1967 Baby! Year I was born!I'm about Rockin' out, Hangin' out, Twist and Shout. I love Pop Culture:Books, movies, television, comics, and art but MUSIC is my passion. That and goin' to rock shows and shakin' it! I really enjoy playing music as well, listening to records, and hanging out with my friends. Favorite activities include:Reading, writing, composing, singing, and performing. In my spare time I feed the pets, clean the house and property, and play games with my nephew. Plus I waste a lot of time on myspace.com. Sometimes I visit garagepunk.com as well. I love the singing of Gerry Roslie, Mitch Ryder, Felix Cavaliere, Mark Lindsay, Micky Dolenz, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Phil May, Paul Jones, (Angry Young) Van Morrison, Eric Burdon, Keith Relf, Roger Daltry, Steve Marriot, Rod Stewart, Colin Blunstone, and Rob Tyner. All white guys but unbelievably soulful. If I could afford it, my clothing would be 60s Mod and Paisley Underground and my lifestyle would be more like that of(60s era) Ray Davies, Mick Jagger, Pete Townsend, Eric Burdon, Rod Stewart, John Lennon, and Ian Flemming (James Bond but with less danger). And I wish my dancing could be more like James Brown's and Tina Turner's.
What kind of Sixties Person are you?
You are a Radical. Right on!
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What kind of Sixties Person are you?
You are a Mod. Yeah baby.
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You Belong in 1966
You are a free spirit with a huge heart. Love, peace, and happiness rule - oh, and drugs too.
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I'd like to meet:
I've met almost everyone who I want to meet, even Adam West. Oh, and I met Sky Saxon, not once, not twice, but three times. As for heroes:Fat chance there, most of them are dead, except Adam West. He'll never die. Others are just really inaccessible. However, I still need to meet Kearney Barton and it would be a gas to meet Kim Fowley. I'm sure he has some good Sky Saxon stories. But I still want to meet new people with similar interests, like a lot of the same music, enjoy 60s culture, are into old sounds(1955-1975 or anything that just sounds like it) and like to dance to the old sounds. I also would like to meet people with their own style. And I know it sounds crazy but I'd also like to meet people who enjoy the theory of time travel. I mean, who wouldn't want to travel back in time to Swingin' London '65 and catch shows by the Who, Yardbirds, and Pretty Things, then visit the Sunset Strip '66 and witness the Byrds, Love, Standells, and Seeds. Wouldn't that be cool?
Music:
I like music. A lot. But what I'm most passionate about is rock from the 1960s, that being mostly bands from the British Invasion and American Revolution. You know....The Tuff Stuff:Garage Rock, garage punk, psychedelia, Merseybeat, English Freakbeat, British R 'N' B, and Mod. I enjoy the off-beat one hit wonders and bands who never made it so I really like listening to things like Nuggets, Pebbles, Highs In The Mid Sixties, I Was A Teenage Caveman, Back From The Grave, Garage Punk Unknowns, Teenage Shutdown, English Freakbeat, and comps on Satan Records. Fuzz, Flakes, and Shakes is Preety good too. I also enjoy the new comps on Sundazed especially Garage Beat '66 and the Northwest Battle of the Bands (being as that's where I'm from). NORTHWEST ROCK RULES! I have a fondness for 60s East LA Rock as well. Plus I enjoy surf, Frat Rock, folk-rock, girl groups, teen idols, 60s bubblegum, 70s glam and glitter rock, 70s hardrock, Proto-Metal, British Metal, 80s LA Metal, Proto-Punk (it's all proto punk, I guess), 70s punk, Early 80s LA Punk, Power Pop, New Wave, Garage Rock Revival and Garage Punk (Bomp, Voxx, Dionysus, Get Hip, Estrus, Norton, Telstar, Crypt, Sympathy, Screaming Apple, Munster, Music Maniac, In The Red, Gearhead, Rip Off, Sundazed, Musick, Yep Rock, Birdman, Rainbow Quartz, Cavestomp, and Wicked Cool), and various items on Rhino Records. I also like 50s rock and roll, rockabilly, 20s-60s country and folk, country rock (Gene Clark, Gram Parsons, Mike Nesmith, and the Byrds invent alternative modern country roots?), alt-country (Wilco), some Southern Rock (Allman Brothers, Lynnard Skynard), 20s-60s blues and R 'N' B, 20s-60s Jazz, Gospel, zydeco, Tex-Mex, 60s soul Stax and Motown, doo-wop, and Jamaican music:Ska, Bluebeat, and Calypso but NOT Reggae (except maybe the really early stuff when it was still called Rock Steady Soul). I also like Classic Rock as well but only the most rockin'. That includes The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Mountain, The Doors, Creedence, Steppenwolf, Iron Butterfly, Vanilla Fudge, Santana (with Greg Rolie), The Chambers Brothers, Rare Earth, and Sly and the Family Stone, baby! And possibly anything that sounds like them. You can throw in The Sweet, T-Rex, Mott The Hoople, Ziggy Stardust, Gary Glitter, Slade, Kiss, The Alice Cooper Band, Funkadelic, The Faces, AC-DC, Van Halen (not Van Hagar), Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Ted Nugent, and some early ZZ Top as well. Of course, Motorhead, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden blow them all away. Maybe a bit embarrasing to mention but I do have some guilty pleasures like the Cult, Guns And Roses, Hanoi Rocks, Angel City, Rose Tattoo, L7, and Metallica (1982-1986). For more tender and quieter moments, I like Neil Young (even with those suckwads Crosby Stills and Nash), The Patti Smith Group (even when they're wild), and Television (even though they're avant-punk). Fave bands and performers include:Bill Haley and the Comets, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Faron Young, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Wanda Jackson, Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio, Hasil Adkins, Ronnie Dawson, The Big Bopper, Richie Valens, Ricky Nelson, Dion, Del Shannon, Freddy Cannon, Fats Domino, Hank Ballard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Muddy Water, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo, Elmore James, Little Walter, Little Richard, Larry Williams, Esquerita, The Coasters, Don and Dewey, Bunker Hill, Andre Williams, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Nina Simone, Bessie Griffin, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Staple Singers, Arthur Alexander, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Irma Thomas, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Booker T and the MGs, Etta James, Ike and Tina Turner, Dyke and the Blazers, Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, The Contours, Junior Walker and the All-Stars, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, The Isley Brothers, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, The Rollin' Stones, The Animals, The Yardbirds, Them!, Manfred Mann, The Pretty Things, Downliners Sect, Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, Screamin' Lord Sutch and the Savages, Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, Crazy World of Arthur Brown, The Soft Machine, The Nice, Os Mutantes, (Dutch) Outsiders, Q65, The Monks, The Troggs, The Kinks, The Who, Small Faces, The Action, The Birds, The Sorrows, The Creation, John's Children, Pink Floyd, The Zombies, Dusty Springfield, The Bee Gees, The Spencer Davis Group, The Easybeats, The Dave Clark Five, The Silver Beatles, The Searchers, The Hollies, The Byrds, The Turtles, Love, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Beau Brummels, The Monkees, The Banana Splits, Max Frost and the Troopers, Davie Allan and the Arrows, Duane Eddy and the Rebels, Link Wray and the Wraymen, Dick Dale and his Del-tones, The Ventures, The Beach Boys, The Trashmen, The Kingsmen, The Wailers, The Sonics, Don and the Goodtimes, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Young Rascals, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Thee Midniters, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, The Sir Douglas Quintet, The Bobby Fuller Four, The Ronnettes, The Shangri-Las, Jackie DeShannon, Nancy Sinatra, The Standells, The Seeds, The Chocolate Watchband, The Shadows of Knight, The Syndicate of Sound, The Remains, The Barbarians, The Strangeloves, The Knickerbockers, The Five Americans, The Gants, Mouse and the Traps, Richard and the Young Lions, The Rockin' Ramrods, Gonn, Thee Sixpence, The Sparkles, The Ugly Ducklings, The New Colony Six, The Blues Magoos, The Count Five, The Music Machine, The Electric Prunes, The Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Kim Fowley, Syd Barrett, The Fugs, The Godz, Bob Dylan, Donovan, The Charlatans, The Grateful Dead, The Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Moby Grape, The Buffalo Springfield, The Blues Project, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, The MC5, The Amboy Dukes, Blue Cheer, The Bob Segar System/Last Herd, The Swamp Rats, The Flamin' Groovies, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nazz, Big Star, The Raspberries, The J. Geils Band, The New York Dolls, The Modern Lovers, The Dictators, The Ramones, The Cramps, The Fleshtones, The Romantics, The Runaways, DMZ, The Real Kids, The Nervous Eaters, The Pagans, The Heartbreakers, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Dead Boys, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Jam, The Jolt, The Saints, Radio Birdman, The Rezillos, The Undertones, The Specials, Madness, The English Beat, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Nick Lowe, The Soft Boys, Roky Erickson and the Aliens, Stiv Bators, Nikki and the Corvettes, Devo, Blondie, The Pretenders, The Cars, The B-52s, The Knack, The Beat, The Nerves, The Wipers, The Fastbacks, The Angry Samoans, The Dead Kennedys, X, Agent Orange, Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, The Weirdos, The Germs, The Zeros, The Dils, The Gears, The Plimsouls, The Gun Club, The Misfits, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, The Go-Gos, The Bangles, The Three O'Clock, The Long Ryders, Green On Red, The Dream Syndicate, The Rain Parade, Plasticland, The Screaming Trees, The DB's, REM, The Smithereens, The Young Fresh Fellows, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Lime Spiders, The Scientists, The Godfathers, The Barracudas, The Milkshakes, The Prisoners, The Lyres, The Chesterfield Kings, The Fuzztones, The Pandoras, The Nomads, The Cynics, The Brood, The Miracle Workers, The Vipers, The Marshmallow Overcoat, The Unclaimed, The Untold Fables, Thee Fourgiven, Yard Trauma, The Tell-Tale Hearts, The Crawdaddies, The Creeps, The Gruesomes, The Grave Digger 5, The Morlocks, The Stems, The Hoods, The Surf Trio, The Headless Horsemen, 1313 Mockingbird Lane, The Worst, The Crimson Shadows, The Wylde Mammoths, Thee Mighty Caesars, The Original Sins, The Raunch Hands, The A-Bones, Girl Trouble, Dead Moon, The Mad Daddys, The Kaisers, Thee Headcoats, The Untamed Youth, The Mummies, The Makers, The Mono Men, The Woggles, The Swingin' Neckbreakers, The Sons of Hercules, The Hate Bombs, Mondo Topless, Sugar Shack, The Wicked Ones, Thee Evaporators featuring Nardwuar the Human Serviette, The Smugglers, The Hives, The Flaming Sideburns, The Hellacopters, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, The Ponys, The Gris Gris, The High Dials, The Mooney Suzuki, The Forty-Fives, The Greenhornes, The White Stripes, The Reigning Sound, The Detroit Cobras, The Fondas, The Charms, The Love Me Nots, The Gore Gore Girls, The Dirtbombs, The Gories, The Night Kings, The Fallouts, The Hentchmen, Supercharger, The Statics, The Primate 5, The Zombie 4, Thee Flying Dutchmen, The Fe Fi Fo Fums, The Freakouts, The Black Lips, The Invisible Eyes, The King Kahn and BBQ Show, The Husbands, The Bug Nasties, Guitar Wolf, Teen Generate, Supersnazz, Sinister Six, Gas Huffer, Head, Bum, The Muffs, The Devil Dogs, The New Bomb Turks, The Supersuckers, The Derelicts, The Rip Offs, The Drags, The Oblivians, The Bobbyteens, The Trashwomen, The 5,6,7,8's, Jackie and the Cedrics, The Phantom Surfers, Satan's Pilgrims, Man or Astroman, The Witch Doctors, The Ghastley Ones, The Boss Martians, The Bomboras, Lords of Altamont, Knights of the New Crusade, The Dukes of Hamburg, The Reverend Horton Heat, Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper, Deke Dickerson and the Ecco-fonics, Los Straightjackets, Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet, Southern Culture On The Skids, Neko Case (with or without her Boyfriends), Mary Weiss of the Shangri-las, John Fogerty, Dwight Yokam, K.D. Lang and the Reclines, Chris Issak and Silvertone, Los Lobos, The Stray Cats, The Blasters, Del Fuegos, The Beat Farmers, The Bo Deans, The Tail Gators, The Leroi Brothers, The Paladins, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, The Replacements, Husker Du, Meat Puppets, The Minutemen, Camper Van Beethoven, Violent Femmes, Beat Happening, Mudhoney, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Shonen Knife, The Mr. T Experience, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Seaweed, Cub, Calamity Jane, Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, The Bangs, Blood Circus, Catbutt, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Supergrass, Oasis, Beck, The Kings of Leon, Jet, The Foo Fighters, and Green Day. I also like a lot of the new bands I've encountered on myspace as well as on Little Steven's Underground Garage. Locally, I like to listen to Sonic Reducer(plus Road House, Swingin' Doors, Shake The Shack and Preachin' The Blues) on KEXP. I also enjoy American Routes on NPR. When I got the chance, I really enjoyed listening to The Wayback Machine out of St. Louis but since it seems not to exist at this point, I'm glad that it has its many off shoot garage rock podcasts on garagepunk.com, especially Savage Kick, Hanging On For Mercy, Mystery Action, and One Cup of Coffee and a Cigarette. I like the old. I like the obscure. I love it when I hear things I've never heard of. If you think there's a band or performer I should be hip to, then tell me. I like to be educated. Oh. And I like listening to my station on Launchcast. Lately, I've also been listening to Marko's Garage Gig myspace site. Give it a listen. Rockin' Rod's Top 50:Louie Louie (Kingsmen), What I Like About You, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction, My Generation, Psychotic Reaction, Dirty Water, The Last Time, Gloria (Them), The Witch, Proud Mary, I Saw Her Standing There, You Really Got Me, Surfin' Bird, Wooly Bully, Liar Liar, 96 Tears, You're Gonna Miss Me, I'm A Man (Yardbirds), All Day And All Of The Night, House Of The Rising Sun, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Wild Thing, For Your Love, Baby Please Don't Go, (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone, Rock And Roll Pest Control, Have Love Will Travel, I Wanna Be Your Man (Rolling Stones), Pushin' Too Hard, Psycho, Talk Talk, I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night), 7 & 7 Is, Shapes Of Things, Friday On My Mind, Little Girl, Shakin' All Over, Just Like Me, Hey Joe, Lies, I Can't Explain, Try It, Around And Around (Rolling Stones), Out Of Our Tree, Fortune Teller, Come See Me (I'm Your Man), Whittier Blvd., Over Under Sideways Down, (We Ain't) Got Nothin' (Yet), It's My Life (Animals).
Movies:
I like comedies, horror movies, some action adventures, a few indies, some "chick flicks", but mostly, I like movies that have rock and roll or superheroes. A Hard Day's Night and Batman (1966) are my favorites. A rock doc or something with a good soundtrack is also quite nice. I like a lot of Z-movies and cult films by the likes of Roger Corman, Ed Wood, William Castle, Russ Meyer, Hershall Gordon Lewis, and John Waters(and his mainstream stuff as well:Hairspray, Cry Baby, Serial Mom). I also like Elvis movies, Frankie and Annette flicks, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Star Wars(the originals), Universal Pictures monster movies, Hammer Films, American International Pictures, Godzilla and other Japanese monster movies, 50s and 60s Sci-Fi films, Alfred Hitchcock movies, Blaxplotation films, Bruce Lee/Kung-Fu films, the first 5 Marx Brothers movies(all with Zeppo), W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Peter Sellers, Woody Allan, Monty Python movies, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart gangster films, 30s and 40s movie serials, 40s and 50s Film Noir, Silent Pictures(Horror, Comedy, Adventure, Experimental), Films by Stanley Kubrik, Films by Tim Burton, Films by Terry Gilliam, James Bond flicks, other 60s spy movies, and Austin Powers. Some other movies I like are:Rebel Without A Cause, The Wild One, American Grafitti, Lords Of Flatbush, West Side Story, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke, Caddyshack, The Jerk, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Kentucky Fried Movie, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Mars Attacks, The Rutles, This Is Spinal Tap, Rock And Roll High School, Still Crazy, Airheads, Suburbia (1983), Repoman, Six String Samurai, Crumb, Welcome To The Doll House, Ghost World, But I'm A Cheerleader, Shakes The Clown, Drop Dead Fred, Bubble Boy, Napoleon Dynamite, Slacker, Slackers, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Meangirls, Heathers, Beavis and Butthead Do America, The Simpsons Movie, The Full Monty, Bulworth, Rushmore, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Brother From Another Planet, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Brazil, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Sling Blade, Malcolm X, The Fugitive, Time Cop, Fight Club, Private Parts (Howard Stern), Boogie Nights, People Vs. Larry Flynt, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Trainspotting, Drugstore Cowboy, The Terminator, Mad Max, Heavy Metal, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Incredibles, Chicken Run, Iron Giant, Toy Soldiers, Robocop, BeetleJuice, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Crocodile Dundee, Teen Wolf, Back To The Future, Ghost Busters, Wayne's World, Dude Where's My Car, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Dazed And Confused, Detroit Rock City, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Stand by Me, Risky Business, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Singles, High Fidelity, School Of Rock, Almost Famous, That Thing You Do, Clueless, Groundhog Day, Dead Poets Society, Men In Black, Bedazzled(new), The Cable Guy, Galaxy Quest, Pleasantville, Office Space, There's Something About Mary, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, The Big Lebowski, The Cook The Thief The Wife and Her Lover, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Cafe Flesh, Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing, Boyz 'N The Hood, Colors, Purple Rain, Desperetly Seeking Susan, Something Wild, Beverly Hills Cop, 48 Hours, Bachelor Party, Big, A Fish Called Wanda, Roxanne, Peggy Sue Got Married, Three Amigos, Rainman, Home Alone, Benny and Joon, Thelma and Louise, My Cousin Vinny, Mrs. Doubtfire, Joe Dirt, Raising Arizona, After Hours, The Truman Show, Forest Gump, Good Morning Vietnam, Hair, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tommy, Quadrophenia, MASH, Easy Rider, Bonnie And Clyde, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler, The Graduate, You're A Big Boy Now, Harold and Maude, Little Big Man, The Last Picture Show, The Sound Of Music, Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, The Wizard Of Oz, Freaks, Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life, The Nutty Professor, Dr. Strangelove, Breakfast At Tiffini's, My Fair Lady, To Sir With Love, Bedazzled(old), Barbarella, and most of all:It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(just for Jonathan Winters alone). Oh yeah....and Mad Monster Party.
Television:
I watch WAY too much, man. Mostly, TV Land, Cartoon Network (Boomerang, actually), and VH1 Classic, plus Late Night with Conan O'Brian, Seinfeld, Cheers, Night Court, Fraiser, Newsradio, Third Rock From The Sun, Just Shoot Me, Spin City, Drew Carey Show, Red Green Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Mr. Bean, Red Dwarf, Benny Hill, The Two Ronnies, Kids In The Hall, 70s era Sat Night Live, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Police Squad, Sledge Hammer, Max Headroom, Married With Children, Herman's Head, The Simpsons, King Of The Hill, Futurama, The Critic, Family Guy, American Dad, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, Sealab 2021, The Tick, Batman:The Animated Series, X-Men, Justice League, New Teen Titans, Arrested Development(must see), Malcolm In The Middle, That 70's Show, Get A Life, Grounded For Life, South Park, Daily Show, Chappelle Show, Mind of Mencia, Politically Incorrect, The Colbert Report, Reno 911, Absolutely Fabulous, Strangers With Candy, Son of the Beach, Mighty Mouse:The New Adventures, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, Celebrity Death Match, Wallace and Gromit, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Powerpuff Girls, Ed Edd and Eddy, Spongebob Squarepants, Fairly Oddparents, Jimmy Neutron, Ugly Betty, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, The Office, Scrubs, Knights of Prosperity(Let's Rob Mick Jagger), In Case Of Emergency, Cavemen, Carpoolers, Monk, The Equalizer, The Pretender, The Profiler, Quantum Leap, X-Files, Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Freaks and Geeks, The Wonder Years, Early Edition, Walker:Texas Ranger, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Bones, House, Chuck, Heroes, Journeyman, Reaper, Pushing Daisies, Bionic Woman, Life, The Sarah Conner Chronicles, New Amsterdam, Grand Ole Opry, Austin City Limits(on occasion), American Idol, I Love The 70s/80s/90s, The Osbournes, Surreal Life, VH-1's Top 100 List Shows, and VH-1's Behind The Music. While growing up, I enjoyed Batman, The Adventures Of Superman, Adventures of Flash Gordon, The Lone Ranger, J.P. Patches (greatest Kid show that only Seattle knows about), The Electric Company, Schoolhouse Rock, Courageous Cat, Speed Racer, Johnny Quest, Jonny Sokko And His Flying Robot, Ultraman, Gigantor, Marine Boy, Spider-man, Superman/Batman/Aquaman Adventure Hour, The Super Friends, The Mighty Hercules, Johnny Cypher in Demension Zero, Space Ghost, Birdman, The Herculoids, The Fantastic Four, Star Trek:The Animated Series, Valley of the Dinosaurs, Land of the Lost, Shazam!, Tarzan, Space Acadamy/Jason of Star Command, Star Blazers, Battle of the Planets, Plastic Man, Spider Woman, Transformers, G. I. Joe, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Archie Show, The Groovie Goolies, Josie and the Pussycats, Scooby Doo(especially with special guest stars), Blue Falcon and Dyno-mutt, Hong Kong Phooey, Banana Splits, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Sid And Marty Krofts, The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, The Alvin Show, The Pink Panther, Mr. Magoo, Jay Ward cartoons (Rocky and Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle), Underdog, Warner Bros/Looney Tunes, Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse Club, Peanuts/Charlie Brown specials, Dr. Seuss specials, Holiday specials, The Three Stooges, Our Gang and Little Rascals, I Love Lucy, Honeymooners, Burns and Allen, Jack Benny, The Abbott and Costello Show, Candid Camera, Leave It To Beaver, The Monkees, Munsters, Addams Family, Get Smart, Hogan's Heroes, Gilligan's Island, Brady Bunch, That Girl, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, I Dream Of Jeannie, My Favorite Martian, My Three Sons, Nanny and the Professor, Partridge Family, The Odd Couple, Star Trek, Lost In Space, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Dr. Who, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Night Gallery, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Mission Impossible, Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Avengers, Wild Wild West, Maverick, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Perry Mason, The Jonathan Winters Show, Laugh-In, The Smothers Brothers, Hee Haw, The Flip Wilson Show, Carol Burnett, The Johnny Cash Show, Sonny and Cher, All In The Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, The Muppet Show, Sha Na Na, Mash, Barney Miller, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, Goodtimes, Chico and the Man, WKRP In Cincinatti, Taxi, Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Welcome Back Kotter, What's Happening?, Mork and Mindy, The Mod Squad, Ironside, Hawaii 5-0, Cannon, Mannix, McCloud, Columbo, Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, Barnaby Jones, The Rockford Files(best), Ellery Queen, Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, Buck Rogers In the 25th Century, the Dukes of Hazzard, the A-Team, Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Crime Story, and the Cosby Show. For a while AMC was showing episodes of Hullabaloo, which I really enjoyed. Actually the entire American Pop series was pretty cool. Too Bad they took it off. Yeah, I wish they had a channel dedicated to shows like Hullabaloo, Shindig, and Upbeat, plus the music features from Ed Sulluvan and Hollywood Palace, heck even American Bandstand. It'd be too perfect. Super Guilty Pleasures:Following the Ross and Rachel storyline on Friends and the first 5 seasons of 90210. Almost forgot:I also like what little I've seen of the Green Hornet with Bruce Lee.
Books:
Catcher In The Rye(high school favorite), Flowers For Algernon, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Grapes of Wrath, On The Road, Where The Wild Things Are, Edgar Rice Bouroughs, Robert E. Howard, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Beat Poetry, and books by Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss. Ray Bradbury stuff is cool and so is anything about the history of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Don't really enjoy reading books too much unless it's rock history, biographies, discographies, and sessionographies. I love comic books and books about comics. The kinds I love are mostly of the old variety from the 30s thru the 60s:The Golden Age, EC Comics(especially their Horror comics and Mad before it became a magazine), the 50s Revival of DC heroes, the Marvel Age of the 60s, and Underground comics like those by Robert Crumb. I like 70s and 80s comics (and a few 90s)that try and touch on the excitement of all these different eras as well, like those by Neal Adams, Frank Miller, John Byrne, Howard Chaykin, and Alan Moore. I mostly enjoy magazines:Mojo, Uncut, Classic Rock, Rolling Stone(on occasion), and (up until 1981)Mad Magazine. I wish Kicks and Ugly Things came out more often. I also like reading Gearhead for the rock and roll. When I was a kid, I read Hardy Boys mysteries and Tom Swift, Boy Scientist. And a lot of Spider-Man comics.
Heroes:
Adam West, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, Fred Cole, Roky Erickson, Joey Ramone, John Lennon, Kim Fowley, Scott McCaughey, Billy Childish, Nardwuar, Calvin Johnson, Tiny Tim, Yogi Berra, The Beatles, Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, John and Alan Lomax, John Hammond, Leiber and Stoller, Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Murray The K, Dave Dimond, Humble Harve, Tom Donahue, Danny Holiday, Pat O' Day, Dewey Phillips, Sam Phillips, Kearney Barton, Shadow Morton, Joe Meek, George Martin, Shel Talmy, Mickey Most, Brian Wilson, Phil Spector's Wall of Sound(but not Phil Spector), Les Paul, Andrew Loog Oldham, Alan Pariser, Lou Adler, Barry Gordy Jr., Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, Jac Holzman, Jack Nitzsche, Seymour Stein, Richard Gotterher, John Peel, Ronan O' Rahilly and Radio Caroline, Rodney Bingenheimer, Jacques Heim, Bettie Page, Hugh Hefner, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, William M. Gaines, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Will Eisner, Jack Cole, Robert Crumb, Neal Adams, Frank Miller, Jay Ward, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Groucho Marx, Lenny Bruce, Ernie Kovacs, Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Pryor, Cheech Marin, Andy Kaufman, Andy Warhol, Mae West, Ann Margaret, Jane Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Julie Newmar, Jenny McCarthey, Mamie Van Doren, Debbie Harry, Doctor Demento, Chuck Barris, Soupy Sales, Zacherlie, Tom Hatten(Los Angeles TV Host), J. P. Patches, Stan Borison, Stan Freberg, Allan Sherman, Allan Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Owsley Stanley, Wavy Gravy, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Booby Seale, The Chicago 7, The Hollywood 10, Larry Flynt, Norman Mailer, Lester Bangs, John Sinclair, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Hilly Kristal, Jonathan Richman, Iggy Pop, Joan Jett, Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra, Kathleen Hanna, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Lorretta Lynn, Mike Nesmith, Steve Earle, Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven, Greg Shaw, Lenny Kaye, Mike Stax, Tim Gassen, Billy Miller and Miriam Linna, Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, Peter Zaremba, Jeff "Kopper", Theresa Kereakes, Tim Hayes, Dawn Anderson, Kristen Meyer (Rock and Roll Realtor), Mamma Casserole, Brian Foss, Erik 4-A, Bon Von Wheelie, Tom Price, Sam Olson, The Woggles, Granny Go-Go, Neko Case, Julie Lary, Mark Twain, Pete Seeger, Woodie Guthrie, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Ralph Nader, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Garry Trudeau, Michael Moore, Al Franken, Howard Stern, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, plus any other musicians, writers, artists, actors, and producers who dared to make a difference, people who fought against censorship and fought for free speech, people who fought the odds, people who believed in what's right, anyone who's fought for civil rights, and anyone who continues doing all this and more, my friends and my family, especially my dad.
