Fried Bannanas and Ice Cream! Roller derby, masked wrestling, were-wolf movies, monster trucks, tatoos, hot rod culture, vintage electric basses, rock and roll, pinball, old video games (played Rampage the other day I LOVE that fucking game!) trashy low brow pop culture, strawberry flavored anything, Yahtzee, Backgammon, Comics, Sci-Fi, french sounding words like "liason" huffing Carbona, making swirly paintings by dipping myself in chocolate syrup and spinning around till I throw up, cheeze. balls. cheeze balls. fresh ...
I'd like to meet:
A leprechaun or Madona or Madona dressed as a leprechaun singing Elvis or Elvis dressed as Madonna singing the Pogues, or Shane McGowan - before he croaks - or Barbara Walters just so I can say - So you went from having lunch with presidents to the View - nice move there Babs, Barabar Streisand or a Pope - any Pope even a dead one or a Yeti- I like that word - say it with me Yeeeeetiiiiii- Yeti - oh yeahhhhh!
Music:
The Clash, the Rev Horton Heat, Motorhead, The Kinks, just rediscovered Hazel Adkins - badaaaass! Roy Orbison, Elvis, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, OZZY, Sabbath, Southern Culture on the Skids, The Asylum St Spankers (if ya don't know who they are you should) GoGol Bordello, Manu Chau, Dr. Dog, Kiss, ACDC, Surf Rock, Queens of the Stone Age, 50's Do Wop, Jump Blues, saw a band called Throw Rag at Magnetic Field in Brooklyn and they fucking rock! Hard Bop. Just heard the Go Team - pretty cool stuff! and as much as I hate to admit it I fucking like Wolf Mother - sue me!
Movies:
Everything ever done by Sam Raime, Goodfellas, Abott and Costello meet Frankenstein - Dracula AND the Wolfman, Attack of the Giant Tomatoes, State of Grace (almost anything Gary Oldman is in)Arsenic and Old Lace, The Princess Bride, Space Balls, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Where The Buffalo Roam, Roadie w/Meatloaf and Debbie Harry, KISS meets the Phantom of the Park, Hellraiser, The Holy Grail, Delicatessen, Buckaroo Banzai - the worst fucking movie ever made, Killer Clowns from Outer Space (w/music by the Dickies punk fans) Ichee The Killer (just fucking amazing) King of New York, Old Boy! Mean Streets, Heavy Metal (the first one - not the crappy new one) Kentucky Fried Movie, UHF, Animal House (of fucking course) Fast Times, Godzilla Movies, Gamera Movies, (Gamera is Godzilla's low budget competitive franchise - he's a flying turtle fer chrissakes - stupid but oh so fun to watch)Swingers, Blame it on Rio - retarded flick about Michael Caine porking his best friends nubile little daughter - let's just say Mike needed the money, The Blob, The Exorcist, Mario Brothers with Hopper and Leguiziamo - once again needed the money, anything with the Letter X in it! did I mention Old Boy? AWESOME movie! John Water's stuff, (the original) Little Shop Of Horrors, Forbiden Zone ...oh and whatever's on cable after 3AM
Television:
Anything that's on - TV is like smack to me. I recommend Dexter on Shotime, The Soup (used to be Talk Soup) FUSE TV rather than MTV 2 - I've just become a Law and Order junky, The L Word (we love SHANE!) Samurai Jack, Justice League Unlimited, Cowboy BeBop, Deadwood, Davey and Goliath (ya just can't beat christian claymation) Moral Oral, Table for Five and this great show of writers,comics and just personalitites telling stories called the Moth - Dead Like Me is back on TV! Hurray! Just got into Smalleville again (yes I know it's a queer show!) Stargate Atlantis I've decided isn't a bad show - but whatever is on is fine by me - I actually sleep with my remote like Linus w/his blanket.
Books:
Stranger in a Strange Land, E Tu Babe by Mark Lainer, Naked by David Sedaris, Catch 22, Junky by Burroughs, Forced Entries - Jim Carol, Hollywood (or pretty much anything) by Bukowski, Low Life -Luc Sante, Cut Numbers by Nick Tosches, The Black Dahlia, Homeboy by Seth Morgan, Last Exit To Brooklyn (fuck the movie man you hafta read the book!) Hotel New Hamshire, No Cure for Cancer by Dennis Leary, The Motley Crue book (can't remeber the title) any comic involving artists Frank Miller, Peter Kuper, R Crumb, Robert Williams, Simon Bisley, John Byrne Neil Gaman, Bill Siekewicz (misssspeelled that 4 sure) Brian Boland, Sergio Aragonez, the Love n Rockets brothers, Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby (RIP) or Todd McFarlane
just read About a Boy - I would kill to be able to come up with those kind of characters.- I read Blink by Gladwell - not as fun as the Tipping Point but pretty good - I read God's Pocket recently - really cool gritty shit!
Prisoner of X - a memoir by the old editor of Hustler is freaking awesome.
Heroes:
Spidey of course, El Santo, Lenny Bruce, Hunter S. Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Stan (The Man) Lee, Frank Frazzetta, Robert Williams, Big Daddy Ed Roth, Jack Kirby, Dean Martin, Paul Lynd (not only was he the center square and the randy uncle on Bewitched, he was also countless cartoon voices including the rat in Charlottes Web) Chuck Jones, Spike Jones, that guy who stood in front of that tank in Tienemman Square - that boy had BALLS! Willy Nelson (FREE WILLY! Let the old boy have his weed and mushrooms!)
