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The King of Van Nuys

I've got a fever of a 104-play

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Any tough gangsters ready to fill a table with honesty.

Music:

Lots-o-stuff, but mainly good ol' American ass-shakin' rock and roll.At the moment: UNKLE's War Stories, The Brimstone Howl, The New Creation

Movies:

gagfilms.com, Sam Fuller, Jean Pierre Melville, Seijun Suzuki, Kihachi Okamoto, Orson Welles, Nicolas Roeg, Cory McAbee

Television:

I don't own one. But I've got Itunes. On screen: Mad Men, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, The Prisoner

Books:

Jim Thompson, Roberto Bolano, John Fante, Nelson Algren, Kobo Abe, Philip K Dick, Vladmir Nabokov, Haruki Murakami, Raymond Chandler, Dashel Hammet, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Hunter Thompson's first few books, Irvine Welsh, Mark Z Danielewski, Cormac McCarthy, Paul Pope, Grant Morrison, good Beat literature, Charles Burns, Bob Haney, Mikal Gilmore.Right now: Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile, Move Under Ground by Nick Mamatas, Walk On The Wild Side by Nelson Algren, Labyrinths by Borges, Men Of Tomorrow (again) by Gerard Jones, I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets by Fletcher Hanks

Heroes:

Tor Johnson

My Blog

Dirty Pop Lit

That's what I got, that's what you need. It's posted over at gagfilms.com (don't know if that will hyperlink to the site by itself...ah hell, you're smart, you'll figure it out), so please, check it o...
Posted by The King of Van Nuys on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:14:00 PST

An Open Letter to Ticketmaster

This morning I woke with a purpose. After half a cup of coffee and a cigarette, I sat down at the computer and pulled up my Ticketmaster account. It'd been a little while since I purchased tickets t...
Posted by The King of Van Nuys on Fri, 26 May 2006 05:20:00 PST

Bob Dylan's a total prick.

To Whom It May Concern,   The following is an excerpt from last night's dream.  In that sense, I suppose this is a true story.   Saw Bob Dylan last night.  Young Dylan, tousled-hai...
Posted by The King of Van Nuys on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:53:00 PST