playing in unpopular bands, surfing, looking for a "real" job (but not very hard), sleeping, eating, cussing, spacing out, slacking, goldbricking, malingering, self pity, mockery, road rage, lying about my age, wishing I were a pirate, caffeine abuse, picking fights on the internet, spreading rumors, fantasizing about moving to Australia, conspiracy theories, class warfare, perfect point breaks, yoga, sticking it to The Man, hating SUV's and SUP's, petty crime and vandalism, sobriety, driving like a maniac, movies, sowing confusion and discontent, schadenfreude, weltschmertz, and did I mention eating?
Captain Howdy
most 60's garage rock/psychadelic nonsense, Velvet Underground, Arthur Lee & Love, Beatles, Stones, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Stooges, Humble Pie, The Lyres, The Moon Upstairs, Kind Hearts & Coronets, The Monkees, The Byrds, Reggae, Ska & dub (but nothing past the '70's), Who, Kinks, '60's Pink Floyd, The Clash, Sweet, Black Sabbath, New York Dolls, Heartbreakers, random early 70's glitter & glam, Big Star, Sonics, Roxy Music, Cramps, Saints, Rezillos, Supergrass, The Minutemen, Ike & Tina, Led Zepplin, Jonathan Richman, Real Kids, Television, Flamin' Groovies, assorted 70's powerpop, most 70's punk (but NO hardcore), The Monks, Dead Meadow, Can, Meat Puppets, Bob Dylan, Dream Syndicate, Patti Smith, everything on Nuggets, Neil Young, Motorhead, KISS, Blue Cheer, Beach Boys, 70's Bowie, X-Ray-Spex, Hank Williams, Nick Cave, Patsy Cline, old Western Swing stuff, The Muffs, Hawkwind, the Archies, Creedence, Devo, Cheap Trick, Raveonettes, Mudhoney, Small Faces, Yardbirds, The Blondes, Ape Has Killed Ape, Candypants, Peachfuzz, Desmond Dekker, The Hangmen, Toots & the Maytals, The Equals, Ike & Tina, The Shins, Detroit Cobras, Television, Alic Cooper, old blues, old country, 13th Floor Elevators, this shitty band from Silverlake called The Shakes, AD/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Dead Moon, bubblegum, 60's soul and R&B, stoner metal, most 60's pop, especially girl group stuff, etc. etc. etc. I have a deep and abiding hatred for drum machines and computers so I can't stand most Rap, Techno, or pretty much any dance music recorded after 1975 or so. I also seriously dislike most modern R&B and "soul" music (it doesn't have any), anything that resembles Hip-Hop and pretty much all Electronica, House, Drum & Bass or whatever they're calling it this week. Sorry.
The Big Lebowski, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Office Space, anything by John Waters, Spider Baby, Rushmore, surf movies from the 50's, 60's or 70's especially Morning of the Earth, and anything by Thomas Campbell, Psycho, crappy exploitation movies, especially biker movies, The Bad News Bears, Ed Wood, bad horror movies, good horror movies, Toad Warrior, Slap Shot, Spinal Tap, Apocalypse Now, Young Frankenstein, North Shore, Ghost World, Cable Guy . . . actually, I like most movies, except big-budget American action movies.
No, thank you . . . well, okay, maybe South Park. And King of the Hill. And the Simpsons, although not so much lately. And Family Guy . . . wait, these are all cartoons . . . does that count?
Hunter S. Thompson, Graham Greene, Jack Thomas, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Kem Nunn, Joan Didion, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, In Search of Captain Zero, the Illuminatus Trilogy, Please Kill Me, The Watchmen (okay, so it's a comic book, I mean graphic novel) Cruddy, City of Night, random rock bios and anything about Charles Manson, surfing, rock and roll or the sixties . . .
Charles Manson, Wilhelm Reich, Miki Dora, Akhenaton, Emperor Norton, Ghandi, Lawnchair Larry, Jeff Spicoli and anyone who just wants to be free to ride their machine without being hassled by The Man.