HIP THREADS:
Beatle boots, Short sleeve knit tops, Anything with stripes, Polyester, Black Pants, Scarves, Jean Jackets, Spray paint, Buttons/Pins, my black motorcycle jacket.
GOOD EATS:
Iced Coffee, Mushroom and black olive pizza, Shrimp Pad Thai, Seagrams 7 and 7, Grilled Boca Brats, Tator Tots, Blueberry Pop Tarts, Anything vanilla, Lasagna, Wide egg noodles, Blamms (blatz and hamms), Tuna, Habanero salsa, Veggie Burritos.
ARTSY SCHMARTSY:
Graphic Design, Printmaking, Fluxus stuff, Time based media, Music, Art Chantry, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhols exploding plastic inevitable, Al Hansen, House, Hatch show print, Shag.
MEET YOU THERE:
Foundation Tiki Bar, Cactus Club, Cafe lulu, Above the Bayview Barbershop, Luv Unlimited, Ryan and Wendy's kitchen, Lake Michigan, Hi-Fi, Downtown books, M-80 gallery, At random, Value villiage, The basement.
A LITTLE OF THIS/A LITTLE OF THAT:
Cool fall afternoons, my (broken)'77 Vespa, Silvertone amplifiers, Rickenbacker 330, Sugar cookie candles, morning jogs, blowing my nose, being broke all the time, a good hug from my Megan, Fly TV, basement shows, Pugs, Juiceman Juicer, Mr. Party Cat,Scampi, bi-weekly paychecks, 1994 Chevy Astro van, polka dots, traveling/touring, fome-core, Fuzz-rite, taking the bus, drawing robots, short fuses, old things.
Are you out there? Can you hang with the idea that all thoughts are created for action? Right now is the time for movement. And baby, you'd better move. 100% habit forming! I got the dance floor waxed and the records in line. Zip up your beatle boots girl, your gonna die!! BAM!
MOD REVIVAL/60'S GARAGE/NEW WAVE/PUNK/ JAPANESE STUFF/ NORTHERN SOUL/TRASH. There are too many bands to list here, so here's a small run down:
THE SUBSONICS,The Lambrettas, Stiv Bators (solo), The Hentchmen, ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS, The Tyrades, Andre Williams, Secret Affair, The Go Devils, The Lords of Altamont, The Makers, THE JAM, THE ACTION TIME, Pussy Galore, Buzzcocks, The Screamers, The Testors, Tiki-Tones, Esquerita, April March, Screamin' Lord Sutch, The Trashwomen, The Polysics, Mad 3, POOTINANNY, The Apemen, The Minds, RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS, Tee Set, Q65, Human Eye, The Purple Hearts, THE INSOMNIACS, Assembly Line People Program, The Nice Outfit, The Rondelles, THE B-52'S, Small Hours, Squire, DEVO, Jack Oblivion (solo), The Adverts,Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, International Noise Conspiracy, THE PSYCHODELICS, The Epoxies, The Odd Numbers, Etta James, The Dancing Nancies, Hot Snakes, Death by Chocolate, The Cherry Splits.
EXPLOITATION, HORROR, DOCUMENTARY, SOMETHING WEIRD VIDEO, TROMA, CULT STUFF:
Gore Gore Girls, Wild Zero, Meatballs, Bio-zombie, Inside/out: Athens GA, Kiss Me Quick, Rock n' Roll High School, Slaughter High, Blast-off girls, Theremin: an electronic odyssey, The Sore Losers,Terror on Tour,Motel Hell, Death Proof, Psych-out, Flashpoint, Biker Chicks in Zombie town, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Dolomite, DIG!
TV IS MELLOW-TIME:
The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Hi Honey I'm home, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Good Times, The Monkees, Mork and Mindy, Laverne and Shirley, Svengoolie.
BOOKS BEFORE BED:
'Please Kill Me'-Legs McNeil, 'Some People Can't Surf'-Julie Laskey, 'Be True to your School'-Bob Greene, 'Art Nouveau Designs in Color'-Alphonse Mucha. 'Mr. T: The man with the Gold'-Mr. T, 'The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'-Bill Waterson. Any Vachel Lindsay poem.'Temple of Sound'-Jim Cogan, Maximum Rock N' Roll, Search and Annoy, The Onion, Horizontal Action.
THEY MAKE THE WORLD GO 'ROUND:
Richard Pryor, Art Chantry, Rockin' Clay Reed,