MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND!!!! my son - Eddie "Ace" Malcolm Simon, cooking/eating, sleeping, movies, cats, otters, lemurs, raptors, outdoorsie stuff, misanthropy, sarcasm, listening to loud obnoxious music (preferably live) while drinking Stoli and tonic, hotel room mosh pits, getting tackled by JFS when he's had too many shots, '69 camaros (or '68, i'm not picky), singing, playing guitar (even though i'm really bad), traveling, NPR, environmentalism, container gardening (i'd have a real garden if i had a real yard), bitching about the government ( especially George "I put the 'DUH' in Dubya" Bush ) and society in general (see "misanthropy" above), (writing things parenthetically), thinking of creative ways to slack off while at work.
I'd like to meet:
i'd like to meet intelligent people with similar interests...and Nora the Piano-Playing Cat:
i'm really not interested in adding more bands who will only post about shows that are 3,000 miles away from me, or people who are just trying to get free advertising for their company, or other people who are only going to post bulletins like "new pics - please comment." oh, and i don't want to meet anyone who's going to put sparkly messages in my comments. sparkles (especially pink sparkles) give me a headache.
Also, Nazis, married guys who troll myspace for chicks (and/or certain clueless guys who don't seem to notice that I AM VERY HAPPILY MARRIED) and other assorted assholes should keep moving.
Music:
a little of everything, but mostly all forms of rock: Black Sabbath, Misfits, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Ozzy w/Randy Rhoads, Slayer, Bad Brains, The Damned, The Cramps, Dwarves, The Clash, Turbonegro, pre-black album Metallica, Strapping Young Lad, Zimmers Hole, Motorhead, Zeke, Hellacopters, Mastodon, Opeth, The Haunted, High on Fire, GWAR, Entombed, Iggy and The Stooges, David Bowie (except for Let's Dance--blech), old Suicidal Tendencies, pre-short haired Chris Cornell Soundgarden, Faith No More, Ramones, Radiohead, Beck, X, Ministry, KMFDM, Iron Maiden, Dimmu Borgir, Hypocrisy, some Carcass, Witchery, Prong, Testament, Pantera, that Morbid Angel song where Evil Dave sings "Bow to me faithfullyyyyy..." and some other MA, Dio, Rainbow, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Scorpions (especially when having blender drinks!), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Skinny Puppy, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Cheap Trick, Blondie, James Brown, Fatboy Slim, Reverend Horton Heat, Pasty Cline, Patty Griffin, Rasputina, Hellblock 6, Tapping the Vein, Stinking Lizavetta, STRIGA!, Dysrhythmia, Bad Fuckin' Wizard, Priestess...the list goes on...in general, songs about angst, Satan, and/or kickin' some ass.
Movies:
all Coen Brothers, all Tim Burton, This Is Spinal Tap, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Dr. Strangelove, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Donnie Darko, Ghost World, Blade Runner, American Beauty, The Shining, The Usual Suspects, Star Wars Episodes IV And V Only, A Clockwork Orange, American Movie, Robo Cop, Repo Man, Re-animator, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Caddyshack, most Troma films (all about the cheese, baby), Fear of a Black Hat, Brazil, City of Lost Children, Cinema Paradiso, Amelie, Seventh Seal, Seven Samurai (that's it for the seven movies), Dead Man, Falling Down, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, The Royal Tenenbaums, Clerks, Bubba Ho-Tep, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Bad Santa, Friday, Finding Nemo.
Television:
The Simpsons (best. show. ever.), Seinfeld, Daily Show & Colbert Report (the only reasons I'm making it through the Bush Years), Absolutely Fabulous, Nature, Nova (and most everything on PBS), Insomniac, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Family Guy, Batman (campy 60s version), Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Muppet Show, National Geographic Explorer, History Channel (except stuff about tanks and fighter jets, yawn), Antiques Roadshow (really), Mystery Science Theater 3000, original Twilight Zone, the Tick (animated version), Kids in the Hall, original Star Trek, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, pretty much anything on Animal Planet, Trailer Park Boys (another reason to move to Canada), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wonder Showzen and MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge! Get it on!
Books:
Modern Drunkard magazine, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, A.E. Poe, political humor/satire (e.g. The Onion, Dave Barry and Al Franken), historical fiction (like The Grapes of Wrath and Cold Mountain), The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Geek Love, Crime and Punishment, A Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Interview with the Vampire, In Cold Blood, A Brief History of Time, Pigs in Heaven, Franny and Zooey, Tales of an Ugly Stepsister, Morality Play, Mists of Avalon, Farenheit 451, The Handmaid's Tale.
Heroes:
Jed, my friends, my grandmother, The Dalai Lama, George Carlin, Mae West, Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes), Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Cliff Yablonski , Big Bunny , and
The Flying Spaghetti Monster!..
