I'd like to meet:
People I'd like to meet???? Odd balls. I'm an artist/photographer/D.J./Music fanatic. so I like talking to other people who love music,books,films. I collect a lot of things from the 1960's to now:including Records,7"singles(picture sleeves),sheet music,8 x 10" glossies,press kits,posters,flyers,CD's,buttons/badges, Anything music related. I like live shows,and photograph most of the bands I go to see. I'm the one holding the camera.I collect art and old punk photos,and have several mid 60's Mustangs.I'm always working on them.It's not that they're junk,they just require tweeking.If the weather is nice,I'm fixing one of the cars.A girls' gotta be handy.
Music:
Rolling Stones,The Kinks,The Turtles,The Birds(UK),dirty old blues records,Joe Meek,The Shadows,The Remains,The Stooges,The Velvet Underground,The Monks,The Left Banke, Q-65,Surf/instrumental music,The Electric Banana(Pretty Things other psych band), 1960's Aussie Garage bands,The La De Da's,The Purple Hearts,The Atlantics,The sunsets,The Chants R & B,there's so many of them,that were actually great! G.S. or Group Sounds Bands From Japan;The Mops,The Golden Cups,The Bunnys,The Youngers,The Spiders,The Dynamites... The Rascals,The Outsiders(Wally Tax)& obscure bands who only put out a few singles,and vanished or were drafted in the Vietnam War....regional 1960's bands, who played at sock hops,high school dances, and only put out a couple of singles...some of those bands, that were never heard, sometimes did some amazing music....Check out compilations like:Back From The Grave,Pebbles,and Highs In The Mid-60's...Psychedelic States series,Garage Beat '66, Nuggets From the Golden State,they feature these kinds of bands.Think The Human Expression doing "Optical Sound" and that's what I dig,baby. Also: The band Love,The Doors,Hideout Records(Detroit garage 60's),British Beat music, The Nightcrawlers from Florida(garage),The Count 5,The Eyes(UK 1960's band), The Standells,The Chocolate Watchband, The Pretty Things, The Zombies, The Electric Prunes,The Unrelated Segments(Michigan 60's Garage),Kenny & The Kasuals(Texas 60's garage),Cuca Records from Wisconsin,The Spats(L.A. 60's garage)The Attack, The Seeds,The Sonics,The Wailers,The Northwest bands in general from the 60's,13th Floor Elevators, The Creation(God-they are great!),Spencer Davis Group,The Who,Little Richard(the early years and his latest Geico commerials-what a performer!) The Monkees,Bo Diddley(when he plays his old songs),Bob Dylan,Captain Beefheart, more...T.Rex,Marc Bolan,Bowie,New York Dolls,The Cramps,Brian Eno(solo/Roxy Music)Punk Rock 70's-80's and beyond...The Ramones,Nirvana,Flipper,The Pixies,Devo,The White Stripes,The Fall,The Raconteurs,Queens of The Stone Age,Rocket From The Crypt,Scratch Acid,early Elvis Costello with The Attractions,Jonathan Fire*eater,some local music...Vocokesh,Plasticland,(check out their new CD on Rykodisc-it's great!)The Oil Tasters... AND: Nick Cave/Birthday Party, JAZZ and BLUES: John Coltraine, Miles Davis,especially Son House,Howlin' Wolf, Skip James, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Elmore James and others.... Radio: Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show,(which is getting kind of old hat) old Dr.Demento shows, Alice Cooper does an interesting radio show...and it sounds like he's having fun.Allan Sherman Albums from the 1960's...and that Rhino Handmade box set of all of his albums. Brilliant! I'm a total insane R & B MUSIC FAN- especially music from the late 40's-50's-early 60's Louis Jordan "jump R & B rock," ("Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens")so anything like that is cool baby!The CD series called Stompin' has some amazing R & B on them.I like The Impressions(1960's)(w/Curtis Mayfield),The Four Tops,Rufus Thomas, I like new and old music...it's all good.You just need to hear it again,and you'll know what I mean. NEW Garage/Rock bands like: The Fuzztones,The Makers, The Monomen,The Mummies,The Woggles are fabulous live!,The Creatures of The Golden Dawn,The Cynics,Satan's Pilgrims, The Detroit Cobras,Jack O' Fire,Poison 13, The Mortals,new surf /instro bands like The Volcanos,Man or Astroman, stuff like that... I think the Kinks,the Pixies,Mudhoney,The Stones,The Fall,Nick Cave is my favorite performer... And anything on In The Red Records,Crypt Records,Sympathy For the Record Industry usually is going to rock! Anything that's undefinable too: Hasil Adkins,Bunker Hill,is like way outsville,if you like wild stuff;check out Norton Records...and buy some CD's from them you cheap asshole!
Movies:
Movies: Well I like a wide variety of things...classic films,crappy foreign films, old Sci-Fi from the 1950's,Godzilla movies,Documentaries about "Punk Rock",which are fun!, Quentin Tarantino Films, Taxi Driver, The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis,Woody Allen films, Animal House,Boogie Nights, Barfly, Ed Wood, Peter Sellers movies,especially the film The World of Henry Orient... Music DVD's, (Bob Dylan's)Don't Look Back,The Time Machine(The old one directed by George Pal from 1961) Grey Gardens,And The Beales of Grey Gardens, M(with Peter Lorre),Repo Man(great soundtrack), The Mayor Of Sunset Strip, The movie Freaks from the 1930's, documentaries,American Hardcore was okay. I saw most of those bands,when they first played....Monster flicks.Any Godzilla movie.
Television:
First off, I don't watch much TV. REALLY! I really listen to more music/radio than watch the tube.... I like to watch vintage TV on DVD like: The Ernie Kovacs show, vintage game shows from the 50's-60's. the OLD Outer Limits TV Show from 1964-65,The Munsters, Lost In Space... I watch the DIY channel for car repair tips.I like the Science channel-the show "How It's Made". Leave It to Beaver,The Andy Griffith Show,I can't stand the modern world anymore! I want to live in Mayberry,next to Floyd The Barber.
Books:
Anything well written. I love James Ellroy,H.P.Lovecraft, Older Sci-Fi,Music related books,I always read: Mojo Magazine,Gearhead magazine,and a few others. Roomful Of Mirrors By Charles Cross(book about Jimi Hendrix),was a goodie! James Ellroy is fabulous: My Dark Places,Hollywood Nocturnes. Also the books:Louisiana Hayride Years By: Horace Logan with Bill Sloan,The Sweet Hell Inside By: Edward Ball(author of Slaves in The Family),What Was The First Rock and Roll Record By:Dawson and Propes, Philip Norman is a good rock bio guy,Record Collector guides,Re/Search books...I really do like reading things by John Waters(must be too busy on Court TV to write anymore!)and Penn Jillette,(Penn and Teller)if they would only get off their butts,and write more...actually,I mean, sit down,and write more...they are really entertaining and hilarious!
Heroes:
I don't know if they are all of my heroes: But imagine a table-full of these people: (Writer)James Ellroy,Howlin' Wolf(musician), Houdini(does he need an introduction?), John Waters(I'm not sure;film-maker/writer), Nick Cave & Mick Harvey(musicians), Ray Davies(musician),Picasso(artist/womanizer), Flannery O'Connor(writer),Diane Arbus(photographer), Paul Lynde(comedian).