I'm a freelance hack. I write Play List , a weekly CD/DVD column for the Rochester, NY entertainment rag Insider , album reviews and bios for All Music Guide , and concert reviews for Musictoday and the Democrat & Chronicle . My stuff can be seen on websites like Barnes & Noble, Amazon, iTunes, eMusic, LiveDaily, Iceberg Radio, Billboard and MTV. I've also proudly contributed utter nonsense (with brutal honesty and foolhardy conviction) for the now dormant 2 Walls Webzine . If you need to cut through some of the clutter here, look me up on facebook.
Feo Mateo of Paco Camino.
Fu Manchu, Roth-era Van Halen, Marvin Gaye, Cheap Trick, The Stooges, Stevie Wonder, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Shawn Smith (Brad, Satchel, Pigeonhed), Cibo Matto, Chic, Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel, James Brown, Tenacious D, Jimmy Smith, The Ventures, George Benson, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Surf Punks, The Lively Ones, Reverend Horton Heat, Albert King, The Commodores, Etta James, pre-cosmetic surgery Michael Jackson, Gert Wilden, The Spinners, Hank Williams, Black Flag, Connie Price & The Keystones, Hawkwind, Brendan Benson, Ben Harper, johnnie Taylor, Happy Chichester (Howlin' Maggie), Rufus, The Dramatics, Dianne Reeves, Nina Simone, Buddy Guy, Donny Hathaway, Fugazi, Prince, Henry Mancini, MC Honky, Curve, Fenton Robinson, The Commodores, Black Sabbath, KISS, Al Green, Flo & Eddie, Danielia Cotton, Joni Mitchell, Charles Mingus, Nirvana, Kyuss, Judas Priest, Pat Benetar, Beastie Boys, Money Mark, Nicola Conte, Fishbone, Richard Cheese, Metallica, Donnie, The Who, Luther Allison, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Link Wray, The Cars, Fleetwood Mac, Albert Collins, Rolling Stones, Brant Bjork, Hall & Oates, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Smashing Pumpkins, Ween, Killer Dwarfs, Ratt, AC/DC, Bauhaus, L7, Clutch, Nebula, Dead Milkmen, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Bob Marley, The Smiths, Buckethead, The Black Keys, Jamie Cullum, Hermano, The Thieves, Hot Date, Man or Astroman?, painfully obscure film soundtracks--Over the Edge, Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, Singles, The Warriors, etc., old surf music, 70's streetball soul, funk and R&B, electric blues, classic hard rock, AM Gold, comedy records, Crippled Dick and Stones Throw Records, and any album by 70's sexpert Xaviera Hollander.
Better Off Dead, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, Dogtown and Z-Boys, Lost in Translation, Wattstax, Serial Mom, Sixteen Candles, Over The Edge, High Fidelity, Gimme Shelter, Jess Franco's Vampyros Lesbos, The Warriors, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, Repo Man, Skateboard Madness, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, Night of the Creeps, Almost Famous, After Hours, True Romance, Shawshank Redemption, National Lampoon's Vacation, Singles, Caddyshack, Valley Girl, The Sure Thing, Beautiful Girls, The Jerk, Just One of the Guys, American Beauty, Blues Brothers, Kingpin, The Princess Bride, Pink Floyd The Wall, The Crow, Trading Places, Run Ronnie Run, Airplane!, The Lady in White, Tommy Boy, Dazed and Confused, Bull Durham, Kentucky Fried Movie, The Money Pit, Grease, Diner, Four Rooms, That Thing You Do, Mask, Ace Ventura, Fire With Fire, The Wraith, Summer Lovers, Modern Girls, Endless Love, Halloween, This Is Spinal Tap, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Out of Towners (Jack Lemmon), The Color Purple (just kidding, though it is a great film however).
Freaks and Geeks, Mr. Show, Saturday Night Live, Family Guy, Weeds, Six Million Dollar Man, Magnum PI, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Northern Exposure, Adventures of Pete and Pete, Wonder Woman, Ed, Alice, It's a Living, Sanford and Son, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Conan O'Brien, Sex in the City, Shazam, Electric Company, Fat Albert, Fish, Barney Miller, Taxi, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Cosby Show, The White Shadow, Facts of Life, Friends, Bernie Mac, School House Rock, Soul Train, Seinfeld, Superstars, Match Game, Brady Bunch, WKRP in Cincinnati, Battle of the Network Stars, Monty Python, The Jeffersons, What's Happening, Tenacious D, One Day At a Time, Hee Haw, Solid Gold, Dance Fever, Gong Show, Simon and Simon, Hart To Hart, Sid and Marty Croft crap, Buck Rodgers, This Old House, 60 Minutes, 30 Rock, The Office, and the original Headbangers Ball.
Artful trash by Taschen, Christina's Torment~Blakely St. James (actually any of the ridiculously erotic Christina series books), All Music Guide to Soul, They Lived on Human Flesh~Enrique Hank Lopez, The One Minute Manager~Blanchard & Johnson, The Van Halen Encyclopedia~C.J. Chilvers, Live From New York--an Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live~Shales & Miller, Hit Me Fred--Recollection of a Sideman~Fred Wesley, The Playboy Book, Suburbia~Bill Owens, Bottomless Cocktail--the Art of Shag, Rolling Stone The 70s, The Happy Hooker~Xaviera Hollander, The Sports Illustrated Football Book, Dogtown-The Legend of Z-Boys~Stecyk & Friedman, The Simpsons Complete Guide~Matt Groening, Fish Strikes Out~T.J. Hemmings, The Nu Naybahood Funetic Ebonic Dictionary~D. Munyungo Jackson
Cameron Crowe, Wilma Rudolph, Hunter S. Thompson, Dan Fouts, Evel Knievel, Dr. J, Steve Prefontaine, Richard Pryor, Martin Luther King, George Carlin, Les Paul, David Lee Roth, Bill Cosby, Jack Davis (artist), Marvin Gaye, Steve Martin, Hugh Hefner, Fantastic Four comics, Chuck Klosterman, and of course, my talented and beautiful wife Suzanne.