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Dave

Spazz Be Not Proud

About Me

King of the Surf... that's me

My Interests

music, writing, artwork, photos, biking, radio stuff, beach, dj'ing, dancing at record hops, thrifting for junk I don't need, accumulating photos of dressed-up monkeys, writing songs, bowling left-handed

I'd like to meet:

The Mets

Music:

rock & roll, soul, garage, punk, R & B, country, hillbilly, funk, surf, early Ernest Tubb

Movies:

The Sea Monkeys - Take No Prisoners TV - January 1992



This show was part of a series shown on Flint, Mi's public access channel. The show focused on local mid-Michigan bands during the 1990's. Ben Hamper (Rivethead author)and Jerry Humphrey host this zany documentation of Flint's excellent underground music scene. It's a Gift, The Big Combo, Point Blank, silent movies, Hong Kong stuff from 80s & early 90s, Dogville Comedies, The Killing, Bad Santa, Fat City

Television:

Future Shock, Dragnet, Strangers With Candy, Ghoul-a-Go-Go, Adam-12 but oh man that's hard to take sometimes... I'm more of a Dragnet kinda guy

Books:

The Day of the Locust, Working, Rivethead, most Fitzgerald, most Salinger, The Sweet Smell of Success, Island of Lost Souls, Huck Finn, most Dorothy Parker, Fast Food Nation, Dino, lots of biographies, most Jean Shepherd stuff, Crime and Punishment, lots of non-fiction, old comic strips, out-of-town newspapers

Heroes:

Harvey Kurtzman, George Jones, Hank Williams, Jackie Chan, MLK, Jack Webb, Buster Keaton, Loretta Lynn, Louis Prima, The Mighty Hannibal, George Washington Carver, Edgar the Drunk

My Blog

Al Oster and the Frozen North

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/10/al-oster-and-th.html
Posted by Dave on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:30:00 PST

Hank Williams

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/09/hank-wiliams.html
Posted by Dave on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:08:00 PST

Dragnet Haikus

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/09/dragnet-haikus.html
Posted by Dave on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:58:00 PST

Charlie Feathers and Elvis Presley

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/08/charlie-feather.html
Posted by Dave on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:06:00 PST

The Duck Suit Chronicles

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/05/the-duck-suit-c.html
Posted by Dave on Wed, 28 May 2008 07:04:00 PST

Do Robots Dream of Drunk Monkeys?

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/04/elektro-the-rob.html
Posted by Dave on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:53:00 PST

Music To Spazz By in the New York Times

Now that the Weekly World News folded, this is the best I can do... http://www. nytimes. com/2008/02/24/nyregion/24towns. html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=WFMU&st=nyt&oref=slogin.. .
Posted by Dave on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:54:00 PST

One Last Best of LCD book event!

Please join us for a special event featuring NYC's most eccentric and talented oddballs reading from the new book from WFMU--The Best of LCD: The Art and Writing of WFMU (Princeton Architectural Press...
Posted by Dave on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:01:00 PST

CBS-FM's Bob Shannon & Connie T. Empress drop by the show!

http://bobshannon.com/blog/
Posted by Dave on Sun, 27 May 2007 09:31:00 PST

Spazz Dance Party x 3!!!

SPAZZ DANCE PARTYFRIDAY NIGHT APRIL 27 - drop by the Boulevard Tavern for 6 freakin' hours of rock & roll rekkids all night long! $3 all you can eat BBQ, $5 Bud & Jack- what could possibly go wrong?!?...
Posted by Dave on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:18:00 PST