[toxic johnny]

I'm only gonna do this once so here goes...

 

Here I am lighting my last ever cigarette on my birthday in january '06

Name: Johnny
Profession: Photographer

Jams: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Dead C, Black Dice, Double Leopards, Magik Markers, Charalambides, Royal Trux,
Birchville Cat Motel, Vincent Gallo, Captain Beefheart, Neil Michael Hagerty, Dream Aktion Unit, Text Of Light,
Free Kitten, Jim O'Rourke, Dean Roberts, Barnpauls, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, Pussy Galore, Kites, Espers,
The Angels Of Light, The Germs, Burning Star Core, Blood Stereo, etc etc

Movies: Week End, The Brown Bunny, Gummo, Ken Park, Palindromes, Irreversible, Mulholland Dr., Julian Donkey
Boy, Buffalo 66, Chelsea Girls, Lost Highway, Nashville, Mean Streets, Accatone, Elephant, Rebel Without A Cause,
Stroszek, Seul Contre Tous, Theorem, Thumbsucker, Magnolia, The Last Movie, Zabriskie Point, Gods Of The Plague, etc etc

Artists: Diane Arbus, Larry Clark, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, William Eggleston, Paul McCarthy, Gregory Crewdson,
Jake + Dinos Chapman, Robert Ryman, Stephen Shore, Lee Friedlander, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Rauschenberg,
Mike Nelson, Phillip-Lorca Dicorcia, Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler, Bruce Nauman, Mike Kelley, Richard Prince,
Jeff Wall, Richard Billingham, Darren Almond etc etc

Writers: Harmony Korine, William S. Burroughs, Dennis Cooper, JG Ballard [60's + 70's], Jim Lewis, Charles Bukowski,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, John Kennedy Tool, Franz Kafka, Jean Genet, Richard Hell, Barry Gifford, Jack Kerouac,
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Scott Heim, Lydia Lunch, JT Leroy, Joan Didion etc etc

Loves: The visual image in all of it's forms, aural pleasure, cool text, celluloid, Pipes, beach walking, New York,
Los Angeles, the 70's, the Punk DIY aesthetic, my dog, the Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, my Mamiya RB67, Mr Bill, Bourbon, Ben + Jerry's, lens flare... lists...etc etc