Cultura obscura, photographing half-naked vamps and tramps and sweet young things, pink champagne, the detritus and effluvium of Americana, Rock 'n' Roll, Rockabilly, Blues, Jungala, Exotica, Hot Jazz, Gretsch, Fender amplifiers, sexploitation, pornography, Riboflavin, nudie cuties, burlesque, dramatic thunderbolts of sin and debauchery, all variations of the word "holler", making love on a bed of nails, severe distortion, twang, murder, gruesome twosomes, patent leather, young brides (hogtied), two-dollar pistols, stiletto knives, Universal Monsters, Jayne Mansfield's shapely body, pointed shoes, kinky boots, peggy whips, Erotica, Art Nouveau, America's game (Baseball, dipshits--namely the Angels), redheads with an arrogant flair, pallid skin, vinyl, spiked heels, contortionists, mass consumption of alcohol, giving the Devil his due, pulp novels, illustrious pinup queens, beautiful corpses, Bettie Mae Page, guzzling Absinthe, ultra twisting into oblivion, collecting obscurities, frenzied barracudas, the vapors, naked girls (that's where it's at), angel dust, sex and dying, high class culture, vertigo, obliterating political correctness, and dancing to your heartbeat.
Those who lift the iron curtains of sin and debauchery, can suck the wind out of my body, and are willing and able to lick the pointed bottoms of my feet.
The methodical, sympathetic vibrations of Abbey Lincoln, AC/DC, Ada Jones, Adam Ant, Al Bowlly, Al Caiola, Al Green, Al Hirt, Al Jolson, Albert Campbell, Albert King, Alice Cooper, Alien Sex Fiend, Alvino Rey, Anita O'Day, Annette Hanshaw, Anton LaVey, Art Tatum, Arthur Collins, Arthur Lee (and Love), Arthur Lyman, Artie Shaw, B-52s, B.B. King, Bach, Barbarians, Barracudas, Barry Adamson, Beethoven, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Big "T" Tyler, Big Bee Kornegay, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Jay McNeely, Big Joe Turner, Big Joe Williams, Big Maybelle, Billie Holiday, Billy "The Kid" Emerson, Billy Jones, Billy May, Billy Murray, Bix Beiderbecke, Blanche Calloway, Blzares, Blenders, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, Blisters, Blossom Seeley, Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Bob Haring, Bobby Fuller, Boswell Sisters, Brox Sisters, Bunny Berigan, Cab Calloway, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Carter Family, Cas Hagan, Casual-Aires, Cats and the Fiddle, Centurions, Charley Patton, Charlie Feathers, Charlie Parker, Cheap Suit Serenaders, Chesterfield Kings, Chuck Berry, Clash, Cliff Edwards, Coleman Hawkins, Collins Kids, Cootie Williams, Count Basie, Cramps, Creatures, Damned, Danny Elfman, Dave Barbour, David Bowie, Dead Boys, Dean Martin, Demolition Doll Rods, Detroit Cobras, Dick Dale, Dick Penner, Dinah Washington (because she's nasty), Dinning Sisters, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Doctor Ross, Don Covay, Don Redman, Doors, Dorsey Brothers, Duane Eddy, Duke Ellington, Eddie Cantor, Edith Piaf, Edvard Grieg, Electric Prunes, Ella Fitzgerald, Elmore James, Mr. Elvis Aaron Presley, Empress of Fur, Esquerita, Esquivel, Esther Walker, Ethel Merman, Etta James, Fats Domino, Fats Waller, Fender IV, Fleetwoods, Fleshtones, Fletcher Henderson, Flirtations, Flower Children, Floyd Dixon, Forbidden Dimension, Frank Sinatra, Frantics, Franz Liszt, Fred Astaire, Fuzztones, Gene Austin, Geney Krupa, George Gershwin, George Olsen, Glenn Miller, Gore Gore Girls, Goliwogs, Gories, Grinderman, Groupies, Gun Club, Hank Ballard, Hank Williams, Harry Reser, Hasil Adkins, Helen Forrest, Helen Kane, Henry Mancini, Hole, Hollywood Argyles, Howlin' Wolf, Iggy Pop, Ike Turner, Irving Berlin, Isley Brothers, J.B. Lenoir, Jack Nitzsche, Jackie Lee Cochran, Jackie Wilson, James Brown, James P. Johnson, Jane Green, Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys, Jane Green, Janis Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jet Harris, Jimmie Haskell, Jimmie Lunceford, Jimmy Dee, JJ Jackson, Jody Reynolds, Joe Houston, Johny Barry, John Cale, John Coltrane, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Johnny Hamp, Johnny Otis, Johnny Shines, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Josephine Baker, Julie London, Kay Martin and Her Bodyguards, Kid Ory, King Curtis, Knitters, Koko Taylor, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Lancasters, LaVern Baker, Leadbelly, Lee Morse, Legendary Shack Shakers, Lena Horne, Leroy Carr, Les Baxter, Libby Holman, Lightnin' Hopkins, Lightnin' Slim, Link Wray, Little Richard, Little Walter, Little Willie John, Lonnie Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Love and Rockets, Ma Rainey, Mack Self, Mae West, Mamie Smith, Marion Harris, Marlene Dietrich, Martin Denny, Marvin Rainwater, MC5, Memphis Minnie, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, Nat King Cole, Nelson Riddle, Newbeats, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Noble Sissle, Oingo Boingo, Oblivians, Otis Redding, Pastel Six, Patti Smith, Paul Whiteman, Peggy Lee, Phantom Chords, Piano Red, PJ Harvey, Pretty Things, Raindrops, Ramblers, Ran-Dells, Raveonettes, Ray Anthony, Ray Charles, Ray Gee, Ray Harris, Ray Noble, Raymond Scott, Red Cross, Red Nichols, Red Prysock, Revels, Reverend Horton Heat, Ric Cartey, Richard Berry, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Rivingtons, Robert Johnson, Robins, Rolling Stones, Ronnie Dawson, Roy Brown, Roy Head, Roy Milton, Roy Orbison, Rumblers, Ruth Brown, Ruth Etting, Sam the Sham, Sandy Nelson, Sarah Vaughan, Saxons, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Screaming Lord Sutch, Shirley Bassey, Shocking Blue, Shorty Long, Sidney Bechet, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Slim Harpo, Soledad Brothers, Son House, Sonny Burgess, Sonny Terry, Sophie Tucker, Southern Culture on the Skids, Sparkles, Sparks, Specimen, Spiders, Spike Jones, Stick McGhee, Strangeloves, Strangers, Super Heroines, Surfaris, Sweet, T-Bone Walker, T-Rex, Tampa Red, Ted Lewis, Ted Weems, Thee Midniters, Thelonious Monk, Them, Third Bardo, Toy Dolls, Trashmen, Velvet Underground, Ventures, Vern Pullen, Vera Lynn, Violent Femmes, Virgin Prunes, Viscounts, Wanda Jackson, The Who, Willie Dixon, Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson, Wilson Pickett, Wynonie Harris, X, X-Ray Spex, Yma Sumac, Zombies, and anyone that can give my libido a psychedlic shock.
Only the naughty pieces from the 1900's-1950's satisfy my preternatural desires.
Gives me a case of the horribles. But, if television celebrities look like this, my eyelids'll flutter and I'll turn into butter the moment I mutter...Yum yum give me some.
Nearly all authors from the Southern Gothic canon, but namely: Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and John Berendt.
The others: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, William F. Buckley Jr., Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Miller, F.A. Hayek, Samuel Beckett, Salman Rushdie, Sam Shepard, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, John Steinbeck, Robert Browning, John Milton, Raymond Chandler, Henrik Ibsen, Nathanael West, Walter Moseley, Kate Chopin, Mary Shelley, Anthony Burgess, Dashiell Hammett, Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Ray Bradbury, C.S. Lewis, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, Bram Stoker, George Orwell, Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, J.W. von Goethe, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Hemingway, and Shirley Jackson.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Adam Ant
Poison Ivy Rorschach