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Paul Gaita

Not from Juggling Suns or Divinity Destroyed. Different guy(s).

About Me

Writer, editor, B-movie and record obsessive, licensed, certified and bonafide minister (ask me about weddings), professional crank, full-time Goo Goo Muck.

My Interests

Movies, music, Mexican wrestling. Oh, and my dogs.

I'd like to meet:

Christopher Lee.

Music:

Cramps, Pixies, Beach Boys, Davie Allan, Ennio Morricone, Armando Trovajoli, Piero Umiliani, Johnny Cash, Butthole Surfers,16 Horsepower, Bloody Hollies, Howlin' Wolf, Kid Thomas, Kinks, Deadbolt, Minutemen, Misfits, Motorhead, James Brown, X, Bruno Nicolai, Dengue Fever, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Pate, Booker T. and the MGs, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Southern Culture on the Skids, Stu Phillips, Neko Case, Hank Williams, George Jones, Bob Wills, Curtis Mayfield, Funkadelic, Black Keys, Can, dub, ska, rockabilly, garage crap, weirdo soundtracks, and anything I can get for free.

Movies:

Night of the Living Dead, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rolling Thunder, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Point Blank, Island of the Doomed/Man Eater of Hydra, Bloodstalkers, Monsters Crash the Pajama Party, Bad Santa, Lord of the Rings, Dirty Dozen, Blood Waters of Dr. Z, Raw Meat, Vice Squad, Dominatrix Without Mercy, Maniac (30s and 80s), The Devil Rides Out, Eyes Without a Face, Brotherhood of Satan, Race with the Devil, Night of the Bloody Apes, Without Warning (52), Hold Me While I'm Naked, It Conquered the World, Paradise Lost, Teenage Tupelo, Rock and Roll Nightmare, Cannibal Man, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Delirium, Reincarnation of Isabel, Summer Heat, The Dunwich Horror, Deranged, Autopsy of a Ghost, The Manster, Destroy All Monsters, War of the Gargantuas, Hungry Snake Woman, Blood and Black Lace, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Black Sunday, Black Sabbath, Mad Doctor of Blood Island, The Ghastly Ones, Hell of the Living Dead, The Thing (82), Who Killed Teddy Bear?, Master Stroke, Lemora, Children of Paradise, Django, Companeros, The Awful Dr. Orlof, Murders in the Rue Morgue (32), Long Island Cannibal Massacre, Blood Freak, Seconds, Dawn of the Dead (78), Martin

Television:

The Wire, Homicide, The Outer Limits (the original one), The Twilight Zone (the original one), Mr. Show, 30 Rock, The Office, The Venture Bros., Arrested Development, Deadwood, Lost.

Books:

Sleazoid Express (book and mag), Metasex, Please Kill Me, Killing for Culture, Adam Film World, Continental Film Review, Jesus' Son, The Other Hollywood, Devil in the White City, Last House on the Left: The Making of a Cult Classic.

Heroes:

Lux and Ivy, Sleazegrinder, Brian Wilson, Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford, Santo, Mickey Hargitay, Pete Kitchen, Charles Napier, Buck Flower, Tinto Brass, Don Edmonds, Annie Sprinkle, Commander USA, the voice of Channel 56 in Boston during the '70s, David F. Friedman, Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

My Blog

Paul Gaita vs. Blowfly on Suicide Girls

This is probably my favorite interview I've ever done: http://suicidegirls.com/interviews/Blowfly/ In other news, I discovered today that Robbie Robertson and I share a dermatologist.  ...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:14:00 PST

Suggestions?

I'm working on Amazon.com's Essentials - they're lists of "top 10" movies in a number of different genres and subgenres. Two of my lists are Asian Horror and Serial Killers - the former is a brand new...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:06:00 PST

Spotted Today

Guy sporting a Tasmanian Devil tattoo (on his calf) at the Astro Burger on Santa Monica and Vista. This is the second Tasmanian Devil tattoo (I can't call it "Taz") I've seen in my lifetime, and I su...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:34:00 PST

A Quote, Which Popped (Unprompted) Into My Head This Morning While Walking the Dogs

"You know Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Well, I know those people..." -- obese, insane homeless woman who, after failing to shake me down for dime by playing on my sympathies, resorted to threatening me wi...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Wed, 28 May 2008 08:45:00 PST

The Squirrel. And His Grave.

The squirrel looked dead when I found him in the yard. He was on his back, back legs splayed wide, eyes shut. Classically dead, in my opinion. So I went to my neighbor to borrow a shovel and bury him....
Posted by Paul Gaita on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:29:00 PST

Regarding Black Cherry Jell-O

It smelled and sorta tasted like Robitussin, yet I ate the whole thing.
Posted by Paul Gaita on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:33:00 PST

Encyclopedia Brown and the Mystery of the Anonymous Neighbor

I spoke with a person today whom I've never met before, yet who knew my name and enough about me to carry on a chat for several minutes. I admit to being very bad with names, but I'm usually good with...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:05:00 PST

Los Idiots at El Rey

The most jaw-dropping thing about the Roky Erickson show last night at the El Rey Theater was not the man himself (tho his performance and his band were nothing short of amazing), but the lockdown att...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:55:00 PST

I Cannot Wait

Myspace plugs this record as follows."In Our Nature, the follow-up to Jose Gonzalez's breakthrough debut, is a glimmering collection of songs that explore the primitive aspects of human beings."Does t...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:42:00 PST

My Favorite Reviews

I reviewed the Walking Tall boxed set about a million years ago, and got these impassioned responses from "a customer" in London. Any time I feel that the cult DVD audience is starting to sound ration...
Posted by Paul Gaita on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:52:00 PST