I'm interested in anything that's interesting. Sometimes that's really hard to find. I do produce records (that means I yell at a band and get them to play things the right way), so I guess I'm interested in music. I love movies - mostly weird movies (see my director list under "movies"). I believe there should be a whole other box on these sites devoted to food - I LOVE to eat and I like to cook as well. I am very into carribean/spanish style rotisserie chicken with rice and beans. I can eat a whole chicken in less than 10 minutes, but I try not to anymore. I finally now think that food is better eaten slowly. It took a long time to slow down. I also love to drink beer, but I'm trying to slow that down as well. Believe it or not, I actually have a degree from NYU in Anthropology and I do love all that shit. As a matter of fact, if rock and roll hadn't ruined my life I would've stayed in school and have become a forensic anthropologist. But Alas! Rock and Roll has ruined my life. Lately I've become obsessed with oversized domestic pets.
Asia Argento, Sarah Silverman, Amy Sedaris, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Pam Grier, Adrienne Barbeau (circa "The Fog"), Juliette Binoche and the two sisters from Too Close For Comfort. I know. It's ridiculous - considering the amount of amazing women I've met in my lifetime. You are all irreplaceble and you all have a special place in my heart. I do, in my own way, love you all very much. You have all made my life interesting to say the very least.
There's two kinds of music - good and bad. I think I tend to like the good stuff, though once in while I like something bad. I do love REAL rock and roll, blues, 50's-70's R&B, soul, reggae, REAL Hip Hop (unfortunately there's not enough of this). I have tons of vinyl and I'm always obtaining more. My occupation is music, so I can go on and on...but I won't. No, I will go on. I love film soundtracks - especially Argento/Goblins stuff and Ennio Morricone. I sometimes really love noisy stuff that a lot of people consider unmusical - Chrome, MX-80 Sound, Black/Death Metal, REAL industrial music (Einsturzende Neubaten, SPK, Whitehouse), The Shaggs, Flipper, Metal Machine Music, really fucked-up out jazz(late Coletrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, John Zorn - Naked City, Masada, etc.), the live Germs record (this one clears a room pretty fast), really fast HC (Void, Die Kreuzen, Infest, Man Is The Bastard, Terveet Kadet, Extreme Noise Terror). Lately I can't stop listening to GP and Grievous Angel by Gram Parsons. I will also tell you who I've recorded recently that I do like: The Bamboo Kids, Some Action, Darling, 69 Charger, The Shemps, The Candy Snatchers, The Stags, The Little Killers, Tiger Mountain, Bad Wizard, The Brought Low and I'm sure I'm forgetting someone. Oh yeah, I love the Two Man Advantage and again, I don't give a fuck what you think.
Directors: Werner Herzog, David Cronenberg, John Carpenter, Russ Meyer, Woody Allen, Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Stanley Kubrick, Alejandro Jodorowski, Ingmar Bergman, E. Elias Merhige (BEGOTTEN rules! - though Suspect Zero was pretty bad), Lars Von Trier, Michael Haneke (is my current favorite - The Piano Teacher, Funny Games, Time Of The Wolf and Code Unknown are all amazing - you suck if you disagree, but you probably sucked before that anyhow - just saw Cache - best movie of the last few years), Takashi Miike, Orson Welles, Olivier Assayas, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Ki-Duk Kim, Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop and Cockfighter are both amazing - Warren Oates always plays the consummate loser), Wes Craven (only the early stuff - up to maybe Nightmare on Elm St. 3 - though there were some pretty lame scenes in that), Sam Peckinpah, Errol Morris, William Friedken, John Cassavettes, George Romero, Sergio Leone...I'm sure I'm forgetting some..."Over The Edge" was a pretty killer movie. So was "Motorama." Anyone see that? And yeah, I like all the "weird" mainstream stuff as well - Donnie Darko, John Waters, Wes Anderson's stuff, the Coen brothers, the Raimi brothers, the Maysles brothers, (I hate to bring this up, but I can't think of any female directors off hand - I apologize to anyone who's aware that there aren't any on this list - though I am remembering Penelope Spheeris and Amy Heckerling - I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting - UPDATE: Marina de Van's IN MY SKIN kinda fucking blew me away), early Brian DePalma (Phantom Of The Paradise, Sisters, Dressed To Kill, The Fury), early to mid Scorsese, a lot of Asian cinema (though thank the gods that I didn't become obsessed with that like my friend Squeaky did), a lot of Blaxploitation stuff, most any documentaries that have to do with Rock and Roll or the recording industry, any cultural anthroplogy documentaries, I still love Ghostbusters and don't give a fuck what you think, pretty much any horror or sci-fi stuff, blah, blah, blah...are you still reading this??? If you are, I just got Netflix and it has changed my life. I don't know if it's changed it for the better or the worse, but it's changed. mspobj type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="350" width="425"
Right now I am obsessed and only watching THE WIRE - this show fucking rules!!! As of lately - Trailer Park Boys - has anyone seen this? It's from Canada and it fucking rules! Little Britain is hiliarious as well. I'm also really diggin' Dexter on Showtime. Metalocalypse, too. Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, Spongebob Squarepants, Robot Chicken, Perfect Hair Forever, Wonder Showzen, TV Funhouse, South Park, Drawn Together, The Andy Milonakis Show, Wild Boyz, Jackass, CSI, Quincy, The Odd Couple, Masters Of Horror, The Uncle Floyd Show, SCTV, The Banana Splits, Animaniacs, Pinky and The Brain, CPO Sharkey, Love American Style, Thicke Of The Night, Pink Lady, Beyond Vaudeville, The Morton Downey Jr. Show, Fridays, Creature Feature, Chiller Theater, The Million Dollar Movie, $1.98 Beauty Pageant, Let's Make A Deal, Bowling For Dollars, Space 1999 and Colombo. I have always been a Met fan, but now I watch the games semi-religiously. I also love the World Cup and international soccer. mspobj type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="350" width="425"
Last books read (or currently reading): Howard Zinn's utterly depressing "A People's History Of The United States," "Guns, Germs and Steel" - Jared Diamond (I seem to have lost this book - did I let you borrow it? It's almost as dpressing as Zinn's book.), "Chronicles" - Bob Dylan, "A Feather On The Breath Of God" - Sigrid Nunez, "Mishima - A Biography" - John Nathan, "Flicker" - Theodore Roszak, "A Simple Twist Of Fate - Bob Dylan and the making of Blood On The Tracks" - Andy Gill & Kevin Odegard, "Lying" - Lauren Slater, "Machers and Rockers" - Rich Cohen, "You Can't Win" - Jack Black, "The God Of Small Things" - Arundathi Roy, "Opening Skinner's Box" - Lauren Slater, "Interpreter Of Maladies" - Jhumpa Lahiri, "Herzog On Herzog" - Werner Herzog, "Up In The Old Hotel" - Joseph Mitchell. Favorite Authors: Henry Miller and Yukio Mishima - and yes, saying you love Mishima to people in Japan gets very awkward reactions.
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