Making indie horror movies, watching rare and INSANE flicks, making up theme songs on the spot, cooking and eating delicious food, singing, dancing, good sex, tame drugs (I'm a wuss!), dope rock n' roll, and my wife.
That hot mama, Alison!
Detective FrankensteinSoul Dracula
Cookie Mongoloid
Stoker Ichikawa
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Lately? The Hold Steady (LOVIN' this band), Of Montreal, Blue Cheer, Atomic Rooster, Pete Rock, Iggy Pop, Ram Jam, Cactus, the Stooges, Sunn O))), Suck's Time to Suck, the Teddybears' "Punkrocker", UFO, Warhorse, the Jet Black Berries, House of Love, the Gossip, and the Action.
Here's My Nerdy List for This Update!!!
10 Totally Awesome '70s Psychedelic Funk/Soul Tracks
1. "If There's Hell Below" by Curtis Mayfield
2. "Cosmic Slop" by Funkadelic
3. "Ball of Confusion" by the Temptations
4. "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time" by the Delphonics
5. "The Boss" by James Brown
6. "Take a Stroll Through Your Mind" by the Temptations
7. "Living For the City" by Stevie Wonder
8. "I Got A Thing..." by Funkadelic
9. "Thank You (For Lettin' Me Be Myself Again)" by Sly and the Family Stone
10. "Can You Feel It" by the Jacksons
Evil Dead 2, Apocalypse Now, foreign Star Wars ripoffs (especially Starcrash and Turkish Star Wars), Pieces, Wild Zero, most American zombie films (with obvious first place going to the punk rock zombie masterpiece Return of the Living Dead), Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Steve Martin up through L.A. Story, Spiderman 2, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Godfather, Boogie Nights, The Exorcist, Heavenly Creatures, Being There, the Lord of the Rings films, vintage Bill Murray flicks, almost all rock documentaries (especially End of the Century), Pulse, Threads, Ed Wood, Sunset Boulevard, giant monster battles, Sleuth, Shogun Assasin, Unforgiven, plus most anything by the following directors: John Carpenter, John Waters, Joe Dante, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Oliver Stone, Shinya Tsukamoto, David Lynch, Otto Preminger, Cameron Crowe, James Cameron, Wes Anderson, Jim Henson, Paul Verhoven, and George Romero.
Otto Preminger, infamous raging asshole
and director of Anatomy of a Murder
TV is garbage... tasty garbage. That being said, I watch old episodes of The Simpsons, all VH-1 reality shows involving Flavor Flav, wrestling (trust me, you miss the point, so let's not argue), Ultimate Figher, The Colbert Report, Reno 911, Wonder Showzen, It's Always Sunny in Philadephia, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Animal Planet, and the Surreal Life.I also like stuff that isn't on TV anymore, like Freaks and Geeks, The State, The Muppet Show, 120 Minutes, the first season of The Osbournes, Crime Story, Stella, and yes, Saved By the Bell. Plus, have you ever seen that episode of Trading Spaces with the crazy Christian lady? That is just awe-inspiring television.
Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerad, Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost, Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt by Richard Brautigan (best poetry ever!), The Vice Guide to Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll, Generation X by Douglas Copeland, World War Z by Max Brooks, Please Kill Me by Legs McNeill, Dry and Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs, Heavier Than Heaven by Charles R. Cross, I Robot by Isaac Asimov, Shock Value by John Waters, Stairway to Hell by Chuck Eddy, Sleazoid Express by Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford, and Peter Bagge's entire Hate series.
Godzilla taught me the value of friendship:
Cookie Monster taught me the value of obsession:
Paul Westerberg taught me the value of playing sensitive ballads to girls:
John Carpenter taught me the value of scaring people:
And finally, Matt DeWitt taught me that after an adolescence of crime and degredation, you can still turn your life around: