I love heading out to Palm Springs for a nice long weekend, lounging around drinking exotic cocktails. Driving out to the beach - I love the sand between my toes and the sound of the waves crashing at the shore when I'm sleeping in the sun, I love finding shells at the beach with my daughter and hunting for sandcrabs with her. I enjoy hiking, box wine, Tiki and retro tiki art, Pop Art, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Pop Culture, Lowbrow artists, cocktail parties,
Mexican (Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera), South American and Japanese Folk Art, Retro Space Age Design, Modern and Post Modern Design, Photography and cheesecake photography -Bunny Yeager, Jean-Marie Perier, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, David Bailey, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, body building and muscle heads who are knuckle heads, way cool galleries, Big Black Sunglasses, Sleep, shopping, makeup, vintage clothes,
vintage jewelery, primping, sleeping naked, air guitar, paint it black, inkslingers, and unpretentious, fun folk! Cheesecake, exotica, erotica.
I'd like to meet:
People who think outside of the box, weirdo freaks, degenerate iconoclasts, Rat finks, Beatniks, Freakbeats, Losers, boozers, lowlifes, goons & gonzos, barflys and garagepunks. Socially conscious, open-minded, progressive, fun and adventuresome people with a twisted sense of humor.
Animal lovers and savers, ecologically/environmentally minded folk. No down-beats, brow beats, mean people. And people who aren't afraid to act like f**kn' retards!
Music:
Sneers & Snarls, attitude, angst, anger, anxiety, frustration, bravado, guitars, fuzztones, pounding drums almost tribal, Vox Continental, Farfisa and Jaguar Organs, maracas, harmonicas, tambourines. Real snarling garage rock. Stuff most people ain't ever heard of. It's the stuff that's never played on commercial radio. Classic Garage, Garage, 60's Punk, Psychedelic, Pioneers, Rootsy R&B, British Invasion, 60's Dutch Garage, Ye-Ye, Girl Groups, Surf and Instrumentals, Blues, Bop, Jazz, Soul, Funk, Rockabilly, Vintage Country, Freakbeat, Frat Rock, modern crazy trashy garage punk, local garage bands on the scene.
Here's the obligatory list of bands (reading their names is boring, but listening to their music just may change your life, dammit): The Sonics, The Mummies, The 5.6.7.8's, Iggy & The Stooges, RAMONES, The Reigning Sound, (Dutch) Outsiders, Chocolate Watchband, Davie Allan and The Arrows, Downliners Sect, LINK WRAY, The Seeds, BILLY CHILDISH (The Milkshakes, Thee Mighty Caesars, THEE HEADCOATS, THE BUFF MEDWAYS, etc.), ROLLING STONES,
MC5, The Untold Fables, The Ronettes, 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson, CHESTERFIELD KINGS, The Okmoniks, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, The Pandoras, THE BROOD, The Miracle Workers, The Crawdaddys, Tell Tale Hearts, Wylde Mammoths, Velvet Underground & Nico, The Standells,
THE CRAMPS, The Fleshtones, THE BOMBORAS, The Witchdoctors, THE PRETTY THINGS, The Trashmen, The Trashwomen, Shadows of Knight, Love, BOSS MARTIANS, Raunch Hands, The Von Zippers, ? and The Mysterians, THE ELECTRIC PRUNES, DMZ, Kinks,
The WHO,
The Yardbirds, The Jam, English Beat, LYRES, The VENTURES, Zebra Stripes, Stomachmouths, Swamp Rats, The Wailers, Monks, Pussy Galore, Thee Flying Dutchmen, Screaming Lord Sutch, The Weirdos, The Phantom Surfers, Chuck Berry, The Flakes, THE HENTCHMEN, The Morlocks, Gene Vincent, The Dukes of Hamburg, THE CRIPPLERS, Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs, Lords of Altamont, Shangri-Las, The Vera-Tones, The Undertones, Jarvis Humby, The Balboas, The Brentwoods, X, Hypstrz, (early) MAKERS, The Pyramids, THE CYNICS, The Monsters, LIGHTNING BEAT-MAN, THE GENTLEMAN CALLERS, Flamin Groovies, LOS STRAITJACKETS, MYSTERY GIRLS, The Ponys, The Beatles, The Pleasure Seekers, The Knights of the New Crusade, THE VULTURES, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Sirens, THE REMAINS, Th' Losin Streaks, DICK DALE, The Barracudas, The Wipers, Nathaniel Mayer, The Scientists, (early) DONNAS, The Ventures, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Zombies, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Billy Holiday, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Janis Joplin, Marianne Faithfull,
The Invisible Eyes, Dusty Springfield, Wilson Pickett, Pebbles, Back From the Grave, Garage Punk Unknowns, Teenage Shutdown, Girls in the Garage, Desperate Rock'n'Roll, Killed By Death, In the Red Records, Rip Off Records, Crypt Records, Norton Records, Telstar/Satan Records, Estrus Records, Goner Records, Voodoo Rhythm Records, Boom Boom Records, Ace/Big Beat, Sundazed, Sympathy for the Record Industry, Get Hip, Bomp!, Dionysus, and on and on and on...
Movies:
Village of the Giants, To Sir with Love, Freaks, The Philadelphia Story, Barbarella, Our Man Flint, In Like Flint, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Graduate, Charade, All Hitchcock,Lawrence of Arabia, Annie Hall, There's Something about Mary, Blow Up, Two Women, The Blob (original), Alien, The Sound of Music, Westside Story, Some Like it Hot, The Party, Victor/Victoria, Ten, The Commitments, El Mariachi, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Bonnie and Clyde, films by directors like Godard and Truffaut, Fellini's 8 1/2, Antonioni's Eclipse, Russ Meyer, John Frankenheimer, Sam PeckinpahHarold and Maude, Quadrophenia. Bronco Bullfrog, Polly Magoo, The Life of Brian, El Mundo Loco de Los Jovenes, Modesty Blaise, Riot on Sunset Strip, Rosemary's Baby, Psych Out, The Trip, The Apartment, What's New Pussycat, Barefoot in the Park, Some like it Hot, Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, Niagra, Alfie (original), Bliss of Mrs. Blossom, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, The World of Henry Orient, I Love You Alice B. Toklas, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, One Million Years B.C., Casino Royale, Goldfinger, Dr. No, From Russia With Love, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Repulsion, Belle de Jour, Un Chien Andalou, Avant-Garde-Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s, Point Blank, You're a Big Boy Now, American Graffiti, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove..., The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, Sweet Charity, Austin Powers, Fathom, Deadlier Than Male, The Beatles - Help!, A Hard Days Night, Spirits of the Dead, Performance, I am Curious..., And God Created Woman,
Danger: Diabolik, A Ravishing Idiot, Don Juan (or if Don Juan were a woman), The 10th Victim, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Girl on a Motorcycle, The Knack...and How to Get it, Smashing Time, Thomas Crown Affair, Absolute Beginners, Shampoo, The Wild Angels, Petulia, Kitten With A Whip, Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, Don't Make Waves, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Rebel Without a Cause, Farenheit 451
Television:
Shindig!, Ready, Steady, Go!, Hollywood a Go Go, Hullabaloo, The Addams Family, Flintstones, Gidget, The Avengers, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, I Love Lucy, AMC, IFC, Sex and the City, Turner Classics, Biography, History Channel, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Get Smart, The Munsters, Laugh in, SpongeBob Squarepants, Bugs Bunny, The Monkees, CSI, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Sopranos, House...
Books:
Percy B. Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Pablo Neruda, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Greek, Roman and Norse Mythology, Sandra Cisneros, Lester Bangs, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, All the Black Lace Series, Erotica penned by women, Pulp Fiction, Raymond Chandler, James Ellroy, Octavio Paz, Nick Hornby, Kay Thompson, Isabel Allende, Paolo Hewitt, Sawdust Caesar by Howard Becker, Dave Gibbons, Mark Morford - columnist for San Francisco ChronicleCoffee Table Books: The Art of Shag, The Book of Tiki, Motel Fetish, Strip Flips: A New Series of Erotic Flipbooks, Decorative Art 1960's, The Rudi Gernreich Book,
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth: His Life, Times, Cars and Art, Photography of Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Helmut Lang, Helmut Newton
Heroes:
artists, scientists, survivors, inventors, leaders and visionaries, Jack-Pot, Rey-Salon Boy, Bunny Yeager, Rell Sunn, Frida Kahlo, Richard Avedon, Mr. Dick Dale, Big Daddy, Les Paul, Audrey Hepburn, Greg Shaw, Little Steven, Mr. Steve Hill the vonheel, Ms. Bettie Page, My Big Sister,
Animal Lovers, Environmentalists, selfless people, Lenny Kaye, Rodney Bingenheimer, George Harrison, John Lennon, Sylvia Plath, Layne Beachley, Keala Kennelly, Poison Ivy
