1929-1964 Ford customs and hot rods (Westergard, 1950s and early 60s style before they got kooky O_o), old cars with Bench Seats (you do the math), 50's styled bobbers, Art Deco and the American movement spawned from it Streamline Moderne, Skateboards with bullet noses and fish tails, cleavage and curve aficionado (top and bottom), cruising around on my Dyno Roadster bicycle (always ready to go for a bike ride), hiking around the mountains in our city (yes, I do have too much energy), playing Upright Bass and trumpet, art (any media), Ed Roth and Kenneth Howard (low brow art), cooking/eating Asian - Mediterranean - Italian - South and North American BBQ, firearms, Tattoos (the tingle has me by the gonads, must get more), well written works, women, and MUSIC!!!!!!!!
People who can be themselves, have similar likes or backgrounds and just enjoy life be it music, art, food or creating things with their talents and hands!
Car people, music people, people with drive and emotion (damn, I already prefaced that in a sense) etc. If you have a good sense of humor, have something witty and intelligent to say, feel free to drop me an email. You may be suprised what response comes back. If a fire burns brightly within you please share it. I would also like to meet some nonsmokers. We are a dying breed, or so it would seem.
Too much to list!
70-80s Punk (Battalion of Saints, Bad Brains, JFA, TSOL, Minor Threat, The Adicts, Adolescents, Poison Idea, D.I., Circle Jerks, Agent Orange, Black Flag, Channel 3, X-Ray Spex, The Dicks, Big Boys, Youth Brigade, Blitz, Social Unrest, GBH, 7 Seconds, The Germs etc...the best stuff in the world to skateboard with as a soundtrack)
Ska & Rocksteady (Derrick Morgan, The Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Symarip, Justin Hinds, Don Drummond, The Upsetters, The Melodians, The Zodiacs, Lee Scratch Perry, Baba Brooks, Coxsone Dodd, Toots and the Maytals, Laurel Aitken...if it was being done at Studio One or Trojan..)
Psychobilly (Calavera, Demented Are Go!, The Quakes, Demented Scumcats, Mad Sin, Batmobile, Hayride To Hell, Koffin Kats, Godless Wicked Creeps, Barnyard Ballers, Photon Torpedos, Horrorpops, The Slanderin, 12 Step Rebels, Hellbillys, Tiger Army, Nekromantix, etc...)
50s-60s Country(Johnny Cash R.I.P. 09/12/03 your music moved and inspired many, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams Sr., Wanda Jackson, etc..Sun Records where Rock 'N Roll was born) and Outlaw Country (Waylon), new artists like Junior Brown, Wayne Hancock and Hank III as well
Garage, Soul, Motown, Surf, 80's Darkwave, Rockabilly, Older and REAL Jazz - If it has roots I am into it!
Bands who play Rhythm and Blues like it is 1958!
Miscellaneous:
Alphabet Bombers, Busted Hearts, Bullet Train to Moscow, Three Bad Jacks, Tombstone Brawlers, Bleed, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Naked Raygun, Die Hunns, The Briefs, Gogol Bordello, Soda and His Million Piece Band, Doo Rag, Bob Log III, The Forgotten, The Beltones, Knuckledragers, King's of Nuthin, The Templars, The Pogues, The Buzzcocks, The Cramps, Thee OhNo's, Operation Ivy, The Dwarves, Motorhead, U.S. Bombs, Social Distortion, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Deadbolt, Kongo Shock, DeVotchKa, Three Blue Teardrops, Pressure Point, The Hypno-Twists, CockSparrer, Al Foul and the Shakes, anything by Joe Strummer, Siouxsie Sioux, The Cure, Hepcat, Slackers, Last Call Brawlers, The Delusionaires, Bar Room Heroes, The Bodies, Louie Prima, Grave Danger, The Mummies, Calexico, Neko Case, Sisters of Mercy, Big 6, Hi Fi and the Roadburners, The Phenomenauts, X, Alien Sex Fiend, Flogging Molly, Blazing Haley, Blood for Blood, The Inciters, Venice Shoreline Chris, Distillers, English Beat, Angelic Upstarts, Link Wray, Skinny Puppy, Impala, Sam Cooke, The Dynotones, Inspecter 7, The Amazing Crowns, Stray Cats, The Damned, Moral Crux,...to be continued.
50s-60s sci fi and horror, Gangster: Italian, American, English, Documentaries and Historical events - Clockwork Orange (read the damn book you!), Both versions of Klaus Klinske's Nosferatu, ZOMBIE MOVIES, War of the Worlds, Forbidden PLanet, Godzilla, Kung Fu movies, Samurai and Cowboy Flicks, Evil Dead Trilogy, bahh I won't go on (it was a futile attempt to list THE NAMES of the movies). Just about anything independent of Hollywood! (And a few that Hollywood spawned...shhh It's a secret!). I am a sucker for Saturday Matinee Serials and modern movies that exemplify the genre (Indiana Jones, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...). Movies made in or take place in the 30s.Akira Kurosawa is one of my all time favorite film makers!
I have a DVD player...'nuff said.
Ancient and recent history (Egypt, Greece, Rome, MesoAmerica...etc - the culture, the art, the technology, the religions, the architecture, the politics), cyberpunk, The Dune books, cooking, music related (see genres I like, always trying to learn new music to play), architechture (old and new - I have a 2nd degree connection with Frank Lloyd Wright), American Nostalgia, Hunter S. Thompson.
If it is well written and provokes thought then I will digest it!
My Grandfather! U.S.A. Army World War II Veteran. He came from a stock of men, whose selfless endeavors afforded us the freedoms we have today. It is because of him, that I have morals and values not normally seen much less practiced today.
My Great Aunt! Quite possibly the single most educated and brilliant woman in my life. As a self made woman she was educated to unheard of levels during the 1940s for a single female and is the explicit reason why I am a lover of knowledge. Her wisdom and life lessons remain a catharsis for me day to day.