| Influences | a few of my favorites (in no particular order) ...
Composers -
JS Bach,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Giacomo Puccini,
Sergei Prokofiev,
Igor Stravinsky,
Franz Waxman,
Miklós Rózsa,
Ralph Vaughan Williams,
Nino Rota,
Georges Delerue,
Bernard Herrmann,
Henry Mancini,
Arvo Pärt,
Richard Strauss,
Ennio Morricone,
Krzysztof Penderecki,
Richard Wagner,
Wojciech Kilar,
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Michael Nyman,
Jerry Goldsmith,
Harry Partch,
Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin),
Danny Elfman,
Thomas Newman,
Philip Glass,
Mychael Danna
Bands -
J Marie Anderson,
Eric Hunter and Rod Bailey (PCP Berzerker),
Ben McCombs (Uma Floresta),
Dexter Riley,
The Beatles,
Elvis Presley,
Cab Calloway,
John Lennon,
Oingo Boingo,
Björk,
Nick Cave,
Skip James,
The Tielman Brothers,
Cream,
Bob Dylan,
David Bowie,
Gene Vincent,
Robert and Johnny,
Rosie and the Originals,
Tom Waits,
Led Zeppelin,
Robert Johnson,
Sam Cooke,
Chuck Berry,
The Students,
Marc Bolan,
Nine Inch Nails,
Paul Simon,
Johnny Cash,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
The Faint,
The Smiths,
The Pixies,
The White Stripes
Literary -
Cornell Woolrich,
George Orwell,
William S. Burroughs,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,
Anaïs Nin,
Clive Barker,
Ray Bradbury,
Hunter S. Thompson,
David Icke,
Robert Frost,
Robert Anton Wilson,
Jack Kerouac,
Franz Kafka,
Lewis Carroll,
H.G. Wells
Painters / Comic Book Artists / Photography / Visual Art -
Astrid Benet,
H.R. Giger,
Edward Gorey,
Gary Larson,
Robert Crumb,
Francis Bacon,
Salvador Dali,
Bill Watterson,
Ralph Steadman,
Dr. Seuss,
Viktor Koen,
Henry Fuseli,
Brian Froud,
Nathan DiPietro,
Sarina Brewer,
Joel-Peter Witkin,
José Guadalupe Posada
Filmmakers -
Jack Bennett,
Frederico Fellini,
Carol Reed,
Orson Welles,
Peter Greenaway,
Jean-Luc Godard,
Ingmar Bergman,
Tim Burton,
Joel and Ethan Coen,
Alejandro Jodorowski,
David Lynch,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Roman Polanski,
Jan Svankmajer,
Michel Gondry,
Jean-Pierre Jeunet,
Jim Jarmusch,
Mel Brooks,
Spike Jonze,
Sergio Leone,
Wim Wenders,
John Carpenter,
Jean Cocteau,
Wes Anderson,
Quentin Tarantino,
Russ Meyer,
George A. Romero,
Brothers Quay,
Stanley Kubrick,
James Whale,
Edward D. Wood Jr.
Films -
Otto e mezzo (8 1/2),
The Third Man,
The Bride of Frankenstein,
Chinatown,
Nostalghia,
Rear Window,
Drowning by Numbers,
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,
Paris Texas,
Young Frankenstein.
The Shining,
Pulp Fiction,
Fargo,
Dawn of the Dead (Romero's),
The Good the Bad and the Ugly,
Ed Wood,
Dead Man,
Back to the Future,
Wings of Desire,
Vertigo,
El Topo,
Solyaris,
Night Tide,
La Strada,
Lost Highway,
The Thing,
Laura,
Dracula,
many others...
Performers -
Bill Hicks,
Leo Kottke,
Korla Pandit,
Kronos Quartet,
Andy Kaufman,
Orkestar Zirkonium,
Gene Wilder,
Harry Dean Stanton,
Crispin Glover,
Peter Sellers,
Grace Kelly,
Maila Nurmi (Vampira),
Bob Newhart,
Jimmy Stewart,
George Carlin,
Wanda Jackson,
Marcello Mastroianni,
Max Schreck,
Marilyn Manson,
Bela Lugosi,
Cate Blanchett,
Paul Reubens,
Johnny Carson,
Lesley Gore
Producers -
Justin O'Neill |