Photography/photojournalism, I'm obsessed with classic tattoos (Sailor Jerry, Martin "Fuckin" Emond), classic cars with fins & chrome ('57 Chevy Bel Air is my dream car), 1950's housewares, 1950's space toys (someone needs to buy me my own personal Ray Gun....), Pinups, Retro Shoes, Pirates, of course, cryptozoology, forensics....etc.
I'd like to meet:
Ze Frank, Anthony Bourdain, Tom Waits, Simon Pegg, the League of Gentlemen, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jim Jarmusch, Peter Driben (so he could paint me)
Pirates.....
Well, Pirates and their monkeys.....
Get Free Advice From the Baby Pirate!!
1) Are you local?
2) Vic & Bob
3) Calm a Llama Down
4) "How's that for a slice of Fried Gold!" (the origin...not the reference.)
If you're drunk or high, come over and share. If you're retarded, I can't help you.
Music:
Tom Waits - his voice just makes me all warm inside.
Damien Rice - voice like liquid velvet
the Beatles
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire is my theme song in Montana.
Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, etc. etc. etc.
Diggin' me some James Hunter these days...
Old Skool Surf Music and GaragePunk
Neil Diamond
Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen
Elvis Costello
George Jones
Johnny Horton
Porter Wagoner
Dolly Parton
Patsy Cline
The Magnetic Fields
BRMC
Violent Femmes
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I miss the FUCK outta my Basin Street boys!
Roger Wallace is the best damn Honky Tonker I know!
Most anything else is cool. My music collection is as eclectic as the personalities inside my head. And, like the personalities in my head, I can't keep track of names. I know what I like & I'll probably ask you who you're playing about thirty-thousand times before it ever sinks in. Classic country, roots/rockabilly, doowop 60's pop & soul are all on constant rotation these days.
I have an unnatural affinity for toy pianos.
Yep, you name it & I'll probably be able to tolerate it, if not love it.
Except Toby Kieth - he's still a fat pig-fucker.
And he still needs to die.
Movies:
Shaun of the Dead, Better Off Dead (or any 80's John Cusack movie...and Grosse Pointe Blank), Harold & Maude, Pulp Fiction, Pirates of the Carribean (isn't Johnny Depp in EVERYONE'S wankbank?), The Royal Tennenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (or all of Wes Anderson's stuff, really), The Princess Bride, The Wizard of Oz, The Goonies (I am a child, after all), Mommie Dearest, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Boondock Saints, The Professional, Moulin Rouge, Spinal Tap, Snatch, Amelie, Garden State, Lost in Translation, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Sin City, Donnie Darko, any & ALL Charlie Chaplin, To Kill a Mockingbird....just to name a few.
Television:
I'm a vidiot. If there's a tv on, I'm watching it. I know way more about British comedy than you could possibly imagine. And yes, I've seen The Office, the original...way before you ever even heard of it. I will gladly bore you about the inscetuous inner workings of British comedy....because I am a dork.
You wouldn't know it, it's British....
Spaced , The League of Gentlemen , Green Wing , Black Books , Monkey Dust, Shameless (One of the BEST shows ever!!!), Big Train , Peep Show , Nighty Night , Little Britain , Look Around You , anything with my beloved Vic & Bob!!! The Young Ones, AbFab, The Mighty Boosh , Kath & Kim (technically, it's Australian).
Amer-I-can:
Strangers Wtih Candy, adult swim, Arrested Development, Project Runway, Top Chef, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, Fishing with John, LOST, Flight of the Choncords, Stella, Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Weeds, The Daily Show (I heart Jon Stewart!), Scrubs, My Name is Earl, The Office (with Steve Carrell), Futurama, Family Guy, What Not to Wear, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley...
....clearly, i watch way too much teevee....
Books:
Anything David Sedaris touches is GOLD.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Odyssey
Don Quixote
Currently reading:
Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from Vic Reeves to The Office.
Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
Tetherballs of Bougainville by Mark Leyner
On my Amazon Wish List:
Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader
Drinks for the Little Guy
Heroes:
My Grandma, Rita
Amy K. as a 4-year-old wreckin' ball
Gordon Parks
Richard Avedon
Arthur Fellig (aka Weegee)
Robert Frank
Diane Arbus
Sally Mann
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Young Elvis, the Fonz
George & Gracie
Rube Goldberg & W. Heath Robinson
Charlie Chaplin
Atticus Finch
Ze Frank
Lenny & Sguiggy
Amy Sedaris
