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Norrissey

I'm gifted, all natural and burstin' at the seams.

About Me

Go ask Alice, I think she'll know...

My Interests

Fighting the good fight, DJing, karaoke (bad, like really bad, like support group/rehab bad), loving my friends real hard, tambourines and hand claps, cooking, shoes, Alamo Drafthouse, ringtones, sleeping in, poppin' and lockin', big earrings, knee socks, imported beer, music, heshers, oversized sunglasses, Austin TX, vintage clothing and furniture, the history of Scandanavian Black Metal, Aston Martins, vintage Volvos, our Dallas Mavericks, foosball, motherfucking metal, playing the drums, riding my bike, ninjas, Tom of Finland, James Bond, communist propaganda, bars, Turbonegro and most importantly pirates, although vikings are pretty good, too.I also like going to see this whenever I can:

I'd like to meet:

Kowalski in a white, super-charged 1970 Dodge Challenger with a twelve of cold High Life and a whole day of nothing to do...

Music:

The Who, (The) Verve, Gang of Four, Panda Bear, Grinderman, The Bronx, Nick Garrie-Hamilton, Primal Scream, early Andrew WK, The Stooges (all incarnations), Yes, Neil Young, Misfits, Jay Reatard, Fred Neil, Trad Gras och Stenar, Shocking Blue, Melvins, New Order, Scud Mountain Boys, Bauhaus, Kings of Convenience, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Slint, The Meat Helmets, Gary Numan, The Movies, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Charles Manson (seriously, check out 1970's "Lie"), Os Mutantes, The Birthday Party, Burt Bacharach, The Monks, limited Loverboy, even more limited Outfield, Jandek, Hall and Oates, Silver Apples, Fela Kuti, The Streets, Jefferson Airplane, Ghostface Killah, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Anthony Hamilton, Trans Champs, The Fucking Am, My Bloody Valentine, Whirlwind Heat, Joe Tex, Pointy Shoe Factory, Crime and the City Solution, Dillinger, Fischerspooner, Van Morrison, Black Sabbath, Yellow Fever, A.R.E. Weapons, Astrud and Joao Gilberto (that daughter of theirs is a hack!), This Heat, Field Music, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood (together and separtely), Oasis, The Go, Last Emperor, Public Image Limited, Oh, Beast!, Crom, The Coachwhips, King Crimson, Air, Doug Sahm, Princess Superstar, James Brown, Royal Trux, Selfish Cunt, Goldfrapp, Donovan, The Rapture, Tune in Tokyo (Austin), Tortise, VHS or Beta, Comet, Twilight Singers, Morrissey, Devo, Coltrane (John and Alice), The Band, GBV, Suede, Can, Turbonegro, Free, Danzig, Wreckless Eric, Vincent Gallo, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Main Ingredient, Television, The Mummies, Stone Roses, The Commodores, Zulu as Kono, Foreigner, Andrea True Connection, The Replacements, Van Halen (if you think this includes post-David Lee Roth, stop reading my page and move along), Prince Buster, Brian Eno, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Captain Audio, The Smiths, Sleep, The Yardbirds, Lightening Bolt, Spooky Tooth, Quincy Jones, Blur, Cherry Valence, Afghan Whigs, The Cramps, Big Business, Black Sun, Betty Davis, Yeti, M83, Heart, Joanie Sommers, The Clash, MC5, BJM, early post-N.W.A. Ice Cube, Pink and Brown, Dixie Witch, The Soft Boys, Led Zeppelin, Shellac of North America, The Strange Boys, Les Savy Fav, !!!, Tyrannosaurus Rex as well as T. Rex (yes, they're different), Pulp, early AC/DC, Desmond Dekker, Love, Enemymine, Nina Simone, Dio, Spiritualized, Thin Lizzy, Mountain, High On Fire, The Rolling Stones, ESG, old French, new German, early 90's house (I am not even playin' wit'chu), disco, soul, Dub and 1st generation Jamaican ska.

Movies:

David Gordon Green, Jaques Demy, Haneke, Scorsese, Anderson (Wes & P.T.), Herzog, Solondz, Winterbottom (with the exception of "9 Songs" because that shit was terrible), de Palma, Coen Bros., Jarmusch, Kubrick, Gallo, Allen, Jodorowski, Film Noir, Dogme 95, French New Wave, Blaxploitation, documentaries, heist movies, mod/jet set movies, Who's Affraid of Virginia Woolf?, Paris is Burning, Control, The Kids Are Alright, Jackie Brown, The Warriors, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, Morvern Callar, Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop, Lightening Bolt: The Power of Salad and Milkshakes, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, Sexy Beast, The Proposition, Dead Room. Four actors one can never go wrong with are: Peter Sellers, James Mason, Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton...all old, dead, British drunks. Michael Caine will be on this list once he croaks....whoops, silly me. Peter O'Toole isn't dead yet. But considering how he lived his life, it seems like he should be. Am I wrong?

Television:

Law and Order (Hi. My name's Danielle and I'm an addict.), Metalocalypse, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Rockford Files, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Absolutely Fabulous, The Weather Channel, The Office, The Sopranos, Conan, Carnivale, Rescue Me, Are You Being Served?, Independent Focus and BBC World News (the best news telecast there is).

Books:

All Music Guide to Rock, The Dirt: The Motley Crue Biography, Jesus' Son, David Sedaris, Please Kill Me: An Oral History of Punk, Black Power and the Student Rebellion, A General History of Pirates, Race Women and Class, Introducing: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Moon: The Keith Moon Biography, The Primal Scream, J.T. Leroy, Chuck Klosterman, Denis Johnson, Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski.

Heroes:

My beautiful mother and grandmother, Pete Townsend, Keith Moon, Todd Trainer, Bon Scott, Andy Gill, RuPaul, J.T. LeRoy, Ron Asheton, Heather and Jessica at gofugyourself.com, Danny Fields, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, Karl Lagerfeld, Bonzo, Angela Y. Davis, Denis Johnson, Karl Marx, Ursula Andress, Subcomandante Marcos, Klaus Kinski (yeah, in the weirdest way a little bit), Neil Young, Nina Simone, Betty Davis (the soul singer, not the actress), Elizabeth Taylor and Tina Fucking Turner.

My Blog

This old blog is from 12.17.2003 Computers are weird and out to get us.

So I didn't play drums today, but I did get drunk in the late afternoon/early evening and sing along to Afghan Whigs. They're a band that's been important to me since I was 13 yrs. old. That's when "...
Posted by Norrissey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sometimes what should be the most average of nights turns out like this...

Working a double + shot and a beer 3x in 45 min. + "excuse me" + some weird ass from 700 years ago going "oh, remember me? I live in San Antonio and I'm gonna be a doctor and even though my girlfriend...
Posted by Norrissey on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 08:34:00 PST

I heard the most beautiful sound...

To me it was still Saturday night, but to the rest of the world in the central time zone it was 5:30am on Sunday morning.  The streets were wet from the drizzle that just passed and it smell...
Posted by Norrissey on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:51:00 PST

I want everyone to take fucking notice.....

...that I just took Greg Dulli off my list of people I'd like to meet.  I met him last night and he looked at me like he was hungry and was a Ruben with extra mustard.  Also, his manners were OFF THA'...
Posted by Norrissey on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:26:00 PST

Primal Fucking Scream

Holy shit.  I can't stop listening to Primal Scream to save my life.  Evil Heat is a phenominal recording, as is Xtrmntr and Give Out But, Don't Give Up.  They reinvent themselves with ...
Posted by Norrissey on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:48:00 PST

Boom, swagga' swagga', boom boom, swagga', boom boom boom!

You're Lili St. Cyr! What Classic Pin-Up Are You? brought to you by Quizilla...
Posted by Norrissey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years...

Classic rock! Without you the other genreswouldn't exist! You are the raw and originalsound of rock! Other genres may try to imitateyour rawness, but they can never be like you! What genre of roc...
Posted by Norrissey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I've been told I'm quite well-rounded...

You're Generally Indie. There's nothing wrong withthis. You like music all over the map andaren't adversed to listening to some Top 40here and there. You just know to comment thatThe Neptunes are the ...
Posted by Norrissey on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST