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Quitty

In a word, anarcho-tyranny.

About Me

His credits are exemplary and include such stalwarts as "Murphy Brown" and "Murder She Wrote". You'll also find his name on evergreens like "Growing Pains", "Alien Nation", "Spenser: for Hire", "Major Dad", "Columbo", "Reba" and the ABC hit "Rodney".

My Interests

Maybelle, Ichiro, music, fire, fringe politics, theology, sour cream, stories about things that happen at the co-op or in court, animals, children, mis-spelled words, syncretism.

I'd like to meet:

Stills began supplementing his trademark wardrobe of football jerseys with military fatigues, insinuating that he was a deep-cover CIA agent.

Music:

right this second: Howlin' Wolf, Blue Oyster Cult, Exodus. all ways: Louvin Brothers, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Ramones, early Bee Gees, Carter Family, Byrds/Gene Clark, Flamin' Groovies, DMZ, Bo Diddley, the Gun Club, early Slayer, Siege, Ballroom / Saggitarius / Millennium / Curt Boettcher, Little Richard, Roy Acuff, Black Sabbath, Repulsion, Stooges, VON, Maddox Brothers and Rose, Judas Priest, Conway Twitty, Rock 'n Roll Trio, Ronnie Self, Raspberries, George Jones, Chuck Berry, the Move, John Lee Hooker, Celtic Frost, Larry Williams, Mississippi John Hurt, Jimmy Reed, Black Flag. ---------Songwriters---------: Barry/Kim, Mann/Weil, Boyce/Hart, Leiber/Stoller, Lennon/McCartney, Chinn/Chapman, Felice/Boudleaux Bryant, Goffin/King, Vanda/Young, brothers Gibb, Gene Clark, Otis Blackwell, Harold Arlen, Mort Shuman, Doc Pomus, Dylan, Bob Crewe, Harlan Howard, Graham Gouldman, Joey Levine, Al Anderson.

Movies:

Wizard of Oz, Rosemary's Baby, The Bicycle Thief, Manson, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fantastic Voyage, Suspiria, Gymkata, Hairspray, Pootie Tang, Of Human Bondage, Road House, River's Edge, Harold and Maude, Big Top Pee Wee, Triumph of the Will, This is Spinal Tap, Napoleon Dynamite, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Holy Mountain, Doodle Bug's hair soliloquy from Cleopatra Jones.

Television:

How it's Made, Jeopardy, Baseball Tonight, Simpsons, the Daily Show, Brady Bunch, Oobi, Dawson-era Family Feud, anything of the violence-caught-on-video variety, the shows I make up for Ichiro to star in.

Books:

right this second: Siege: The Writings of James Mason.Darwinism Dominance and Democracy, Guns Germs and Steel, The Master and Margarita, Living My Life, the Divine Comedy, Hollywood Babylon, Last Train to Memphis, James and the Giant Peach, A Confederacy of Dunces, This is Your Brain on Music, Remembering Satan, The Family, Please Kill Me, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, all Elaine Pagels, Treblinka, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Soledad Brother, The River of Doubt, Tales of the Brothers Gibb.

Heroes:

Malcolm Young.

My Blog

for the Halloween-curious

Well, I fought the good fight for Huey Lewis & the News or Hall & Oates (me Hall, Dave Oates), but the Halloween band this year is gonna be Blue Oyster Cult. Now it's true that I was holding o...
Posted by Quitty on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:45:00 PST

Beard = Loofa

Yes, beard does equal loofa, and I had no idea of that simple fact. Why did no one ever tell me? I have enough beard now for the loofa effect, but probably not enough to satisfy the koran's rigorous s...
Posted by Quitty on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:53:00 PST

The Bike People

I've never hated on the bike people really, but I did think "One Less Car" and the shorts and all that was hilarious. Still, I wound up with my driver's license suspended, and where I live is a short ...
Posted by Quitty on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:34:00 PST

Only If You Care About Baseball (everyone else stand to the side please)

I do not recognize Jose Vidro by his birth name anymore, I call him Poonis Goon. I don't know that you'd want to hear the explanation for that, besides the point of which he just sucks, he makes me so...
Posted by Quitty on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:57:00 PST

Pops

I feel like I've heard every one of my dad's stories hundreds of times, and then today he randomly lays this one on me."The worst fight I had in the navy was this one time, my buddy and I were just si...
Posted by Quitty on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:13:00 PST

If You Get Hip to This Kinda Trip

OK we're home. You're the stars! You people out there! You're the ones who make me come home alive.I gotta take up from the last blog just in order to set things straight vis a vis Chicago:1) Zespy is...
Posted by Quitty on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:35:00 PST

You Gotta Wash Your Ass

My goodness, did I really leave the whole of the east coast uncommented on? Is it because we all (minus Grant) caught the bug in Providence that deadens the mind and snottens the body? But I digress.W...
Posted by Quitty on Sat, 03 May 2008 12:32:00 PST

Raleigh Follies

Well we barely escaped Charlotte. The band with songs regarding and/or titled double anal, stupid bitch and so forth was predictably interminable. That's right -- we are the kind of band that uses sev...
Posted by Quitty on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:59:00 PST

Charlotte the Harlot

A leetle note fom the road...It's a Sunday night in Charlotte and there's a band playing who has songs about double anal, I think that actually may have been the title of something. But it's come up m...
Posted by Quitty on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:29:00 PST

We Prance Across the Land

Well Nudity’s on tour, we have completed the first four shows, we got the motor runnin’ and we head out on the highway just in time for... three days off in a row? Well forgive me if Los A...
Posted by Quitty on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:22:00 PST