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Tattooing, horror movies, drawing, playing guitar, drinking beer, eating hot-as-f---k Thai food, Southern Rock, Gov't Mule, 2B pencils, live music, Rue Morgue Magazine, Guitar World Magazine, heavy f----n metal, Jack Daniels, too much coffee, spending a ton of money on DVDs, CDs, T-shirts, and magazines, creepy places, traveling all over the f-----g planet, working too many tattoo conventions. Basing my life around concerts - hey man, priorities! | | Music | Gov't Mule, Judas Priest, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, North Mississippi Allstars, Van Halen, Pantera, Slayer, Deep Purple, Hank III, Kid Rock, Iron Maiden, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., Queen, Gary Moore, Allman Brothers Band, Ramones, Anthrax, Ozzy Osbourne, Exodus, Ted Nugent, Led Zeppelin, KISS, COC, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Metallica, Derek Trucks Band, John 5, The Stooges, Black Crowes, Charlie Daniels Band, Rolling Stones, Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, Motorhead, Chet Atkins, Robert Johnson, Michael Schenker, UFO, Down, Frank Zappa, Neil Young, Dio, Elton John, Thin Lizzy, ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Seger, Cream, Mastodon, Marshall Tucker Band, Dream Theater, Yes, Simon and Garfunkel, Eagles, Robin Trower, Frank Marino, Rainbow, Cheap Trick, Outlaws, Jeff Beck, Savatage, Kansas, Rory Gallagher, Misfits, Danzig, Hayseed Dixie, King's X, Wayne Hancock, to name a few. | | Movies | John Carpenter's The Thing, The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, The Devil's Backbone, Re-Animator, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Prince of Darkness, Deranged, The Fog, Creepshow, The Hills Have Eyes (remake), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Session 9, Gates of Hell, Zombie, Deep Red, Suspiria, Near Dark, Cutting Moments, Dead and Buried, Night/Dawn/Day/Land of the Dead (I got to be a zombie in Land - eating fingers!), The Changeling, Masque of the Red Death, Amityville 2, From Beyond, Dagon, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Carnival of Souls, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Witchfinder General, Cemtery Man, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Dead Alive, Deathdream, Evil Dead, Hellraiser, Halloween, Blacula, King Kong, Salem' Lot, most any Ray Harryhausen movie or anything with monsters in it, Nacho Cerda's Aftermath, Jaws, Twitch of the Death Nerve (a.ka. Bay of Blood), The Shining, Battle Royale, Ichi the Killer, Kairo, Freaks, Nosferatu, Guillermo del Toro's hopefully upcoming adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, Pan's Labrynth, Hellboy 1 and 2, The Mothman Prophecies, Unforgiven and any good western, anything by Martin Scorcese. | | Television | Night Gallery, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Twilight Zone, the first four seasons of X-Files, Masters of Horror, Jackass, Tales From the Crypt, L.A.Ink, Wild Boys, Viva La Bam, Conan O'Brian. | | Books | A lot of magazines! Rue Morgue, tons of tattoo magazines, Famous Monsters Of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie, Guitar World, Guitar Player, Classic Rock (UK), Deep Red, Juxtapoz, Revolver... | | Heroes | People I am inspired by: My dad, Frank Frazetta, Jack Pierce, Rob Bottin, Paul Booth, Robert Hernandez, Tom Renshaw, Shane O'Neill, Guy Aitchison, Boris, Filip Leu, Jack Rudy, Joe Capobianco, Jime Litwalk, Mick from Zurich, Gunnar, Greg Nicotero, Tom Savini, a ton of killer tattoo artists - you know who you are - Forry Ackerman, H.R. Giger, Basil Gogos, Daniel Horne, Bernie Wrightson, Clive Barker (because he's so inspiring and fucking cool overall), Guillermo del Toro (because he pretty much designs everything that goes into his movies), Chris Mars, Joe Coleman, Vincent Price, George Romero, and Jovanka, Rod, Gary, and Dave from Rue Morgue magazine. |
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