Music, movies, design, records, guitars, amps, biking, touring, kitsch, VKHC, DC, Mac, Vans, 70's movie posters, putting out records, okra, grilled sandwiches, avocado rolls, power pop, punk rock, punk metal, my family and friends, working from home, an unbreakable addiction to soda, black jeans, talking comics with Oliver Cox (age 4), laughing at our cats, imagining the spontaneous combustion of most people on earth, trying to use my car as little as possible, and the general good times and great life I share with my other half.
My all-time favorites: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Archers Of Loaf (circa Icky Mettle), Avskum, Bad Brains, Beatles, Big Star, Black Flag (mainly pre Rollins), Black Sabbath, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Clash, Constantines, Dag Nasty, The Damned, Danzig, Dead Season, Didjits, Drive Like Jehu, Fear, Fugazi, Gang Of Four, Gray Matter, Hayden, Hoover, Hot Snakes, Ignition, Ink And Dagger, Jawbox, The Jesus Lizard, Judgement, Kerosene 454, Killing Joke, Led Zeppelin, Misfits, Modern Lovers, Monorchid (Chris Thomson bands in general), Motorhead, Nation Of Ulysses, The New Pornographers, Pegboy, Pixies, Regulator Watts, The Replacements, Rites Of Spring, Seaweed, Sex Pistols, Soul Side, Spoon, Stooges, Superchunk (circa On The Mouth), Swiz, Talk Is Poison, Tragedy, Turbonegro (circa Ass Cobra), Tom Waits, The Want, Wilco (circa Being There), Wipers, Wire, X… among others.
I dig Herzog, Malick, Peckinpah, Pasolini, Haneke, Scorsese, Mamet, Truffaut, Jodorowsky, Cassavettes, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Gilliam, Lynch, Wes Anderson, Errol Morris, Steven Soderbergh, Spike Jonze, Tarantino, Sam Raimi, some Robert Rodriguez, most Coen Brothers, some Cronenberg, some Spike Lee, some Jarmusch, some Woody Allen, some Roman Polanski, and zillions more.
Heart Of Darkness