TURN ONS: Hot Wheels, Reading, writing, touring with my band, caffeine, playing the drums, walkin, killing hobos, snapping bubble wrap, diversity: especially when I'm not wearing pants, rubbing ointment on my rashes, my wife Allison, pointing out other peoples flaws, picking scabs, comic books, graphic novels, reading books about serial killers, namin’ nuts, wearing girls pants, oreo ice cream, folding my wife's bras, shakin' the shit out of babies, reading the Week, spending money, Conquistador paintings, NPR, makin’ sweet love, those Geico "caveman" commercials, watching horror movies close to Halloween, Dupar's Restaurant and Bakery. TURN OFFS: Matchbox, Sports, people that try to get me to dance, meetings, People that want to "jam", "rock-a-billy" guys who drive PT Cruisers, people who think they're hot when they're not, unnecessarily loud people, being called a "fat fuck", users, scientology, getting a colonoscopy, people that have opinions about everything, planes that smell like subways, singing hippies, the lack of left hand turn traffic lights in California.
INTERESTING FACTS: My first word was "yuck", I developed an abcess on my lung when I was 7, I have a deformed right ear, I take Prozac, my step-father was president of the clown association, I once wanted to be a mortician.
I'd like to meet:
Smart, open-minded people. Maybe a few folks from the San Fernando Valley. As far as famous people go...I'd like to meet any of the people on my heroes list (except the dead ones..gross).
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Music:
Guided By Voices, Tracy and the Plastics, David Bowie, Insta, Jinx Titanic, Ramones, Black Flag, Vaselines, Blonde Redhead, MC5, AC/DC, Iggy and the Stooges, the Queers, Yo La Tengo, Verbena, The Stylistics, Devil Dogs, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Elfpower, Beatles, the Who, Mudhoney, Red Kross, My Bloody Valentine, the Seeds, Le Tigre, Apples in Stereo, Electric Six, Ivy, White Stripes, Nirvana, The Fiery Furnaces,Abraham Lincoln, Sparklehorse, Husker Du, Velvet Underground, the La's, New Pornographers, Bastro, Cosmic Psychos, Descendents, Half Japanese,Love Kit, Kate Bush, The Gories, Grifters, Gun Club, PJ Harvey, Modern Lovers, The Sonics, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, El Smasho,Catpower, New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, The Weirdos, Crime, Beck, Prince, The Cardigans, Elastica, The Dirtbombs, Bongwater, Big Star, Buzzcocks, Stereolab, Mission of Burma, Richard Hell, Joy Division, New Order, Kraftwerk, Pavement, Liz Phair, Burton Cummings, Missing Persons, Pussy Galore, Television, 13th Floor Elevators, Dinosaur Jr, Black Sabbath, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Cure, Lush, Laughing Hyenas, Scratch Acid, Tom Waits, Galaxie 500, Bjork, Urge Overkill, The Dictators, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Kiss, Interpol, Demolition Dollrods, Air, the Fugs, Flunk, Nick Drake, 5,6,7,8's, William Shatner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tegan and Sara, Burt Bacharach, the Kills, Puffy Amayumi, Sufjan Stephens, Daniel Johnston, Hazil Adkins, Neko Case, the Seeds, the Frogs, and that song "Fish Heads"....
Movies:
Taxi Driver, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Graduate, Roman Holiday, Good Fellas, Raging Bull, Man With the Golden Arm, Anything by Woody Allen, The Deer Hunter, Lolita, Hope and Glory, Dr Strangelove, Apocolypse Now, Ben Hur, Deliverance, Bullitt, Breakfast at Tiffanies, Badlands, Fargo, Boogie Nights, Nosferatu 1979, The Exorcist, Virgin Suicides, The Godfather, Bridge on the River Kwai, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Midnight Express, A Thousand Clowns, A Clockwork Orange, Harold and Maude, It's a Wonderful Life, Wings of Desire, The Great Santini, American Movie, Midnight Cowboy, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Conversation, Lust for Life, Dog Day Afternoon, Crumb, On The Beach, All Quiet on the Western Front, Wild in the Streets, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Kill, Gone With the Wind, Memento, The Manchurian Candidate, Double Indemnity, Scarface, Bonnie and Clyde, Freebie and the Bean, Jaws, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Metropolis, Diner, My Brothers Keeper, The Jerk, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Woodstock, Don't Look Back, Carnal Knowledge, Ran, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, Lord of the Rings, High Noon, Niagra Niagra, Born Yesterday, Catch 22, Easy Rider, Psycho, Il Postino, Being John Malkovich, Citizen Kane, The Shining, Pollack, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tennenbaums, Waiting For Guffman, Best in Show, Spinal Tap, Swimming to Cambodia, I Shot Andy Warhol, The French Connection, Do the Right Thing, My Life as a Dog, Patton, Encino Man, Spartacus, Run Lola Run, Reservoir Dogs, Rosemarys Baby, In the Heat of the Night, Magnolia, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Ghost World, American Splendor, Lilies of the Field, On the Waterfront, Diner, Office Space, 12 Angry Men, Cinema Paradiso, Prick Up Your Ears, The Life Aquatic, Garden State, Napoleon Dynamite, Donnie Darko, Shaun of the Dead, Caligula, The Grudge, Play Misty For Me, Sin City, Sideways, Closer, The Filth and the Fury (sex Pistols), anything by Russ Myers, The Decline of Western Civilization 1 & 2, Team America, Kung Fu Hustle, Dig, Head, Audition, New York Doll, Capote, V For Vendetta, A History of Violence,Incident at Loch Ness, Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, Shopgirl, An Inconvenient Truth, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You For Smoking, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Borat, etc...
Television:
South Park, Twilight Zone, Insomniac, The Daily Show, The Simpsons, Bands Reunited, QAF, Queer Eye, Nightstalker, Night Gallery, Starsky and Hutch, Good Times, The Daily Show, David Letterman, Conan, Sanford and Son, Thats Incredible, Real People, Inside the Actors Studio, SNL, What Not To Wear, Project Runway, Howard Stern, The Surreal World, American Idol (first few episodes), Dog the Bounty Hunter,Aqua Teen Hunger Force, 101 Things Taken From the Human Body, The Colbert Report, My Fair Brady, the Dog Whisperer, Gene Simmons: Family Jewels, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Flavor of Love, Celebrity Paranormal Project.
Books:
The Master and Margarita, Party Monster, High Treason, Crime and Punishment, The Neon Wilderness, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Requiem for a Dream, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Catcher in the Rye, My Childhood, Psychotic Reactions and Carberator Dung, Hellfire, The Tin Drum, A Confederacy of Dunces, Sister Carrie, In Cold Blood, Stiff, Moon, Helter Skelter, The Executioner’s Song, The Plague, The Last Temptation of Christ, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Jungle, Waiting for the End of the World, Blue Highways, I Claudius, The Rachel Papers, Junky, Post Office, Wuthering Heights, The Petty Demon, Lincoln, Geek Love, Invisible Man, The Great Gatsby, Moby Dick, Catch 22, High Fidelity, The Haunting of Hill House, On the Road, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Tropic of Cancer, Song of Solomon, all Edgar Allan Poe, My Name is Asher Lev, Portnoy’s Complaint, Anna Karenina, Welcome to the Monkey House, I Will Bear Witness, Slaughterhouse 5, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Black Boy, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, Maus, The Nick Tosches Reader, The Other Hollywood, the entire Marvel Essentials series, etc....
Heroes:
Keith Moon, Gene Hackman, Stan Lee, Robert DeNiro, Jack Kirby, Greg Ginn, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis, Stephen Colbert, Dr. Cory Cookingham (he saved my life more than once), Lavergne LaFountain, Steve Burns (my musical mentor), and of course my parents Yvonne and Frank.
