"All the way is never enough - too far is where you start gettin' to the good stuff - Rene Risque and The Art Lovers
rock, making the rock, playing the rock, photographing the rock, writing about the rock, promoting the rock, living the rock...
being a punk, a wise-ass, a big-mouth and an overall irritant, the antagonist movement, yoga, critters, dancing my ass off, photography, writing and otherwise spewing my drivel, DiY whatever, burning man, film, sweating, looking for experiences in all the weird places.
I am starting a revolution against our evil government, complacency comas, consumer culture, reality TV, celebrity worship and feminine deoderant spray.
I like real people, not internet personas, websites, clothing companies or some other commercial interest. I get requests from folks who have heard about my bulletins or who have read my blogs. Just ping me first and I may add you. I DON'T REALLY NEED ANY MORE "FRIENDSTERS" for this interweb high-school popularity contest. Please don't be a loser or myspaceslut collector who can't take the enough time with my profile to realize I am married and don't really live my life on this thing. I don't do "chat". If you have time to waste, please visit www.ifuckinghateyou.com
There is a reason I don't add bands I do not know here. If you think you can actually blow my mind, go to my BAND PAGE and I'll check you out there.
People who pay heed to these simple requests...
DON'T EVEN TRY TO ADD ME IF YOU ARE - "Death"-anything, whiney emo, "screamo", nu-metal, honky-"Funk", goth, formula-billy, or McPunk like every crap band on radio. Hardcore has sucked since 1984. "Serious" bands like Nickelback or Creed can fuck off. I don't care "how much you feel". BE FUN and HAVE FUN. If you rock, I will find you. It is one of my special talents.
This is the crap I like, and there's quite a lot of it:
Cheap Trick, Mozart operas, Kitty & The Kowalskis (because I have to), Queen, Turbonegro, Rezillos, Undertones, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, D Generation, Jesse Malin, Danny Sage, The Clash, The Ramones, Devo, X, Generation X, 6X, Johnny Thunders and/or The Heartbreakers, Ultravox, Visage, Captain Beefheart, Buzzcocks, Ohio Express, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Elton John, BellRays, Johnny Cash, Black Flag, Iggy and/or The Stooges, Dead Boys, New York Dolls, Dead Kennedys, The Carpenters, ABBA, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Descendents, Bee Gees, Blondie, Dickies, The Toy Dolls, Mamas & Papas, The Monkees, Big Boys, The Soft Boys, Syd Barrett, Chuck Berry, George Jones, Ronnie Dawson, Drag the River, ALL, The Muffs, Supernova, CCR, Riverboat Gamblers, The Replacements, Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson, Gore Gore Girls, The Paybacks, Bad Brains, Sex Pistols, Psychedelic Furs. Pixies, DLR-era Van Halen, KISS, Motley Crue, Poison, Vic Thrill, The Kills, The Trakes, all Motown/Funk Brothers, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Damned, The Dictators, Desmond Dekker, Bon Scott era AC/DC, The Manges, The Move, The Ventures, The Vandals, Slade, The Sweet, The Sonics, MC5, Patti Smith, Hank Williams, Etta James, T Rex, Angry Samoans, The Wierdos, Henri Mancini, DOA, AOD (Adrenalin OD), Sux, Patsy Cline, Electric Six, Gary Numan, 45 Grave, The Go-Gos, 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Atlantics, The Neighborhoods, The Plimsouls, The Last, The Fast, The Real Kids, Rocket From The Crypt, Rocket From The Tombs, The Testors, The Wildhearts, The Rasperries, Badfinger, Big Star, Motorhead, pre-90s Guns 'n Roses, and any music I can spazz to.
I am a total 80s fag - Hair Metal, New Wave, etc. I am also a power-pop nut. 60s and 70s AM radio pop "gold" is freakin' fantastic.
I also don't get Black Sabbath or stoner rock. I mean, even LEMMY said he doesn't like Black Sabbath, so I'm not crazy, right?
Broadway Danny Rose (ya know, the FUNNY Woody Allen movies, but I'll add Crimes & Misdemeanors), Godfather II, Fight Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, City of Lost Children, The Krays, Office Space, Goodfellas, Boondock Saints, The Blues Brothers, The Empire Strikes Back, The Road Warrior (I have a theme going of liking the sequel better than the original), Sixteen Candles, Frailty, The Changeling, Kill Bill Pt 1 & 2, Star Struck, Forbidden Zone, Raising Arizona, Cinema Paradiso, Alien, Blade Runner, Sophie's Choice, Star 80, Mean Streets, Hairspray, Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy, Lost in Translation, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Caddyshack, Ladies and Gentlemen - The Fabulous Stains, The Adventures of Priscilla - Queen of the Desert, Terror Firmer (Troma!), and The B Reel www.breel.com
Who needs TV when I got T. Rex?
Anything by David Sedaris, Camus, Ayn Rand, Hemmingway, Charles Dickens and Flannery O'Connor; The 9/11 Commission Report, Autobiography of Malcom X, The Fountainhead, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Class by Paul Fussell, Backlash by Susan Faludi, Psychotic Reactions and Carburator Dung (Lester Bangs), Please Kill Me, Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon, Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh, The New Jackals (book about terrorism), The Fruit of Desire, e, Hoax by Nicholas Von Hoffman, Rogue States by Noam Chomsky. I also like Nicholson Baker, Knut Hamsun and Martin Amis. I have a Will Self book I've never read. Someone stole my hardcover copy of THE DIRT before I read it, and they must DIE!
Jon Stewart, Harriet Tubman, Joe Strummer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosa Parks, Simon Wiesenthal, Martin Luther King, Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Malcom X, Hiawatha, Stephen Hawking, Buckminster Fuller, Joan Jett, Timothy Leary, Lenny Bruce, Dee Dee Ramone, Patsy Stone, Lucille Ball, Judge Judy, Debbie Harry and any other significant rocker, cultural contributor, revolutionary, devolutionist or everyday people fighting for equality, justice and basic human rights all over the planet. Anyone that makes me laugh.