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Billy

You can’t stay young forever. But you can be immature for the rest of your life.

About Me

I live in a 1 bedroom apartment with 4 cats.Patsy...Jack...Shannon...and the newest family member Ginger...."People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world." .....Kinky Friedman

My Interests

THE CRAMPS

THE AUTOMATIC MUSIC EXPLOSION

THE MANSFIELDS

THE URGES

LORDS OF ALTAMONT

Live Fast

THE THINGS


DR FEELGOOD

TEENAGE HEAD

Music:

The Gee Strings, The Dee Rangers, The real Kids, The Malamondos, Jimmy and the Teasers....The Knockout Pills, The Black Furies, The Briefs....A.D.H.D., The Richmond Sluts, The Mansfields....The Malamondos, The Sonics, The Hangmen...Girl Trouble, The Divine Brown, Gin Palace....The New York Dolls, The Powerknobs, The Go, BANG! BANG!Bang Sugar Bang, The Cogburns, The Dead Boys, The Peelers, The Dollyrots....The Neurotic Swingers, The Patsys, The Supersuckers,Lucid Nation, Kitty & The KowalskisADHD,The Dirtbombs, The Chelsea Smiles...The Konks, Eddie and the Hotrods, The Jolts,The Hall Monitors...The Butchers, The Lyres, Beat Beat Beat,The Guilty Hearts,The Black Halos....The Nervous Shakes,DMZ, The Lyres, The Flakes, The Makers, Red Invasion.....The Slurs, The Libertines, Placebo, The Ettes...Electric Frankenstein, The Riverboat Gamblers, Johnny Thunders...Bubble, The Backyard Babies, Dick Dale...The Charms, Suede, T.Rex...The Ends, The Baseball Furies, Towers Of London...Prima Donna, The Hard lessons, The Dirtbombs,The Goldstars, Super Sport....The Little Killers, Cooterfinger, Les Hell On Heels....Lorreta Lynn, BR-549, Dale Watson....Dino! .. ....>

Books:

" Beside a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside a dog, its too dark to read. -Groucho Marx

My Blog

Sad news

I just got a call, the cat I wrote about below (My Gray) had a heart attack this morning and my parents had to have him put to sleep. My mom and dad are of course pretty upset, esp...
Posted by Billy on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:53:00 PST

My parents newest family member

Along with the 4 cats that live with them, my parents have been feeding quite a few feral cats outside their house for a number of years. They've also caught and had a lot of them spayed and neutered....
Posted by Billy on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:13:00 PST

Favorite records released in 2007

In no particular order.....1. Kick Out The Lights - The Funhouse Strippers2. Girls - The Hall Monitors3. Rock And Roll Backlash - The Woggles4. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse5. Psychedelic Sunrise - Th...
Posted by Billy on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 07:56:00 PST

The Sonics

I have seen tons of bands over the years and witnessed some really great shows. But Sunday a week ago, when from behind a closed stage curtain, the opening chords of 'He's Waiting' rang out and knowi...
Posted by Billy on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:25:00 PST

Why I generally respect animals more than most people

I got this story from my sister, who works for Amtrak also.  She works the operations desk, and this just happened last week. The engineer on a train heading from Boston to New York spotted a pup...
Posted by Billy on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:29:00 PST

She will be missed....

My parents (as they always do) took in this stray cat a couple months ago. She was a sweet little cat, but would jump ugly with you (as cats do) on occasions. They took her to the vet to see if she ha...
Posted by Billy on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 04:24:00 PST

I'm not really a big western or Val Kilmer fan but...

A friend lent me the DVD of 'Tombstone' and I loved it! Val Kilmer was excellent as Doc Holiday (he stole the movie in my opinion). If you haven't seen it, you should check it, it's a very cool movie.
Posted by Billy on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 06:50:00 PST

Fucking people

Not sure why I even watch Animal Planet sometimes. There was a segment tonight on 'Animal Cops' about a dog that had been nearly starved to death by it's owner. It had been chained to a radiator in th...
Posted by Billy on Tue, 30 May 2006 06:25:00 PST

They made my day.....

I recieived in the mail today the debut full length CD from BANG! BANG! .....titled 'Decked Out' and was reading the thank you's and saw, well you check it out. How cool is that?! I've been a music ...
Posted by Billy on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:03:00 PST

There was 4 of'em I'm tellin ya!!

Yeah well, she had 4 legs anyway. ;) Check out the photo of my eye.  That was caused by my parents dog Buffy. She's gotten old and has various ailments (the vet says she only has a few ...
Posted by Billy on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:04:00 PST