I'd like to meet:

See: music and books sections, to the left --
even the dead folk. Hell, ESPECIALLY the dead folk.

People who aren't full of shit or themselves
(sometimes no difference).

Creative individuals who DO, not just TALK.

Someone who can spark me to be one of the above
(I'm inert without a catalyst).

Any of my MySpace friends whom I haven't met already.

The woman of my dreams.

Music:

Ah, shit, man, where to start?

Bach,
Beethoven
& Bela Bartok;

John McLaughlin,
John Coltrane
& John Lennon

(the holy triumvirates!)

Yoko Ono.

George Harrison's
"It's all too much"
is the most perfect
Beatles song ever
recorded.

Ringo's beat on
"Tomorrow Never Knows".

I buried Paul.

NEIL YOUNG

LOU REED

PATTI SMITH

ZAPPA

Before I go further,
any and all of
my own bands,
present &
past:
GNP: gr0ssesT naTi0nal pr0ducT
The X-HEAD KIDS
PINKIE The STABBER
L0Ckb0dY
SCRUDGE
CLARITY
IDIOBLAST (aka The Bad Shakes)
THE ANAL INFLICTURDS
FUGLY
HEMOGOBLINS
LAMENSTRA
and, last but not least:
A BUNCHA WHITE GUYS WITH BIG DICKS
(and there were only3 of us! RIP, Charlz)

NOW, where was I?....

1.6 Band, 7 Year Bitch (RIP, Stef), 13, 24-7 Spyz, 100 Flowers, 400 Blows, +/-

abc diabolo, John Abercrombie, AC/DC (Bon only, sorry, Bri -- no I'm not), Aerosmith (but only in the 70s), AIDS Wolf*, Jan Akkerman, Alice Cooper (but nothing past "Welcome to my Nightmare"), GG Allin, American Soul Spiders, Amon Duul & Amon Duul II, Laurie Anderson, Angel, Angel Witch, Angelic Upstarts, Angry Samoans, Antiseen, THE APES!!!, Apollo 100, Awesome Color, Atomic Rooster

Bad Company, Bad Brains, Bad Livers, Bad Manners, Bad Posture, Baja Marimba Band, BANG, BarBQ Killers, Battalion of Saints, Bauhaus, Jeff Beck Group, The Big Boys, Birthday Party, Black Cobra, Black Flag, Black Oak Arkansas, Black Sabbath, Blind Faith, Blister Rust, Blood, Bloodrock, Blue Cheer, Blue Humans, Blue Oyster Cult, Blues Magoos, BLURT, "Black" Arthur Blythe, Bowie (but only in the 70s), Borbetomagus, Boris, Born Against*, Bongzilla, Brainbombs, (The Crazy World of) Arthur Brown, BRUTAL JUICE, Sandy Bull, Bunny Brains, Butt Trumpet, Butthole Surfers, Buzzcocks

John Cage, John Cale, Johnny Cash, Can, Captain Beefheart, Captain Beyond, Walter/Wendy Carlos, Cathedral, Charred Remains aka Man Is The Bastard, Cheap Trick (up to a point), Cherubs, Chicago (with Terry Kath), Christian Death (but ONLY with ROZZ -- RIP, baby...), The Clash, Clockhammer, COC with Mike Dean*, Coliseum, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Larry Coryell, Cows, CONTORTIONS, The Cramps, Crass, Los Crudos

Damage (Florida keyboard punk!), The Damned (up to a point), Danava, Daughters, Honey Davis (and Hollyrock, and The Electric Peace), Miles Davis, DDT, The Dead Boys (RIP, Stiv), Dead Child, Dead Confederate, Dead Elvis, Dead Guy, Dead Hippie, Dead Kennedys, DEAD MOON, Death, The Deviants, DEVO (but only up through Freedom of Choice, after which they succumbed to their own theory), The Dickies, The Dictators, the Doors (except "Love Street" and "Touch Me"), Dylan, Dystopia

Einsturzende Neubauten, ELP, Elton John (until he broke up with Bernie Taupin), Eno's "pop" records (Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Another Green World, Before and After Science), Elvis Costello, Elvis Hitler, Roky Erickson in all his myriad incarnations

Fairport Convention, FEAR The Record, Wild Man Fischer, Focus, 45 Grave, Flamin' Groovies, The Flaming Lips live in the late 80s, FLIPPER (RIP, Will), Flesheaters (except "Drag Strip Riot", which SUKT), Focus, Foghat, Frampton's Camel, Free, FRIGHTWIG, Fred Frith, Robert Fripp, Fucking Champs, The FUGS

Glasshouse, Gogol Bordello (hello, Pamela, you Gorgeous Nihilistic Percussionist!), Grand Funk Railroad, Grief, GRIN, The Groundhogs, GUN, The Gun Club, Gut Bank

The Hardons, Harriet the Spy, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harry Pussy, Hawkwind, Heartbreakers (Johnny Thunders and the...), Heartbreakers (Tom Petty and the...), Heavenly Banging Cannon (RIP, Dusty), Richard Hell and the Voidoids (RIP, Mr. Quine), Jimi Hendrix, The Hidden Hand (and anything else Wino's ever done), High on Fire, Allan Holdsworth, Husker Du (but only the SST mat'l), MOOG: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman, Hypocritical Society

Iggy (but only thru "Zombie Birdhouse, sorry man...), The Independents*, Instigators, Integrity, Iron Maiden, Iron Butterfly

The Jam, The James Gang, Keith Jarrett, Jethro Tull, Jesus Lizard (I have 2 rolls of GREAT pix of their show @ the Nick, including a couple of shots of David Yow's wang! -- sure wish I had a scanner!), Elvin Jones, Spike Jones, JUCIFER*

Kansas, Kensington Market, Killdozer, Killing Joke, Kilslug, King Crimson, KISS, KRAAN, Kraftwerk, Kraut, Die Kreuzen, Ernie Krivda, KYLESA

Last Exit, Last Poets, Laughing Hyenas, Led Zep, Life Sentence (with Ray)*, Living Impaired*, Nils Lofgren, Lonely Trailer, Loppybogymi*, Lydia Lunch, Lunachicks

Magma, Mahavishnu Orchestra, MAINHORSE, Manilla Road, Mastodon, MC5, Meatmen, Meat Puppets* (up through Out Our Way), Melt Banana, Melvins, Olivier Messiaen, Lee Michaels, Mingus, Minor Threat, The Molecules*, Monk, MONO, Monoshock, MONOTONIX, Mott the Hoople, Motörhead, The Move, The Murder Junkies* (RIP, GG -- or not, whatever you prefer...), The Music Revelation Ensemble

Naked Lady Wrestlers, Milton Nascimento, Nation of Ulysses, Nausea, New Bomb Turks, New Trolls, New York Dolls, Nile, No Comment, No Trend, Negative Trend, Nomeansno, the Nuge (especially the Amboy Dukes) -- but NOT his politics!

The Obsessed (and anything else Wino's ever done), Carl Orff

Panthers, Pentagram, Pere Ubu, PERVIS, Pink Fairies, Pink Floyd, Plasmatics (RIP, Wendy, I love you and I miss you!), Poison Idea (RIP, Pig), Jean-Luc Ponty, The Pop Group, Francis Poulenc, PRANK RECORDS, The Pretenders, Public Image Ltd. (up thru "Flowers of Romance"), Pulpit Red, Pussy Galore, Peach of Immortality (I saw those last two together at WUXTRY records when it was on 4th Ave South -- there were like four people there, excluding bands and store staff...)

Queen, Quicksilver Messenger Service

Rainbow, Ramones, Rolling Stones, Raped Teenagers, Rapeman, Rat At Rat R, Raw Power, Redd Kross, Red Crayola, Red Fang, Red Transistor, Rites of Spring, Robots in disguise, Rush, RUINS, The Runaways, Leon Russell, George Russell

Sacred Miracle Cave, Saint Vitus, The Saints, Santana (especially once he went jazz, w/McLaughlin & Alice Coltrane), Erik Satie, Schooly D, The Scorpions with Uli Jon Roth, The Selecter, Shakti, The Slits, Society of Morons ("We like maize / in the form / of margarine..."), The Soft Machine (with Robert Wyatt), Space Streakings, Spirit Caravan (and anything else Wino's ever done), SST's whole catalog, SteelPoleBathTub, Steely Dan, Stevie Stiletto (& the Switchblades), Stranglers (again, only the old shit with Hugh Cornwell), Strangulated Beatoffs, Subhumans (Canadian), Subhumans (British), Sufi Mind Game, Super Heroines, Supertramp, Swell Maps, Gabor Szabo, Scrotumgrinder, Suicide, SUN RA

T. REX (except for those last 2 or 3), Talking Heads (except for those last 2 or 3), Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers, Tempest, Thin Lizzy, Tin Huey, Toiling Midgets, Torche, Treepeople, Tub*, The Tubes (pre-MTV), Tuxedomoon, McCOY TYNER

UK Subs, James Blood Ulmer, The Ultimate Spinach, The Undead*, The Undertones (mostly), Unsane, Urge Overkill, EARLY Uriah Heep, USAisamonster, UT

Edgard Varese, Velvet Underground, The Ventures, the Vibrators, Louis Vierne, Voivod, Vomit Spots, VOXPOP

Muddy Waters, War, The Whip, Whitehouse, The Who, Davey Williams, Hank Williams, Jonny Winter, THE WIPERS, Witchcraft, Wire, WÃœRM, Robert Wyatt (and his Soft Machine material)

X, Iannis Xenakis, XTC, X-Ray Spex

Yes, Yello, Dwight Yoakam, Young Widows

The Zeet Band, Atilla Zoller, Zombies, Zoogz Rift, ZZ Top

this is gettin silly now, I'm just frickin rambling.... The upshot -- Does it have guts? Does it have balls? Does it have soul? Is it original? Does it make the masses sick when confronted with it? Then it's probably right up my alley.... But bear in mind nearly ALL these cats have put out something shitty at one time or another; I'm not sayin any of them are perfect -- also, there are about a thousand others I have not mentioned coz it's 4:30 am & this is ridiculous -- come see/hear my collection if ya wanna know what cranks me up! I have more records than I have body hairs!

(* indicates bands with whom mine have played over the years.)

Movies:

Runaway Train. Easy Rider. Vanishing Point (orig.). Rollerball (orig.). HEAD (The Monkees' movie). Apocalypse Now. Night of the Hunter. Taxi Driver. The River's Edge. The Traveling Executioner. Hammersmith Is Out. Phantom of the Paradise. Suspiria, and any other Dario Argento flix. I love that scene in "Invasion of the Saucer Men" where the alien gets in a fight with a cow.... Chinatown. Wicker Man (With Christopher Lee, NOT the god-damned re-make!!!!!). Angel Heart. Zacharia. Zabriskie point. Night of the Living Dead ('68). Dawn of the Dead ('78). Texas Chainsaw Massacre (again, the original, please). King of New York. Bloodsucking Freaks. Assault on Precinct 13 (THE ORIGINAL JOHN CARPENTER! FUCKABUNCHA REMAKES!). Year of the Horse. Theremin. URGH! A Music War. D.O.A.: a Rite of Passage. The Decline of Western Civilization. That scene at the end of "Get Crazy" where Lou Reed finally makes it to the wake but the party's over so he sings "I have always loved my baby sister" to that guy's baby sister.... Eraserhead. Female Troubles. Pink Flamingos. Polyester. Desperate Living. Any Hitchcock. Woody Allen. Monty Python. she-male porn. Dead Man. Repo Man. Donnie Darko (Thanks, Mad!). Trilogy of Terror. House of Crazies (aka "Asylum"). Tetsuo. THX 1138. The Fisher King. Fantasia.... KEANU REEVES MUST DIE. AND TAKE CHRISTIAN SLATER WITH HIM.

Television:

Haven't had one for over 2 years now, don't miss anything but the Simpsons. and Family Guy. and Conan O' Brien. I did get addicted to "House" and a couple of other shows right before my TV died, though. I wish they'd bring back "Greg the Bunny". If Seth Skyfire goes to WWE Smackdown, I WILL GET A NEW TV. I saw some "Wonder Showzen" recently and I was laughing so hard I couldn't hit the bong! I should add here that I really love cartoons -- especially Looney Tunes. Sailor Mercury is hot coz she's really smart & her hair is blue. I also liked a lot of TV back when it was written well -- Barney Miller, Taxi, Hill Street Blues, SNL up thru the end of the Piscopo/Murphy era (early 80s -- it should've died quietly over 20 years ago...), FRIDAYS (Melanie Chartoff, where are you?!?!?), SCTV, blah blah etc. It's TV -- YOU watch it.

Books:

once again, where to start? I've read hundreds since my TV died in February of 2005.... Geek Love by Katherine Dunn is damn near the best book of the 20th century, maybe longer! Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is right up there with it. Albert Camus. Fyodor Dostoevsky. De Sade. Samuel Beckett. T S Eliot. Eugene Ionesco. Kurt Vonnegut. Harlan Ellison. Robert Bloch. Richard Matheson. H P Lovecraft. Michael Moorcock. Mick Farren. Bentley Little. Ray Bradbury. Christopher Moore. Hunter S Thompson. William S Burroughs. Phillip K Dick. The Illuminatus! trilogy. Terry Southern. William Kotzwinkle. Thomas Berger. Harry Crews. Jim Thompson. Charles Willeford. Cornell Woolrich. Greg Bear. Jeff Noon. Bill Pronzini. that guy from Texas , I'll think of his name in a minute.... Joe R Lansdale.
There are three rules one should live by, if one intends to make it successfully through life: Don't carry a sofa upstairs by yourself. Don't get involved with a Scorpio unless you mean it. And don't argue with crazy people.
-- Donald E. Westlake
mostly fiction, but I like serial killer books (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA) and bios of freaks and -- shit, I dunno....
Harriet the Spy.
Kenneth Fearing is my favorite poet. no-one has ever heard of him. figures....
Stephen King writes some of the scariest short stories EVER, but sometimes finds it hard to end a novel without resorting to the Deus ex Machina.
Charles Dickens was a serial hack.
Edgar Allan Poe is the king of all word-forms.

and leave us not,
for heaven's sake,
forget that genius
WiLLiAM BLAkE

Heroes:

My Mom: It was just the 2 of us most of the time, and I do believe she raised me right -- any failings I have are due to my own lack of belief in myself.

Neil Young. He's still alive, he's still rockin harder than dudes 40 years younger than he is, and he still doesn't give a little red rat's ass what you think of him. Last year he had a fuckin ANEURYSM and didn't go to the hospital for THREE DAYS coz he was recording and wanted to make sure that came out OK before he worried about his physical self, because MUSIC IS HIS LIFE.

I'll letcha know if I think of anybody else....
GIMME A REASON.