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About Me

Searching for adventures of different sorts - late night debauchery, intelligent conversation, tasty food, expensive booze, live music, moving art, travel, camping, games - you name it. See www.degeneratepress.com for more.
BANDS: Sorry, I probably won't add you as a friend unless I've seen you perform. I used to add all bands to my friends list but my bulletins and messages become unmanageable and usesless. Now I only add the bands I've seen and liked. Sorry. It's not you, it's me. Or myspace.
I'm considered blunt by Southern standards, but polite by Northern. Hey, I have an opinion and I don't mind sharing it and I don't mind thinking I'm right until I'm proven otherwise.
Aside from honesty, I'm loyal and prepared but I never would've made a good Boy Scout 'cause I don't dress like everyone else, I don't follow orders well and I don't believe in authority figures.
These are a few of my favorite things: Daddy D'z, women, The Star Bar, pastry, The EARL, thrift stores, Lenny's, my front porch, Carroll St. Cafe, my secret camping spot in the North Georgia mountains, EAYC, wasting obscene amounts of gas in my 1969 Thunderbird, wasting obscene amounts of time writing, wasting obscene amounts of brain cells getting wasted (well, not as much as I used to) sculpting, eating, drinking and talking late into the night.
These are a few of my least favorite things: fake people, fake tits, stupidity (ignorance can be overcome), sports (sorry, just don't care for 'em except for Rollerderby, World Cup Soccer and the "extreme" stuff like skateboarding), and thus for some reason Buckhead and trendy clubs in Midtown aren't high on my list of "fun".

My Interests

music, Atlanta, burlesque, travel, alcohol, drive ins, flirting, board games, movies, art, pinball, good rum (Mount Gay, Sailor Jerry, Don Q Gold, Ron del Barrilito), good bourbon(Maker's, Woodford Reserve), barbecue (pork), old cars, Italian food, expensive desserts, gelato

I'd like to meet:

Dr. Girlfriend
People with open minds for just about any occasion.
Sense of humor required, creativity of any sort a plus.

Music:

Everything from hard/heavy (AC/DC, Motorhead) and strange energy (MC5, Immortal Lee County Killers) to soft/pretty (Neko Case, Hope for Agoldensummer), as well as local acts of most sorts.
I came to love music back in the 80's new wave era, but that flavor of retro has been done to death. Now when I want to look back it's to R&B and soul of the 60's (Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin.) And if I wanna shake my groove thang I have no interest in techno racket when there's perfectly danceable music made by actual human beings (60's and 70's funk!!!) Random other thoughts: Dick Dale, The Hiss, Truckadelic, Jet By Day, Mudcat, Thee Crucials, Johnny Cash, The Forty Tives, Kingsized, Tongo Hiti, The Helgas, Seventeen Years, Kelly Hogan, Smoke and Opal Foxx Quartet, The Black Lips, Parliament/Funkadelic, Rock*A*Teens, Subsonics, Tiger! Tiger!, David Bowie, The Selmanaires, Alice Cooper, Anna Cramer, Frank Zappa, The Coathangers, just about anything on the Dap Tones label. The list goes on and on.

Movies:

Anything that DOESN'T deal with day to day drama of real people. I've had enough of that in my life, thanks. When I want entertainment I want to escape reality, not be reminded of it.
Some of my favorites:
Fight Club
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Being John Malcovich
Brazil (and almost anything else by Terry Gilliam)
American Beauty
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Hammer horror classics
Sergio Leone westerns
and anything fun and stupid at Starlight Drive In.

Television:

The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Battlestar Gallactica, Venture Bros., Acqua Teen Hunger Force, Cash Cab, Office (both BBC and NBC flavors), The Simpsons, Deadwood, The Sopranos, That 70's Show, Mythbusters, MXC, Wild Boys, and just about anything on the History Channel, PBS, Travel Channel, or Discovery Channel.

Books:

Mark Twain, National Geographic magazine, anything by Bill Bryson, Too Much Coffee Man, and lately anything to do with pirates. Yeah, it's embarassing, but I got into it before the fad and it's research for game I'm working on.

Heroes:

The lone Chinese guy who stood in front of that line of tanks trying to make their way into Tiananmen Square. Those weren't grocery bags he was holding, those were his titanic BALLS.

My Blog

Throw me the Bubba!

FILM FLAM..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Tonight's pick for the drive in is, of course, the new Indiana Jones flick. There's a diminishing chance of rain but ...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Wed, 28 May 2008 01:18:00 PST

Lazy days and early nights

EAR PLUGSCaught The Howlies at Lenny's the other night, along with The Hiss, but I've reviewed both bands several times lately so I didn't get motivated to put together a full color effort this time. ...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Thu, 22 May 2008 07:59:00 PST

I will survive in my Mach 5

Can you tell it was slow at work this week? Yeah, a two-fer Electric Degeneration! FILM FLAMI expected Speed Racer to be a horrific nightmare based on what critics had been saying and my own love for ...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Fri, 16 May 2008 07:13:00 PST

The Holland Dutch, Can Can, The Moaners at Lenny’s, and Roller Derby

EAR PLUGSThe Holland Dutch, Can Can, The Moaners at Lenny's, and a bit of RollerDerby:http://www.degeneratepress.com/vault/moaners_5_2 008/index.html FILM FLAMThis week's drive in pick is Speed Racer. ...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:00 PST

Lynch mob

BLASPHEMYLast episode I added some color commentary regarding David Lynch to the Prophesy section, generating some interesting responses: SHIT FRED.... YOU ARE SO FUCKING 100% A WRITER AND NOT A PAINT...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:58:00 PST

Yard Monkeys

EAR PLUGSFriday night there wasn't a lot going on, but The Coathangers and TheSelmanaires were at Lenny's. Sure, I've seen them a dozen times recently butthey're both fine bands and almost guarantee a...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:08:00 PST

death and other trips

OBIT Copied this of degenerate MG's myspace: Sean Costello April 16, 1979 - April 15, 2008 Blues Blast magazine from IllinoisBlues. com has just received word of the death of Blues guitarist Sean Cos...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:06:00 PST

Degenerate showers may bring flowers. Or mold.

BACK IN ACTION JACKSONIf you tried emailing me last week and it bounced, try again. I cranked up the spam filter while I was gone so I wouldn't have as much debris to sort through.I had hoped to get m...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:23:00 PST

March Movie Madness

FILM FLAMWith the weather improving and Starlight opening all 6 screens, we decided to pop the cherry on the season of outdoor movies on Saturday with Will Ferrel’s latest 70’s/sports effo...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST

Cabbagetown relief info

Sorry for the lack of Ear Plugs. The shows we’d planned on attending last weekend were cancelled due to the weather. Speaking of& BLASPHEMY At 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, those willing to hel...
Posted by Degenerate Press on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:57:00 PST