Founding new art movements, drawing, jewelry design, furniture and lighting design, tattoo design, painting, sculpture, stained glass, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, The Italian Renaissance, Ancient Egypt, poetry, short stories, nonfiction, music, photography, movies, hiking, billiards, rock climbing, botany, physics, robotics, chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, acupressure, massage therapy, advertising, sleep, coffee, etc...
Do you like my art and want me to continue making it? Help out a starving artist.
Music
Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Mel Torme, Michael Buble, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, Django Reinhardt, Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Blind Lemon Jefferson, John Dee Holeman, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, R.L. Burnside, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Artie Shaw, Reverend Horton Heat, Devil Doll, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Royal Crown Revue, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Cramps, The Misfits, Dead Kennedys, John Zorn, Caspar Brotzmann, Aube, Einsturzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, NIN, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Switchblade Symphony, Voltaire, Cruxshadows, Black Sabbath, Korn, Rage Against The Machine, Joe Cocker, CCR, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, The Kinks, The White Stripes, Rolling Stones, The Vines, Blind Melon, Blue Man Group, Linda Perry, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Moby, Chemical Brothers, Operatica, Prodigy, Portishead, James Brown, Ghostland Observatory, Outkast, The Streets, 50 Cent, Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Barry White, Marvin Gaye, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Beck, Lorenna McKennit, Enigma, Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Orff, etc...
Movies
Films by Stephen Chow, Ray Harryhausen, Alfred Hitchcock, and Akira Kurosawa
Films staring Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Campbell, James Cagney, Lon Chaney Jr., Lon Chaney Sr., Charlie Chaplin, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Clint Eastwood, WC Fields, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Jet Li, Bela Lugosi, The Marx Brothers, Steve McQueen, Vincent Price, and Claude Raines
29 Grams, 40 Year Old Virgin, 5th Element, Six String Samurai, Barfly, Bickford Schmeckler's Big Ideas, Black Snake Moan, Boondock Saints, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Confidence, Cowboy Bebop The Movie, Dr. No, Dream For An Insomniac, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Free Enterprise, Free Jimmy, Full Metal Jacket, Goonies, Hudson Hawk, Idiocracy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Ironman, It's a Wonderful Life, Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill, Layer Cake, Legend of 1900, Legend of Drunken Master, Living in Oblivion, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Lord of War, Love Actually, Lucky Number Slevin, A Man Apart, Man Bites Dog, Matchstick Men, Matrix, Mean Machine, Memento, Metropolis, Mirror Mask, Night of The Living Dead, Nightmare Before Christmas, Nosferatu, Ocean's Eleven, Office Space, Pan's Labyrinth, Pi, Pitch Black, The Professional, Realms Of The Unreal, Road to Perdition, Rounders, Run Lola Run, The Shining, Shoot 'em Up, Sin City, Singin' In The Rain, Snatch, Soylent Green, Spaceballs, The Original Star Wars trilogy, Stardust, Superbad, Taxi Driver, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Thank you for Smoking, Time Machine, Waking Life, Wallace & Grommit, Where the Buffalo Roam, etc...
Television
Bill Plympton cartoons, Cowboy Bebop, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Mythbusters, Bullsh*t, Daily Show, Dead Like Me, Kids In the Hall, Young Ones, Benny Hill, Yan Can Cook, Outer Limits (the old B&W episodes), Twilight Zone (the old B&W episodes), Discovery Channels, National Geographic Channel, Comedy Central, BBC America
Books
Emily Post's Pocket Guide to Etiquette, How To Be A Gentleman, As A Gentleman Would Say, A Gentleman Gets Dressed Up, Living Buddha-Living Christ, The Book of Totally Useless Information, Einstein's Theory of Relativity & Other Essays, Hyperspace, Wizard: The Life And Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius, anything by Charles Bukowski, Whitman, Hemmingway, Shakespeare, & Edgar Allen Poe, Illiad, Odyssey, Dante's Inferno, Story, The Dark Side of The Screen: Film Noir, Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau, The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead, Sun Tzu's Art Of War, Tao of Pooh & The Tse of Piglet, 48 Laws Of Power, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Webster's Dictionary, Bulfinch's Mythology, Don Quixote, Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market, books about physics, electricity, etc...
Heroes
my father, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Alfred Hitchcock, George Carlin, my great-uncle Merle, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo Buonarroti, Filippo Brunelleschi, Michelangelo de Caravaggio, Alphonse Mucha, Rene Lalique, Emile Galle, Andy Warhol
Why describe myself when other, greater men than myself have but it in better words than I could use
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" - T.S. Eliot
"He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." - Thomas Jefferson
"Birth was the death of him." - Samuel Beckett
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
"The cleanest expression is that which finds no sphere worthy of itself and makes one." - Walt Whitman
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way." -Charles Bukowski
"Nothing is ALL wrong. Even a clock that stopped running is right twice a day. Patience is the ability to let your light shine after your fuse has blown." -Unknown
"We are all born mad, some of us remain so." - Samuel Beckett
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you." -George Bernard Shaw
My website for my artwork:
My new website for my freelance illustration work: Neo-Elegance Design(it still needs a bit of work though)
The place where I post all my crazy ideas The Idea Can
Just as above, I believe that other men have described what I'm looking for with better vocabulary than myself
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity." -Simone de Beauvoir
"Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement." -Charles Bukowski
"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable." -Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love." -Washington Irving
"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." -Nikos Kazantzakis
ahhh my loyal partner and well fed not so rabid now mongoose! apparently i've got a good reputation for what we do now. i guess taking out that busload of old people and children really helped our cause. i cant wait til im 89 and the only place i can still legally drive is in Florida
OMG BEN!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! I miss you man, and never got a chance to say bye when I left......please don't hold it against me! You are one of the coolest, nicest people I met in Dayton, and I love ya for that. Don't forget to smile :-D Glad I found you on here!!!
---Live to love, and love to live-----Micel
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