My two boys Jake and Connor, my girlfriend Sarah, my mountain bike, my cult, writing, voodoo shrines, The Virgin de Guadalupe, outsider art, gambling, general debauchery, Chili cook-offs, Menudo, Korean Barbecue, Pho, Chicago Style Hot Dogs and other epicurean delights.test
Lou Reed, Dali Llama, Muhammad Ali, Barry Bonds, Salmon Rushdie, Phil Hendrie, Jack Herrer, Boots Riley, Vincent Gallo, John Lurie, Cormac McCarthy, The Pope, Tom Robbins, Christina Ricci, Sabrina Williams, Gus Fink, R. Crumb, Barry Gifford, Harry Crews, Billy Graham, Charles Manson, Joe R. Lansdale, a suicide bomber, a porn star, a snake handler, a president, an alien.
Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Aretha, Stevie Wonder, Morphine, Eric B. & Rakim, The Coup, Kool Keith, P-Funk, The Meters, SLy, Chuck Berry, Stones, Dusty Springfield, Van the Man, Os Mutantes, FRANK ZAPPA, War, Elvis, and on and on and on . . .
Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Do the Right Thing, Magnolia, Palookaville, True Grit, Catch-22, China Town, The Godfather, City of God, The In-Laws, Amores Perros, Kung Fu Hustle, The Hustler, The Big Lebowski, Bubba-Ho-Tep, Baxter, King of Comedy, Fargo, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Taxi Driver, Big Hustle in Little China..
Hawaii Five-0, What's Happening, cooking shows, sports, Simpsons, Jeopardy
Child of God (Cormac McCarthy), East of Eden (John Steinbeck), Cat and Mouse (Gunter Grass), The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie), anything by Italo Calvino, The Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor, anything by Barry Gifford, Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), Moby Dick (Herman Melville), Pulp (Charles Bukowski), Where the Wild Things Are (Max Sendak), Feast of Snakes (Harry Crews), Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins), A Good Baby (Leon Rooke), Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann) Lucky Darryl (Bill Knott & James Tate). . .
My Mom and Dad, Jesus, Buddah, Satan (just the idea, not the dude with the pitchfork),Mr. Rodgers, Robin Hood (just the idea, not the dude with the tights and the bow and arrow), Fat Albert