This morning I am enjoying a cigar, a giant mug of coffee,
and allowing myself to get stuck on where I want to be and where I am. This
reflection, or obsession, whichever it might be, has me stuck on listing the
heroes that have influenced my desire to seek a profession in the arts.
It is debatable that these figures and my obsession with
them have led me astray, and thus my youthful intoxication with them has led to
the hangover of adulthood.
The Writers:
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Jorge Luis Borges
Miguel De Cervantes
Ernest Hemmingway
John Steinbeck
Franz Kafka
Isaac Asimov
John Byrne
Frank Miller
Roy Lichtenstein
Jack Kirby
Edward Hopper
David Hockney
Jasper Johns
Edward Ruscha
Alfred Stieglitz
Robert Rauschenberg
Francis Bacon
The Musicians
John Coltrane
Django Reinhardt
Fats Waller
Charles Mingus
The Pixies
The Beatles
Miles Davis
Nat “King” Cole
Louis Armstrong
Lou Reed
Bo Diddely
Link Wray
Les Paul
Billie Holiday
Sarah Parker
Charlie Parker
Of course there are others not on this list, but who really
wants to read a list of a fanboy’s object of obsession?
My intent of this list is to act as a jumping board for
articles on these individuals created intoxicants. I (hopefully) will add links
to this list of articles describing my personal response to their works as
intoxicants, adding to the overall definition of Intoxico outside the realm of
physical consumables.
Until then, thanks for reading, and indulging in my own
musings on intoxication. While not quite the artistic expression I was hoping
to produce in my youth, it is what I have for the time being.
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