GOING TO SHOWS! Music, booking and promoting shows, trad skinheads, meeting new people, Tattoos (I have 4, and want more), eating beignets, Visiting San Fran/Alcatraz, watching British TV, nonstop bhangra dancing, bike riding-Skeedemons Bike Crew (LA rides every 2nd Saturday of the Month), Campfires, Indie Mart, NUTELLA (w/ apples & peanut butter and in crepes, Vespas, traveling (been to Israel, the Dominican Republic, London (jan-may 06), Dublin, Las Vegas-Thanksgiving 2006),comedy, driving my 95 black nissan altima with the windows down bumping Street Dogs when I'm back home in western mass represent, etc, etc,etc
NOEL FIELDING & JULIAN BARRETT, BRET & JEMAINE from Flight of the Conchords, SIMON AMSTELL, WENTWORTH MILLER, PHIL DANIELS & the cast of EastEnders, The cast of the IT Crowd (especially Richard!),The Unicorns that live under hollywood blvd, the cast of law & order (that includes Ice-T bitches), TRAD SKINHEADS, cool people in London (here till may 06), people with cars in southern california (take me to shows por favor), people with pink and green vespas, terry hall, no hope for the kids, laurel aitken, chris rock, John Leguizamo, and cool Germans!
La Armada Roja, La Reforma, TKR, STREET DOGS, AGAINST ME!, LES SAVY FAV (AMAZING LIVE!), KICKED IN THE HEAD, THE LIBERTINES, The Falcon, The Like Young, KING DJANGO, MATISYAHU, KINGS OF NUTHIN', THUG MURDER, WE ARE SCIENTISTS, Sin Remedio, The Specials, JACKIE MITTOO! (did i spell that right?), RUDIMENTARY PENI, Belle & Sebastian, The Temptations, The Ronettes, most anything on the oldies station, Dresden Dolls, Flogging Molly, ATOM & HIS PACKAGE, the Residents, MATES OF STATE, Camper Van Beethoven (one member graduated from Johnston! woohoo!) Death from Above 1979, Dropkick Murphys, Oceans11, the Skatalites, OZOMATLI (ya se fue!), Ani Difranco, the Skoidats, The Dead 60's, The MOLDY PEACHES, CAPPUCCINO JELLYBEANS (w.mass ska 4 life), Phyllis Dillon, THE AGGROLITES (DIRTY REGGAE), The Debonaires, ENON, The Bouncing Souls, Operation Ivy, THE CLASH, Abe Vigoda, Digits, Leftover Crack, Choking Victim, THE WEIRDOS, Aventura (por vida!), Papas Fritas, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Toots & the Maytals, Laurel Aitken, The Toasters, Hepcat, XraySpex, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, ROOTS & BOOTS, No Hope For the Kids, The ROBUSTOS, Shonen Knife, Cibo Matto, Swingin Utters, Guttermouth, J.J.Fad, Jurassic5, The Pilfers, Youth Brigade, THE TEMPLARS, SYMARIP, THE BUSINESS, THE LAST RESORT, COCKNEY REJECTS, GOJIMMYGO, The SLACKERS,SHAM69, Bad Religion, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, The Circle Jerks, Madness, LoveLikeFire Bad Manners, The Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Exit Mentality, Honkey Dorey, The English Beat, The Briefs, UK SUBS, Chris Murray Combo, Hub City Stompers, INSPECTER 7, THE AGENTS, Sgt. Scagnetti (lost my copy of their cd, if anyone has one they'd like to sell or burn, that would rock), Deceit, Westbound Train, Streetlight Manifesto, etc,etc,etc
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (heck yes!) Quadrophenia, Romper Stomper, Trainspotting, CANNIBAL THE MUSICAL, Amelie, Run Lola Run, American History X, A BRONX TALE, Raising Victor Vargas, Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, The Adventures of Milo & Otis, Suburbia, Dance Craze, The Punk Rock Movie, The Lost Boys, and a million other movies I can't think of right now because it's 2am (so ask me)
RESCUE ME, BLACK BOOKS, THE MIGHTY BOOSH, Weeds, PRISON BREAK, THE IT CROWD (best new british comedy!), BARGAIN HUNT, EASTENDERS & HOLLYOAKS,The L Word, The Black Donnellys (rip), The YOUNG ONES, Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, DAMAGES, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE, The Sopranos, Chapelle's Show (yeah!), Futurama, Conan O' Brien, Law & Order, All CSIs, BET's ComicView (get your laugh on), etc
Me Talk Pretty One Day & Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (and all his other books, barrel fever, holidays on ice, etc) by David Sedaris, The Boondocks, 'A Right to be Hostile'( and all his other books) by Aaron McGruder, Drown & The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (an AMAZING Dominican author), Every poetry book written by Martin Espada The first 56 original Nancy Drew books, The Spirit of 69, The Two-Tone Story by George Marshall, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb ANYTHING by Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking probably being my favorite of the bunch, The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Joe Strummer, Martin Espada, Junot Diaz, Aaron McGruder