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Dr. Thunder

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About Me

Soulless, sadomasochistic adrenaline junkie.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Ganesha, Shiva, C'Thullhu, Ernest Borgnine.

Music:

DMX, Dean Martin and the soundtrack from Conan the Barbarian. And that's it.

Movies:

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Winter 07:
Urban Cowboy
Elf
Kill, Baby, Kill
Ricordati di Me
Beowulf
Fall 07:
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Southland Tales
Princess Bride
The. Um. Three Amigos
Zeitgeist (Watch it now!)
Control
The Hotel Chevalier
The Darjeeling Limited
Tommy Boy
Eastern Promises
Summer 07:
Okie Noodling
America: Freedom to Fascism
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Superbad
Rescue Dawn
Eagle Vs. Shark
Knocked Up
INLAND EMPIRE

Books:

The Key to Solomon's Key - Lon Milo DuQuette; My Crowd - Charles Addams; The World of Chas Addams - Charles Addams; Everything You Know About God is Wrong - Russ Kick; Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney; The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold; The Replacements: All Over but the Shouting - Jim Walsh; Blondie: Unseen 1976-1980 - Robert Bayley; Viking Portable - Ralph Waldo Emerson; Meeting Evil - Thomas Berger; Hey Rube - HST; House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski; Lords of Chaos - Moynihan & Soderlind; Feast of Snakes (again) - Harry Crews; Whores: An Oral Biography of Jane's Addiction; Darker than You Think - Jack Williamson; Sloth - Gilbert Hernandez; The Feud - Thomas Berger; The Badge - Jack Webb; Catching the Big Fish - David Lynch; Kubrick - Thomas Allen Nelson; The Batman Handbook - Scott Beatty; Kino Delirium: The films of Guy Maddin - Caelum Vatnsdal; The Modern Cartoonist - Daniel Clowes; Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson; Digital Diaries - Natacha Merritt; The Magus - John Fowles; Genealogy of Morals; The Ever-Present Origin - Jean Gebser; From the Atelier Tovar: Selected Writings - Guy Maddin; Pervert in the Pulpit: Morality in the Works of David Lynch - Jeff Johnson; Generation Hex - Jason Louv; The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin - P.D. Ouspensky; Staring at Sound (The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips) - Jim DeRogatis; Magick without Tears - Aleister Crowley; Freakonomics - Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner; American Scream: the Bill Hicks Story - Cynthia True; Big Dead Place - Nicholas Johnson; Kubrick - John Baxter.

My Blog

MIXED BIZNESS 01.14.08

SIMIAN PROSTITUTIONExists, apparently. Can simian marriage counseling be far behind?BIG BROTHER SUFFERS PHONE DISCONNECTIONMaybe the FBI should have a kegger this weekend, and charge two bucks a head ...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 06:43:00 PST

HERE IT COMES

I just got a call from a long-time Ron Paul supporter informing me that news of racist comments in one of his newsletters is all over the TV.I looked it up on the computer, and apparently some guy fro...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:15:00 PST

"BAN POLLING" AND OTHER WAYS TO FIX AMERICA

America has the lowest voter turn-out of any Democracy in the World.Which is not a big deal. It's not like anybody ever died so that we'd be able to sit around not voting.Fucking hell.Maybe it's just ...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:33:00 PST

HORSERACE 08

The other day I saw Time Magazine sitting on a table. I think it was the Dec. 17th issue.I picked it up.They had a chart in it.The chart was supposed to help you figure out where the 08 candidates sta...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:22:00 PST

WHAT AM I DOING IN A KAYAK? GOOD QUESTION.

Maybe you are a Flight of the Conchords fan. Maybe you have already watched most or all of the episodes of the their HBO TV show.And maybe, like me, you were totally unaware of the HBO special they di...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:44:00 PST

OH, BENAZIR: BHUTTO DROPS SOME FREAKY SHIT, DIES 7 WEEKS LATER

I've been meaning to post this since the weekend, but with the holiday and everything.....Anyway, there's a clip been going around and you may have seen it... In case you haven't, take a look.Just a f...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:14:00 PST

MY TOP FOURTEEN TOP-WHATEVER LISTS OF 2007

They say that compulsive list-making is a sure sign of impending nervous breakdown. I'd like to see a list of the top ten reasons why that is true, but if it is, then the journalists of America are go...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:20:00 PST

TCB 07 - WRAP UP: MEMPHIS FOIL

Right, so, I guess I have to do this because I said I would.After our last TCB 07 entry this is what happened: We went shopping on music row in Nashville and picked up some presents for our friends ba...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:11:00 PST

LIFE: AT ITS BEST

So you're working, and you think you're out of cigarettes. And you don't wanna go to the store, and you're dreading it, and you think there might be another pack of smokes lying around here somewhere....
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:06:00 PST

MIXED BIZNESS 12.13.07

WHO PAUL?Is Ron Paul the first sane man to run for President in my lifetime? Is he being marginalized by the mainstream media? Is a vote ever wasted if you vote for the candidate who most expresses yo...
Posted by Dr. Thunder on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:54:00 PST