Hanging out with the dangerously funny people (with vodka tonic in hand), artistic endeavors, my wee beasties. I'm on a mission to learn enough Italian to make myself understood to Italians who hate Americans. In Italy.
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I'd like to meet:
Elvis Costello (genius genius genius), Eddie Izzard, John Lydon, Nick Lowe, Tim Burton--I like people who are surprising and a little bit "off"--
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Music:
Older stuff from the Cult, the Alarm, the Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Jam, Sex Pistols. New stuff from Black Tie Dynasty, Burden Brothers, Roger, Radiant. Then there are the classics: David Bowie, the Cure, NoodleWater, DM, KMFDM, Ministry, Jeff Buckley, Yes, Neil Finn, Brian Setzer, Tool/Perfect Circle, Elvis Costello, the Smiths, Nick Lowe, The Rev. H. Heat, Rush, and everything the inestimably original Mr. Munden does--a bit of which you may enjoy below:
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Movies:
So I Married an Axe Murderer, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brazil, 200 Cigarettes, Time Bandits, The Dark Crystal, Dogma, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Rushmore, Sleepy Hollow, Vampire's Kiss, Shaun of the Dead, Pist--The Filth and the Fury, anything with Cary Grant in it, Eddie Izzard shows and Tim Burton stuff. Whatever it is, I'll watch it, but if it's bad, be prepared for "rude" soundbites.
Television:
I really miss the Saturday-morning underwear parties watching Pee Wee's Playhouse and sharing pop tarts.
Books:
A Prayer for Owen Meany, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time, Please Kill Me. John Irving, David Sedaris, Mark Frost...but I'm a book geek, so I'll read damn near anything. Except romance novels. Yick.
Heroes:
In grade school I worshipped my "stepdad" (the bio-mom's husband...well, one of em) b/c he would stuff an entire hamburger in his mouth just to make me laugh, attempted to teach me how to play guitar, and also would let me pick out any album I wanted in his studio. I still have all of them, all weird stuff like Gino Vanelli, Bay City Rollers, and the soundtrack to "Car Wash" labeled "PROMOTIONAL COPY ONLY." Since then I've been a little harder to impress, so just Elvis Costello, people who come to the rescue without having to be asked and those who can apologize and mean it--I've found shockingly few and far between of the latter two...