The taboo, the tacky. I love it. Carnival culture, tiki, loungeism, freak shows Rockabilly/Psychobilly/gothabilly (if it ends in "billy" I probably like it), burlesque, horror of all sorts, performance art, semiotics, the 50's, lowbrow art, anything that pushes the limits, really. If someone spit on it once, it's probably in my house (A friend of mine once said "Oh daddy, that's hideous! Can I have it?). I love going to garage sales and haggling over stuff inside the house (Actually getting it is even better). Tattoos are lovely, though I fear getting one in a new city. I kill boredom in bizarre ways, I build monuments to hanging out, I soak unsuspecting downtown drunks with liquid fury launched from my secret lair (beware), get into wicked moped accidents for sexy scars, prank with song, I built a rainforest for a frog I never met, trade lawn accouterments, take old ladies out dancing and ::gasp:: read.
I'd like to meet:
They're all dead.
Music:
This list could be friggin huge, but, I'm only including what I'm listening to now. Consider yourselves spared.Morrissey, The Smiths, The Mezcal Brothers (Mexican Elvis? Hell yes! Lincolnites should know...), Danzig (Evil Italian Elvis, the EIE), Elvis (The orig mama), Nekromanticz (Dead girls don't cry), Yma Sumac (5 octaves of power, guaranteed to make you shit yourself), The Misfits (With the EIE is better, but I don't hate), Martin Denny (For drinks with umbrellas and plastic monkeys Mmmmmm), The Deep Eynde, Parliament (Bootsy bitches, Bootsy), The Rev. Horton Heat (They go to my church), Ghoultown, the Ghastly ones.
Movies:
Rosemary's Baby, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Evil Deads, City of God, John Waters everything except Pecker which sucks ass, Koyaanisquatsi, Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Haxan, The Devil's Rain (The Doc, Shatner, Skerrit, and Travolta: Hilarious), The Wicker Man, Steel Magnolias, Friday, Jackie Brown, Animal Crackers, Dead Alive, Duck Soup, The Misfits, Anything with Vincent Price or Christopher Lee, Nosferatu (the orig and the Herzog/Kinski), Everything Hitchcock and Wells, Castle Freak, Coffin Joe, Spirited Away, Freaks, Damn I love movies, this is all I'll list. ROCK AND ROLL NIGHTMARE (The greatest piece of cinema ever)
Books:
So much to put here... The Lucifer Principle, the entire CoS reading list (that tidies it up a bit), Frank Waters, Umberto Eco (All books by semioticians in fact), Harpo Speaks!, The Wasp Factory, Stiff, Everything by Irivne Welsh aside from Filth - which was dog snot though I haven't read Porno yet, Huxley, LaVey, Metzger (compilations), Nancy Waters, The nameless authors of filthy ass 70's porn novels, Bukowski, Burroughs, Manga (too much to list), Hollywood Babylon 1&2, Harold Scheckter, Casteneda (all but the last 2), I'm really a fiend for books, I read up to 6 at a time. Too much to put up here, ask me, I'll tell you what's worth reading. And there's nothing worth reading more at the moment than Saint Morrissey, just when I thought I was obsessed. Yikes.
Heroes:
Harpo Marx (and to a lesser degree Groucho and Chico, Zeppo can fuck off), G.G. Allin, Anton LaVey, Howard Bloom, Ayn Rand, Marilyn Monroe, Sinatra, Eddie Izzard, Bill Hicks, Abbie Hoffman, Morrissey, Rev. Leyba, Richard Metzger, Penn and Teller, David Blaine, Pam Grier, and anyone who can give me goosebumps.
