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Captain Wow

Low Noise / High Output

About Me


Here are some things that I like.
You might like them, too.
Let me know if you do.

? Cookies
? Disneyland
? Being On The Air
? Bobblehead Dolls
? Live Music
? People who speak other languages on the phone
? Lab Coats
? My Two-Tone Belt
? Eyeballs
? "This American Life"
? Summer
? Pie
? Bands with girl drummers and/or bass players
? Coffeehouses
? "Married To The Sea"
? Vinyl
? Programmatic Architecture
? Lists
? Pirates
? Welding Goggles
? Revolver
? Fashionable Hats & Shoes
? You.

My Interests

Cartooning, Singing, Broadcasting, Improv Comedy, Traveling, Playing Guitar, Urban Legends

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who can put up with:

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Music:

!!!
10cc
The 101'ers
20/20
ABC
Air
Adam Ant
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Sean Altman
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
The Art Of Noise
Arthur & Yu
Asylum Street Spankers
Aztec Camera
The B-52's
The Beach Boys
Beat Happening
The Beatles
Beck
The Bee Team
Belle & Sebastian
Ben Folds Five
Dan Bern
The Beautiful South
Big Audio Dynamite
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Big Star
Andrew Bird
The Bird And The Bee
Black Grape
The Black Keys
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Blasters
The Blind Boys Of Alabama
Jim Boggia
The Bomboras
The Boomtown Rats
Boris Garcia
David Bowie
BR5-49
Billy Bragg
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Bright Eyes
Adam Brodsky
Broken Social Scene
Junior Brown
The Buzzcocks
By Surprise!
Cake
John Cale
Camper Van Beethoven
Captain Sensible
Carbon/Silicon
The Cars
Johnny Cash
Cat Power
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Charlatans
Cheap Trick
The Chemical Brothers
Circus Contraption
The Clash
Johnny Clegg and Savuka
Clinic
Cocteau Twins
Cold War Kids
Elvis Costello
Cowboy Mouth
Cracker
The Cramps
Crash Test Dummies
R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders
Da Vinci's Notebook
Daft Punk
Dick Dale
The Damned
The Dandy Warhols
Miles Davis
Sammy Davis Jr.
The Dead Milkmen
Martin Denny
Depeche Mode
Devo
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Donovan
The Dorktones
Dr. Dog
Ian Dury
eels
Electric Six
Electronic
Brian Eno
Entrain
Esquivel
Fast Mattress
The Feelies
Fisherman Xylophonic Orchestra
The Fixx
The Flaming Lips
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Forro In The Dark
Fountains Of Wayne
IV Thieves
Donavon Frankenreiter
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
The Fratellis
Bill Frisell
Fujiya & Miyagi
The Fuzztones
Serge Gainsbourg
Galaxie 500
Garbage
Melody Gardot
The Ghastly Ones
Dizzy Gillespie
Gnarls Barkley
The Go-Betweens
The Go! Team
Grateful Dead
The Gun Club
Haircut One Hundred
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Happy Mondays
John Wesley Harding
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Hindu Love Gods
The Hi-Risers
Robyn Hitchcock
The Honeycombs
Hoots And Hellmouth
Hot Butter
Hot Chip
The Housemartins
Human League
Hussalonia
The Iguanas
Information Society
Joe Jackson
The Jam
James
Tommy James and the Shondells
Jazz Pharaohs
The Jesus And Mary Chain
Elton John
Calvin Johnson
The Kaisers
The Killers
The Kinks
Klaxons
The Klezmatics
The Knack
Mark Knopfler
Kula Shaker
La Bottine Souriante
Ladytron
k.d. lang
The Last Shadow Puppets
LCD Soundsystem
Ben Lee
Lee Press-On and the Nails
Legendary Shack Shakers
Sondre Lerche
Lone Justice
Los Straitjackets
Love Of Diagrams
The Love Me Nots
Lyle Lovett
Nick Lowe
Luna
M
M83
The Magnetic Fields
The Makers
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
Man Man
Man Or Astro-Man?
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Meat Loaf
Mission Of Burma
Modest Mouse
Mondo Heptet
Ennio Morricone
Morrissey
Moxy Früvous
múm
Napalm Sunday
The Neanderthals
Nekromantix
New Order
The New Pornographers
Harry Nilsson
Nine Inch Nails
Nouvelle Vague
Gary Numan
of Montreal
Oingo Boingo
Old 97's
Old Crow Medicine Show
Outback
The Paisley Haze Quintet
Graham Parker
Pavement
Michael Penn
Pet Shop Boys
Liz Phair
Pink Floyd
Pixies
The Pogues
Poi Dog Pondering
Polaris
The Polecats
Steve Poltz
The Polyphonic Spree
Porno For Pyros
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
The Pretenders
Louis Prima
Primal Scream
Procol Harum
The Prodigy
The Psychedelic Furs
Public Image Ltd.
Q-Burns Abstract Message
Queen
Rain Parade
The Rainmakers
The Ramones
The Raveonettes
Fionn Regan
Django Reinhardt
The Replacements
Paul Revere and The Raiders
Reverend Horton Heat
Stan Ridgway
Rock Plaza Central
Rockapella
Rockpile
Roxy Music
Royal Crown Revue
The Rugburns
Erik Satie
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Satan's Pilgrims
Raymond Scott
Screaming Lord Sutch
Sea Wolf
The Secret Machines
The Selecter
Brian Setzer
Sex Pistols
The Shackeltons
The Shins
Paul Simon
Simple Kid
Frank Sinatra
Slo-Mo
Patti Smith
The Smithereens
The Smiths
Jill Sobule
The Soft Boys
Son Volt
Sonic Youth
Soul Coughing
Southern Culture On The Skids
Sparks
The Specials
Split Enz
Squeeze
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Stereolab
Stompy Jones
The Stone Roses
Stray Cats
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Sun Ra and his Arkestra
The Swimmers
Talking Heads
Television
The Temptations
The The
They Might Be Giants
Thievery Corporation
This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
Richard Thompson
Throbbing Gristle
Tigerbombs
The Tiki Tones
Traveling Wilburys
The Tubes
Tubeway Army
Uncle Tupelo
The Undertones
The Velvet Underground
The Ventures
Porter Wagoner
Rufus Wainwright
Wall Of Voodoo
Was (Not Was)
Jim White
White Rabbits
The White Stripes
The Who
Wilco
The Wood Brothers
Link Wray
X
X-Ray Spex
XTC
The Yardbirds
Yazbek
Yo La Tengo
Zero 7
Warren Zevon
The Zombies

Movies:

Back To The Future, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The Sting, Shaun Of The Dead, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Paper Moon, A League Of Their Own, Field Of Dreams, Mystery Men, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Sin City, Phantom Of The Paradise, Donnie Darko, The Birds, Vertigo, Paper Moon, Toy Story, Alice In Wonderland, Robin Hood, The Wall, Superman 2, Batman Returns, Blast From The Past, Animal House, Life Of Brian, This Is Spinal Tap, UHF, The Aristocrats, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, King Of The Corner, A Mighty Wind, 10 Things I Hate About You, V For Vendetta, Clerks, Freaks, All We Are Saying, Idiocracy, Night Of The Hunter, The Hudsucker Proxy, Grindhouse

Television:

The Twilight Zone, Futurama, Rocko's Modern Life, The Flintstones, The Honeymooners, The Jetsons, MythBusters, Dirty Jobs, Jeopardy!, Good Eats, Password, The $25,000 Pyramid, The Price Is Right, Penn and Teller: Bullshit!, Unwrapped, The Soup, Ren & Stimpy, Mission Hill, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, Robot Chicken, Kim Possible, Disney's House Of Mouse, Modern Marvels, Max Headroom, Later...with Jools Holland, M*A*S*H, SpongeBob SquarePants, How It's Made, Ace Of Cakes, Wonderfalls

Books:

Animal Farm, Fantastic Voyage, Rumor!, Shoeless Joe, Thinner, The Long Walk, '33 1/3' series, Where The Sidewalk Ends, Don't Know Much About History, The Things They Carried, In Cold Blood, Lord Of The Flies, National Lampoon's High School Yearbook Parody, Without Feathers, Heart Of Darkness, Falling Angel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Book Of Lists, Assassination Vacation, This Boy's Life

Heroes:

Superman, Will Eisner, Link Wray, Harry Houdini, Shel Silverstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Tim Burton, Rene Magritte, Christopher Walken, Joey Ramone, M.C. Escher, Penn & Teller, Neil Simon, George Carlin, Brian Setzer, Lewis Black, Lon Chaney, Steve McQueen, Gene Krupa, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Lou Reed, George Harrison, Edgard Varèse, Joe Meek, R. Crumb, Gerald Scarfe, Ray Harryhausen, Trevor Horn

My Blog

Baby come on back to Wolfman Jack

The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (Columbia) For a while, I felt like I was the only person in the world who did not attend the South By Southwest festival earlier this year. Almost every music blog...
Posted by Captain Wow on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:59:00 PST

Intern(al) Wrangler

For some reason I give Arts In The Park far more credit than it deserves when I plan to attend it each year...back when The Paisley Haze Quintet were together and performed, the whole event seemed muc...
Posted by Captain Wow on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:07:00 PST

Y-Rock On XPN Playlist for 6.2.08!!

artist - title - album   9 am  Elvis Costello & The Imposters - American Gangster Time - Momofuku Mike Doughty - Fort Hood - Y-Rock Session The Redwalls - Game Of Love - The Redwalls The...
Posted by Captain Wow on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:26:00 PST

NonCOMMbustication

To round out the Memorial Day weekend, we went to New Jersey (again) to have dinner with my grandparents and my aunt and uncle who live in Smithville (which is kinda near Atlantic City)...
Posted by Captain Wow on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:57:00 PST

Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 5.30.08!!

artist - title - album   11 am  Vampire Weekend - A-Punk - Vampire Weekend De Novo Dahl - Shout - Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound Mike Doughty - Fort Hood - Golden Delicious Los Campesi...
Posted by Captain Wow on Fri, 30 May 2008 02:45:00 PST

Lighten Up, Friday 5!

Syd Barrett - "Octopus" from The Madcap Laughs Barrett was forced out of Pink Floyd around 1968, shortly after the release of A Saucerful Of Secrets&Barrett's surreal songwriting very heavily guided t...
Posted by Captain Wow on Fri, 30 May 2008 02:06:00 PST

Violin-lin-lin

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of The Understatement (Domino) O, to be one of the most successful young British bands in recent history. Sheffield's Arctic Monkeys made the music industry's collect...
Posted by Captain Wow on Tue, 27 May 2008 01:46:00 PST

Yonder Can

On Wednesday, I went into XPN with little work that I planned to do...Not that I didn't want to do any work, I was hoping that something would be found for me to do, since all I had otherwise was to e...
Posted by Captain Wow on Mon, 26 May 2008 08:32:00 PST

Y-Rock On XPN playlist for 5.23.08!!

artist - title - album   11 am Nine Inch Nails - Discipline - The Slip David Bowie - Diamond Dogs - Diamond Dogs  Clinic - Free Not Free - Do It!  Modest Mouse - Fire It Up - We Were De...
Posted by Captain Wow on Mon, 26 May 2008 08:50:00 PST

It’s a total Friday 5!!

Beck - "Chemtrails" from Modern Guilt I'm a little late in addressing this tune as far as most blogs go, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the newest tune from the musical chameleon's upcomi...
Posted by Captain Wow on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:44:00 PST