Low-budget strange & obscure films on VHS and DVD / All sorts of music ranging from EURO FILM SOUNDTRACKS to OLD SCHOOL PUNK ROCK, JAZZ, and EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC NOISE / MOTORCYCLES, MOTOCROSS, VINTAGE SKATEBOARDS AND VINTAGE CARS including my '64 OLDSMOBILE CUTLASS F-85 HOLIDAY COUPE / FORMULA ONE AUTO RACING - F1 / VINTAGE JAPANESE VINYL TOYS / JAPAN / And most importantly my beautiful wife SALLY!
QUENTIN TARANTINO... since I have nearly met him at American Cinematheque and LACMA screenings for various films. I used to rent from VIDEO ARCHIVES in MB back in the day... and still have my original membership card. It's too bad this trend-setting video rental store shut their doors years ago. Rumor has it that QT bought all of their cool VHS inventory stock for his own... after hitting the bigtime with RESERVOIR DOGS.
GOBLIN / APHEX TWIN / ENNIO MORRICONE / JAPAN / DAVID SYLVIAN / REDD KROSS / JOHNNY CASH / THE RASPBERRIES / THE LOCUST / SPARKS / AMON DUUL II / MELT BANANA / BAUHAUS / CANNIBAL OX / PAUL WILLIAMS / KINKY FRIEDMAN / ADOLESCENTS / DEVO / SUN RA / ZURDOK / KISS / SEX PISTOLS / BOARDS OF CANADA / THE DRESDEN DOLLS / ANDI SEX GANG / DEVO / OS MUTANTES / MERLE HAGGARD / MIKE PATTON / Original SPECIMIN line-up / AMON TOBIN / CLAUDE DEBUSSEY / THE DAMNED / ALICE COOPER / FIREWATER / PET SHOP BOYS / SKINNY PUPPY / DAVID BOWIE / Original T.S.O.L. line-up / SPACE STREAKINGS / GOD LIVES UNDERWATER / MUSE / QUEEN / BIS / THE ISLEY BROTHERS / STAN GETZ / THE CHI-LITES / DEAD KENNEDYS / VISAGE / CHEAP TRICK / CHRIS BELL / HONEYHANDER / GAVIN FRIDAY / BERNARD HERRMANN / ASA-CHANG and JUNRAY
Sergio Leone western opus ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (and my favorite film of all time!) / Italian monster schlock masterpiece YETI: GIANT OF THE 20TH CENTURY / NIGHT OF 1000 CATS with Hugo Stiglitz / Low-rent James Bond ripoff DEADLIER THAN THE MALE / Argento's SUSPIRIA / Fulci's THE NEW YORK RIPPER / Russ Meyer's masterpiece... FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! / Jodorowsky's fantastic SANTA SANGRE / All the brilliant anime films of genius Hayao Miyazaki including NAUSICAA, PRINCESS MONONOKE and TOTORO / Ray Dennis Steckler's THE CHOOPER / Rock musical extravaganza... PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE / Nancy Kwan in the WONDER WOMEN (not the Lynda Carter Superhero TV show!!) / Epic French actioner WAGES OF FEAR / Paul Naschy in THE HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN / THE FAMILY JEWELS (yes... Jerry Lewis... I like him... you got a problem with that?) / Martial arts madness... THE MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE / ROAD TO SALINA, HOT RODS TO HELL and AUTOPSY with Mimsy Farmer / William Holden in PICNIC and THE BRIDGES OF TOKO-RI / Rare 80s biker gang gem INTREPIDOS PUNKS in espanol / The grim WAGES OF FEAR / Al Adamson's SATAN'S SADISTS starring Russ Tamblyn / Hong Kong freakout sleaze THE LEWD LIZARD / THE WIZARD OF GORE... thank you H.G. Lewis / Classic mob mentality gem THE OX-BOW INCIDENT / Retro-future classic LOGAN'S RUN / THE LOVED ONE and IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD starring the insane JONATHAN WINTERS / The grindhouse and drive-in masterpiece... I DRINK YOUR BLOOD / Giant animal mayhem trash GRIZZLY and GREAT WHITE! / Japanese monster gem GODZILLA VS. THE SMOG MONSTER
TCM, FXM, FLIX or IFC. And of course, The Speed Channel on every Sunday morning during F1 season. Also, my wife Sally and I have been really getting into Showtime's DEXTER.
THE WATCHMEN graphic novel / Upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE / Most HUNTER S. THOMPSON ...but my favorite book of his being HELL'S ANGELS / J.D. BALLARD's earlier sci-fi short stories... especially the VERMILION SANDS compilation. For publications... PSYCHOTRONIC Magazine (sadly now defunct), VIDEO WATCHDOG, SHOCK CINEMA Magazine, CULT MOVIES (on hiatus it seems), GIANT ROBOT, RACER X ILLUSTRATED, early MAD Magazine issues from the 50s thru the 70s, and vintage MARVEL COMICS featuring DAREDEVIL, SON OF SATAN, and IRON FIST characters.
My MOM, my 2 DADs... and POPPA the doodlebug!