art, music, women. switzerland, costa rica, hawaii, the west coast, NYC and the east coast, basements, bedrooms, garages, studios, workshops, dens, out the window, behind my eyes, & inside a steel cage that is dangling from one wire.
16x9(Jon Roy, Nick, and myself)Dead Ripe(me and mike), Deftones, Filter, Portishead, Tool, Jesu, NIN, Toadies, A Perfect Circle, Depeche Mode, Gravity Kills, Ministry, Team Sleep, Local H, Cold, Massive Attack, Kidney Thieves, Godflesh, Tomahawk, Alice In Chains, Billy Corgan, Pixies, Killswitch Engage, American Head Charge, Mudvayne, Failure, Sonic Youth, Pillar, Static-X, The Mars Volta(THANK YOU Crissie!), Bloc Party, Mastodon, Pantera, Meshuggah, Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins, Catherine Wheel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cure, Weezer, Silverchair, Hum, Taproot, Chimara, Nonpoint, Front 242, Green Jelly, Aphex Twin, Tears For Fears, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, Tenacious D, Incubus, 311, Helmet, Bjork, Skrape, Otis Redding and increasingly more jazz; John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Marsalis, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. i'm expanding my palette... ..
Paths of Glory, Titus, Casshern, Sword of Doom, Logan's Run, Seven Samurai, Inland Empire, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Dune, Eraserhead, Children of Men, Nosferatu(original and Herzog version), Blue Velvet, Suspiria, Brazil, Dawn of the Dead(the original of course), The Descent, The Departed, The Cell, Batman Begins, Sin City, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Vertigo, Caddyshack, The Passion Of The Christ, 1984, Office Space, Canadian Bacon, Heat, Napoleon Dynamite, SLC Punk, Taxi Driver, Of Mice And Men, Raging Bull, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Blade Runner, Beavis and Butthead Do America, Crumb, Basquiat, Blues Brothers, Surviving Picasso, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Ghost Dog, Naked Gun(all of 'em) The Matrix trilogy, Falling Down, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Natural Born Killers, Kung Pow, Star Wars, The Last Boyscout, Batman, Tombstone, Dr. Strangelove, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange, Depeche Mode 101, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Kids, Adaptation, Alien, Aliens, Unbreakable, Equilibrium, Never Ending Story, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Lost in Translation, The Godfather(all of em), The Crow, the second one because the Deftones have a few scenes, Meeting people is easy(radiohead film), AND ALL THAT COULD HAVE BEEN, Ravenous, A Life Less Ordinary, Trainspotting, Airplane!..
The Three Stooges, Kids In The Hall, Strangers With Candy, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, Reno 911, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Simpsons, Seinfeld, Malcolm in the Middle, Sanford and Son, Family Guy, Sealab, Brak Show, Monty Python, CSI, Miami Ink, oh yeah The Adventures of Pete & Pete!(Dance senorita!).
Bible, Purpose Driven Life, My Utmost For His Highest, the original Dune trilogy, What Painting Is, Urban Structures, History of Modern Art, 1984, comics like Mr. Natural, Hard Boiled, Lobo, Ghost Rider, Criminal Macabre, Aliens, and my sketch books...
Jesus, other believers, my family, my friends, my music and art heros: Umberto Boccioni, Lee Bontecou, David Lynch, Deftones, Jimi Hendrix (duh), Justin Broadrick, teachers throughout my college years(still in progress) and anyone who is using their talents to make this world more beautiful. You inspire me.