tom foolery and nonsense. Sounds outside the mainstream, cause I'm an American Idle about to jump out of "park". I "play" the Bass in the Subway Surfers and write bands stupider songs. Look for the Fischer Price Xylophone solo coming soon. Express train is the only train.....
Avian flu carriers, Typhoid Mary, tough broads and the gal with a heart o gold, the usual suspect, shady characters, the girl mother warned me about, Mrs. Bates, Tokyo Rose, Axis Betty, the lady cab driver in the Big Sleep, tailgaters, left lane bandits, someone with a record, parole violators and bail jumpers, lady justice, gun crazy dames and confidential informants, betty crocker's slacker sister who punched the doughboy in his crescent rolls, , hell drivers and the subway conductor who told the passenger to "get your fat ass in her train.''
(Deep inhale) The Ramones, Fleshtones, Undertones, Clash, Apples in Stereo, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Gore Gore Girls, Old 97's, Thee Headcoats (and Headcoatees), Nikki Corvette, Sonics, MC5, The Muffs, The Pandoras, The Dentists, Johnny Cash, Louie Jordan, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, The Booty Olympics, The Friggs, The Demands, The Martinets (some major, please sign these guys!), The Chills, Yo La Tengo, A-Bones, DMZ and the Downbeat 5, the Nines, Muck and the Mires, the Reducers, The Flatmates, Stiff Little Fingers, Dropkick Murphies (even tho they're Red Sox fans), the Vacant Lot, Darien, Blondie, both Elvi, Highschool Sweethearts, Slade, the early Who and Stones, some Bruce, the late great Tie Reds, Little Killers, Dictators, the Fall, Headless Horsemen, Replacements, old Ska and Reggae, Trashmen, Wanda Jackson, Cramps, Nervous Norvius, Tuscadero, Cub, Catholic Girls, The Dark Marbles, Unrest, the Jam, some band called the beatles, the Real Kids, Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers and some new bunch of kids in a garage somewhere trying out a beat I can break a speed limit to... (air...can't breathe...)
Good old black and white film noirs (Big Sleep, Pick-up on South Street, Double Indemity, DOA, Touch of Evil, Mean Streets, the Naked City, LA Confidential. Warriors (come out to playyy) The Taking of Pelham 123 The big Con movies; The Grifters, Confidence, Get Shorty, 25th Hour, Drugstore Cowboy Hitchcock, (The Birds, Psycho, North by Northwest Saboteur), Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma, Pulp FIction, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill; Ghost World; Almodovar, especially, Woman on the Vegre of a nervous Break Down, All About my Mother, Talk to Her, Live Flesh) The Manchurian Candidate (FRank Sinatra, the ONLY version) LA Story, Novicane (claasic Steve Martin) Rock N Roll High School, End of the Century, The Harder they Come, The Filth and the Fury, Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Repo man, Straight to Hell, Sid and Nancy, Don't Knock the Rock, Hot Rods to Hell, Backbeat, Robert Mitchum especially, Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear. Blade Runner, In vasion of the Body Snatchers (both versions) The Thing (1950 version) Them, The Deadly Mantis, All the Star Wars, It Came from Outer Space, Bullit, The French Connection, Grand Prix, LeMansOddballs like Sweet Smell of Success, A Voice in the Crowd, The Thin Blue Line, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Slaves of New York, Donnie Darko, Last Days of Disco, Barcelona, Sex Lies and Videotape, Crash, Withnail and I, Mulholland Drive,Guilty pleasures: Eight Mile, Speed (Sandra Bullock and a bus!), The Commitments, Aniaml House, Dogma, Jay and Silient Bob Strike Back, South Park, Lord of the Rings (The animated Ralph Baski version), Heathers, 61*, Scandal, Memento, Thirteen Days, Inherit the Wind, It's a Mad Mad, Mad Mad world, Cat Ballou, the Russians Are Coming,too many more to list or remember
I'm a vididiot - Simpsons, Seinfeld, ER, Lost, 24, The American Experience, Ren and Stimpy, Family Guy, American Dad, Fear factor (only when the do the automotive stunts) Law and Order, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, Arrested Development, various PBS documentaries, especially if there are large machines, falling bridges, armys or politicians kicking the snot out of each other or large animals dining on cute smaller ones. Care bear sandwich anyone?
Shoeless Joe, Eight Men Out, anything by James Thurber, Phillip K. Dick; Raymond Chandler, James Elroy, Helene Stapanski, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Talented Mr. Ripley, October Men, 722 MIles, Uptown, Downtown; Literary Journalism, Let it Blurt, On the Road with the Ramones, Engineers of Dreams, The Power Broker, Gone To Soldiers, Stormtide, The Crying of Lot 49, anything by Martin Amis, Wise Blood, Reckless Eyeballing, any J.G. Ballard or Dennis Potter, William S, Burroughs, On the Road, Up in the Old Hotel, any Mark Twain & Ursula LeGuin, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Disaster at Dundee, A Drinking Life, Snow in August, much more than I can recall with out....coffee!
Joey Ramone, James Thurber, my father, mother and my sister, Ed Shields, friends of mine who'd be embarrassed to read their names here, Joe Torre, Pete Hamil, Philip K. Dick, DeeDee Ramone...my cats, the elderly man on the next block who yells at people who litter.