Mountains, Makers, Gauloises, Kir, cheese, Thai food, slow death.
Music
The Stones, Bob Dylan, Alex Chilton, Compulsive Gamblers, Black Flag, Soulja Slim, Reigning Sound, The Move, Wizzard, Heartbreakers, Halo of Flies, Sleep, Only Ones, Pretty Things, The Replacements, Real Kids, Modern Lovers, Byrds, C-Murder, Ventures, Zombies, Kinks, Flaming Groovies, The Remains, eyehategod, Kelly Clarkson, Olatunji, Thin Lizzy, Ananda Shankar, Juvenile, .38 Special, Beach Boys, Flying Burrito Brothers, Wire, Crime, Neurosis etc....
Movies
Mean Streets, Chungking Express, Band of Outsiders, Don't Look Back, The Wild Angels, Gimme Shelter, Cocksucker Blues, Le Cercle Rouge, Dr. Strangelove, Spinal Tap, La Dolce Vita, Eat the Document, Stranger Than Paradise, Bottle Rocket, Låt Den Rätte Komma
Television
Fishing With John, The Mighty Boosh
Books
Bat Boy: My True Life Adventures Coming of Age with the New York Yankees, Summer of '49, There's Something About Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Dylan's Chronicles, Teen Vogue, Phil Lynott: THE ROCKER, Diary of a Drug Fiend, New York Magazine
Heroes
Roy Wood, Bob Dylan, Alex Chilton, Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Perrett, Bob Neuwirth, Wes Anderson, Paul Westerberg, New York Yankees and Mr. LittleJeans
What others say about me..."talented with no ambition", "new york's most adorable user", "his eyes are always red", "ART!!!!", "you smell like booze", "hey bro you got the shakes", "classic underachiever", "he's been loaded since the third grade", "ohh your skin is so soft", "don't get him mad or he might throw a fuckin' chair"!!!!!, "did you do something last night you weren't supposed to be doing?", "yer hand is shaking.", "Man, Art hangs out with some hot Asian chicks", "You're the most distorted person I've ever met!", "You're a liar and an asshole".
my friend louie put me on his album cover
"Look honey, it's the crawdad rider on the King Louie LP!" -Goner HQ Memphis, Tennessee
smoking and fishing! that's what i do. on the set of my latest tv show "fishing with art"
short film about getting loaded in chinatown shot in 2002
i went to the hospital last weekend. this was my IV...
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