Photography and film sets. Punk rock, swing bands, sharp suits, cocktails...and confetti in my hair. Fine wine, top shelf speakeasies and good champagne. Staying up late and sleeping in. Stetson of Philadelphia. Fine and lowbrow art. Pin ups and Hollywood glamour. Discovering old things in new places and new things in old places. Snap cufflinks from the 20s.
People who don't create their own drama, except on the stage.
The demi monde of burlesque, vaudeville, sideshow, and cabaret. People like these who use my photos for their profiles:
Louis Armstrong, Bauhaus, the Beatles, Beethoven, David Bowie, Jon Brion, Cab Calloway, the Clash, the Cramps, the Damned, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and Costello, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, the Kinks, Janet Klein, Ennio Morricone, the Pixies, the Pogues, Iggy Pop, the Ramones, the Rolling Stones, the Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, Throwrag, Uncertain, Richard Wagner, Tom Waits, Kurt Weill, the White Stripes, the Who, Frank Zappa
King Kong (1933), Casablanca, the Adventures of Robin Hood, Universal horror movies, Ealing comedies, Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, the Marx Brothers, anything with Louise Brooks, Sid and Nancy, Memento, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge on the River Kwai, A Clockwork Orange, The Thin Man, Stalag 17, the Seven Samurai, the first two Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jaws, Singing in the Rain, Arsenic and Old Lace, Gunga Din, Fight Club, Blade Runner, Gone with the Wind, early Bond films
Monty Python, The Young Ones, The Office, The Prisoner, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, the Daily Show, Adult Swim and any show my friends are on.
Anything by Christopher Isherwood, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, "A Clockwork Orange," Ian Fleming, HL Mencken and poems of Dorothy Parker.
Be your own hero.