I'd like to meet:
Oh, I don't know......decent people with good taste in music. New people in new places. People who like the Plasmatics. Interesting, bizzare people. Rockers, rollers, anyone with more records than time to listen to them. People who ride mopeds. People who want to give me mopeds. Yes, especially people who want to give me mopeds. People in Toronto who want to come out and ride with the RCMP. Girls who roller skate!
Music:
The Plasmatics, Wendy O. Williams, Joan Jett, The Runaways, Hanoi Rocks, Dogs D'amour, Wayne/Jayne County, Alex Harvey, Cock Sparrer, Radio Birdman, New York Dolls, Mott the Hoople, Big Star, The Scruffs....70's Glam & British Rock, 70's & 80's Punk Rock, lotsa different stuff. Dead Boys, Stiv Bators, Johnny Thunders, Gary Glitter, Slade, Queen, Eddie and the Hot Rods, T-Rex, Suzi Quatro, Sham 69. The Replacements, Pretenders, Nina Hagen, Motorhead, Ramones, Social Distortion, Judas Priest, Lime Spiders, MC5, Wayne Kramer, Iggy and the Stooges, Turbonegro, Texas Terri, Gun Club, Bauhaus, lots more...........if it's good, I like it.
Movies:
Reform School Girls, Bad News, Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Paradise Lost, Decline of Western Civilization, Desperate Living, Happiness, Willy Dynamite, Magdalene Sisters.
Television:
Documentary Channel, Showcase......I like Six Feet Under and the news. Hemispheres. Strangers With Candy.
Books:
Wire: Everybody Loves A History, Unknown Legends of Rock and Roll, Little Birds by Anais Nin, And The Boy Looked At Johnny. Tattooed on Their Tongues (really good history of early country music).......John Lydon's Rotten, and many more. Another Country by James Baldwin. Jeanette Winterson.
Heroes:
Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics, Joan Jett, Lou Reed. Ike Turner for inventing rock and roll. Walter Muma for riding 12, 000 miles on a moped.
