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katz

!BLEH!

About Me

"To know me... is to vomit all over me..."
An aries on the cusp with pisces... beware!!!

My Interests

Musick, photography, various punk rock band projects (hated principles, gorgonized dorks , humanextermination project), DIY 4-track analog musick recording, punk rock record collecting & trading, rocket science, hanging out at punk and underground venues, dancing at local goth, deathrock and industrial dance clubs , etc... I have also done my stint at deathrock/punk/wave club DJ'ing, as well (spinning at: Ghoul School , Hollywood Babylon, funeral, Forbidden Zone, God's Zoo, Club Isolation L.A., Drop Dead Festival 2006 NYC , etc.)... stuff like that... If you want more info, drop me a line.

I'd like to meet:

Human beings... especially those with a brain. Is that so much to ask? Well, there are those I would automatically delete, because I have absolutely no use for them, so these types should definitely not bother: ABSOLUTELY NO normals/mundanes (you people scare me), NO webcam/stripper chicks (I've reported every one of you fakes as spam), NO insurance pimping guys (fuck off), NO girl pimping "stop smoking kits" (I don't smoke), NO home morgage weasels (not likely to be able to afford a house), NO West Africans and their "oil minister" spams (as if i don't get enough of those in my regular inbox), NO russian mailorder brides (no thanx, I'm poor too), NO spammers and phishers (you all need to be viciously murdered and completely evicerated in a vivisection lab), etc... You all can go eat shit and die now!

Music:

Punk rock, deathrock, hardcore (and other extreme sounds that ends in "core", cept for emo... emo? bleh!), harsh noise, etc... It was 1979 when i first got into punk rock, and i've been lingering around and stinking up the scene ever since. I'm currently semi-retired from the zine world. I was formerlly a staff writer & photographer for the now defunct Flipside Magazine , from 1984~2000. Also have contributed photos for zines and websites in the past, such as: Maximum Rock 'N' Roll , Ink Disease, WDC Period, razorcake.com , releasethebats.info , drunkrockers , & many others. I've also done quite a bit of live band photography, and have in the past gotten some of my photos used in the record and cd releases by the likes of: Septic Death, Minutemen, Psycho, Raw Power, Excel, Agnostic Front, Red Scare, Wolfpack, Aggression, Rat Pack, and many more.

Movies:

Not much of a movie buff, really, but a few really good flicks i've seen were "Crumb", "Amores Perros", "Welcome To Sarajevo", "Wings Of Desire", etc...

Television:

Sometimes I watch way too much TV, but I've cut back alot recently... oh well, my brain's pretty much reduced to a shriveled up lump that looks like reagan's corpse, anyway. I do have my fave guilty viewing pleasures, like: sketch comedies, brit comedies (monty python, the young ones, ab fab, blackadder, red dwarf, father ted, rowan atkinson, jennifer saunders, etc.), sci-fi channel, cop dramas, history channel, comedy central, cartoon network's [adult swim], the simpsons, bravo, animal planet, huell howser, victory garden, iron chef, etc...

Books:

Do musick zines count? Naw... I haven't really read much anything lately... not even musick zines.

Heroes:

Pretty much noone... well, maybe cept Les Paul, who invented the first solid body electric guitar!!! Rock on, Les!!!

My Blog

My Pre-Cinco De Mayo Weekend Adventures!

MY PRE-CINCO DE MAYO WEEKEND NIGHTS AT DAS BUNKER ON 05-02-08 (below) & WOLFPAK/M.R.X. ON 05-03-08 (bottom)!Friday, May the 2nd I went over to Das Bunker to get out my weekly cardiovascular workou...
Posted by katz on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:56:00 PST

WAKE THE DEAD FESTIVAL 2 - hollywood, ca - 04/26/08 - pix galore!

WAKE THE DEAD FESTIVAL04-26-08@ Safari Sam's in Hollywood, CAUPDATE: review now up at Midnight Calling Webzine!  Check it out!  Cemetary WhispersMagick DaggersAntiworldThe Deep EyndeEx-VotoS...
Posted by katz on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:28:00 PST

Cinema Strange & The Deadfly Ensemble - 01/19/08 - Chinatown

It was in the seedy end of Chinatown where many of us would converge at Roberto's for either Eterno or Wolfpak/MRX, but tonight was a special night... two of the most innovative of westcoast bands wou...
Posted by katz on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:33:00 PST

More old pix archive - FiendFest 2003 (misfits, damned, dickies, more...)

Here are a bunch of photos that I had taken at FiendFest back in 07-26/27-2003, at The Ventura Theatre in Ventura and The Grove in Anaheim.  These were some of the last pictures I took with ...
Posted by katz on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:11:00 PST

Recent Christian Death 1334/Burning Image/Death Party show 11/12/07 pix

Here are some recent pictures I took at the Christian Death 1334 show at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, CA. on 11-12-07.Opening the night was the death tinged punk rock of Death PartyUp next ...
Posted by katz on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:08:00 PST

Mr. Eyeball’s life in kitty bondage! LOL

just when mr. eyeball thought it was safe while napping, evil forces make their machinations known...KITTY BONDAGE!!!HARNESS AND LEASH!!!YES, IT'S KITTY BONDAGE!!! ...
Posted by katz on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:26:00 PST

some oldie moldies from my infernal crypt... (aka old pix!)

HERE ARE SOME OLD PICS FROM MY CRYPT OF PIX FROM AGES AGO, BACK WHEN PHOTOS WERE TAKEN ON BIG BULKY FILM LOADED CAMERAS...  I HOPE YOU ENJOY THEM!45 Grave @ The Music Machine - circa 198245 Grave...
Posted by katz on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:52:00 PST

the kitty cat is just now over a year old!

here are the latest pix of mr.eyeball!another year, another cat bath...up in the sky!it's super eyeball!with his super powers he can...sleep on his back...and roll around on his back...and sleep some ...
Posted by katz on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 08:11:00 PST

A Kommunity FK weekend of June 22 & 23! (cool pix!)

This past weekend, the legendary Kommunity FK graced their hometown two nights of classic deathrock punk!  For those in attendance, it was one hell of a show... for those who had missed it, at le...
Posted by katz on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:58:00 PST

Funeral Memorial Day with The Crystelles, feat. Gitane Demone!

HERE ARE SOME PIX OF THE CRYSTELLES, WHEN THEY PERFORMED AT FUNERAL OVER MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!  ENJOY!ENJOY THE SELECTION SEEN HERE!  THEY WILL ALSO APPEAR ON THE FUNERAL WEBSITE, AND THE WH...
Posted by katz on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:19:00 PST