Travel, cooking, reading, movies, music, camping, fishing, drinking, comics, roller derby, vandalism, fireworks, cheeseburgers, zombie porn, knives, behaving disgracefully, jack shacks, Mini-thins, SGs and Flying Vs, the devil's note. Swords. Snatchulas. 43-39-56. Cream Soda flavored Dum-Dums.
I'd like to meet:
Any non-douchebags, Burt Reynolds, shit-flinging monkeys, King Diamond, Lemmy, thick-thighed women, Bruce Campbell, Anthony Bourdain, alcoholics, the unemployable, angry loners, school shooters, rodeo clowns, failures, rip-off artists, Buck Owens, cutter chicks. Freaks, but not like "I'm so alienated. I identify with Edward Scissorhands," freaks. I mean work in a carnival, bite the head off a live chicken freaks. Bill Brasky. Bozo Texino, Yeggs, Bindle Stiffs, Hobos (not Homeless, Hobos). J. Walter Weatherman, Boxcar Willie. Kris Kristofferson. Warren Beatty. 43-39-56
Music:
Loud, fast, heavy, aggressive, anti-social, punky, twangy, Springsteen, Memphis soul, most everything really. Lots of classic rock stuff including stuff that others think is crappy. I make no apologies. Thin Lizzy. Dwight Twilley, Sweet, The Replacements, Gram Parsons, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, The Flaming Groovies, Rose Tattoo, Big Star, The Jam, The Paul Collins Beat, Be-Bop Deluxe, The Only Ones, The Plimsouls, Slayer, Venom, Emperor, Immortal, Amon Amarth, Neurosis, Candlemass, Wolf, Saxon, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost, 1349, Skeletor, In Memorium, Scorched Earth, Sindios, The Valkyries, Mastodon, Black Sabbath, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubb, Johnny Paycheck, Hanks 1, 2, and 3. David Allen Coe, Bob Willis and His Texas Playboys, Buddy Holley, ZZ Top, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, High On Fire, Motorhead, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Alice Cooper, Ike and Tina Turner, Link Wray, Otis Redding, Booker T and The MGs, Johnnie Taylor, Eddie Floyd, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, The Staples Singers, Son House, Sam And Dave, The Dead Boys, The Pagans, The Scientists, Radio Birdman, Mississippi Fred McDowell, The Skillet Lickers, Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, R.L. Burnside..... You get the drift?
Movies:
The Wild Bunch, Reservoir Dogs, Blade Runner (Director's Cut), Robocop, Repo Man, Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trouble In Little China, Jaws, Conan The Barbarian. That's the top ten. There are many others. I like horror movies. John Ford, John Cassavetes. French New Wave, Italian New Wave. Yakuza, Robert Altman, The Last Picture Show, Almost Famous, The French Connection, Bonnie & Clyde, The Last Detail, El Topo, Holy Mountain. The Last Waltz, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver. Hardcore, Joe, Blue Collar.
Television:
Sopranos, Deadwood, Lost, Wrestling, 24, My Name Is Earl, The Office (UK and US) Red Dwarf (when it's on) Father Ted, Justice League Unlimited (R.I.P.). I like N.F.L. Football and Euro League Soccer. Chappelle's Show (Come back, Dave. The World needs you.)
Books:
Lolita, Tropic Of Cancer, Journey To The End Of The Night, Down And Out In Paris And London, Burmese Days, Ask The Dust, Women, The Long Good-Bye. I like H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard as well as vintage pulp fiction. Anything on Black Lizard. Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Fredric Brown. Cornell Woolrich, Chester Himes, Iceberg Slim, Donald Goines. I also like a few modern crime fiction/mystery writers such as Lawrence Block and Michael Connolley. I believe George Pelecanos is probably one of if not the best writer working in modern fiction. Comic Books, adult (not porn) and I even occasionally check in with the Marvel and DC heroes of my youth. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Hells Angels. The Watchmen.
Heroes:
Jackie Gleason, Ernest Hemmingway, Charles Bukowski, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Humphrey Bogart, Robert E. Howard, The D.C. Sniper, Buddy Bradley, Kurt Russell, Harley Race, Mick Foley, Terry Funk, Ric Flair, The guy who stole the tank in San Diego. Andre The Giant, Thor Heyerdahl. Ernest Borgnine, Sam The Lion. The good doctor Hunter S. Thompson. Warren Beatty.
