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badness

if you're lookin to rumble, you're lookin at me

About Me

"you're fanning yourself off with a shirtless picture of marlon brando, are you sure that's going to work?"

My Interests

rock and roll, CANDY, photobooths, pirates, pulp art, robots, ninjas, dinosaurs, sledgehammers, legwarmers, garters, cowboys, sideburns, pompadours, pompadourks, skulls, tattoos, belt buckles, ice cream, antique stores, zines, poetry slams, wheatpasting, cake decorating, bikes, vinyl, liner notes, sideshows, letterpress, my underwood typewriter, family resemblances, popsicles, the 1931 world's fair, cartes de visite with good moustaches on them, kawaii, amigurumi, sewing ANYTHING, rube goldberg devices, pretend food, coffee.

I'd like to meet:

vandals, hooligans, delinquents, perpetrators of shenanigans in the name of art and/or rock & roll... and people who have memorized the california job case layot. gypsies. people with fabulous moustaches.

Music:

TH' LEGENDARY SHACK*SHAKERS, GOGOL BORDELLO, ANDREW W.K., the love drunks, the hillbilly casino, joshua black wilkins, the pine hill haints, the asylum street spankers, devotchka, the features, scott h. biram, cory branan, andrew bird, detroit cobras, tiger army, elvis, slim harpo, the darkness, the bravery, the faint, clem snide, slim cessna's auto club, the reverend horton heat, angry johnny and the killbillies, interpol, arcade fire, the immortal lee county killers, horrorpops, southern culture on the skids, br5-49, charlie rich, wanda jackson, the slackers, the toasters, billie holiday, johnny cash, the yeah yeah yeahs, the raveonettes, the betty fords, the gories, the cramps, carl perkins, deke dickerson, big bad voodoo daddy, mates of state, band of horses, balkan beat box, bloc party, leslie and the ly's, jenny lewis, of montreal, dresden dolls, the shins

Movies:

amelie, rumblefish, rock and roll high school, leningrad cowboys go america, the big lebowski, crybaby, being john malkovich, touch of evil, jesus christ vampire hunter, lost in translation, ghost world, art school confidential, the saddest music in the world, the triplets of belleville, the royal tenenbaums, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, faster pussycat kill kill, tokyo drifter, mystery train, stranger than fiction, the prestige

Television:

the office, LOST, things i can watch on DVD now because i didn't have a TV for the longest time... firefly, arrested development, the sopranos, venture bros.

Books:

everything is illuminated. extremely loud and incredibly close. ballad of the whiskey robber. the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay. julie & julia. also, the words of: jack kerouac, pagan kennedy, joyce johnson, martin amis, julian barnes, lawrence ferlinghetti, william s. burroughs, allen ginsberg, edwin torres, maggie estep, diane di prima, kurt zapata, john guare, david ives, jose saramago, chet flippo, dave hickey, daniel nester, victor bockris, mezz mezzrow, ruth reichl, and nikolai gogol.

Heroes:

andrew wk. vaclav havel. joan jett. chester carlson. johann gutenberg. agnes heisler barton.

My Blog

help me with an art project

fill out this survey for purposes of artistic mischief!1) are you male or female?2) in the past week, how many times have you eaten...       a] eggs   &nbs...
Posted by badness on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:31:00 PST

crafty bitches

i am finally getting around to listing things in my etsy shop - at the moment it's what's leftover from the Revolution of Craft show... jammy toast, cupcake heads, gocco printed cards, etc... but i wi...
Posted by badness on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:00:00 PST

read this if you know my dad...

From: "agnes barton-sabo" [email protected]> To: "Bill Sabo" [email protected]> Subject: famous sabos>>hey, maybe you are related to Dave "the snake" Sabo from the heavy metal>band Skid Row...
Posted by badness on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 07:54:00 PST

where can i get zip-a-tone?

where is it?  give it to me.  give it to me?
Posted by badness on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:14:00 PST

famous publications

you may not know this about me, but in the first grade i had a piece of writing published in the magazine "pencils full of stars" and it was a song about dinosaurs.  to the tune of jingle bells.&...
Posted by badness on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:10:00 PST

60 picas of buttcrack

ryan adams is right here, bending over and clearly not wearing any drawers under them jeans.  and his booty is very hairy.  *yawn*  another day at the office...
Posted by badness on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:55:00 PST

i only came here to do two things

kick some ass, and drink some coffee. and it looks like i'm about outta coffee.i apologize in advance to everyone who opened this blog hoping for tales of downtown celebrity sightings and extravagant...
Posted by badness on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:41:00 PST

help me from my brain!

damn that was a good weekend!  this having-to-go-back-to-work business is bullshit.  i say send pompadorks over to my house to eat cake every day.  (this was only a warm-up cake event, ...
Posted by badness on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:13:00 PST

holy moments part II

today a boy that couldn't have been more than nine years old told me, "when i get married, i'm gonna get my wife's face tattooed on my back.  only it'll be kind of small, so in case we get divorc...
Posted by badness on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:26:00 PST

holy moments

today at work, Intern Mark was playing with the C&P and dropped the handle, making a loud clanging machine metal noise, and a customer in the front of the shop yelled, "ow, my spleen!"
Posted by badness on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:14:00 PST