45s, 78s, LPs, Movies, Garage sales, Thrift Shops, Flea markets, Basements, Attics, Gin & Ginger, Ten Year Scotch, Roller skating (not to be confused with blading!), Reading five books at once, Finishing five books at once, Samaras, The sound of 8mm projectors, Writing, Subsequently destroying what I write, Testors plastic cement, Styrene model kits, Princeton Record Exchange (Princeton NJ), Pierpont Morgan Library (NYC), Cowboy boots (replete with spurs), Art (Particularly Franz Von Stuck, Jules Bastien Lepage, Fransico Goya, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch), Single coil pick-ups (Jaguar, Silvertone), Transistor technology, Sepia tone, the ocean, Peanut Butter, Commander USA's Groovie Movies, Lever action rifles (Marlin or Winchester), 9mm short rounds (Walther PPK and Makarov 9 x 18), Ostentatious belt buckles, Technicolor, Red Meat, Folding knives, The sound of The Hound 91.1 WFMU, Cuban Heels, Leslie Speaker Cabinets, Black powder, Cheap hollow-body guitars, Pre-Raphaelites (Specifically Dante Gabriel Rosetti), Religious art, Tambourine bruises, Really nice fountain pens, Stretch Jeans, Clementines, Yelling, Vintage Vinyl Records (Edison NJ), Standing on furniture, Cats, Antiquated Pathology Books, Rhubarb, Cussing, Throwing my coat on the floor, Asbury Lanes (NJ), Long Introspective Pauses, Whisteria vines, Mint tea, Daguerreotypes, Toothpicks, Combo Organs (Farfisa Compact, Vox Continental, Hammond M-3), Chicken Gravy, Fifties & Sixties Modernism, The subtle art of the mix tape, Beaded curtains, Ottos Shrunken Head (NYC), Tube pre-amps, Mashed Potatoes (or Creamed for you Southerners), Bits of wire and random screws, Soldering irons, Percussive maintenance (i.e. hitting things to make them work), Casino El Camino (TX), Sugar, Fisher Price battery operated record players, 100% wool, Curmudgeon Records (Somerville NJ), Abandon buildings and a complete disregard for trespassing, Walking barefoot, Out of date slang- Dig?, Latin, Reverence, Irreverence, Pomegranates and the English language.
Contemporary (For lack of a better term): Radio Birdman, Stooges, MC5, Flamin Groovies, New York Dolls, Black Sabbath, Bowie, 45 Grave, Modern Lovers, T-Rex, Big Star, Gun Club, Saints, Dead Boys, X-Ray Spex, Pop Group, Virgin Prunes, TSOL, Dead Kennedys, Dead Milkmen, Misfits (pre 83’), Damned, DMZ, Birthday Party, Ramones, Pogues, Dramarama, Jam, Alice Cooper, Roky Erickson, Kris Kristofferson, New Math (AKA: Jet Black Berries), Cramps, Rasputina, Nick Cave, Dirty Three, Friends of Dean Martinez, Black Keys, Paul Kelly, Low, Fiona Apple, Mazzy Star, Leonard Cohen, Flat Duo Jets, Mummies, Trashwomen, Makers, Drags, Brentwoods, Phantom Surfers, Man…or Astro Man?, Supercharger, Gories, Finks, Witch Doctors, Bomboras, Satan’s Pilgrims, Ghastly Ones, Beatman (Rev or Lightnin’), Scott H. Byram (The Dirty Old One Man Band),Etc... Classic: Trashmen, Eddie and the Showmen, Belairs, Challengers, Ventures, Crossfires, New Dimensions, Quads, Lively Ones, Deadly Ones, Superstocks, Tornadoes, Marketts, Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos, Del-Aires, Pyramids, Viscounts (Harlem Nocturne!), Travis Womack, Lenny & the Thundertones, Johnny & the Hurricanes, Link Wray, Dean Hightower, Davie Allen, Bunnies, Ron Haydock (Rat Pfink a Boo Boo!), Andy Starr (AKA. Frank), Bunker Hill, Hasil Adkins, Pinetoppers, Kai Ray, Nervous Norvus, Phantom, Rivingtons, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, ELVIS, Wanda Jackson, Sparkle Moore, Jack Scott, Gene Vincent, Charlie Feathers, Ronnie Self, Collins Kids, Ronnie Dawson, Little Junior Parker, Prisonaires, Billy Emerson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Rosco Gordon, Esquirita, Andre Williams, Hank Ballard, Loyd Price, Ike Turner (Rhythm Knights), Billy Ward, Big Mama Thorton, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddly, Fats Domino, Flamingoes, Dominoes, Ravens, Frankie Lymon, Who, Byrds, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Animals, Velvet Underground,Edward Bear, Comus (Thanks Tommy), Vanilla Fudge, Doors, Tommy James & Shondells, Creation, Love, Sir Douglas Quintet, Wimple Winch, Monks, Human Beinz, Strangeloves, Mops, Litter, Eyes, Yardbirds, Nazz, Kim Fowley, Os Mutantes, Haunted, Blues Magoos, Cannibal & The Head Hunters, Screamin’ Lord Sutch, Pretty Things, 13th Floor Elevators, Seeds, Chocolate Watch Band, Sonics, Wailers, Kingsmen, ? & The Mysterians, Remains, Troggs, Left Banke, Swamp Rats, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Sam the Sham, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Them, Beau Brummels, Electric Prunes, Hombres, Sparkles, Moving Sidewalks, Shadows of Night, Outsiders, Silver Apples, Action, Music Machine, Blues Project, Standells, Count Five, Swingin’ Medallions, Amboy Dukes, assorted 60’s punk bands too numerous to count, Eddie ‘One String’ Jones (Fucking Phenomenal!!!), Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson (Apparently there was some sort of ocular epidemic in the ‘teens’), Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Lightin’ Hopkins, Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, Joshua White, Masked Marvel, Tommy Johnson, Elmore James, Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Odetta, assorted bluesmen too numerous to count, Carter Family, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Uncle Dave Macon, Stanley Brothers, Louvin Brothers, Bill Monroe, Fiddlin’ John Carson, Maddox Brothers (Plus Rose), Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, Patsy Cline, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Jackson, Austin Coleman, Eddie Head & Family, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Brother John Sellers, Reverend Utah Smith, Reverend A. Johnson, Ennio Moricone, Jack Marshall, Spike Jones, Bill Doggett, Korla Pandit, Esquivel, Surfmen, Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, Chaino, Yma Sumac, Serge Gainsbourg, Astrud Gilberto, Scott Walker, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone Jelly Roll Morton, Jascha Heifetz, Dave Bruebeck, virtually everything on Sun, Specialty, Okeh, Federal, Fortune, Savoy, Meteor, Vault, Sue, Donna (Del-fi), Omega and Word record labels, as well as every comped one-off 45rpm single and pre-war 78rpm made by millions of no-name bands and balladeers who unjustly languish in obscurity.Honorable Mention: Alan Freed (Moondog’s R ‘N’ R Party WINS NYC), Pete “Mad Daddy†Myers (The Mad Daddy Show WHK Cleveland) Freed’s worthy successor, The Hound (91.1 WFMU NJ), King Biscuit Time on KFFA Arkansas, Sam Phillips, and Alan Lomax.Friends & Associates: The Pits, The Butchers, Hillbilly Werewolf, Jimmy and the Teasers, Hunchback, Ghouls Night Out, Billy Joe Winghead, The Von Drats, Thee Monkey Butlers, The Spinns, Unidentified, Royal Purple, Gein & the Graverobbers, Johnny Corndog, Bishops, Memphis Morticians.
Inherit the Wind, Wings of Desire (Don’t tell her about the girl), Cleopatra, Ten Commandments (Basically any Hollywood epic), The Apostle, The Secretary, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (though the book is better), The Piano, Gone With the Wind, Night of the Hunter, Charade, Coal Miners Daughter, Smokey & the Bandit, The Deer Hunter, Jaws, Ginger Snaps 1-3, Falling Down, Halloween, Gattaca, The Company of Wolves, Near Dark, Wicker Man, The Legend of 1900, Leon’ (The Professional), Sergio Leoni Westerns (Particularly ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’), 1776 ‘The Musical’, High Fidelity, SLC Punk, the Gidget series (long live Sandra Dee!), the Beach Party series (See AIP), the Horror of Party Beach (A cinematic masterpiece), Pretty much every documentary ever made, specifically Bluesland, American Roots Music (Vol 1-4), Civil War, Sex & Buttered Popcorn, Twist, Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music, Muleskinner Blues, Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces, The Life and Music of Robert Johnson, Shane MacGowan: If I Should Fall From Grace With God, Rock and Roll Invaders: The rise of the AM Radio DJ, and Theremin: A Musical Odyssey. Pretty much every silent movie ever made, specifically F.W. Murnau’s Faust, He Who Gets Slapped, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (John Barrymore), The Penalty, Haxan and anything by George Melies. Pretty much every horror movies ever made, specifically early Universal Pictures (actually, any pre-Breen Office major studio offering), American International Pictures (AIP), and all the low budget dreck that falls in between, Pretty much any exploitation film from 1930’s drug paranoia parable up to late seventies mondo hippie and biker flicks (Specifically Worlds Greatest Sinner, High school Caesar, Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! The Sadist, They Call Her One Eye, Switchblade Sisters and any movie featuring the word “Rock’ in the title)
Mystery Science Theater 3000, Simpsons, Furturama, Invader Zim, Family Guy, Adult Swim, Addams Family, X-Files, Young Ones, Discovery Channel and anything with “World Scariest†or “Worlds Deadliest†in the title.
Paradise Lost, A Pilgrims Progress, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Rapture of Canaan, Great Gatsby, Gone with the Wind, Dead Elvis, The Mysterious Stranger, Mothman Prophesies, Confederates in the Attic, The Bible (Specifically The Book of Proverbs), Stagolee Shot Billy, Escaping the Delta, Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone (Carter Family Bio), And the Ass Saw the Angel, H.P Lovecraft, W.H. Auden, Franz Kafka (Observations on Sin, Suffering, Hope & the True Way), Samuel Clemmons (Mark Twain), Dylan Thomas, Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, John Berryman, Gwendolyn Brooks.
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