Some of the things that inspire us are furniture, knick-knacks, and cool architecture from the 40's - 70's. We also enjoy classic TV, wacky cartoons, and comic books, film noir, independent and foreign films, cheesy sci- fi, horror and B-movies, and creative artistic music. Basically anything that captures the unique and personal vision of its creator. This is what we try to bring to our own work.
Apart from drawing and stamping, we also enjoy going to church, haunting the local thrift and antique stores, knitting, making jewelry, and playing music...
Music
Surf - Exotica - and Space Age Bachelor Pop Music from the 50's and 60's; Martin Denny; Les Baxter; Henry Mancini; Spike Jones (the screwball conductor from the 40s-50s, not the director from now); Raymond Scott; Esquivel; King Benny Nawahi; Leroy Shields (Little Rascals and Laurel and Hardy soundtrack composer); Ennio Morriconi; European sountdracks 65-73; Big Star; Wilco; T Rex; The Byrds; The Who; The Bomboras; Pretty Things; 60s garage punk; strip tease; Airplanes; The Kris Special; Joy Electric; Grandaddy; Creeper Lagoon; Built To Spill; The Jayhawks; Blue Mountain; Mu'm; Pavement; Pixies; Steve Malkmus and the Jicks; Silver Jews; P.J. Harvey; Flaming Lips; At the Drive In; John Frusciante; Beck; Os Mutantes; Calexico; Louis Armstrong; Dandy Warhols; Starflyer 59; Dinosaur Jr.;
Movies
Mostly cheesy old B-Movies and old Teenager Beach movies; Christmas Story; Ed Wood; Pulp Fiction; Faster pussycat, Kill, Kill; Ghost World; She Freak; The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; the Girl and the Geek; Rubin and Ed; Mad Monster Party; Sting of Death; Touch of Evil; the Third Man; Laurel and Hardy; Little Rascals; Marx Brothers; Peter Sellers (Especially the Party); Film Noir; Swamp Women; Murder in the Museum; Ghost in the Invisible Bikini; Spider Island; Egah; Wild Women of Wongo; Spinal Tap; Sons of Provo; Buffalo 66; Gilbert Grape; Benny and Joon; The Fox and The Hound; Goonies; Singles; The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T.; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; Napoleon Dynamite;
David Lynch; Christopher Guest; Wes Anderson; Paul Thomas Anderson; Cohen Brothers; Quentin Tarantino; Alfred Hitchcock; John Waters; Tim Burton - sometimes; Terry Gilliam; Terry Zwigoff;
Television
The State; Carnivale; Andy Griffith; Dick Van Dyke; Lucy; Leave it to Beaver; Laverne & Shirley; Welcome Back Kotter; Pete & Pete; Twin Peaks; Sanford & Son; Father Ted; The Young Ones; Peter Gunn; Jack Benny; Red Skelton; Car 54 Where are You?; S.C.T.V.; Beverly Hillbillies; Petticoat Junction; Green Acres; Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.; Green Hornet; 60's Batman; MST3K; Meet Corliss Archer; Ren and Stimpy; the Munsters; Ghoul a go-go; Old Time Radio...
Books
Book of Tiki; Charles Phoenix books - God Bless Americana, Southern California in the 50's, Californialand, Las Vegas in the 50's; Beatsville; Googie Redux; Dixie before Disney;
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