Music: Punk, Hard Core, Street Rock, Psychobilly, Etcetera. Books: History, Crime (both True and good fiction ie: Ellroy), Biographies, Some Random Fiction such as Pahlaniuk, Welsh, etcetera. Tattoos: Old School sensibility with a twist, monster movie influenced, COLOR, none of that lame-assed tribal shite! more to come...
I'm not sure that there's too many of you people I actually wanna MEET, but I am taking submissions for my radio show, The Helium Bar, which is on every Friday night on www.kdur.org. I play Punk, Rockabilly, Rock 'N Roll, Hard Core, Psychobilly, Street Rock, Oi, Old School Country and whatever else I like. Send me a message if you want the address to send your music to.
Sheer Terror, Negative Approach, Dead Boys, The Oppressed, Darkbuster, Awkward Thought, Hank Williams, Dead Empty, The Chumps, The Bodies, The Real McKenzies, The Briefs, Lower Class Brats, Templars, Johnny Cash, Slapshot, Main Street Saints, The Ritchie Whites, The Avengers, The Pogues, The GC5, Hudson Falcons, Motorhead, The(real,as in original)Misfits, Die Hunns, Bonecrusher (not the stupid rap band), Limecell, Anti Heros, Adolescents, Flogging Molly, The Meatmen, Poison Idea, Electric Frankenstein, The Dictators, Eddie Cochran, X, The Kinks, Antiseen, Laurel Aitken, The Staggers, The Beltones, Reducers SF, Joe Coffee, Street Dogs, Desmond Decker, Thunders and the Heartbreakers, The Damned, The Spooky, Buzzcocks, Oi Polloi, The Meteors, Agnostic Front, Judge Dread, Dead End Cruisers, Cockney Rejects, The Big Boys, Jerry's Kids, Submachine, The Kings Of Nuthin, Tiger Army, Cock Sparrer, Society System Decontrol, Battalion Of Saints, Youth Brigade, R 'N' R, Last Rights, For Men, The Hawks, Balzac, L.R.F., S.F.A., Kraut, Reagan Youth, Devil Dogs, The Offenders, N.O.T.A., Yuppicide, Derrick Morgan, Nipple Erectors, Prince Buster, Blitz, The Cramps, Blacklist, The Wretched Ones, Workin' Stiffs, Bad Manners, Really Red, D.R.I., Angry Samoans, Blood For Blood, Ducky Boys, The Freeze, Token Entry, Wrecking Crew, Manic Hispanic, Those Unknown, The Clancy Brothers, Menace, Wanda Jackson, Anti Nowhere League, should I go on?
Horror: Universal Monster movies (almost all of them, especially anything with my boy Frankie), good Zombie movies like 28 Days Later and Return Of The Living Dead, King Kong and old school Godzilla, Nightbreed, just about anything with Bruce Campbell, Dog Soldiers is on par with American Werewolf In London, Shaun Of The DeadMafia/Mob and organized crime related movies: The Godfather, Good Fellas, Boondock Saints, Snatch, I think you see where I'm going here....Almost anything with decent writing and/or good style...Kill Bill (both I and II), Lost In Translation, City Of Lost Children, more here later...
The Sopranos and Deadwood, sometimes The Daily Show or something on The History Channel, is there anything else?
Everything by Palahniuk, especially Choke and of course Fight Club. Edogawa Rampo and other Japanese Crime/Mystery writers of his ilk. Absolutely EVERYTHING ever written by James MOTHERFUCKING Ellroy. Brendan Behan. A lot of Irvine Welsh stuff like Glue or Porno. Pretty much every half-decent or better True Crime book, especially if they concern any aspect of organized crime or Jack The Ripper. History and Historical Fiction, mostly concerning Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Plenty of other crap too, I've almost always got something I'm reading.
I once had a hero.....but then I had to kill him.