Way too many, and quite varied...I enjoy doing things that are subversive and totally not mainstream...
I abhor people who want to "fit in" and I detest boring, lame-brained bullshit...
I am an individual who doesn't abide by the rules and detests the status quo. I like to experience the many nuances, all the ins and outs as well as discover the ups and downs that life and the world has to offer...I am not held by constraints and love to push all the boundaries!!!!
Tip toeing through the tulips, tap dancing on dead peoples graves and Alchemy are some of my favorite diversions these days...
Other like minded individuals, ie; be a free thinker, think outside the box and don't conform to societies expectations, be different than the norm...be original and most of all, don't follow the crowd!!!
ATTENTION: If you are vapid, full of yourself or a mindless idiot, you need not apply. If you are a band or any other ignoramus who just wants to bloat their "friends" on myspace, DO NOT bother asking me to be your "pal". Unless I know who you are, or, know of you, or, you are literate enough to bother to send me a message explaining exactly why you want to be my "friend", I will be DENYING your request!!! Therefore, save us both some time and go elsewhere if all you want is another number added to your list...If you are basically here to get laid, sorry to disappoint, you need to go to one of those fake "stripper" pages then, maybe she/he will do you if you become their "buddy". I, on the other hand, treat my lovers like a Praying Mantis treats her mate...CHOMP!!!! Nuff said....
All kinds...Tuvan throat singers to trite and true rock n roll, I will listen to it all at least once...If I MUST try and impress you...here are a few things I have listened to lately: My most favorite band in the whole world: LED ZEPPELIN then my next most favorite: POLKACIDE, also included in the repertoire: Frank Zappa, Johnny Cash, Birthday Party, bJORk, Boomtown Rats, Iggy & the Stooges (Old school DE-Troit style!), DEVO, FluffGrrl, Cum Dumpster,Slaughter House, GWAR, X-Ray Spex, GEN X, Buckethead, Fuck EMOs, Leon Theremin, MC5 (kick out the JAMS MotherFockers!!), NY Dolls, Dead Boys, DK's, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Ricky Nelson, Duke Ellington, Eric Dolphy, King Crimson, Cream, Mr. Bungle/Fantomas...Kids of Whidney High, Wesley Willis, The Monkees, P-Funk, Aretha Franklin (my home town girl), Screaming Jay Hawkins, Mozart, Bach (mix em up and you get Mach) Coil, The Swans, Einsturzende Nuebaten and pretty much everything that Donkey Daddy subjects me to...some of which I can't stand, but, for the sake of Marital Bliss(tm) I try not to throw the stereo out the window...
There is some stuff though, that is just OFF LIMITS...
Like any kind of commercial music makes me want to vomit and commit hari-kiri on someone else. Most rap music just leaves me with a bad case of the hives and just what is up with trance, house and all that other techno crap? It leaves me puzzled at best and wishing the idiots who invented it would have just kept it underground if you get my drift, you know who you are and you will suffer a thousand painful deaths...
But, hey, like I said, I am willing to listen to it once, then I reserve the right to smash your I-pod...
I absolutely despise most all of the Hollywood claptrap, a lot of it is moronic, ridiculous and sophomoric bullshit. I think Hollyweird has its head up its own ass...I guess if you mindless idiots will suck it up, they will make it, over and over and over and over.....
However, I do enjoy a mindless brain fu** once in a while, I like documentaries and Indie films, and, of course anything music related...some movies I have perused lately: Pee Wees Big Adventure, ANYTHING Coen Brothers (ie: Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges is absolutely HOT), 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, The Exorcist (naturally!), Gummo, Eraser Head, Blue Velvet (I love to sing Blue Velvet), anything Troma related, The Jerk, Young FrankenSHTEIN, Strange Brew, Sin City, Apocalypse Now, The Thing, Man With the X-ray Eyes, Anything by William Castle, Hershel Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Tim Burton, Jan Swankmeyer and all those other creepy, cool and wonderful directors who have a vision, albeit twisted or skewed, but stay true to their craft nonetheless!!!
ALL movies based on Thomas Harris's character; Hannibal Lechter, Rosemary's Baby, Big Top Pee Wee, Tidelands, Pan's Labyrinth and of course, who could forget Bloodsucking Freaks. Without a doubt,the EVIL DEAD trilogy is an absolute masterpiece (what happened to your sensibilities Sam Raimi?). Ash absolutely rules (and is super DREAMY!). I would like to extend an extra special thank you to JOHN WATERS...without your screen visions John I would be another boring, mindless suburban dullard...
I ADORE movies like Welcome to the Doll House and Ghost World, I identify with the lead protagonists, like me, they don't fit in, everyone thinks they are weird, and they get no respect, but, in the end, they triumph over their adversity, even if it is in a small way!
For the most part, I prefer, dark mysterious, dreary movies, with lots of bloodshed, death and all around mayhem. Absolutely no "happy endings" (lol!) are endured or allowed, I really hate happy endings, life is not a bed of roses and you don't get to ride off into the sunset with the prince!!!
What I don't understand is this recent trend of remaking a classic, how can you expound on perfection? (example: Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Some of the movies they remake weren't even GOOD the first time (insert name of shitty remake movie here)!! Why are you bothering, except to sell overpriced tickets to insipid and mindless teenyboppers... And really, is there a reason to make a movie based on a really bad TV show? Don't these Hollywood idjits have any of their own ideas or must they keep revising the same old, tired bullshit, year after year???
Crispin Hellion Glover...if you are listening/reading this, mind melding with me, CALL ME!!!! Your Mistress awaits!!!!
See my statement about movies...the same applies to television...do the executives at ABC, FOX, etc really think ALL of America is addled and dimwitted? Obviously they do because they keep recycling the same garbage to spew back at the masses, and you dummies just eat it up...disgusting.
I will never watch Sex in the City, Friends or Seinfeld (or whatever versions of this rehashed and reprocessed tripe are passing for "network" teewee these days)
And just what is with the preponderance of "reality" TV these days? Is your life REALLY that boring, senseless and mindless that you have to watch someone else make an ass of themselves...does it make your pathetic life more meaningful? It's like watching a train wreck or something...but without the excitement, the blood and gore...I just don't get it...
When I DO turn on the Boob Tube (tm) it is to watch something educational, like documentaries about Jim Jones, or Charlie Manson, you know, real true grit guys. I like Myth Busters because they are always blowing shit up, and I like Monty Python and Benny Hill and of course the Simpsons. Pretty much anything on Discovery channel is cool like the autopsy shows or the weird medical shows, now that's entertainment! Animal Planet has it's moments (Mark Ramos from Animal Cops-Detroit, is the supra-coolest!) and of course a big hug and many kisses to John Stewart and Steven Colbert...you both add a ray of sunshine to these dismal days...so, come to mama boys!!!!
Pretty anything EXCEPT the bible (for obvious reasons).
Otherwise, I am pretty much open to anything that EXPANDS my horizons and my mind, and, preferably both!
People really should read more, its good for something, it's called LEARNING...Try picking up a book, read THE WORDS...and think for a moment...if you must, look at the pretty pictures (wait, put that Hustler down, that's not reading!) get inspired by or just lose yourself to the likes of; Burroughs, Edgar Allen Poe, Hunter S. Thompson, Anton Lavey, Bill Hicks, Anne Rule, Clive Barker, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Harris, Aesop's Fables (you don't need to read that other book to learn some valuable life lessons), Isaac Asimov, Roald Dahl, Mark Twain, Malcolm X, Chris Elliot, Bill Mahr, Robin Cook, Kathy Riechs, The Bartentender's Hand Book, Panati's Great Beginings and Great Endings, 100 Famous Serial Killers (know them, love them, I pretty much read anything related to, or about serial killers!!!), Maya Anjelou, The Black Panthers, Kurt Vonnegut, HP Lovecraft, George Orwell, Nancy Drew Mysteries, The Wiccan Handbook and of course Dr. Suess...
So, basically, what molded me into the fine upstanding human being I am today is directly related to; "One Fish Two Fish", of course my parents and the sadistic nuns at my catholic school..
An extra special thanks to the sisters for all the memories (and life long scars!)
We ALL could be heroes, if just for one day...
I do however, have MANY muses and inspirations, including my honey, Donkey Daddy (tm) who is my guiding spirit, my soul mate/kindred spirit and the person I most want to kill on a daily basis (well, you know, not literally KILL because I would go to jail for a REALLY long time, but, I think you know what I mean, especially if you know him, lol). I LOVE you Donkey and regardless of your many faults, you still rock...well, most of the time you do...we'll leave it at that, shall we?
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