Admitted Art Freak. My bliss is as follows: Mask making and other odd sculpture, painting and print making, collage, arty gretting cards, fumbling around on guitar/voice, making kooky-ass home recordings, amateur photography, bicycling, vegi-cooking, watching films, reading in bed and sleeping.
Other nice folks. Rockers, Expressionists, Primitives, Ancients, Druids, Shamans, History Buffs, Halloween Kids, Film Geeks, a woman with a sewing machine, Stoners, Astrologers, Global Villagers, Letter Writers, Photographers, Book Worms, Wise Guys and Ladies of Easy Leisure.
I tend to lean tword antiquated roots music, Honky-Tonk, Rockabilly, Blues, DixieJazz, 60's/70's Soul and a variety of retarded Classic Rock. Anything corny, absurd, experimental, rockin' and beautiful. Such as: Mark Eitzel/American Music Club, Nick Cave, EN, Can, Smiths, Joy Division, The Fall, Pogues, Faust, Television, Richard Hell, Stooges,Velvet Underground, Stones, Kinks, Small Faces, Cap'n Beefheart, Zappa, Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Spike Jones, Cliff Edwards, Charlie Patton, Frank Stokes, Web Pierce, Faron Young, Charlie Rich, Johnny Burnette Trio, Sonny Burgess, Ray Smith, Charlie Feathers, Bing and Crooners in general, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Sonny Boy Williamson, Lowell Fulsom, Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Motown, Schoenberg, Brahms, Shostakovich....
Noir in general and works by: Cassevettes, Polanski, Peckenpaw, Bergman, Herzog, Lang, Suzuki, Fassbinder, Marx Brothers, Melville. Some favs: The Swimmer, Woman in the Dunes, Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, The Tenant, Le Samourai, Stroszek, The Misfits, The Maltese Falcon, Hour of the Wolf, The Servant, Minnie and Moskowitz, The Lady from Shanghai, Top Hat, Duck Soup.
Not since Hogan's Heros died.
August Strindberg, Knut Hamsun, Par Lagerkvist, Jens Peter Jacobson, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Joseph Conrad, Bill Faulkner, Hermann Hesse, Anonymous, H.L. Mencken, Sherwood Anderson, George Bataille, J.K. Huysmans, William Saroyan, W. S. Maugham, Dashielle Hammett, Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler.
August Strindberg, Arthur Schopenhauer, Joseph Campbell and Groucho Marx