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Greg Slab

WHAT!?...and leave show business!?

About Me

(Stop me if you've heard this before, but...) I promise joy and fulfillment in it's most primitive form and I mostly always partly deliver..... i don't know which end is up...and i don't much care...i play, write and eat music for a living ...i can play any instrument with strings (ok, ok...western instruments with strings....)...I've devoted a generous portion of my life playing in a band called Raging Slab (and still do) .... I used to live in Washington D.C. and New York City ...now, i live on a big farm in North-Central Pennsylvania (Southern Potter County) ...and (finally) I no longer fear death because I've found out that god is tiny.

My Interests

Making some music, Dressing like a hillbilly Sly Stone, Blacksmithing, The Buffalo Bills, Cooking Indian food, Travelling, Offing the Pigs, Spain, Krakow, Stromming in Slussen, Coney Island in the off-season, permanently dismantling Fender Stratocasters, shoosting the flintlock, flax-scutching, ....

I'd like to meet:

people who know how to have a really, really good time...

Music:

...60's and 70's Sountracks...y'know-Barry, Mancini, Morricione,etc...) Television, The Ramones, , The Fall, Thelonius Monk, , Miles Davis, Dylan, Free, Captain Beefheart, Burt Bacharach, Richard Hell and The Voidoids (Rob't Quine!), John Coltrane, OLD Todd Rundgren...,Nico, Little Richard, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Roxy Music, The Rascals, The Zombies, The Hollies, Tiny Desk Unit, Danny Gatton, Big Star, Old Bowie, Zappa, The Groundhogs, The Pretenders, Airto, Jobim, Clube Da Esquina, ...and....

Movies:

I have viewed "Dr. Strangelove" over one hundred MILLION times...- I've seen the first 30 minutes of Werner Herzog's "Nosferatu" over TWO HUNDRED MILLION times mostly because I like looking at Isabel Adjani,....Anything with Peter Sellers, Anything Directed by Werner Herzog....Everything Directed by Stanley Kubrick and Fellini and Woody Allen and Martin Scorcese and Robert Altman ..."Barbarella",..."What's New PussyCat"..."Bedazzled" (the funniest movie ever made!)(...ahem...ahem...w/ Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore -not the absurdly pointless remake! ....and if anyone out there has a copy of Dudley Moore's soundtrack...I'd sell you what's left of my soul for it...) ,Girl On a Motorcycle, Black Moon, Withnail and I,.., The Loved One, Au Hasard Balthazaar, Akira Kurosawa, Onibaba, Ugetsu & Kwaidan, Rock N' Roll High School, Quadrophenia, Hard Days Night, Help, Sergio Leone Spagetti Westerns, Silent German Horror Movies ...( Nosferatu, Gollum, Vampyr, The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari...) The Tin Drum, Blowup, The Ipcress Files,... in fact, almost ANY slightly overstaurated technicolor 60's or 70's flick regardless of plot...... Ealing Studio films, Hammer Studio Horror movies....The Heartbreak Kid...A New Leaf...Convoy ...Spinal Tap (and offshoots "Mighty Wind" etc....) ....

Television:

The funniest/saddest show on TV is CSpan's Washington Journal......Blackadder, Andy Griffith (w/ Don Knotts), The Mighty Boosh, MTM, Fawlty Towers, The Addams Family, Simpsons, Ultraman, Bullwinkle, Posh Nosh, Get Smart, Roger Ramjet, etc .................I have a pathological hatred of TV commercials... and as a result, I stay far away from most shows that surround them.

Books:

DON QUIXOTE, Lester Bangs,...."The Stupids Die", and William Shakespeare

Heroes:

The cook at Minar Palace on East 27th street, NYC (don't look for it ...it's long gone...)