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Deejay Mr. Rid

...records spin... flabby skin...

About Me

Pro mixmaster / party fluffer. Sentimental archivist and vault whisperer. Blue-eyed devil. Vaudevillianaire for the common people. Turning a buck and thumping the tub while swimming upstream through the mellow Jello culture that is Dallus, Taxes. Doubling as a juice extractor and condenser mic. What's your T.H.I.Q.?

My Interests

I enjoy imagineering, irritainment, hiding in plain sight, turning a corner, waxing and milking. I try to maintain the proper balance of consumption and production of goods which helps me benefit you - the consumer.

I'd like to meet:

Barnum & Bailey, S. N. Goenka, The DumDum Boys.

Music:

Biz Markie Smith, Iggy Poppins, Minnie Pearl Bailey, Jim Morrissey, Swade, Debbie Harry Partch, Johnny Cage, We Delta Five, Thin Lizzy Descloux, Peaches and Herb Alpert, Scissor Girl Sisters, Bennett Cerfers, Cop Shoot Copp and Brown, Willie Nilsson, Public Enemy Ltd., Eddie Hazelwood, Fatboy Slim Whitman, Fats Waller Domino, Vince Ghoulardi, Magic Christian Marclay, Lowell Coward, Dr. Nutt, Sun Rollins, Ike Hayes, Sam The Sham Cooke, Screamin' Jam Master Jay, Dave Alvin and The Chip Monks, Miles Davis Jr., Bel Biv and Devo, New York Dresden Dolls, Kim Gordon Lightfoot, Jap noise, Krautrock, Aunt Music, Peppy vamps, Ferrante and Teicher, Glen Meadmore, Magma, Pearl Chertok, Slim and Slam, All things Glam, Kim Fowley, Roy Wood, The Girls Together Outrageously, Harmonicats, early No Wave, Stars On 45, whistling records, cicadas in the summer, faulty air conditioners.

Movies:

The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Loved One, Juliet Of The Spirits, The Day The Clown Cried, Brothers Of The Head, Bunuel, anything Harryhausen, Love Is The Devil, Secret Life Of Plants, Gore-Gore Girls, Flaming Creatures, Hitler In Color, Laurel & Hardy, Female Trouble, Herzog, Phantom Of The Paradise, What's The Matter With Helen? ( R.I.P. Shelly Winters), Manchurian Candidate, Salo, Catch 22, Wizard Of Oz, Wizard Of Gore, Fake!, The Monkees' Head, Warhol's Heat, Touch Of Evil, Fugitive Kind, Fox and His Friends, Diane Keaton's Heaven, Russ Myers, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, House Of Dark Shadows, Haxon, Mondo anything, Good To See You Again Alice Cooper, Lolita, That's Entertainment, misguided productions like Skidoo, Boom and Candy where old Hollywood clashed with the 'turned-on generation', Cotton Candy.

Television:

Night Gallery, Penn and Teller Bullshit, Extras, Murray Cox RFD, Colbert Report, Flipper.

Books:

The Great Derangement, Please Kill Me, Fantavius Malare,The Secret Life Of Germs, Dali's cookbook, Confederacy Of Dunces, Angry Kate.

Heroes:

The rents, Jack LaLane, Jerry Haynes, Bernard Goetz

My Blog

Brothers Karamazov Vs. Insomnia

From Lisa Carver's amazing bio 'Drugs Are Nice' -- My favorite line anywhere is from Dostoyevsky- "In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we assume....
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:43:00 PST

I've been on a Lee Hazlewood AND a sobriety bender lately...

The gist of his liner notes from the CD version of 'Requiem For An Almost Lady' just resonated with me and my sense of twisted guilt for being intoxicant-free once again." After breathing in and out f...
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:46:00 PST

Freedom To Suck, Reign or Shine

I often view my Scaraoke Thursdays at Meridian Room as community service. Also a combo platter of transgressive therapy and a tipsy dog and pony show. Six years later and I still enjoy the noise. Does...
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:09:00 PST

Hypnotizin' chickens

I'm starting to liken some DJ gigs to feeding baby chicks ( I'm the poultry man - I make things alright...) and some to adult day care- giddy toddlers falling around me hoisting longneck formula bottl...
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:23:00 PST

You'd better sit down kids --

i'm afraid it's all been done before.
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:48:00 PST

I'm your Acidophilus Hitler

Party bowels in a wad? Dr. Rid recommends Nature's Way brand Primadophilus "Original'. 2 or 3 a day.
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:42:00 PST

'....In Bed'

Fortune Cookie fortunes -real and imagined'Try to develope your own personality.'Real.. !..At the time I..did need to firm up my own main frames of reference. Preserved from the mid 80's and the late ...
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Fri, 12 May 2006 05:08:00 PST

GRACIST

This brave new world is choked with graceless boors. Not enough grace in the world me thinks. Are U with Me?! I am a gracist and proud of it.
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Thu, 04 May 2006 05:32:00 PST

My Nino is a hack?

I just bought and am now listening to  Nino Rota's soundtrack for 'Shoot Loud, Louder, I Don't Understand'. After 20- odd years of blind idolatry I have to finally pose the question -why did...
Posted by Deejay Mr. Rid on Thu, 04 May 2006 05:28:00 PST