About Me
Eclectic photographer/video and film maker/painter/lyricist w/ panache. Teaching youth so-called Grafitti Art.
FAVORITE PLACES: Holltywood Forever Cemetary, Griffith Park Observatory, Westwood Cemetary, New York & San Francisco my old homes, my studio & privacy, the Pacific Northwest, The Roxy & Knitting Factory, the Garment District, New Mexico, The Abbey, San Miguel de Allende-Mx., smart fashion shoppes, musical events where I don't know to expect, Amoeba & Rockaway Record shoppes, Robertson Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, the canyon roads in the Hollywood Hills & more. FAVORITE PEOPLE/THINGS: Robert Downey Jr., Pop Noir, DIFFERENCE & the OTHER, drinking expresso in porcelain tea cups & exotic teas, Mid Eastern Food, anything leather, T-Rex, Dylan's Tell Tale Signs & Together Through Life, Brian Eno & John Cale, The EARLY Rolling Stones, Doo Wop, cobalt blue glass, BLACK & WHITE films, Benjamin Smoke & Jem Cohen, the best Japanese restaurants, CANDLES, fashion, exquisite make-up not overdone on males and females, reading Emerson, Twain, Whitman, Blake, P. Smith, Peter Pan, rare & limited edition books, Fantasy/Surrealist art and writng, Magritte & Dali, Robert Frank's films/photos, old time carnivales, Iglu & Hartley (brilliant), The Beatles, Allen Ginsberg Poe & Rimbaud, Vali of Positano, Antony & the Johnsons, Devandra Banhart, Jimmy Blinkley & His Blue Notes, the garment district downtown, The Pogues, The Magnetic Fields, Leonard Cohen, David Baily photographs, Cecil Beaton, Klaus Nomi, chop stix, The Soloist, Turkish shirts, dried roses, silk blazers, spontaneity, being surprised at a musical event when I didn't expect it & anything my friends Sean, Elizabeth turn me onto.
WHAT I DISLIKE: people without any social graces, loud people who talk too fast (they can't hear what you're saying), I don't like MTV, the necessity of driving, trends, I've grown weary of shaved heads and baseball caps, a lack of personal polish, people who haven't an original thought, institions and governments, apples, the culture of bad driving, cemented yards, shuckster managers/agents, gossip (tabloids), American Idol & the Biggest Loser.
