Ghetto-Fab'lous Manicures, Gaudy Plastic Jewelry, High Crime and High Fashion, Clip-On Earrings, Cha-Cha Heels, Militant Lesbianism, Contrapposto, Stupid TV Programmes About Supermodels, Siestas, Dancing the Charleston, Swearing Like a Sailor, Imitating Things I See on TV, Yodeling, Glossolalia, Ridiculously High Fioritura, Crocheting, Having My Cake and Eating It Too, Talking Back, Muckraking/Mudslinging, Gerrymandering, Fighting City Hall (And Leaving Flaming Bags of Dog Doodie on Its Doorstep), Black Tea with Milk and Sugar, TV Dinners, Hot Pants, Mexican/Chinese Restaurants that give you a CRAP lode of food for DIRT cheap, All-You-Can-Eat Indian Buffets, Watching Court TV and Gem TV Simultaneously, vii°-iii-vi-ii-V-I-IV-I, Ninths and Thirteenths (Elevenths Too, I Suppose), And...
AH YES.
ENJOYING THE SPORTING LIFE.
I'd like to meet:
HANK WILLIAMS
PATSY CLINE
YMA SUMAC
TAMMY!
Music:
NINA HAGEN
VIOLETTA VILLAS
YMA SUMAC
SLIM WHITMAN
KLAUS NOMI
HANK WILLIAMS
MARIA CALLAS
THE MISFITS
DEAD KENNEDYS
PATSY CLINE
DIAMANDA GALAS
SEX PISTOLS
LENE LOVICH
CONCHITA SUPERVIA
AMELITA GALLI-CURCI
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
MARC ALMOND
SOFT CELL
JOSEPHINE BAKER
ROSSINI
DONIZETTI
BELLINI
VERDI
FRANZ LISZT
Movies:
Female Trouble, Satyricon, ???????? ?????, Battle Royale, Lady Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Pink Flamingos, Slither, Hot Fuzz, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, A Streetcar Named Desire, True Lies, Run Lola Run, Get Christie Love! Kingpin, Saw I and II, $corched, A Witness for the Prosecution, Silent Hill, Palindromes, Carnival of Souls, Little Murders, The Chumscrubber, Evil Dead, and Army of Darkness... Sin City, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, All the Montey Python films (The Meaning of Life, Life of Bryan, The Holy Grail), All the Naked Gun films, The Forbidden Zone, Dolemite (and Dolemite II: The Human Tornado!), Mulholland Drive, Evensong (with Conchita Supervia!), The Bad Seed, Robot Monster, The Last House on the Left, Cabin Boy, High School High, Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Cleopatra Jones, Fantasy Mission Force, THE APPLE!!! The Nomi Song! Cha Cha (with Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich! How can you go wrong?) I'm No Angel (gotta love old Mae West), A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, Spinal Tap, a whole lotta other crap.
Television:
Ranma 1/2, The Simpsons, The Classic Arts Showcase, Benny Hill, Family Guy, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Simple Life, American Dad, Sailor Moon, Betty Boop, Cutey Honey, Married with Children, South Park, Just Shoot Me, The Young Ones, Beavis and Butt-Head, and GUMBY!!!
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Body of Evidence
The X-Files
The Golden Girls
Futurama
Stupid Shit with Tyra Banks
Books:
Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor
Emily Post's Etiquette
Manuel Garcia's Art of Singing
George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984
Sinclair Lewis's Main Street
Jack London's Call of the Wild and Whitefang
OE Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote
Anthony Burgess's Clockwork Orange
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Elektra
Euripides' Medea
Oscar Wilde's Salomé
Prosper Mérimée's Carmen
Leon Uris's QBVII
...AND LOTS O' OTHER GOOD STUFF~!
Heroes:
CUTEY HONEY!
Mado Robin, Diamanda Galas, Emily Post, Amelita Galli-Curci, Julia Child, Maria Callas, Jenny Lind, Florence Foster Jenkins, Lara Croft, the robot chick from Metropolis, and that evil little chick Rhoda, from The Bad Seed
YOKO ONO
LORETTA LYNN
DOLLY!
