Strumming my thang (guitar, that is), film, creative writing, reading, pain and humiliation, chess - especially bughouse, cooking,drinking good coffee...
Black & Blue - clip from 1988. A band I used ta play guitar with ...Bird from WWXXIV, Kenny from Itchy Rat/ Panadolls etc. and Andrew from Progression Cult/Dr. Fruitworld etc. ...it's a bit of a laugh
Hell Crab City - some live shit from The Empire Hotel:
Hell Crab City - more live shit from The Annandale when we played with the Holy Curse and The Crusaders
Okay so here goes ... MC5, Stooges, Radio Birdman, The Celibate Rifles, The New Christs, Rocky Erickson, The Splatterheads, Zeke, Tank, The Posies, The Dirty Three, Tricky Woo, The Nils, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Motorhead, Beasts of Bourbon, Radiohead, The B-Movie Rats, Red Kross, The D4, The Crusaders, Black Sabbath, Turbonegro, Gluecifer, Bored!, The Seeds, White Flag, The Dickies, Brother Brick, The Damned, The Ramones, Asteroid B612, The Powdermonkeys ...well you probably know the score by now...
Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Lebowski (...ahhhh fuckit anything by the Cohens), Down By Law, Evil Dead I II III, A Night On Earth, The Thin Red Line, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Three Kings, Leaving Las Vegas, On The Waterfront, Ed Wood, Delicatessan, Children of the Lost City, Cape Fear (original version), Requiem For A Dream, Chinatown, A Clockwork Orange, The Hill, The Princess Bride, Brazil, Withnail & I, Wages of Fear, Five Easy Pieces, Swingers, Donnie Darko, Barfly, Citizen Kane, Beyond The Mat, Insomnia (Norwegian version), Mick Foley's Greatest Hits & Misses, most pre-Hollywood Jackie Chan, Anything ECW!!! (ok so that's not strictly movies) .... look I could go on for ages with this list. Maybe I'd better stop here ...
Rupert Murdoch blows ... Fox is the Great Satan ... Little Britain flicks my switch lately as does the Glasshouse...oh and Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David is god...otherwise TV blows except for good documentaries & current affairs programs- ABC or SBS. I am boycotting Murdoch's cable networks and free to air commercial TV stations with their so-called reality shite; the viewing of is akin to languishing in a hot tub full of fresh, warm turds.
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. or Ray Bradbury, anything by John Steinbeck though Cannery Row and The Grapes of Wrath are favourites, Last Exit To Brooklyn, A Clockwork Orange, All The Pretty Horses, Still Life With Woodpecker, Goat, Stranger in a Strange Land, John Updike's "Rabbit" series, Misery, The Stand, Not Happy John, Stupid White Men, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Down & Dirty Pictures.
The Panadolls - I Feel Like You Look clip ...not really heroes :-)