Andi Hayes

musician > artist > writer > vegan-animal lover

Top 7 Musical inspirations:
MC5
The Doors
Iggy and The Stooges
Alice Cooper
Blue Oyster Cult
Spirit
Paul Revere & The Raiders

Favorite band of all time:
MONSTER MAGNET

Holy Trinity of Singers: 
Jim Morrison 
Iggy Pop 
Alice Cooper

Inspirational Female Singers:
Timi Yuro
Irma Thomas

Favorite musical instruments:
celestial pipe organ
harpsichord
autoharp
bagpipes
mellotron
Persian santur
theremin

First song with lyrics ever written:
"Queen Zombie"

6 PEOPLE in the world I REALLY ADMIRE:
Joaquin Phoenix (brilliant and awesome human being)
Dave Wyndorf (musician/singer/genius)
Joey Carbstrong (animal rights activist)
Brigitte Bardot (true beauty/animal activist)
Pythagoras (Original Messenger of Truth)
 

5 CRUCIAL MIND-SHAPING MOVIES:

1. Taxi Driver – one-man vigilantism Travis Bickle-style

2. Bonnie & Clyde – fearless FTW bank-robbing couple

3. The Other (Thomas Tryon’s) – pure mind-blowing surreal horror

4. Easy Rider – Freedom & Freak Flags with Dennis Hopper

5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – wry wit & lobotomies inside the insane asylum

8 INSPIRATIONAL AUTHORS:
George MacDonald
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
George Orwell
C.S. Lewis
Lewis Carroll
Hunter S. Thompson
Lester Bangs
 

20 Favorite Childhood Books/Classics:
The Princess and the Goblin/Curdie – George MacDonald
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
Rusty’s Spaceship – Evelyn Lampman
The Amulet/Five Children and It – E. Nesbitt
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet – Eleanor Cameron
The Water Babies – Charles Kingsley
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
Tanglewood Tales/Complete Works – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Complete Works – Edgar Allan Poe
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Penrod – Booth Tarkington
The Phantom Tollbooth – Jules Feiffer
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
Mary Poppins – P.L. Travers
The House at Pooh Corner – A.A. Milne
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak