In no paticular order....travel in ANY form, New Orleans and Vegas are my towns! Roadtrips are king. Tiki culture, Lounge music, Mai Tais. Side Cars(the drink). Puka Bar in LBC. VooDoo. Wandering old cemeteries, especially Lafayette No. 1 and St. Louis No. 1 in New Olreans. Burlesque. Strolling in the Vieux Carre. WWOZ. Highbrow Furniture. Lowbrow Art. Architecture. Googie. Lagniappe. Commander's Palace. Vintage Airstreams. Old Spice. I think nerds are hot. Shriners (it's the fez I tell you!!!) Roller Derby. Martinis. Reading. Film Noir. Foods of all kinds. Cooking. Ann-Margaret. Radio Mystery Theater with E.G. Marshall. The twisted mind of Mark Ryden. The cheap drinks and colorful locals at Atomic Liquors in Vegas. DoubleDown, Vegas. Good memories made at Paul's Downtown, Orange, CA. Music absolutely rules my life.Addictions: Chocolate cake. Shopping. Apparently, THIS goddamned website.I have a thing for diastemas and crooked eye-teeth, boney feet and hands. Hey, just letting you know up front...I LOVE B-Movies.
I'm pretty sure that Lil Wayne needs to call me! Other than that, people with similar tastes, people who like to travel, people who love THE BLUES! Anyone who can teach me something I don't know, turn me on to something I've never tried or introduce me to new bands that rock!!! I would love to meet Ann-Margaret, Eartha Kitt, John Waters. Selene Luna. Tura Satana(I actually met her when I was little!). Dr. Dre. Rick Rubin...Let's see, who else...Dr.Evil, Madea, Wade Walker. Mugatu. Ron Burgundy. Jack Sparrow. Rufus Xavier Sasparilla. Ummm..Angelina Jolie(Do you need to be told WHY??) My Soulmate...OH YEAH, and YOU!!!
Oh just a few off the top of my head... Andre Williams, Les Baxter, Martin Denny, Liberace, Korla Pandit, Esquivel, Mel Henke, Eartha Kitt, Diana Dors, Julie London, George Shearing, Mel Torme, Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, Coltrane, Tiny Grimes, Buck Owens, Vernon Oxford, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Tubb, Big Sandy, Throw Rag, The Damned, DEVO, Sonic Youth, X, John Doe, The Cramps, Lester Butler(RIP Baby), The Paladins, Guitar Slim, Bo Diddley, Johnny Guitar Watson, The Blasters, Kim Lenz, Collins Kids, Sreamin' Jay Hawkins, Professor Longhair, Eddie Bo, Lee Allen, Louis Prima, Sugar Boy Crawford, James Booker, Harry Connick Jr., Big Jay McNeely, Eddie Cleanhead Vinson, Sam Butera, Supergrass, Sugersmack, Gravemist, Rock City Morgue, The Sonics, The Seeds, Dr. Spec's Optical Illusion, Desmond Dekker, Masters of Reality, The Flaming Lips, Twilight Singers, Neil Diamond, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Maxwell, Bob Marley, The Stones, The Verve, U2, Erykah Badu, Louie Jordan, Jonah Jones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, The Kings (Albert, Freddie and B.B.), the Hanks (I & III), Timo Maas, Tosca, Thievery Corporation, Groove Armada, Portishead, Doyle Bramhall II, Marshall Tucker Band, Mofro, Govt Mule, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Ann-Margaret. Dre, Snoop, Game, T.I. Seriously I could go on and on. Truly I like ALL kinds of music...Rockabilly, Psycobilly, Creepabilly, all billys. Hard Bop, Traditional Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, 1950's New Orleans R&B, Zydeco, Brass Bands, Exotica, Space Age, Hawaiian Slack Key, Surf, Swing, Jump Blues, Blues, Reggae, Ska, Garage Punk (especially 60's), R & B, Soul, Southern Rock, Hip-Hop, Rap, Down Tempo, Ambient, House, Lounge and even Traditional Country & Honkey Tonk(the twangier, the better). I love anything penned by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn or Cole Porter. I'll die happy as long as I die listening to Buster Poindexter!
CRY BABY, Down With Love, Ed Wood, Hairspray, Swingers, Napoleon Dynamite, Young Frankenstein, Almost Famous, After Hours, Blood Simple, True Romance, LA Confidential, Fight Club. Boondock Saints, The Loveless. High Fidelity. Donnie Darko, Donnie Brasco, Ocean's 11 (60's version of course!), Ray. Tombstone. Blazing Saddles. Angel Heart. Barfly. The Hunger. Being There. Victor/Victoria. Harold and Maude. Any movie about the Mob. Anything with Rita Hayworth, Kate Hepburn or Marlene Dietrich. The Flame Of New Orleans. I love movies made in the "Golden Age of Hollywood". Too many to name. All About Eve, Auntie Mame, Gilda, "Road To" movies with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Singin' in The Rain, Some Like It Hot. B-Movies. Plan 9, Astro-Zombies, Fangs(aka Holy Wednesday). Ted V. Mikels. Anything starring Vincent Price. William Castle. Rob Zombie. George Romero. Italian horror movies. Mario Bava. The Black Klansman. Coffy. Foxy Brown. Blaxploitation. The Black Godfather. Spaghetti Westerns. Gene Autry. Any movie starring Cary Grant or Gene Kelly. Pretty much anything directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Wes Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Quinten Tarantino, Martin Scorsesse, Jim Jarmusch, Stanley Kubrick, Oliver Stone, Woody Allen, Tyler Perry. Jesus, don't even get me started on the musicals...7 Brides for 7 Brothers, All That Jazz. Chorus Line, West Side Story, Hello Dolly, Oklahoma, South Pacific, All Fred Astaire...Oh yeah and Porno! Let's not forget,porno! .
Dark Shadows, Twilight Zone, Monk, Northern Exposure, Las Vegas, Chappelle's Show, Family Guy, Simpsons. Reno 911. Campy TV sitcoms like Get Smart and Hee Haw. I Love Lucy. I Dream of Jeannie. Love American Style. Dean Martin's Roasts. Addams Family. Rockford Files. Cosby Show. Any programs relating to Forensic Science from CSI to Forensic Files.
The Last Generation of Chain Smokers by Stephen Uys (awesome book), anything by Chuck Bukowski, Chuck Palahnuik, James Ellroy, Ann Rice, anything fiction or non-fiction about New Orleans. Confederacy of Dunces. Tennessee Williams. Feast of All Saints. True crime novels. Not On Our Watch by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast
Frank Fischer (for doing it his way), Anyone who has given their time, money, labor and/or brainpower to the effort of rebuilding (hopefully restoring) New Orleans. The Mystic Knights of the Mau Mau. Oh yeah, and these guys...