..
B-52s --but of COURSE! GUNTHER is camp genius (especially since NO ONE else seems to have caught on it's all a put on...It is, isn't it?)... What else? The Cure, R.E.M., Depeche Mode, the Go-Go's, (most anything 80's), movie soundtracks, Village People (seriously! They're cheesy fun!), disco, Partridge Family (I'm not lying!), The Monkees (no surprise considering), TECHNO/DANCE stuff (Oooo yes!), dippy 60's singers like Connie Francis, Annette Funicello and Andy Williams (try not to hurl!), Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones (Ha!), Mantovanni (seriously) Tiki/Lounge/Bachelor Pad-type music and other eclectic stuff you'd just shake your head at in total disbelief!
Horror movies, mostly... ("The Exorcist", the original "TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE", "Evil Dead 2", and the big horror franchises like "Halloween", "Friday the 13th", "Nightmare on Elm Street", "Hellraiser", etc. Also old camp classics by H.G. Lewis, Ted V. Mikels, Bill Rebane, and William Castle) Disaster movies (chiefly the big epics from the '70s such as "Earthquake", "Poseidon Adventure", "Airport '75," etc.), James Bond flicks, "Logan's Run", killer fish sagas (like "Jaws" and all of its sequels and imitators, i.e. "Piranha", "Up From The Depths", "Barracuda", etc.), almost anything DAVID LYNCH("Mulholland Drive" was breathtakingly BRILLIANT), David Cronenberg, "Valley of the Dolls" and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (gotta have my dolls so I can "Sparkle, Neely! Sparkle!"), "The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield" (GENIUS!!!), "GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS" (HILARIOUS!!!!), anything JOHN WATERS (Mr. Mondo Trasho himself! LOVE "Pink Flamingos" and "Female Trouble"), "Peyton Place" (REALLY!), I also dig cheesy, GIMMICK flicks (3-D, Odorama, and anyone remember SENSURROUND!!??), so-bad-they're-good flicks ("Showgirls", anyone?) and generally anything Something Weird/Psychotronic in nature!
"The Brady Bunch" in any shape or form (spin-offs, reunions, the variety show, etc.), "TWIN PEAKS" was the BEST SHOW ever. I really love '60s TV ("Batman", "Bewitched", "The Munsters", "Addams Family", "The Monkees", etc.) and, of course, "Gilligan's Island" (MaryAnn or Ginger? Who CARES!? Lovey Howell had it going on! Ha! She was WONDERFUL!), all-things Sid & Marty Kroft ("H.R. Pufnstuf", "Land of the Lost", "The Lost Saucer" to name a few), "Partridge Family", "Dark Shadows", oh my god "DYNASTY" (the FUNNIST show EVER), "Knot's Landing", "Charlie's Angels", "Pee Wee's Playhouse", and "Desperate Housewives" is pretty much the only thing I watch on TV any more.
My favorite book is probably "To Kill A Mockingbird". I love horror novels, of course, with Stephen King and Dean Koontz being my favorites. I am super curious about my new MySpace "fiend" Scott Nicholson and his horror epics (I've only read his "Thank You For The Flowers" and "The Red Church" so far). Hmmm... I love disaster novels. Of course, I've read almost all of the James Bond books. I've read everything by Jacqueline Susann (Don't laugh!) and Grace Metalious (Really!). Dennis Hensley's "Misadventures in the (213)" and "Screening Party" were both wonderfully fun. I enjoy the work of my novelist friends (away from MySpace) Victor ("The Man From C.A.M.P.") Banis, Thom Racina and R.W. Clinger. I also enjoy the classics now and again (Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.). I recently finished "Blue World" by Robert McCammon, "Blood Fever: by Charlie Higson which is the 2nd book in the new Young James Bond series, "THE INFORMERS" by Brett Easton Ellis, and, believe it or not, "THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB BOOK" about the original Mouseketeers (I interviewed one recently and ordered the book to help with the article...it came to late, of course, so I read it AFTER the fact...) I'm currently reading "RHETT BUTLER'S PEOPLER" by Donald McCaig (REALLY!--I'm reading it in honor of my late Grandmother. GWTW was her favorite--but this new book sucks), "HEARTS IN ATLANTIS" (finally) by Stephen King, and first Vampire novel in the English language---the penny dreadful classic "Varney the Vampire or the Feast of Blood" (it's HUGE and will take me forever to read...)
My mom