| General | Artist created toys, lowbrow art, obscure 80's new wave (and videos) and vintage 20s and 30s rag and jazz music, circus side-show ephemera, underground cartoons, Japanese 'POP' collectables, Urban art, 'Real' folk art and not from some white guy who decided to do folk art after he received his masters degree, Shriners and all lodge related paraphernalia, Artists who actually do art and not just talk about doing it, Turn-of-the-century haunted mansions, El Dia De Los Muertos, Old Haunted Western towns and space cowboys, Bauhaus (band and art movement)... (more to be cont.) | | Music | Lets see...Les Rita Mitsouko, World Party, Pixies, The Breeders, The Stranglers, The Smiths, Manu Chao, Adam and the Ants, Love and Rockets, The The, Mano Negra, (early) R.E.M., De La Soul, The Nutty Boys, Madness, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Desorden Publico, Le Tigre, 5,6,7,8s, Shonen Knife, Pizzicato 5, Stan Ridgeway, Wall of Voodoo, Jimi Hendrix, Leonard Cohen, Altered Images, Bow Wow Wow, Split Enz, Mick Harvey, Crime and the City Solution, Cocteau Twins, Dr. John, Desmond Dekker, Bel Canto, The Pogues, Devo, (early) B52s, David Lindley, The Coasters, (early) INXS, Talking Heads, David Byrne, They Might be Giants, Peter Murphy, The Housemartins, Alert, Oingo Boingo, Suburban Lawns, Concrete Blonde, Big Star, The Damned, Kate Bush, The Creatures, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Pretenders, The Cure, Shadow, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, 45 Grave, Tito & Tarantula, Dead Kennedys, (early) Eurythmics, Trio, Dogbowl, The Low and Sweet Orchestra, The Skids, Anita Lane, Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Bongwater, Einsturzende Neubauten, Stray Cats, Dean Martin, The Iguanas, Julian Cope, James Brown, Violent Femmes, Men Without Hats, The Dead Milkmen, Lene Lovich, The Selecter, The Specials, Ennio Morricone, Falco, Plastic Bertrand, The Three O'CLock, Jonny Marr, The Ramones, The Dukes of the Stratosphere, The Jim Carroll Band, The Church, Kitchens of Distinction, Beck, Los Super Seven, Echo and the Bunnymen, Dream Warriors, King Chango, Blondie, The Primitives, Pere Ubu, Joe Strummer, The Clash, The Jam, Talk Talk, The English Beat (The Beat), X-ray Spex, This Picture, The Dickies, XYMOX, The Donkey Show, Pepe Kalle, Marc Ribot, King, Van Morrison, Warren Zevon, Spizz Energi, Bad Manners, Iggy Pop, Bauhaus, The Sugarcubes, The Sisters of Mercy, Fishbone, Gorillaz, Belle and Sebastian, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Rapture, R. Crum & His Cheap Suit Serenaders, XTC, Beautiful South, Happy Mondays, Ministry, Patti Smith, The Sparks, Polecats, The Wolfgang Press, The Rolling Stones, Blancmange, David Bowie, PJ Harvey, Dexys Midnight Runners, Lou Reed, Duran Duran, The Cramps, New Order, Burning Sensations, Luna, Cypress Hill, Roxy Music, Us3, King Missile, Jamiroquai, Freur, Berlin, Payola$, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Black StalinThe Psychedelic Furs, The Waterboys, Too Much Joy, The Boomtown Rats, Dalis Car, Haysi Fantayzee, The Vapors, Django Reinhardt, The Belle Stars, and a few others... | | Movies | Forbidden Zone, City of Lost Children, Baraka, Der Golem, Nosferatu, The Decalogue, Meet the Feebles, Zoolander, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Magnolia, Quills, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lilo and Stitch, Ghostworld, Time Bandits, The Thirteenth Warrior, Kill Bill I & II, Pirates of the Caribbean, Resevoire Dogs, Monty Python (all films), Baron Munchausen, 13 Monkeys, Django, Fist Full of Dollars, More too come... | | Television | Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Carnivale, Ren and Stimpy, What's Happening, Goodtimes, Welcome Back Kotter, Keen Eddy, The Electric Company, The Muppet Show, More to come... | | Books | Too many to list - Currently reading:
1) "Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books" - William H. Helfand
2) "Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia" - Gretchen Worden
3) "Collecting Contemporary" - Adam Lindemann | | Heroes | My wife, Kathie Olivas / My Mum, Dad and Sis, Family / Sas and Colin Christian / My greatest friends: Jacob Whitmore, Rob Schwager / and all of artists and colleagues that I show with across the globe who push the boundaries of contemporary art on all levels, oh yeah, my two dogs: Bailey & Diego - who are eating bones and growling at each other while I am writing this... |
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