Long walks along the beach; especially in Keansburg NJ where body parts tossed into the drink in NY wash ashore. I like girly carnival chalk, practical jokes, burlesque, pinups, old dirty magazines, anything sleazy, seamy or seedy. Random acts of weirdness and oppression, marginal behaviour, car accidents, cameras, big old cars, real eccentrics, crime scenes, EC comics, most non-human animals and people who dress with a lot of style but actually have the personality, talent and accomplishments to substantiate it. Photographs, abandoned buildings and red. I like when women look like cartoons from men's magazines and when men look like used car salesmen, bowery bums, gangsters or fallen Hollywood idols. I like junk stores and my cat, thrift store art, old Mad magazine, NY history, old Times Square, Hollywood history, weird/old restaurants and bars, taxidermy, old medical items, fireworks, creepy masks, carnivals and boardwalks.
I'd like to meet:
I'd like to meet people on the make, people on the lam, con-artists (no other artists please), freaks, obsessive collectors and visionaries, people that exist outside of a cultivated internet personality and people that not only have, but DO with what they have.
Music:
When I was ten I was asked to D-J for the fourth grade Halloween party. I dressed as a beatnik and played Muleskinner Blues, Surfin' Bird and the Martian Hop. It didn't go over well. I like Hasil Adkins, The Cramps, Link Wray, Las Vegas Grind series, Frolic Diner series, Screamin' J. Hawkins, Contortions, old rockabilly, Dick Dale, Foetus, Birthday Party, Devo, Anton LaVey, Boyd Rice, Peter Gilmore, classical and orchestral, Blood Axis, pop from the teens to the 40s, Lydia Lunch, Panther Burns, surf-instrumental, old country, novelty, Andre Williams, Martin Denny and like lounge, Allen Sherman, Howlin' Wolf, Spike Jones, old soul and garage, girl groups, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Germs, Chrome, Fear, Flipper, Big Black, Scratch Acid, New York Dolls, Misfits, Pistols, Laibach, Crime, X-Ray Specs, Dead Boys, Stooges, Tom Waits, Joy Division, Whitehouse, Death in June, Military and marching hits of the 30s and 40s, Zacherle, I'm sure there's more.
Movies:
Daughter of Horror, Touch of Evil, Carnival of Souls, Taxi Driver, Peeping Tom, Freaks, The World's Greatest Sinner, SpiderBaby, Touch, Curse, and Kiss of Her Flesh, Night Tide, Wiseblood, Son of Hitler, The Sadist, Mad Love, The Rotten Apple, Sweet Smell of Success, Salo, Blue Velvet, Olga series, Nightmare Alley, Coffin Joe, Goodfellas, Wizard of Gore -anything by Herschell Gordon Lewis, David Friedman, Chinatown, Richard Kern, Thrill Killers -any Ray Dennis Steckler, Kenneth Anger, Andy Milligan, Russ Meyer, Kiss Me Quick, Satan in High-Heels, Hot Thrills and Warm Chills, Satanis, Speak of the Devil, The Goddess Bunny, Cooking With Merril Howard Kalin, Mondo Keyhole, Santa Sangre, Multiple Maniacs, The Twonky, Eraserhead, The 7th Commandment, Bunuel, The Black Cat, Bladerunner, Alfred Hitchcock, Larry Wessel, Kiss Me Deadly, Triumph of the Will, Night of the Hunter, Pretty Poison, Tod Browning, Lugosi, Karloff, Peter Lorre, Bad Lieutenant, King of New York, Blast of Silence, Asphalt Jungle, White Zombie, 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Roger Corman, The Fat Black Pussycat, Scopitones, Masque of the Red Death, Apocalypse Now, Eating Raoul, Soylent Green, Casino, Stanley Kubrick, anything by or about Ed Wood, Orson Welles, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (old one), Return of the Living Dead, Detour, Kiss of Death, Rififi, Something Weird video, film noir, old exploitation, sexploitation, monster, horror or psychotronic flicks, anything about crime, sleaze or the seamy side.
Television:
BATMAN 1966-68, old Twilight Zone, old Outer Limits, Tales from the Crypt, Mr. Ed, any true crime/cop shows. Not much else.
Books:
Tales of Times Square, and When Sex Was Dirty by Josh Alan Friedman, Answer me!, Lowlife by Luc Sante, Cheap Laffs, Rationale of the Dirty Joke, Step Right Up! I'm Gonna Scare the Pants Off America!, Hollywood Babylon, Might is Right, Answer Me!, The Holy Devil, Memoirs of a Sword Swallower, We Who are Not as Others, A Youth in Babylon, Cornell Woolrich, Bold! Shocking! Daring! True!, Evidence, The Telephone Booth Indian, Eyeing the Flash, The Command to Look, Monsters and Madonnas, Monster Midway, The Wild Party, Coney Island Lost and Found, Sodom By the Sea, Hubert Selby, Populuxe, Nietzsce, Spengler, Darwin, Spencer, H. L. Mencken, Death Scenes, Jim Thompson, Iceberg Slim, Mickey Spillane, hardboiled fiction, Lovecraft, DeSade, Peter Sotos, Nightmare of Ecstacy, Elmer Batters, The Ghastly One, Dark Carnival, Weegee, Hunting Hypothesis, Suburbia, In Harm's Way, Our Kind of People, Man Into Wolf, Bizarre/Exotique, Bellocq, Brassai's Secret Paris, David Goodis, Stoney Knows How, Crumb, Ed Gein Psycho!, Joe Coleman, Crumb, Shock Value, Voices in the Dark, anything about the mob, cannibals, killers or criminals, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia, old smut, Freud, Jung, La Fiesta Brava, The Psychopathic God, lots more...anything by or about Anton Szandor LaVey...
Heroes:
Harvey M. Glatman, HG Lewis, Weegee, Anton LaVey, Kenneth Anger, Boyd Rice, Groucho Marx, Mantan Moreland, Michael and Roberta Findlay, Uncle Floyd, Jim Goad, Russ Meyer, Spike Jones, Soupy Sales, Lee Marvin, Lucky Luciano, Jim Thirlwell, Rasputin, William Mortensen, Hasil Adkins, Joe Coleman, Coop, Crumb, Rodney Dangerfield, Orson Welles, The Cramps, WC Fields, Belloqc, Stymie. Someone just mentioned that there are no women on this list, so I'll add Diane Arbus-even though Ivy Rorschach is clearly a woman.
