Making you laugh, laughing with you as you laugh at yourself, Imitating your accent and mannerisms while I quote you (I am not making fun of you; I just can't help it), pulling pranks and practical jokes (but you won't suspect me because girls don't do those things), bantering with you in obstruse metaphores and hyperbole, grabbing the cooking utensils out of your hand and taking over your kitchen, pretending I don't notice that I am doing anything unusual but acting like you are nuts for pointing it out; flexing, reading economics books in the sauna, making raw food, watching you pretend you don't notice what's unusual about my eyes, picking wylde licorice seeds and chewing them, my MINI Cooper ("Yellow Submarine"), ciders and dark beers, going out to the clubs damn near every night, riding my bike in the city, working out at the gym at 4am, sleeping on boats, napping on the beach between dives, drinking till I think my Italian language skills are incredible, and getting you to tease me back because that is what I feed on.
the terminally eccentric, dive buddies, seekers and believers of the mystical & metaphysical realm; hearse drivers, playful,imaginative souls who love to laugh, Jughead, Shaggy, and other cartoon beatniks;the band who will star in my Saturday morning cartoon (for people who think it is still Friday Night)...and stop the presses on that one - I think they have been found!!!, The God within you, Ice Bat, collaborators for some short animated projects (particularly sound recording and editting experts), men in fishnets, British rat enthusiasts, members of the Perelandra and Findhorn communities, The Tuatara, Nessie and Sasquatch, and blonde cherokees.
(I detest jazz - don't even mention it. Motown bugs me. I also hate hip-hop) LOVE: Pentagram (Mezarkabul), The Pentagram with Bobby Leibling, Candlemass, The Obsessed, Electric Wizard, Witchfinder General, Pagan Alter, Manilla Road, Angelwitch, THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS! Witchcraft, Nebula, Circulus, Daemonia Nymphe, Faun, Lizzy Bordon, Deke Dickerson, the Sword, Orange Goblin, Witch, Eric Burdon, Offspring, Jefferson Airplane, Betty Blow Torch, The Exies, Southern Culture on the Skids, Imperial Drag, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, AC/DC, The Upper Crust, Blue Oyster Cult, Moby Grape, Yardbirds, Kula Shaker, REM, Old 97s, WASP, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night, Cinderella, The Byrds, Buddy Holly, Stone Roses, Pink Floyd, Blind Melon, Cadillac Tramps, Wilco, Boston, Skynard ...oh, alright - I admit it - London Quireboys....sigh, Faster Pussycat, LA Guns, Poison, Twisted Sister, Warrant, the Crue, Guns and Roses, and Southgang...ok, ok - and the D'molls. Now leave me alone!This here's Ol' Deke!
Witchfinder General, Theater of Blood, Fall of the House of Usher, Harold and Maude, Yellow Submarine, Bananas, Take the Money and Run, Chicken Run, The Loved One, Alexander Payne's Election, Son of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dracula, The Incredible Mr. Limpett, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Little Rascals films, Revenge of the Nerds (have seen it 13 times), Fear of a Black Hat, Tenacious D Pick of Destiny, Spinal Tap, Hair High, Matewan, Mad Monster Party, The Magic Christian, I Love You Alice B. Toklas, The Last Emperor, The Red Violin, A Night to Remember (the original Titanic), and Castaway (Also love silent comedies, in particular Harold Lloyd's "The Freshman," Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill," "All My Wife's Relations," and "Brown Eyes," but not much by Charlie Chaplin)
(I don't usually think to turn on the TV, which is weird since it is my career) Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, The Sarah Silverman Program, Acceptable TV, Upright Citizens Brigade, Mr. Show, Strangers with Candy, The Munsters, The Groovy Ghoulies, The Monkees, The Beverly Hillbillies, Reno 911, Dave Chapelle, Family Guy, American Dad, The Andy Dick Show, Gomer Pyle, The Flying Nun, The Larry Sanders Show, The Daily Show, The Misadventures of Sherriff Lobo, The Ben Stiller Show.Me with Scandaloso:
(mostly books on tape so I can keep drawing while I listen) Books about shipwreck survivors, Be Here Now, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie, Horton Hears a Who, Frog and Toad are Friends, London, The Cave Divers, Scuba America, A Man in Full, anything I hear about on "Democracy Now!"; Nickel and Dimed, After the New Economy, What's the Matter with Kansas, Autobiography of a Yogi,"Peoples' History of the United States." The beautiful works of Father Matthew Fox, mystics Stuart Wilde and Michael Tamura.And I like Indie comic books (Hate, Unsupervised Existance, CUD, Bitchy Bitch, Zippy the Pinhead, and all the old EC Comics of the 50s)
Father Matthew Fox, Messiah Marcolin, Frescobaldi, Vincent Price, Alan Watts, Ram Das, Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland, Peter Max, Paul Frank, Matt Groening, Shag, Ciro Nieli, John Cassavetes, Cynthia McKinney, Eugene Debs, Ralph Nader, Ted Rall, Tom Tomarrow, Peter Bagge, Bob Avakian, Gloria Steinem, Pope John the 23rd, St. Clare, Caravaggio, Amy Goodman, The great Baby Jessica, Shaggy, Jughead, Gandhi, the writer of "Get Your War On," nice people who adopt live turkeys at Thanksgiving, The Christ/Krshna Consciousness, meat-eaters who are willing to give Vegs a Chance, cave divers, shipwreck survivors.