Johnny Walker, American Spirits, Vaudeville, Burlesque (recent bandwagon joiner and proud of it) MC'ing shows, Girls who combine the supreme aesthetics of horror-show hostess, Vampira, and the cigarette-flicking female hoodlums of the late, 1950's, Cautionary-Tale, J.D. movies. Throwing empty scotch-bottles at S.U.V.'s while singing 1930's Labor-Union anthems in a thick, drunken and barely legitimate Irish accent. Stealing worthless garbage I don't need and can't remember why I took it, what it is, or where it came from the next day.Oh yeah, and I'm in a big crazy psuedo-vaudeville show (mostly it's a lot of sexy girls in weird costumes introduced by me, the requisite loudmouth MC wise-ass in a big fancy suit.(go look!:www.spectacularspectacular.com )
Indecent People With a Strong Sense of Decency.Someone who likes to snarl and make-out while dancing to "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison. Someone who, in that same circumstance, would find the overpowering scent of Johnny Walker "charming." Someone, in that same circumstance, who doesn't necessarily _look_ strong enough to keep me from tipping over while drunk, but who nevertheless is. Someone, in that same circumstance, who understands the basic engineering principle that two drunk, well-dressed people, leaning _towards_ each other, _can_ actually dance and make-out to "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison without falling over. Someone, in that same circumstance, who, should we fall over, will start laughing hysterically with absolutely no regard for the inevitable and enormous, purple-yellow-green butt-bruise that will develop at the same rate as the equally inevitable crushing hangover. Someone who, in that same circumstance, can wake up the next morning in a fog of smeared make-up, staggering pain and wrinkled party-clothes, make eye-contact, and start chuckling like a supervillain.
Johnny, Gene, Elvis, Roy, both "Eddies" (Duane & Cochrane) 70's New York Glam & Punk, 60's Garage, Gothic junk, Rockabilly junk, Iggy, Bowie, T-Rex, Rob Zombie, Prince Kong and the Royal Gravediggers...
Casablanca... The Greatest Movie of All Time.. It has everything: War, Romance, Intrigue, Espionage, More than one Weirdo in a Fez, Casino Gambling and, most important of all, Wising-Off to Nazis (it's arguable whether Steve McQueen topped Bogart's Rick Blaine in this category when he appeared as The Cooler-King in The Great Escape, but the Great Escape, while Great, is not Casablanca... ) Lessee... What else... Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Titus... Virtually all of the movies made in the 1960's about whacky characters in a vintage-vehicle race... All the various Jules Verne/H.G. Wells-type, matinee flicks ("Land that Time Forgot, Mysterious Island, First Men in the Moon... Though Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is the unquestioned champion... ) All the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies... Most of the Universal Horror line-up (Frankenstein-through-Creature From the Black Lagoon... ) Hammer Horror... Uhh... What else...
The Alienist, The List of Seven, Patrick O'Brian, The Flashman Series, Anything that kicks the f'ing Republicans in their tiny shrivelled nuts (though Blinded by the Right bored me to tears... ) Fast Food Nation, Sherlock Holmes Series, 19th and early 20th Century History stuff... I like some of that alternate-history fiction, but most of it is just total hack-crap wrapped around a vaguely neat idea.
Walter J. Dagnabbit, Jr., William Jefferson Clinton (just shuttup... ), JFK, FDR, Morgan LeFey, P.T. Barnum, W.C. Fields, James Bond & Joan Jett...