Cooking, movies (especially horror, gialli & B-movies), music, bizarre & unusual things to do in LA, pop culture (especially 80s), LA history, noir, travel, Italy and language. Oh yeah, and writing. ..
Is the grass greener? Can you make me laugh until I pee (just a little)? Will you tell me when I do look fat in these pants? If you're at Amoeba, you're sort of looking for stuff you think I'd like too, because it'd make me smile. At a show, you've got my back even though I can punch just as good as you. When we're watching 3-D porn at the Sunset 5, you're yelling and mocking just as loudly and drunkenly as me. " My Johnson Is 12 Inches Long ", but my Netflix queue is longer. I taught you how to talk dirty in Italian and you lent me your favorite book knowing you'll get it back. When it's 3AM and you can't sleep, you call me and I don't mind. You've seen me cry and known how wretchedly soul-baring it was. We've kissed, even if it's just the Eurotrash kiss-kiss thing. I've cooked for you and cried for you and over you and I still love you because you've earned it.
IGOR SPECTRE ; Bad Religion, The Dwarves, The Clash, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks; Turbonegro; KILLOLA; The Misfits; AFI; CKY; Queens of the Stone Age; The Pixies, Oingo Boingo; DFA 1979; FEAR, Iggy & the Stooges, X; Jawbreaker, Fugazi; Morphine; The Streetwalkin' Cheetahs; The Distillers; The Bravery; Wu-Tang Clan; the Reverend Horton Heat; Slayer; Voodoo Glow Skulls; KISS, cock rock; 80s; New Bomb Turks, The Makers, Screeching Weasel; Oh No Not Stereo, Oliver Future, OK Stranger, gliss, The Scene, The Ringers, the mercy kiss; Hepcat, English Beat, Scofflaws, Skinnerbox, Slackers, Skoidats; Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stones, The Kinks; Hayden, Jeremy Enigk, Sunny Day Real Estate; Johnny Cash, Hank Williams; most jazz & blues: Monk & Mingus, Billie, Bird & Brubeck, Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton; Joshua Redman
Ghostbusters and Goodfellas are tied for first; Forbidden Zone; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang; most noir, but particularly Kiss Me Deadly, Notorious, This Gun For Hire and Gilda; The Usual Suspects; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; Delicatessen; Reservoir Dogs; Donnie Darko; Spider Baby (thanks Jessicah!), Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!; Sleepaway Camp (Best. Ending. Ever!), Slaughter High, Ginger Snaps; Freaks; Cocaine; the Indiana Jones trilogy (yeah, even Temple of Doom); Candyman, Hellraiser and Nightmare on Elm Street I (III's not bad); Secretary; Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice; Chinatown, Apocalypse Now; the Evil Dead trilogy; shlocky B- through Z-movies; Ultra Flesh & Rocking With Seka (or, Seka's Cruise); Monty Python
The A-Team; Mr. Show, Family Guy, South Park, Chappelle Show, Arrested Development, Greg the Bunny; Freaks And Geeks; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Lidia's Italy, Fast Food My Way (Jacques Pepin); Law & Order and L&O:SVU, CSI (just the OG one; the spin-offs are yawn), Autopsy ... AND Beverly Hills 90210 & The OC - I AM NOT ASHAMED!
LA Bizarro (Anthony Lovett & Matt Maranian), A Cook's Tour and Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain - Les Halles rocks, too!), LA Confidential and The Big Nowhere (James Ellroy), Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series, Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe series, Robert Crais' Elvis Cole series, The Thin Man (Dashiel Hammett); Hollywood Babylon (Kenneth Anger); IT (Stephen King); Outlander (Diana Gabaldon); The Worst Movies of All Time (Michael Sauter), The Golden Turkey Awards & Son of The Golden Turkey Awards & The 50 Worst Films of All Time (all by Harry & Michael Medved) ...but I didn't like The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West) or To Live and Die In LA (Gerald Petievich; the movie was decent. Willem Dafoe can make just about anything a little better, eh? Kind of like Christopher Walken can - oh wait, Wayne's World 2 SUCKED!)
Mary Tallerico Nesbit.
Sammy Davis Jr.; Jack Kerouac; Hunter S. Thompson; Tallulah Bankhead dahling, Amy Winehouse; Tommy Vercetti!; Lidia Bastianich, Jacques Pepin, Julia Child; Seka; Richard Kelly, Jason Reitman.