Photography with the good colors, Naturalism esp. Norris, Dreiser and Zola, Movies of many stripes, Teeth, Cats and Dogs (cats in reality, dogs in my dreams), Basketball, true crime, the LOUD music, the soft music, the good music, My love/hate relationship with my hometown of Memphis, F-f-f-f-fashion!, Design magazines. The fashion designs of the following: Hazel Cox Jewelry & Genevieve Dellinger Clothing, Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell,DVF, Sonia Rykiel,Geoffrey Beene, Grey Ant, Vivienne Westwood and so many more but, most of all, I am interested in people who have SOUL (you know who you are!!!).
(Andre Allen, not the UCLA scrub)
THE MAD LEPRECHAUN of MOBILE, ALABAMA. The Memphis State Tigers past & present, David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, R Kelly, Emile Zola The Man who created Popeyes Chicken, Gordon Ramsay, Walt Frazier, Someone who would work on my truck for cheap, Viggo Mortensen, The cast of The Wire, Ian McShane.
Temptations psychedelic era, Pierre Henry, Rick James, Fastway, Walter Egan, The Clean, Venom P. Stinger, The Scientists, The Low Down Dirty D.A.W.G.S. (live), James Gang, The Jewish, Harry Pussy,X, Animals, Zombies, Kinks, Mary J. Blige, Al Green, Smog, Professor Longhair, Ethiopiques, Willie Bobo, Hank IV, Donny Hathaway,Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Flamin' Groovies, Fleetwood Mac, Dolly Parton, Crime, Dead Prez, Aaliyah, R Kelly, Neko Case, The Psychedelic Furs, Stevie Wonder, Lil Wayne, ELO, Liquid Liquid, Mott the Hoople, Swell Maps, Jacobites, The Equals, Stooges, The Isley Bros, Juve the Great, Rod Stewart & the Faces, Yo Gotti, Chamillionaire, Yung Joc, Lora Logic, The Fall, Volcano Suns, My Bloody Valentine,Luxurious Bags,Dinosaur, ESG, Dadamah, Tom Ze and other wild Tropicalia, Staple Singers, Three 6 Mafia, Trina, Rachet King, Eightball & MJG, Bun B and Pimp C (UGK), The Outfield, The Kinks, Linda Ronstadt, Trick Daddy, De La Soul, Dylan, The Time, Fairport Convention,The Junkanoo Band, The Junkyard Band,Planet Patrol, Malo, Curtis Mayfield,Fabolous, Freak Nasty, James Brown, Replacements, Eddie Money,Ohio Players, Marvin Gaye, Thin Lizzy, Big Star, Cheap Trick, Gun Club, Outkast, Force MDs, Spoonie Gee, New Edition, Usher, Too Short, Treacherous Three, Led Zep, Roxanne Shante, Stone Roses, Blur, Youngbloodz, 10cc, Hall & Oates...seriously, ANY STYLE OF SOUND may catch this ear.
I got good taste and am not easily taken in (unfortunately). Lately I am a huge fan of the PRE-CODE women's film--they typically seem to star either Joan Blondell or Barbara Stanwyck or both.
COLLEGE HOOPS!!!!, Top Chef, The Wire, Deadwood, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Paradise Hotel (RIP), The First 48, Project Runway, Lost.
Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Every last tasty tidbit of Jackie Suzann and Pamela Moore, Edie, Getting Up, Pere Goriot, Madame Bovary, Vandover and the Brute, McTeague, Sister Carrie, Libra, The Group, The Corner, Lolita,Prick Up Your Ears, Erasure, I'm With the Band, I'm Losing You, Bete Humaine, Ice Haven and old Eightball comics.
All the mom's & dad's that got their shit together and got their kids back from the State,Malcolm X, Rick James, Muhammad Ali, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Al Green,F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Phil Lynott, Exene Cervenka, Jackie Suzann, Bette Davis and Dave Chapelle, except for the time he went on Oprah--what was he thinking? And this girl, but really only and truly for just being so damn sexy and perfect looking cos really people, what the hell did she do?