I enjoy the finer things in life: voice-overs, smoking the mighty herb, eating tasty foods, seeing how long I can grow my hair, having that same hair braided (two French braids please), honing my backrub skills, being in zombie movies, reading, writing, laughing, fucking, sleeping, being creative, cats, knowledge, occasionally dressing up and looking damn good in the process, sideburns, studded vests, flight jackets, flannel shirts, my Adidas, boots, people-watching, knowing next to jack shit about current pop culture and/or trends, vinyl, cassettes, VHS, pro wrestling, the Mountain View Cemetary, more stereo speakers, telling stories, listening to your stories, making my own band posters, spending a reasonable amount of time alone, trying to think of new tattoo ideas that I unfortunately cannot draw on my own nor afford, waging war on the hipster elite, and not towing your bullshit party line.
The future partner in crime. Sympathetic tattoo artists who are obsessed with Paul Booth and Pushead, and want to drill on me for the price of a burrito or less. Those that stand on Greg Valencia’s side of the stage. More nondrinking meat-eating dope smokers. Hot redheads that wanna braid my hair. Rose McGowan, Desiree Cousteau, Pam Grier, and Adrienne Barbeau in a wild orgy. Probably a few other people that I can’t think of right now. Send me a message if you’re gonna add me and I don’t know you and I’ll try to do the same.
Bon Scott-era AC/DC, Agents of Satan, Alice Cooper, Amebix, Annihilation Time, Atrocious Madness, Attitude Adjustment, Bad Brains, Bathory, Benumb, BGK, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blowfly, Bludwulf, Born/Dead, Brainoil, Breakdown, Brody’s Militia, Buzzov-en, Capitalist Casualties, Caustic Christ, Celtic Frost, CFDL, Chaos UK, Cockney Rejects, Confuse, Corrosion of Conformity, Cro-Mags, Crow, Crucial Cause, Crucifix, The Crumbsuckers, Darkthrone, Dead Kennedys, Despise You, Deviated Instinct, Discharge, Disorder, DOA, The Doors, DRI, EBS, Eldopa, Excruciating Terror, Exitwound, Exodus, Fear of God, Flipper, Framtid, Funeral Shock, Funkadelic, The Gaia, Gauze, Geto Boys, GISM, Grimple, Hammers of Misfortune, Hellbastard, Heresy, Ice T, Infest, Iron Maiden, the Jackson Five, John the Baker and the Malnourished, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Kreator, Lip Cream, Ludicra, Man is the Bastard, The Masked Men, Medication Time, Mercyful Fate, Metallica (‘83-‘86), The Misanthropists, The Misfits (Glenn only, duh), Motorhead, Municipal Waste, Murphy’s Law, Napalm Death (pre-Barney), Nausea, Negative Approach, Neurosis, 9 Shocks Terror, No Less, Noothgrush, NOTA, NWA, The Obsessed, Out Cold, Parliament, Pentagram, Pink Fairies, The Pist, Poison Idea, Powerhouse, Public Enemy, Raw Power, the Rolling Stones, St. Vitus, Scorpions, Septic Death, Skarp, Skaven, Skew Whiff, Slayer (‘83-‘86), Sleep, SOB, Spazm 151, Special Forces, SS Decontrol, The Stooges, Stormcrow, Strung Up, Toxic Holocaust, Uncurbed, United Blood, Urban Waste, Van Halen (no Hagar), The Vanishing, Venom, Weakling, ZOE.
Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Humphrey Bogart, Mel Brooks, John Carpenter, Joel and Ethan Coen, Larry Cohen, Brian DePalma, Lucio Fulci, Terry Gilliam, Pam Grier, Howard Hawks, John Huston, Peter Jackson, Lau Kar-Leung, Tony Jaa, Ringo Lam, Spike Lee, Jet Li, the Marx Brothers, Takashi Miike, Sam Peckinpah, Sam Raimi, George Romero, Quentin Tarantino, John Woo, David and Jerry Zucker.
Airplane!, American Me, American Psycho, Angels with Dirty Faces, Apocalypse Now, Arsenic and Old Lace, Battle Royale, The Big Sleep, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, Brazil, Cannibal Holocaust, Casino, Citizen Kane, City on Fire, Coffy, Commando, Creepshow, Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Decline of Western Civilization, Deep Cover, The Devil in Miss Jones, Die Hard, Drunken Master II, Enter the Dragon, Escape from New York, Evil Dead trilogy, Do the Right Thing, Falling Down, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear of a Black Hat, Fight Club, Foxy Brown, Ghostbusters, The Godfather Epic, Goodfellas, Gremlins, Hard Boiled, Hairspray, Heavy Metal, Highlander, Ichi the Killer, Indiana Jones trilogy, Inside Deep Throat, Interview with the Vampire, Jackie Brown, Jaws, King Kong (1933), Lethal Weapon, The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Mad Max, The Maltese Falcon, New Jack City, The New York Ripper, A Night at the Opera, Night of the Living Dead (1968), 1941, Once Upon a Time in China, Over the Edge, Pizza Girls, The Player, Polyester, The Producers (1968), Psycho (1960), Pulp Fiction, Purple Rain, Quick Change, Red Heat, Repo Man, Reservoir Dogs, Robocop, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rosemary’s Baby, Saturday Night Fever, Scarface (1983), Shaolin Soccer, Street Trash, Stripes, Style Wars, Suburbia, Superfly, Suspiria, Switchblade Sisters, Swordsman II, Taxi Driver, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), They Live, The Thing (1982), Trading Places, The Wanderers, The Warriors, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Young Frankenstein, Zombi 2.
Much to the chagrin of my voice-over instructors, I barely watch TV at this point...but in the past and occasional present I’ve enjoyed Good Times, Hunter, In Living Color, Newsradio, Night Court, Oz, Police Squad, Roseanne, old school Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld, Simon and Simon, The Simpsons, South Park, Streets of San Francisco, Third Rock from the Sun, Weeds, Warner Brothers cartoons, WWE Raw and Smackdown. If you like “Friends,†I might not want to be so with you.
BOOKS: The Bachman Books, Carrie, The Chamber, Christine, The Cowboy and the Cross, Cujo, The Death of WCW, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Get in the Van, Jaws, Jobjumper, The Maltese Falcon, Mankind: Have a Nice Day, Misery, Monster, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry, The Outsiders, The Player, Psycho, Pure Dynamite, Quick Change, The Redneck Manifesto, Rivethead, Rosemary's Baby, Rum Punch, Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore, To Be the Man, Up and Down with the Rolling Stones, Wiseguy.
COMICS: Barefoot Gen, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Maus, The Spirit, Zap Comix.
ZINES: Answer Me, Disorderly Conduct, Goblin’s Armpit, Molotov, People Under No King, R’lyeh Rising, Violence, Warning.
COMETBUS, MRR, PROFANE EXISTENCE, AND EVASION CAN SUCK IT.
The cop in the first Mad Max movie said it best, and that was in 1979: "They say people don't believe in heroes anymore..."