Favorite visual artist enki bilal, yoji shinkawa, rembrandt van rijn, ashley wood, andy warhol, yoshiyuki sadamoto, hokusai, takashi murakami, chiho aoshima, ryoji ikeda, wassily kandinsky, edward hopper, mark bradford, edvard munch, neo rauch, max liebermann, jackson pollock Favorite movies mostly post-ww2 era 20th & 21st century european, american and asian cinema with the exception of some silent movies Favorite TV shows hundreds of anime and american cartoons, "the wire">all Favorite bands / musical artists hip hop, jazz, blues, psychedelic and ever so on Favorite books see favorite writers Favorite writers stanislaw lem, a.c. clarke, haruki murakami, f. kafka, p.k. dick, hunter s. thompson, miyazawa kenji, basho, whole lotsa comicbook writers Tools of the Trade acrylic, tempera, pastels, watercolors, copics, pencil, ink Other Interests cooking, fashion, cats, music, reading, movies