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Louis Fowler

Not as Fergilicious as I'd like to be.

About Me

"Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is, for me, intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film." -Werner Herzog

LOUISFOWLER.COM is my official website slash blog. Movie reviews, mp3 postings, pop culture news, it's all there. Yeah, it's not gonna change the world, but what's wrong with a little fun? Put away your over-zealousness and incessant politicizing for five minutes. Fucking hippies.

WHO IS THIS LOUIS?


I am a writer and film critic with a penchant for genre films. I guess that means that I mostly like horror, exploitation, sci-fi, kung-fu, comic book and Mexican wrestling movies. And I do, I can't lie. My work appears on a regular basis in Hitch Magazine, Bookgasm, Paracinema Magazine, Scars Magazine, Exploitation Retrospect, Carbon 14, The Hungover Gourmet, Micro Cinema Scene and Bloody Good Horror. My writings and such have appeared in regional alt-weeklies such as The Rocky Mountain Bullhorn, The Fort Collins Now, NEXT NC, The Colorado Springs Independent and, um, The Rocky Mountain Chronicle. And the list keeps growing, so, go me, I guess.

Also, here in Ft. Collins, I host the somewhat greatest radio program since Switzer's Phosphates Present the Chum-Chum and Gibber McJinks Comedy Hour--a little show called DAMAGED Hearing on KRFC-FM, a free form community radio station here in the FC. I was named BEST LOCAL RADIO PERSONALITY, by the now defucnt Bullhorn, but who am I to argue. People ask me what the show is like and I have a hard time answering that--it's whatever I want. To be fair, I have also recieved hate mail for playing Journey, but hey--"Don't Stop Believin'" rules and Journey rules, you elitist bastards.

Don't live in Fort Collins? But want to listen anyway? Louis's show is streaming on the web! To listen to DAMAGED Hearing, every Tuesday from 1-3 PM (mountain time), click here to stream.

If I missed anything, feel free to ask. I'm an open book. It's one of my problems.

My Interests

regret, b-movies, blaxploitation films, bloody italian horror, christian heavy metal, christian satanic conspiracy literature, chupacabras, AQUACABRAS, crappy movies, cult films, hack journalism, hilariously deviant sexual practices, honoring shitty films, horror movies, indy publishing, kitsch, loving things you hate, mexican death culture, mexican fringe culture, mexican religious paraphernalia, multigenre appreciation, nasty-ass flea markets, naughty poltergeists, perverted true crime novels, pop culture commentary, psychotronic video, revolution for profit, satire, screaming JENGA! loudly, shock cinema, super-gay synthpop, the bad movies lifestyle, the dark lord SATAN, trashy films, unironic 80's music fandom, wallowing in sleaze, william shatner's voice, zines, embarrassing sexual anecdotes, wasting huge amounts of time watching horrible movies and finally, KNOWING WHEN TO HOLD THEM KNOWING WHEN TO FOLD THEM KNOWING WHEN TO WALK AWAY and KNOWING WHEN TO RUN.

I'd like to meet:

People with low standards.

MY HEROES.

Plus: Burt Reynolds, Redd Foxx, Neil Diamond, Dio, RUDY RAY MOORE, Paul Lynde, the Village People, Godzilla, SONNY CHIBA...

You know who I don't want to meet? Shitty emo bands and cam whores. If you're a band, if I like you, I'll add you and send you a message asking for a CD to play on my show. So if I don't add you, chances are you probably suck. But, if you're in an emo band, you probably already know that. Alternately, if you're a chick named "Brianna" or "Angel" and your cookie-cutter profile advertises your "free cam show" and all your pics are of you frolicking in your panties, you will not be added. As a matter of fact, a hateful message telling you to snort another line and get back to work on the satellite stage at "Melonshakers" will probably be sent.

Music:

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The Flaming Lips, Serge Gainsbourg, U2, The Cure, David Bowie, The Starlight Mints, Al Green, Yoko Ono, Ben Folds, THOR, Selena, AC/DC, Parliament Funkadelic, Ween, Blowfly, Tom Napperson, Lou Reed, Slayer, Johnny Cash, American Boyfriends, ABBA, Mr. Loco, Ice Cube, Talking Heads, Pizzicato Five, Andrew WK, Paul Williams, Neil Diamond, John Lennon, The Ramones, Tenacious D, NWA, William Shatner, Barenaked Ladies, Bob Dylan, Outkast, Kylie, Frank Sinatra, Prince, MAGIC CYCLOPS!, Public Enemy, Shakira, Ice Cube, Freddy Fender, Queen, Loretta Lynn, Billy Joel, Texas Tornados, Biz Markie, the Velvet Underground, the Digital Underground
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Rob Zombie, Gloria Trevi, GOBLIN, Jane Birkin, FATLIP, Frank Zappa, The Rutles, REM, the Smiths, Perry-Kingsley, Journey, Francois Hardy, Bardot, Riz Ortolani,the White Stripes, Oingo Boingo, Bee Gees, Iggy Pop, INXS, Motley Crue, Blondie, Bread, Puffy Amiyumi, Sweet, Tom Jones, Scissor Sisters, Steely Dan, Har Mar Superstar, the Donnas, Jonathan Richman, Violent Femmes, RUN DMC, Duran Duran, Mark Mallman, Fantastic Plastic Machine, the Clash, Ween, They Might Be Giants, Meat Loaf, the Killers, STRYPER!, Electric Light Orchestra, the Free Design, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Depeche Mode, Ozzy, Cat Stevens, Guns N Roses, Zamfir and any KISS tribute band.

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Movies:


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SEX MACHINE, American Movie, Petey Wheatstraw, Smokey and the Bandit, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Devil's Rejects, Pink Flamingos, Rock and Roll High School, Shock Treatment, SOUL VENGEANCE, Pecker, Yor: The Hunter from the Future, A Dirty Shame, Re-Animator, Ed Wood, The Great Escape, Foxy Brown, Magnolia, Valley of the Dolls, Punch Drunk Love, Female Trouble, Videodrome, Pootie Tang, The Evil Dead Trilogy, Cannibal Holocaust, Reality Bites, The Mariachi Trilogy, THE TOXIC AVENGER, Boogie Nights, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Cecil B. DeMented, Polyester, Team America, HOSTEL

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SLITHER, Myra Breckinridge, Plan 9 From Outer Space, Battle Royale, Death Race 2000, anything by Jess Franco, Russ Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens, Happiness, PHANTASM, Terror Firmer, American Splendor, Russ Meyer's Up, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Blood Feast, Sin City, Andy Warhol's Bad, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Man Who Fell to Earth, XANADU, The Phantom of the Paradise, Switchblade Sisters, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Superfuzz, THREE THE HARD WAY, Glitter, anything by Andy Sidaris, The Gates of Hell, Brazil, Russ Meyer's Vixen, The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years, ANY SERGE GAINSBOURG FILMS IF I COULD ONLY FIND THEM, Zardoz, Suspiria, ABBA: The Movie...


...and anything with Uschi Digard.

Television:

The Office (both US and UK, but more US), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Mr. Show, Benny Hill, Flight of the Conchords, Sanford and Son, Saturday Night Live, The Prisoner, What's Happening, King of the Hill

ATOMIC TV

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Cops, Tom Goes to the Mayor, The Venture Brothers, Cheaters, Reno 911!, 30 Days, Celebrity Fit Club, Iron Chef, South Park, Hell's Kitchen, Dog: The Bounty Hunter, 30 Rock, The Tim and Eric Awesome Show that's on Adult Swim right now, but I don't have cable currently so I have to wait for the damn DVDs.

Books:

I love Christian books about Satanism, rock-n-roll, Catholic conspiracies--the crazier the better. My fave author would probably have to be Jack T. Chick.

Shock Value by John Waters, Sleazoid Express, The Psychotronic Video Guide, anything by Micheal J. Nelson, Prisoner of X, Trash: The Best of Exploitation Movie Posters, Cash by Johnny Cash, Answer Me! (really anything by Jim Goad), Kill Your Idols, Apocalypse Culture 1 and 2, Watchmen, Muerte!:Death in Mexican Culture, Micheal Jackson Was My Lover, Incredibly Strange Music Vol. 1 and 2, Incredibly Strange Films, The Kinsey Report, anything by Iceberg Slim, Myra Breckenridge, sleazy 1970'a sex paperbacks that usually have lesbian nuns possessed by demons.

Heroes:

My Blog

Stolen from IKE

Q: Why was Dennis De Young's chicken so overseasoned?A: He had too much thyme on his hands.
Posted by Louis Fowler on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:56:00 PST