Rrrreal rock and roll, New York City history and culture, popular and unpopular culture, the arts (low- and highbrow), WFMU, CIUT-FM 89.5, movies, fashion history (esp. '50s and '60s), mid-century and '60s design, photography, observation, reading, writing, good food, hanging out, life itself...
Cool, decent folk from all over. Rock and roll hang-out buddies in the Toronto and NYC areas as well.
WFMU, '60s rock and roll, '60s pop, girl groups, Brill Building, garage rock ('60s and revivalist), darn near anything with a combo organ or jangly guitar on it, '70s punk, '70s glam, rockabilly, good hillbilly/country, doo-wop/vocal harmony, power pop, good soul/greasy R and B, old ska/reggae, wacky novelty records, Broadway show tunes and cabaret standards, some jazz, even new wave and classic rock (can't help it--I grew up on that stuff). Faves include The Left Banke, Blondie, The Byrds, The Beau Brummels, The Modern Lovers, ? and the Mysterians, The Trashmen, The Bobby Fuller 4, The Everly Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Zombies, The Kinks, The Merry-Go-Round, Lou Christie, Gene Pitney, Del Shannon, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, Gene Vincent, Sweet, The Flamin' Groovies, (the group called) Lyres, The Woggles, The Ramones (I was born across the street from Joey's childhood home), The Clash, "Sugar Baby Love" by The Rubettes, "The Trains" by the Nashville Ramblers, just to name a few. And forgive me, but I've come down with a Clemented Conchords obsession...hope this doesn't negate what little garagenik cred I possess.
Old ones mostly, from classic Hollywood to Something Weird sleaze and all genres in between. Documentaries galore. Musicals a must. Special fondness for Sirkian melodramas and what used to be called "wimmen's pictures." Short list includes Rock and Roll High School, "One" and "Two" (as Christophuh Moltisanti would say), Chinatown, Stage Door, The Best of Everything, The Women, Imitation of Life, Peyton Place, Auntie Mame, Designing Woman, Valley of the Dolls, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Taxi Driver, Riot on Sunset Strip, That Thing You Do, The Cool Ones, way too many more...
Drive-In Classics (on Canadian cable), TCM, good documentaries, A/E Bio and E True Hollywood Story (though both have gone downhill lately), Freaks and Geeks, Married...With Children, the Sopranos, Rome, '50s/'60s reruns, What's My Line, Burke's Law, Hawaiian Eye, 77 Sunset Strip, '60s rock and roll shows (Shindig, Hullabaloo, Upbeat etc.), Ed Sullivan, PBS docs and oldies concerts, SNL bits when they're good, Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Project Runway, Everybody Hates Chris, Ugly Betty, Flight of the Conchords, etc....
I've got a B.A. in English lit but I dig nonfiction the most. Rock and roll history/criticism, New York City history, '50s/'60s history and culture, biographies, groupie memoirs, fashion history, photography, art and design, wacky Americana, psychotronic movies and Hollywood history, culinary history, '60s/'70s teenybopper/rock and roll mags (Hullabaloo, Teen Screen, Teenset, 16, Tiger Beat, Flip, Creem, Rock Scene, etc.), vintage fashion magazines, Vanity Fair mag, etc....
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