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About Me

I'm an ex-alcoholic (3 years sober)... My father was a carpenter who fought in WW2 and my mother was a secretary for a dental office. They divorced when I was sixteen... Underachieving straight-C student who attended public schools from kindergarten to 12th grade and hated every single day of it... First hardcore punk show was in 1982 at the Oakland Auditorium (now HJK) with Discharge, DOA, Bad Brains, The Lewd, Social Unrest and The Fartz all on the same bill. Some huge skinhead used me as a crash pad for a stage dive and dislocated my ankle in the process. I still have the flier... Work at an indie record store. The job consists of maintaining the "red tag" rock sections and selling CDs online. It's tolerable... No wife, no kids, and I'm keeping it that way... Last, but not least, I'm a staff writer for Punk Globe.

My Interests

atheism ; politics; history; current events ; zines ; fliers; record
collecting ; abstract art; independent film (in particular, auto/biographies, documentaries and black comedies); independent comics; photography; satire; culture jamming ; workplace sabotage; punks over 30; sound systems; ice cream; pinball ; graffiti; haiku; razor blades as fashion accesories; zippo lighters ; the sound of breaking glass; laughing at other people's stupidity (as well as my own); tiki bars ; fireworks; steel-toed combat boots with spurs; writing; Italian, Chinese and Mexican food; pet rats; scrabble; urban myths; jigsaw puzzles; getting hate mail for my Blog entries; diners ; thrift stores; anagrams; breakfast for lunch; tattoos ... ...Three of the most beautiful women in the world in my (n)ever so humble opinion.

I'd like to meet:

People who have little or no interest in working 9-5, getting married, worshiping a god or saluting a flag.

Music:

(60's, 70's, 80's) Punk Rock, Hardcore Punk , Ska, Reggae , Surf and some Deathrock. Favorite band? It's a tie...

Movies:

The Thin Blue Line, Night and Fog, Battleship Potemkin, Monty Python's Life of Brian, On the Waterfront, Duck Soup, The Atomic Cafe, Drugstore Cowboy, Citizen Kane, Amadeus, The Godfather (Pt. 1 & 2), Borat, The Professional, Shaun of the Dead, Modern Times, City of God, The Usual Suspects, Network, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Serpico, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowksi, Roger & Me, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Manchurian Candidate, Young Frankenstein, Barfly, Team America: World Police

Television:

Family Guy, History Channel, The Daily Show, Adult Swim, X-Files, The Sopranos, and the evening news

Books:

Don Quixote, Bonfire of the Vanities, Notes from the Underground, The Trial, Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Tales, Junkie, Catch 22, The War of the Worlds, Post Office, Malone Dies, The Grapes of Wrath, James Baldwin: Collected Essays, Breakfast of Champions, Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling from: Selected Stories, Candide, Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable, The Stranger, Gulliver's Travels, Tropic of Cancer, In Cold Blood

My Blog

BACK TO HAUNT YOU WITH OUR SOUND: THE DAMNED @ SLIM'S

In marked contrast to what their poor to middling recordings had lead me to expect from them, SoCal's self-described "post-art-punk-power-pop-wave" metrosexuals, THE ADORED, were actually a pretty goo...
Posted by DAVE NEGATIVE on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:04:00 PST

WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, FUCK YOU: D.O.A. @ BLAKE'S

SNACK TRASH, three nerdy college students from Japan who currently reside in SF, playing pop-dulcified hardcore tunes about the joys and pains of food and girls ala Descendents, weren't too bad. The i...
Posted by DAVE NEGATIVE on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:43:00 PST