bands:

1. '70's punk, blues, R&B, soul, jazz, the rock and the roll, big band, OLD country, Tom Waits, Noel Coward, Bob Dylan, Jimmie Rodgers, The Ink Spots, Gene Austin, The Swan Silvertones, The Beatles, Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies, The Five Royales, Johnny Cash, Nick Lowe, Big Star, Daniel Johnston, Raymond Scott, Pretenders, Howlin' Wolf, Everly Bros., Benny Goodman, Pixies, Woody Guthrie, X, Faron Young, Mickey & Sylvia, The Gun Club, The Kinks, Percy Mayfield, Eddie Lang, Nick Lucas, Louis Jordan, Mingus, VU, Babs Gonzalez, Buzzcocks, Golden Gate Quartet, Waylon, The Clash, Dean Martin, Django, Elvis P. and Elvis C., Thelonius Monk, Thelonius Monster, The Hold Steady, White Stripes, Captain Beefheart, Louvin Brothers, The Cramps, Television, Desmond Dekker, Slim Smith, Dock Boggs, Eddie Cochran, Iggy & The Stooges, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles, Cowboy Jack Clement, Don Gibson, Ricky Nelson, Dexter Romweber, Blossom Dearie, The Minutemen, Neil Young, Hoagy Carmichael, Del Shannon, The Blasters, Arthur Alexander....

films:

1. Jacques Tati, Robert Bresson, Preston Sturges, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz by Luis Bunuel, Luis Bunuel in general, Le Trou by Jacques Becker, Fellini, Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Kurasawa, Keaton, Kubrick, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Lee Marvin, Peter Sellers, W.C. Fields, Diabolique by Henri-Georges Clouzot, anything with Buddy Hackett, Jim Backus, Jim Jarmusch, Robert Mitchum, Werner Herzog, Robert Newton as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, The Party, Sterling Hayden, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter by the great Frank Tashlin, Sam Peckinpah, anything with Walter Matthau, David Lean's Oliver Twist, David Lean movies in general, Jerry Lewis - especially The Errand Boy, The House of Yes, Face in the Crowd, Elia Kazan, Night of the Hunter, I Am Cuba, Pecker by John Waters, Russ Meyers, Errol Morris.

books:

1. Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton, Yasunari Kawabata, John Fante, Denis Johnson, Nelly Reifler, James M. Cain, Charles Bukowski, Joan Didion, Jim Thompson, every syllable of S.J. Perelman, Nathanael West... Missy Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, Low Life by Luc Sante, James Agee, Lolita, The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer, Saul Bellow, O. Henry, James Ellroy, Dorothy Parker, Never a Normal Man by Daniel Farson, Henry Miller http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimherrington/3210783577/in/set-72157612770925778/ Charles Dickens, Dashiell Hammett, John Muir, The Total Film-Maker by Jerry Lewis, Cormac McCarthy, My Last Sigh by Luis Bunuel, Brassai when he writes about Paris...

vices: Various and sundry.

occupation: Photographer

favorite position: Praying mantis jack-in-the-box dirty sanchez cartwheel with firecrackers.

i lost my virginity: Before you were born.

MY STATUS: single

MY PIGEONHOLES: Arty, Jazz Cat, Tattooed, Retro, Hillbilly, Punk, Dirty, Rockabilly, Bookworm, Geek, Fetish, Diva, Fuck you, I defy categories