Pickles, little fluffy kitties, nails on chalkboards, chewing on foil.
(Live)Shane MacGowen, Kathy Bates,Nick Cave,JK Rowling, Johnny Depp, Rev. Cecil Williams, Wim Wenders, Ute Lemperer, Tom Waits,Al Goldstein,etc. (Dead) Black Randy,Groucho Marx,Karl Marx,Betty Davis,Thelma Ritter,James Cagney,Joe Strummer (again-met him once-sadly missed),my friends who have left too early.....
The Clash, The Pogues, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nina Simone, X, Serge Gainsbourgh, Johnny Cash, TomWaits,The Beatles, Kurt Weill/Bertholt Brecht, Black Randy & the Metro Squad, The Gun Club, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Avengers, Jimmy Haskel, Bonzo Dog Band, Deadbolt,the Blasters,The Knitters, Surf Music in General, Howlin Wolf, Ella Fitzgerald, Lucinda Williams,The Weirdos,The Skulls, Slim Gailard, Calexico, Nancy Sinatra, King Coleman ( Were Gonna Lookey Dookey Saphire!), Sparks, Opera, Willie Nelson, Free Design, Martin Denny,TheCramps, Buzzcocks, The Bags, Big Joe Turner, Old Reggae and Ska, Rhythm and Blues, Judy Garland, El Vez, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, Rozelle Gayle,Rockabilly and all the other billies too, The Formaldabrides, Nat King Cole, Omara Portunda, Buena Vista Social Club Players (Any), Ibrahim Ferrar, Patsy Cline, Buck Owens, The Animals, 13th Floor Elevators, The Birthday Party, The Plugz, Alejandro Escovedo, Gang of Four, Suicide, The Sonics, and the list goes on and on! To be continued........
Fellini's 8 1/2, Wings of Desire, The American Astronaut (Billy Nayer Show), A Chinese Ghost Story, The Triplets of Bellvue, To Have and Have Not, Auntie Mame, Cabaret, The Big Lebowski, Bedazzled (Original Version), Night of the Living Dead, Edward Scissorhands, Harry Potter Series, Duck Soup, Tokyo Godfathers, Pink Flamingos, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Kenneth Anger ( Scorpio Rising, Inaguration of the Pleasuredome), Bullet in the Head, Hard Boiled, Edward Scissorhands, Wizard of Oz, Dark Pasage, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Zorba the Greek, Kill Bill, Snatch, Kiss Me Deadly, Down by Law, Arsenic and Old Lace, Jules et Jim, Amelie, Desparate Living, Creature from the Black Lagoon, It Conqured the World, Jackie Brown, Flaming Creatures, Torch Song Trilogy, Pirates of the Carribean,All About Eve, Barefoot Gen, Bride of Frankenstein, The Aristocrats, My Man Godfrey, Champagne For Caesar, Big Fish, Nights of Cabiria, Desparate Living, Motorpsycho, A Hard Days Night, Duck Soup, Pulp Fiction, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, et al ad infinitum...
What is television?
Me Talk Pretty One Day-David Sedaris, Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy -Toole, Richard III-Shakespear, Youth in Babylon-David Friedman (Explotation Pioneer), A Strong Night Wind-Donald Roller Wilson (Art Book), A Clean Breast-Russ Meyer, Shock Value-John Waters, Mark Twain (Any), Brendan Behan,Catch 22 Joseph Heller,Dylan Thomas, Ham on Wry-Charles Bukowski, Bump City,We Got The Nutron Bomb-Marc Spitz,Nighmare Of Ecstasy-Rudolf Grey, James Joyce, Donald Goines, Jim Thompson, Harry Potter series,Donald Westlake,Please Kill Me-Legs Mc Neil, etc. ad infinitum.
Joe Strummer, Nina Simone, Lenny Bruce and last but mostly my wife of close to 20 years Terri-an amazing, beautiful and talented women. Which I still count my blessings and wonder every day what I did to get so lucky!