Vanilla, art, clothing, dogs, hats, gallery hopping, root beer popsicles, Palm Springs, 45 rpm records, mid-century modern, vintage audio, vintage stuff in general, road trips, places in Los Angeles with a good view, tiki, thought planes, serendipity, single malt scotch, psychedelic punk, long painted toes and high arches, the stars in the Coachella desert sky, the ocean especially along PCH
I'd like to meet:
Other goofballs, upbeat weirdos, artists, art collectives, art collectors, record geeks, historians entrenched deeply in their microcosms, futuristic frontiersmen and frontierswomen, gallery owners, gallery hoppers, gallery groupies, wild cards, greeting cards, good doggies, bad mofos, good afros, boffo beach bums, tiki traders, space invaders, serenaders...
Music:
Top of the list, always - The Beatles...as well as The Subways, Neil Young, Carbon/Silicon, Kulashaker, Scott Walker, Radio Moscow, Gene Pitney, Air, Baby Woodrose, Hell on Heels, Quicksliver Messanger Service, The Eyes, Spindrift, Leonard Cohen, Miss Derringer, Tom Waits, Tom Jones, Otis Redding, early Mott The Hoople, Vertigo's "Time Machine", Island's "Strangly Strange but Oddly Normal" and Decca's "Legend of a Mind" CD box sets, Muse, Ike and Tina Turner, Kasabian, The Misunderstood, Jade Warrior, May Blitz, White Stripes, Donovan, Mongo Santamaria, Les McCann, '70s punk, proto-punk, power pop, mod revival, Mountain, Budgie, Wesley Willis, Turn Me On Dead Man, Dyke and The Blazers, Hugo Montenegro, Arthur Lee and Love, The Rainy Daze, Oasis, Catherine Wheel, Little Richard, Howling Wolf, Primal Scream, The Beach Boys / Brian Wilson, Big Maybelle, Etta James, Ricky Nelson, 60s and 70s soul, funk, '50s R&B, rockabilly, 40s-70s country, surf & instro, psych exploitation weirdness, T-Rex, Sweet, Mud, Quatro, Bowie, Slade, The Quick, Exotica, incredibly strange music (outsider stuff, local lounge/rock band albums), '60s garage, mod, psych, sitar exploitation records, freakbeat, all 20 volumes of the "Rubble" comp, Indie 103.1 (Jonsey's Jukebox and Rollins' "Harmony In My Head" shows) Wild Man Fisher, The Raveonettes, Jerry Lee Lewis, King Uszniewicz,Professor Longhair, Martin Denny, Nirvana, Fu Manchu, The Plugz, Arthur Lyman, Jimmy Smith, Eartha Kitt, Julie London, Yma Sumac, Robert Drasnin, Lushy, Clouseaux, The Satelliters, Boss Maritans, Frenchy, East LA '60s garage bands, The Cramps, The Stooges, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimi Hendrix, The MC5, The Move, The Small Faces, Humble Pie, The Faces, SRC, Sex Pistols, The Dictators, The Boys, The Adverts, The Dils, The Undertones, Rich Kids, The Syn, Bonzo Dog Band, Lollipop Shoppe, Kaladiscope (UK), Lord Sitar, The Ronnettes, Davie Allan and The Arrows, The Music Machine, Shocking Blue, The Outsiders (Dutch), The Miracle Workers, The Weirdos, Patti Smith, The Who, The Action, The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, The Professionals, The Damned, The Swamp Rats, The Chocolate Watchband, The Sonics, The Poets, The Pagans, The Beatles, The Hollies, The Yardbirds, The Vasolines, Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, Marty and Elayne, Stereo Total, The Breifs, Johnny Cash, The Jeferson Airplane, Big Sandy, Phil Spector productions, Deke Dickerson - Untamed Youth, The Flash Express, The Humpers, Buttersprites, Space Vacuum From Outer Space, The Gimmies, The Satelliters, Baby Mongoose, Tom Waits, Blue Oyster Cult, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Mudhoney, Sir Lord Baltimore, Franz Ferdinand, Black Flag, The Pretty Things, Blue Cheer, Girl Trouble, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Issac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, The Dead Boys, Nancy Sinatra, The Chambers Brothers, Neil Young, Los Yorks, Sham 69, LaPeste, Eric Burdon, The Rasberries, Grand Funk, Fleetwood Mac (before the girls and that Lindsay guy joined and ruined 'em), The Kills, Ladytron, Joy Division, Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, The Mickey Finn, Jimmy Page's studio stuff '64 - '68, Baby Woodrose
Movies:
Girl from Rio (1969), Performance, Mad Monster Party, Man Who Fell To Earth, In Like Flint, Our Man Flint, Bell, Book & Candle, Ghost World, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Party, Best in Show, Casino Royale, Waiting for Gufman, Down By Law, Oceans 11 (original), Blow Up, Hard Days Night, The Filth & The Fury, MC5 a True Testimonial, Contact, The TAMI show, The Wanderers, Hard, Kentucky Fried Movie, Rabbit Test, The Butterfly Chain, Monterey Pop (DVD with all the commentary and outtakes,) Lost In Translation, Rudy Ray Moore - DOLOMITE, Petey Whetestraw, The Human Tornado, The Disco Godfather, Breakfast At Tiffanys, Issac Hayes in Truck Turner, What's New Pussycat, 24 Hour Party People, Kiss Me Stupid, Head, Animal House, Psych Out, Sunset Blvd., Danger: Diabolik, The Girl Can't Help It, Our Man Flint, The Fat Spy, The Trip, Rock Rock Rock, Gonks Go Beat, Beat Girl, The Punk Rock Movie, I Heart Huckabees, both Pirates of The Carribean, Roadside Profits, Hard, the Monks documentary, The Treasures Of Long Gone John, and am looking forward to the Joe Meek movie coming out soon
Television:
No TV Party....tonight!
Books:
THEY NEED TO ADD AN ART SECTION TO THE PROFILE PAGES, don't you think?
Books....My Magpie Eyes Are On The Prize (The Creation Records Story), A Fistfull Of Gitanes (Serge Gainsborug bio), Black Monk Time, The Book of Tiki, Beatles Recording Sessions (a book about the Beatles Recording Sessions...), Stoned and 2Stoned (Andrew Loog Oldham's nutty books,) We've Got The Neutron Bomb (Brendan's LA punk book), Please Kill Me (Legs' NY punk book), He's A Rebel (Phil Spector bio), A Room Full Of Mirrors ('05 Hendrix bio...incredible, the best Hendrix book ever), Palm Springs Modern, Pad, various books about L.A. (fiction & non-fiction,) various photo essays about Americana '20s - '60s, anything by Hunter S. Thompson.
Heroes:
and the person who invented the Root Beer Popsicle.
