well, the dusty, musty, old and collectible, barbies, pirates and pirate history, cruiser bicycles, sock-monkeys , boys with big side-burns, tattoos/tattooing , vintage cars and custom rods, lucky lager, rockabilly music, giant squid tequilla. early 80's euro-pop, zombie flicks and other assorted horrors.
then there's hanging out at home, finger-painting with my daughter, petting our loverly kitty tilly, talking to our birds and hoping they don't poop on me... TODAY.
-- forget "planet of the apes"...
SOCKMONKEYS UNITE to end our human reign --
I'd like to meet:
creative, well-grounded people who know the sock monkeys are plotting to overthrow the govt... they put lint in our water.
this is cecil the sockmonkey enjoying some vb's on his trip to australia. i've never been but cecil says it's lovely... or at least what he can remember of it. yes, i have interesting friends!
i am always intrigued by those with an appreciation of language and arts, wandering thinkers with deep roots in the now. i'd love to meet other parents in my city (vancouver bc)... ones who know that suv's are over-rated and who often find themselves answering questions at the end of PAC meetings with sentences like, "of course it hurt, it's an elbow tattoo ."
Music:
i'm gonna list a whole slew of stuff cos if you like some of the music here, you may like others you may not have heard of... webb pierce, wanda jackson, johnny cash, rose maddox, david bowie, peter, paul & mary, carl perkins, warren smith, marty robbins, the coffin shakers, boomtown rats, hayden thompson, buzzcocks, barbara pittman, little junior's blue flames, nomeansno, bellfuries, blur, charletons, the alcons, jimmy heap, joe clay, elvis costello, janice martin, sid king and the five strings, the misfits, go cat go, cigar store indians, johnny horton, johnny burnette, the electric six, charlie feathers, the cure, the cadillacs, the night riders, cyndi lauper, hasil adkins, nofx, eddie cochrane, glen glenn, the jam, buck jones, love & rockets, hollis champion, gene vincent, sundowners, cave catt sammy, daisy chainsaw, supersuckers, decendants, tennessee ernie ford, stiff little fingers, groucho marx, andy williams, esquivel... i could go on and probably will later.
Movies:
Harold & Maude, Eraserhead, Stand By Me, Road Racers,
Rock'n'Roll High School, Pump Up the Volume, Nightmare Before Christmas, Heathers, Anita-Dances of Vice, City of Lost Children, Pleasantville, Beetlejuice, Butterfly Kiss, Down By Law, Cat Ballou, Tremors, Edward Scissorhands, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Mystery Train, Gummo, Vampire's Kiss, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (ALL of EM!), Dawn of the Dead, Dead Alive ("I kick ass for the LORD!"), The Iron Giant, The Princess Bride, Time Bandits, (Roman Polanski's) Pirates, Suburbia, Repo Man, Natural Born Killers, Wild Zero, Magnolia, Pirates of the Carribean, the Hitcher, The Dark Crystal, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Coffee & Cigarettes, Man Bites Dog, Brazil, the Bad Lieutenant, Totoro, The People Under the Stairs Antonia's Line, Slither, ... more later.
Television:
The Daily Show and Colbert Report -- Stewart and Colbert 2008!, Investigative Reports, Cold Case Files, C.S.I., Urusei Yatsura, Happy Days, T.P.B. (of course! it's as canadian as hockey!), Kenny vs. Spenny, Arrested Development (when it was still on), The Family Guy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, City Confidential, Malcolm in the Middle, King of the Hill, The Simpsons (duh!), George Shrinks, The People's Court (cos people are SO stupid!), Fairly Odd Parents, My Name is Earl, What Not to Wear... i usually just listen to the tv while i sew, paint or tool around on the computer.
Books:
i read a lot of the classics. this doesn't make me any smarter than the average joe, just probably more nerdy. i also love many canadian authors. Robertson Davies, Margaret Lawrence, Margaret Atwood (sure, throw your stones), Timothy Findley (SOME of his stuff, like Headhunter), my eyes are getting blurry, so i'll finish this up later... where did i leave my glasses?
Heroes:
we don't need another hero. all we want is what's beyond thunderdome.
