Collecting late 60s/early 70s bubblegum 45s, odd alarm clocks, and weird Japanese toys. And, uh, an inordinate amount of other things. I collect autographs, photographs, seismographs, skin grafts, skinned rats...but mostly musical things. I do far too many things that are bad for me, as the news may have already told you. I have tens of thousands of LPs, 45s, CDs, reel-to-reels, 8-tracks, cassettes, DATs, laserdiscs, DVDs, videos, and anything else related. (Magazines, books, posters, toys, autographed items, in-store displays, instruments, etc.)
Syd Barrett, Johnny Thunders, Nick Drake, Alexander Spence, Elvis, Jerry Nolan, my maker. What's great is that over the years I've gotten to meet most of my heroes, like Iggy, Sylvain Sylvain, David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Paul Westerberg, Frank Black, blah blah blah. Except for Iggy, most of them have ended up just seeming like human beings. I keep getting friend requests from obscure bands from overseas who are doing searches and finding that we have music in common, and I'm discovering really GREAT fucking stuff. Keep sending me friend requests, you talented bastards!
Smoosh, Behold The Arctopus, Syd Barrett, Jim Haynes, Colin Potter, Mirror, Beatles, Big Star, Big Tobacco, Aix Em Klemm, Chris Bell, Chet Baker, Blonde Redhead, Hollywood Brats, Tommy Bolin, David Bowie, Can, Thomas Brinkmann, Cherry Twister, Cheap Trick, Cockney Rebel, Clutch, Clash, Loren Chasse, Cocorosie, Vashti Bunyan, Chappaquiddick Skyline, Pinback, Pernice Brothers, Ohio Express, Buzzcocks, Burning Brides, Boards of Canada, dB's, Dinosaur Jr., Daisy Chainsaw, Queen Adreena, Damned, Sex Pistols, Vibrators, Generation X, Flaming Lips, Th' Faith Healers, The Fall, Dukes of Stratosphear, Arab Strap, John Duncan, The Gentle Waves, Dickless, Dictators, Hot Snakes, Nick Drake, Deerhoof, Deadbeat, Tom Heasley, Maximillian Hecker, 50 Foot Wave, France Gall, Flashing Lights, Sloan, Artificial Memory Trace, Super Friendz, Idaho, Pharaoh Overlord, J.C. Ledesma, Stooges, Neutral Milk Hotel, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls, T.Rex, Sweet, Slade, Kiss, Aerosmith, Heavy Vegetable, Richard Hell and The Void Oids, Francoise Hardy, Guided By Voices, Olivia Tremor Control, Beulah, GTO's, Harper's Bizarre, Hafler Trio, Gas, Institut Fuer Feinmotorik, The Jam, Japan, Jo Jo Gunne, Jupiter Affect, Three O' Clock, Redd Kross, Fennesz, Let's Active, Lilys, Cinnamon Toast, Nick Lowe, Regina Spektor, Kron, Thomas Koner, Arling and Cameron, Ora, Jellyfish, Dwight Twilley, Klaatu, Mott The Hoople, Nico, Of Montreal, Nocturnal Emissions, Nirvana (both the modern one, AND the 60s one), My Bloody Valentine, Nazz, Neu!, New Pornographers, Dettinger, Miles Davis, Zumpano, A.C. Newman, Noisegate, The Move, Mum, Joni Mitchell, Milk Cult, Stephan Mathieu, Deathprod, Bob Marley, Meat Puppets, Mabuses, Monkees, Queen, Radiators (from space), The Records, Ramones, Motorhead, Popsicle, Posies, Pole, Pluto (Canadian band), The Quick (Mondo Deco), AMM, Pussy Cat (French 60s female), Orange Bicycle, Papas Fritas, Partridge Family, Piper, Pixies, Pretenders, Saints, Red House Painters, Replacements, Damien Rice, Reinhard Voigt, Rocket From The Crypt, Rich Kids, Shoes, Shudder To Think, Pita, Auch, Slits, Roxy Music, Mick Ronson, Rutles, Runaways, Scruffs, Sigur Ros, Sturm, Earth, SunnO))), Suede, Thrills, Stella (French 60s female), Starz, Chris Stamey, Sparks, Alexander "Skip" Spence, Splitsville, Steppenwolf, Stiff Little Fingers, Soft Boys, Johnny Thunders, Wolfgang Voigt, Velvet Underground, Ulver, Ultravox!, UFO, 20/20, Tubes, Tubeway Army, Troum, Process, Teenage Fanclub, Undertones, Turbonegro, Toshiya Tsunoda, Three Hour Tour, Thingy, Television, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Zoviet France, Wannadies, Wire, Wombles, X, Yo La Tengo, Zammuto, Neil Young, X-Ray Spex, World Of Oz, Willie Alexander, AC/DC, Briefs, Brigitte Bardot, Beastie Boys, Dizzy Q Viper, Alex Chilton, Circle, Nick Gilder, Empire (ex-Generation X), Eggstone, Vashti Bunyan, Joanna Newsom, Tommy James, Margo Guryan, Milk 'n' Cookies, Komet, Gimmik, Brume, The Church, U.K. Jones, Marvin Gaye, Permanent Green Light, Pink Floyd, Oranger, Necessaries, Elliott Smith, Leona Naess, Raincoats, Rezillos, Chris Spedding, Ice Cream Creatures, Slow Reader, Superdrag, Super Deluxe, Supergrass, Teen Angels, Paul Williams, BJ Nilsen, Stilluppsteypa, Aeolian String Ensemble, Patton Oswalt, Thuja, Growing, Stars Of The Lid, Pan American, Dead Texan, Kapotte Muziek, Eso Steel, Climax Golden Twins, 1/3 Octave Band, Peter Wright, Birchville Cat Motel, Oren Ambarchi, Philip Jeck, Jonathan Coleclough, mnortham, Johann Johannsson, Jennifer Gentle, Polyphonic Spree, Starlight Mints, Sunset Valley, Janek Schaefer, Irr. App. (Ext.), Alan Lamb, Nurse With Wound, John Hudak, Jon Carlsson, Bruce Springsteen (1st 3 albums), late 60s/early 70s BUBBLEGUM music, Archies, Tages, Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band, Delgados, Tori Amos, Bjork, Elope, Emiliana Torrini, Eluvium, Travis, Wrens, Patti Smith Group, B-52s, Beequeen, Apollon, Muslimgauze, Belle & Sebastian, 999, Bikini Kill, Biosphere, Coelacanth, Clinic, Cattanooga Cats, Cassetteboy, Jeff Buckley, Bread, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Elf Power, Faust, Sunroof!, Low, Deep Purple, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Jeremy Enigk, Envelope Bats, Eno, Bill Fay, DMZ, Donovan, Distillers, Lugosi, Died Pretty, Vladislav Delay, Idle Race, Hives, Bill Hicks, PJ Harvey, Petula Clark, Goem, Barry Gray Orchestra, Game Theory, Ace Frehley, Flys, Fluxion, Flick, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alvin Lucier, Lungfish, Kron, Klaatu, Constantines, Led Zeppelin, David Cross, Elton John, The Knack, The Kinks, Harry Nilsson, Montrose, Moles, Mommyheads, Modern Lovers, Montage, Left Banke, Stars, Orange Peels, Omit, Only Ones, Osmonds, Pavement, Pere Ubu, Joe Perry, Police, Public Image, Radar Bros., Minor Threat, Scanner, Todd Rundgren, R.E.M., Suicide Machines, Suicide, Stiff Little Fingers, Built To Spill, Treepeople, Sparklehorse, Soul Asylum, Soft Machine, Telescopes, Thin Lizzy, Tone Rec, Archers of Loaf, Against White Flag, Kaoru Abe, Young Marble Giants, Zeke, Dwarves, Yellow Balloon, Brainiac, Edgar Winter Group, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Alice Cooper (1st LP to Muscle of Love), Bonzo Dog Band, Monty Python, Diodes, Darkness, Unicorn (no, not the Unicorns), Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Common Cold, Electric Frankenstein, David Essex, Suzi Quatro, Mud, Frisbie, Friends of Distinction, Germs, Fun & Games, From Bubblegum To Sky, Monochrome Set, MC5, SRC, Curtis Mayfield, Monos, Monolake, Llama Farmers, Beth Orton, Nazareth, Husker Du, Red Rat, Raspberries, Sisters of Mercy, Skids, Be Bop Deluxe, Sid Vicious, Superstar, Wilco, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Speedies, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Get Him Eat Him, Bigger Lovers, Golden Wonder, Lassie Foundation, Apples in Stereo, Pidgeon, Arcade Fire, Main, Weakerthans, Kings of Leon, Bad Brains, Hey Mercedes, Ian North, Ian Hunter, Funkadelic, Jackson 5, Ed Harcourt, Mick Karn, Wipers, Neon Boys, Modern Lovers, Dr. Alimantado, Dillinger, Max Romeo and the Upsetters, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Fiery Furnaces, Puffball, Black Sabbath, Kinky Machine, Failure, Boris, Dots (Uwe Schmidt), Claudine Longet, Cudamani, Kaiser Chiefs, Sara Overall, Johnny Cymbal
1. Best Acting Technique: I really admire Chloe Sevigny's subtle work at the end of The Brown Bunny. The way she's able to emote while obviously quite busy, with her hands full, is amazing.
2. Crispin Glover's Greatest Film: Rubin & Ed. This was the exact moment when Hollywood became completely frightened of him. (And it's the film he was working when he freaked out David Letterman).
3. Favorite Line From The Horror Movie Phantasm: "It was little and brown and low to the ground".
4. Favorite Documentary, you ask? That's too hard. Grey Gardens, The Filth and the Fury, Summer in St. Tropez...there are too many, sir!
5. Most Inscrutable Acting By A Female Lead: Meg Tilly in Girl In A Swing. Dear God, what a weird performance. Even stranger than Marlon Brando's powderfaced crazyman in The Island of Dr. Moreau. I swear to God, for at least half of the film she speaks so strangely that you can't understand anything she says.
6. Most Surprising Extreme Violence In An Opening Scene: Nicolas Cage in David Lynch's Wild At Heart. I don't want to give it away. You just need to watch. I think it's Lynch's most wonderfully fun over-the-top film, AND it doesn't get away from itself and unravel like many of his later films do, becoming weird for weirdness's sake and giving up the ghost as it falls apart into a non-ending. (see Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway)(and I love both of those movies, but at least this one has a fucking coherent ending).
7. Worst Wig On The World's Most Beautiful Woman: Natalie Portman's goofy stripper do in Closer.
8. Favorite Character Name: Booger, from the Revenge of the Nerds movies.
9. DVD That I Wish I Still Had, But I Couldn't Pass Up Selling It For $800 on eBay: Salo.
10. Dorkiest/Most Distracting Actor: The guy who played Johnny Rotten in Sid & Nancy.
11. Best Gary Oldman Haircut: The greasy futuristic Hitler-bob in The Fifth Element.
12. Movies I Can Watch Over and Over & Always Find To Be Fun: Grosse Point Blank, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Young Frankenstein, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Spinal Tap, The Rutles-All You Need Is Cash, The Fifth Element...
I don't know if anyone ever tries to write, but the email address I'm registered with doesn't work, so if you don't get an answer, there you go.
Augusten Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, Mark Haddon, Stephen King, Mark Z. Danielewski, Douglas Adams, David Hamilton, Bettina Rheims, Glen Baxter, Ted L. Nancy, Jonathan Ames, David Rakoff, Edward Gorey, Charles Burns, Jim Woodring, Dave Eggers, Robert Crumb, Greg Friedler, Stefan Fatsis, Cecil Adams, Martin Popoff, James Randi, Michael Palin, Juergen Teller, Fred Aufray, Patricia T. O'Conner, Steve Martin, Jim Goad, Robert Christgau, Jon Stewart, Will Self, Chris Simunek, Michael Thomas Ford, Legs McNeil, David Searcy, Jan Saudek, Jock Sturges, Linda Yablonsky, Henry Rollins, Crispin Hellion Glover, Nick Hornby, Lester Bangs, Irvine Welsh, Richard Kern, Richard Hell, Richard E. Grant
Whoever invented air conditioning.