Movies (horror, cult, classics, exploitation, silents, kung fu, sexploitation, indie, 70's porn, foreign or just plain weird) • Long random road trips, preferably with someone I enjoy sitting next to for hours • Food! I love food of all types and will go out of my way for an interesting hole-in-the-wall restaurant (but I'm somehow still thin) • Conversation with interesting people (but I hate meaningless small talk) • Riding my bike or taking long walks • Hiking and camping, though haven't done much of either since moving to LA • Dive bars • Exploring new neighborhoods • Music! Without music in my life I would have lost my sanity on a number of occasions • Import and microbrewed beer • Taking long drives alone late at night to clear my thoughts • Lately I've wanted to get my bass and guitar from NY, or maybe buy a drum, and make some noise again • I'm fascinated by the seemingly random moments that bring us to where we are in life, and bring certain people into our lives, and spend hours trying to figure out how everything is connected in some grand scheme I have yet to decipher.
Nerds, dorks, geeks, freaks, weirdos and outcasts.
If you create something (film, music, art, food, chaos) and you do it with passion and a little bit of madness, we'd probably get along well - so feel free to say hello.
Please note: This is my personal account for people I know in "real life." If we've never met or spoken but you think we should, please at least send a short message first.
PUNK ROCK • Soundtracks & Library records • Funk / 50's Rock / Blues / Soul / R'n'B / Ska / Reggae / Dub / Latin Jazz / early Hip Hop • anything with that authentic High Energy Rock'n'Roll sound • electronica, beats, breaks, sounds that make the floor shake and keep my neighbors awake...The Stooges, Little Richard, Cheap Trick, Dead Boys, The Rutles, MC5, Al Jolson, AC/DC, Funkadelic, The Effigies, LOVE, The Pagans, Madness, SSD, The Meters, Bernard Herrmann, Rocket From The Tombs, Raymond Scott, Cock Sparrer, The Sonics, Bad Brains, The Scientists, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Weirdos, Small Faces, Buzzcocks, Jerry Lee Lewis, Necros, The Dictators, Chemical Brothers, Really Red, The Gas, Bruno Nicolai, The Cramps, The Mystic Tide, The Nils, Ennio Morricone, Motorhead, X-Ray Spex, ELVIS, The Revels, Dyke and The Blazers, Germs, Schoolly D, The Professionals, FEAR, Sly and the Family Stone, Nico, Alice Cooper, Thievery Corp, Radio Birdman, LeRoy Shield, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Music Machine, The Saints, The Wailers, Flipper, The Lyres, X, Sasha & Digweed, The 4 Skins, James Brown, Anti-Nowhere League, Mission of Burma, Flamin' Groovies, Portishead, Algebra Mothers, Lloyd Price, Velvet Underground, The Electric Eels, Zero Boys, Jerry's Kids, Johnny Burnette Trio, Wire, Black Sabbath, The Who, Teenage Head, The Records, Larry Williams, Angelic Upstarts, the girl who sings 'Desperado' on that Langley Schools record, Geno Washington, New Race, Toots and The Maytals, Misfits, Dion, The Vapors, Enoch Light, Wynonie Harris, U.K. Subs, The Nerves, Big Joe Turner, Negative Approach, Men At Work, Graham Parker, New York Dolls, Link Wray, VOID, Johnny Thunders, Lee Allen, The Minutemen, The Banana Splits, Blue Oyster Cult, Discharge, The Treniers, The Ruts, Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Dickies, Wipers, Red Alert, The Adverts, Sonic's Rendezvous, Bobby Fuller, Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers, Ike Turner, The Only Ones
...and NYHC up to about 1986: Kraut, Reagan Youth, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, Major Conflict, Cause For Alarm, Urban Waste, The Abused, The Mob, Antidote, Nihilistics, Murphy's Law, The Undead, A.O.D., Psychos, Heart Attack, etc.
If it's got zombies, kung fu, ex-football players stickin it to 'The Man', guys in rubber monster suits or naked women with large natural breasts and bouffant hairdos I've probably seen it or would wanna watch it...also, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Vertigo, Touch of Evil, Battle Royale, Keoma, The Night of the Hunter, Suspiria, The Wild Bunch, Get Carter, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Fabulous Stains, Peeping Tom, Mona Lisa, A Better Tomorrow, Freaks, The Long Good Friday, Angels With Dirty Faces, Made in Britain, Cape Fear (original), International House, Quatermass and the Pit, Vigilante, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Longest Nite, King of New York, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Trust, The Girl Can't Help It, Repo Man, Joe, This Is England, Heavenly Creatures, Shogun Assassin, The Wanderers, Them!, The Crying Game, White Heat, Superfly, A Night at the Opera, Romper Stomper, Long Arm of the Law, Impulse, The Great Silence, Stairway to Heaven, The Searchers, Deep Red, The Warriors, Excalibur, Kingdom of the Spiders, Proof, Foxy Brown, The Parallax View, North by Northwest, Drunken Master 2, Amin: The Rise and Fall, Viva Knievel!, The Image, The Big Gundown, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Mondo Magic, Too Many Ways To Be No. 1, The Sands of Iwo Jima, Night of the Lepus, The Defiance of Good, A Clockwork Orange, Yor - The Hunter from the Future, Odd Man Out, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...and anything with these people (one of whom I had the pleasure of becoming friendly with, and no it wasn't Godzilla)
I really don't watch much TV (other than TCM and other channels showing old movies), and usually not before midnight.
I love old books with strange scribbled notes from former owners, or with odd objects and scraps of paper stuffed between the pages.