Mod stuff, plants, hookahs, djing old records, Diabolik Club, Huggabaloos.com , Tangerine POP Design , Pop Gear clothes , space age , '50s/'60s/'70s design, op art, art nouveau, artists like Aubrey Beardsley, Vladimir Kush, Lee Conklin, Magritte, Robert Williams, Marijke Koger, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat, and Todd Schorr, films (new wave, foreign, classic, arty but not too arty, etc.), old cartoons and animation stuff like Grant Munro and Norman McLaren, history, politics, Piedmont Ave., cartoonists like Jack Cole, George Herriman, Basil Wolverton, and Antonio Prohias, modern/mid-century design and architecture, some tiki stuff thanks to Irene.
I'd like to meet:
People who've discovered who they are before finding a subculture in adulthood and anyone NOT looking for celebrity status on Myspace.
Music:
'60s/'70s (mostly soul), funk, freakbeat, psyche, 50's/60's country and the alt-country rock stuff, jazz stuff, blues, latin and latin funk, rocksteady & ska, stuff with pedal steel, sitars, horns, finger-pluckin' geetar, and a funky BOOTY-BUTT beat!
Some stuff I like: Van Morrison, Tyrone Davis, Howard Tate, Bob Dylan, The Band, Beck, Smiths, Nick Drake, Clarence Carter, Kinks, Wasted Days, Hepcat, Kaleidoscope (US & UK), Terry Reid, Dave Pike, Loved Ones, Monarchs, Mover, Nick Rossi Set, Byrds (especially the later stuff!), Flying Burrito Bros., Temptations, Curtis Mayfield, The Impressions, Small Faces, The Action, Cornershop, Big Star, early Parliament, The Spinners, early Kool & the Gang, Jimmy Cliff, early Merle Haggard, Shuggie Otis, Poco, Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Dave Mason, Taj Mahal, RJD2, Gene Clark, Rance Allen Group, Tim Hardin, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Twin Engine, Joe Byrd (Field Hippies & U.S.A.), The Jam, De La Soul, Donny Hathaway, The Gosdin Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, The Maytals, Frankie Miller, The Dillards, Jimmy McGriff, Doug Sahm, Chris Farlowe, Hank Williams, The Seldom Scene, The Link Quartet, The Smoke, The Zombies, Colin Blunstone, Fleur De Lys, Jimmy McGriff, Herbie Mann, Beastie Boys, Stereoscope Jerk Explosion, Karen Dalton, Sharon Jones, Nicole Willis, Pete Molinari, James Hunter, RONNIE LANE!!
Current records I'm diggin'(click the links!):
Movies:
Cinema Paradiso, Stolen Kisses, Antoine et Colette, Life Is Beautiful, American Beauty, Manhattan, Royal Tennenbaums, Pieces of April, In the Company of Men, 400 Blows, Apocalypse Now, Star Wars (the originals!), Annie Hall, Godfather I & II, Shadows, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Lord of the Rings, Underground, Station Agent, Eternal Sunshine..., Dinner with Andre, The Deadly Spawn, Evil Dead 1 & 2, Battle of Algiers, Suspiria, Hills Have Eyes, The Stuff, The Usual Suspects, Eraserhead, Sexy Beast, Men With Guns, Adaptation, Mean Streets, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dancer in the Dark, Re-Animator, sex, lies, and videotape, Clerks, Talk To Her, Cannibal Holocaust, Allegro non Troppo, Cat Soup, The Wicker Man, The Thin Man series, Universal monster movies, the original Godzilla series, good/bad zombie flicks
Television:
Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Freak & Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos, Newsradio, Family Guy, Fawlty Towers, Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, The Office (UK), Coupling, Sanford and Son, Danger Mouse, Good Times, Arrested Development, My Name Is Earl, Lost, Danger Mouse, Buffy and Angel (yes, that's right), and tons of old cartoons!
Books:
The Prophet, 100 Years of Solitude, The Painted Bird, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Alice In Wonderland, On the Road, Devils of Loudun, Revolt of the Cockroach People, Oz books, 60's/'70s underground comix, What's the Matter with Kansas, Conquest of Cool, Jack Keroauc, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Paul Bowles, Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, Thomas Frank, Jorge Luis Borges, Michael Moorcock, House of Leaves, magazines like Mojo, Uncut, Wax Poetics, The Baffler journal, Dwell, Harpers, Juxtapos (before it went monthly), Modernism, Atomic Ranch, Imbibe
