film - especially fantastic vfx work and animation; music (see next); hot rod, custom car and vintage british bike culture; art: beautiful illustration, "low brow", tikis and wahine velvet art, art deco, art nouveau, surrealism and googie…plus norman rockwell, peter max, rodin and h.r. giger thrown in there for good measure; universal monsters stuff; ancient egyptian art; american indian culture and the wild west; mid-century home style; burlesque and pin-up queens; my pride of house-lions; action figures; unique uses of alice in wonderland...
hard to say - i keep meeting everyone i wanted to!
this is almost impossible to tackle...to keep it simple, i'll stick with categories...old skool punk rock and alternative (think the damned, sex pistols, the cure...); some hardcore and skate punk (minor threat, bad brains, the faction...); some industrial (ministry, front 242...); vintage country; honky tonk; rockabilly; swing; 70s southern rock; sexy blues; surf and surf/twang guitar stuff; 60s garage rock/punk; funk; sultry lounge; some 80s pop; classical (mussorgsky, mozart, tchaikovsky...); some dj dance trax stuff …anything that makes me wanna move or moves me. currently can't get enough of beck, groovie ghoulies, the cramps, southern culture on the skids, jon spencer blues explosion …
a HUGE number of animated works (from disney's "sleeping beauty" to blue sky's "ice age"); sci-fi; vintage horror (think "the blob", "the cabinet of dr. caligari", and hitchcock stuff); film noir; epic movies (from "the 10 commandments" to "amadeus"); old musicals and classic b/w movies; classic 80's flicks of my youth; basically anything tim burton has done; jim henson films; b-movies and cult classics (rodriguez/tarantino "grindhouse" - LOVED IT) and "300" was just visually INCREDIBLE
liquid television, 120 minutes, the muppet show, the storyteller, amazing stories, the twilight zone, tales from the darkside, the munsters, the addams family, red-green show, the benny hill show, freakazoid, animaniacs, brain games, the max headroom show, monty python's flying circus, thundercats, battle of the planets, casper the friendly ghost, schoolhouse rock, the great space coaster, the tracey ullman show, in living color, kids in the hall, the simpsons, bill nye the science guy, sesame street, mister rogers, ren and stimpy, southpark, rocko's modern life, tom and jerry, looney tunes, schoolhouse rock, classic saturday morning cartoons of yester-year, old holiday specials (rankin/bass prod. stuff, how the grinch stole christmas, a christmas story, emmett otter's jug-band christmas) ...(enjoy your trip down memory lane)...don't watch much now except the occasional my name is earl, the office, scrubs and 30 rock
"a clockwork orange" (real horrorshow)...and other works that i saw as movie first - "watership down", "frankenstein"... read as book first and movie disappointed - "1984". also adore edgar allan poe works; dr. seuss and shel silverstein (both illustrations and writing); the works of lewis carroll, washington irving's "the legend of sleepy hollow", "the alchemist" (inspirational!); also dig graphic novels and comics …not much of a reader unless it's about researching one of my hobbies/interests
moreso inspirations/influences: (in no particular order) tex avery, chuck jones, friz freleng, bill plympton, faith hubley, bruno bozetto, don bluth, tim burton, tom yohe, jim henson, jamie hewlett, george petty, ed "big daddy" roth, larry watson, lili st. cyr, zoe bell, martin luther king jr., mom and dad, granddad dietz, patricia kautter, dave weinkauf...(more to come as i think about it)