Death, decay, attrition, and destruction. Dadaists, decontructionists, and demolitionists. Obscure, occult, and hidden knowledge. Unusual inventions. Cats. And fuzzy children's toys. I like to annoy my girlfriend (she's still around after 15 years; she's a trooper!). I travel, camp, hike, and love to visit places where I'm not allowed. I have an unnatural nostalgia for times and places I've never existed in--some people say I have an old soul; I think I'm just a freak. To that end I collect 1920's-30's 78rpm records, silent films, and vintage fashion. I love antique and thrift shopping, especially for weird electronic gadgets, strange music, and odd curios. I revel in the strange, dark, bizarre, absurd, disturbing, funny, freakish, and campy. Especially when it's all of those at once.
The walking undead. And the ones that jog. Anyone wanting to fulfill a request to my seasonal business where I secretly come to someone else's house and take down their Christmas lights up past New Years. Zoo-dating is never an option for me.
I've just assaulted my ears with:
My playlists give somewhat of a clue as to my collection. That is simply what I can carry on down to the clubs; there is much more that I leave behind. Besides the death-rock and industrial, some of other things I listen to are old punk, Black Sabbath, the Stooges, old blues like Charlie Patton, Bessie Smith, and Leadbelly, Depression-era jazz, avant-garde classical like Stockhausen, 60's garage-rock, torch singers like Edith Paif and Josephine Baker, kraut-synthmeisters like Cluster and Klaus Schulze, other early electronic pioneers like Martin Subotnik, as well as dark-ambient, noise, death-industrial, and weird instructional records. I also like to listen to machines and motors.
I keep my playlist archives at www.djcoldheart.com and playlists from my Isolation night (at a new venue!) are also at isolation.djcoldheart.com . And I own my own 45rpm adapter.
Man Bites Dog. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Beetlejuice. Wallace and Gromit. Blacula. City of Lost Children. Metropolis. Brazil. Delicatessen. The Dark Crystal. 1984. Animal Farm. Decasia. Edward Scissorhands. Anything by Aki Kaurismaki. Silent films. Vintage cartoons. Old horror. Creature features. Old Sci-fi with spaceships on strings and people in robot suits. Psychotronic. Porno bloopers.
Family Guy. Secrets of the Dead. My Name is Earl. The Office. Jeeves and Wooster. When Animals Attack (I root for the animals). Arrested Development. Travel with Rick Steves. Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Antiques Roadshow. Scrubs. I think there should a reality show featuring terminally ill patients who wish to die participating in extreme stunts.
Struwwelpeter. Wisconsin Death Trip. European history. Anthropology. Paganism. Mythology/folklore. Occult. Folk and historical erotica. Post-mortem photographs. Disease and pathology. Vintage cartoons (esp. Krazy Kat). Obscure science. Scratch-and-sniff. Supernatural/paranormal. Edward Gorey. Books with buttons that make sounds.
Professional pranksters, satirists, and culture jammers: Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping , Alan Abel , Joey Skaggs