Johnny Cash, Hank Sr., Mike Ness solo, Social D, Jane's Addiction, Supersuckers, Deadbolt, Willie, Unknown Hinson, Shooter Jennings, The Clash, SLF, The Damned, The Koffin Kats, The Meteors, Thin Lizzy, Butthole Surfers, The Cramps, The Vandals, Anti Nowhere League, Leftover Crack, The Distillers, Deadboys, The Runaways, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Beastie Boys, Dinosaur Jr., George Jones, Waylon, Merle, David Allen Coe, Patsy, Loretta...just to name a few...
Barfly, True Romance, Shaun Of The Dead, O' Brother Where Art Thou, Devil's Rejects, Love and A .45, Goodfellas, Orgazmo, Dogma, Snatch, Boondock Saints, Raising Arizona, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Goonies....
Family Guy, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Gilmore Girls, Law & Order, CSI, Grays Anatomy, Dirty Jobs, My Name is Earl...Oh, and when I have cable: Discovery, TLC, Foresensic Files, Court T.V., City Confidential - all that kinda stuff!
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole; Diary of a Drug Fiend - Aleister Crowley; A Sentimental Education - Gustav Flaubert; The Skirt & The Fiddle, Lord of the Barnyard - Tristan Egolf; Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins; The Stranger - Albert Camus; All books by Douglas Coupland.
First and foremost...My Momma- may she rest in peace...also my Dad..He will always be the top of the list in my hero book. Next, Anne Bonney and Mary Read -the first known female pirates. The one and only Mr. Johnny Cash.