The gorgeous, crazy little 2 yr old lass I helped spawn, the clever, witty, & elegant lady that did the bulk of the spawnin' work, decayed beauty that can be restored, old houses w/ lots of brick, unpainted hardwood, high ceilings & all that old house coolness, Punk/metal/HC/classic rock/heshers/old blues & jazz / swing/big band / bluegrass / folk & any music created by kids that got beat up in high school or didn't hang out with the "nice, normal" kids on the other side of the street, my record collection & other people's record collections that are equally extensive & wacky, good, original, live music by talented musicians, dark-heavy-potent beer... or PBR if the mood strikes, books, movies, black dogs, staying up way the hell too late, hot vegetarian food, travelling to places where people talk funny and often can't understand me and/or vice-versa, nature, trees, places WITHOUT boom-boom cars. I'm also "interested" in eating, sleeping, bathing, bonking, breathing, going to the bathroom & changing my clothes.... I find it "interesting" when I get to do ALL of those things on a regularly frequent basis... and still get to tend to other "interests".... drinking cold water when I'm thirsty is also of interest.... as is an Ibuprofen when my head hurts.... Clean socks. I'm definitely interested in clean socks..... In general, my "interests" lie with PRO-clean clothes factions.
NOT slinky-dink, stupid-ass webcam stripper girls..... All of you retards please F**K the F**K off & avoid me having to TELL you to F**K off (or fuck off, as the case may be).... If you're a webcam stripper, please divert your attention to some dumb frat boy who might care. As for those who I'd "like to meet": people who are from the same planet I'm from. People who I used to know, used to hang out with, partied with, drank with, rocked out to the same band with, stayed up way too late talking to about something that seemed really important at the time with, stayed with on different travels, attended shows and/or protests and/or schools with. People who bought records I put out or distributed "back in tha' day" and who had either good or bad memories associated with those records. People in bands whose records I put out.People who've SEEN "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door" & also think it's the most hilarious film ever."New" people who are GENUINELY into poop that I'm into I'm kinda into "meeting" as well. Like fellow collector nerds & other people utterly OCD about the same crap I'm utterly OCD about.REPEAT: I have NO interest in meeting slinky-dink girls trying to sell me on lottery schemes or other nonsense, nor do I have any interest in random dorks looking to get 5 bazillion "friends" & just randomly selecting me to be on their list....I'd also like to meet Bob Schmob... I heard he's neat.... and if your name is REALLY "Bob Schmob," feel free to write me because you RULE, dude.
How many characters are you allowed here? And what am I supposed to list? Uhh... OK, I've been on a Scissorfight - Orange Goblin - Clutch- Monster Magnet - Sidney Bechet- (Bon-era) AC/DC - Artie Shaw - Mountain - Louis Jordan - Morphine -The Kinks- Fu Manchu - Subhumans (Vancouver, not UK - though they're really good too) - Deep Purple-1930s/1940s Viper Jazz-John Lee Hooker-Muddy Waters kick these last few years.... But, those are just the ones I can think of off the top-of-my-head... The 1st 4 are incredible live, all the other ones I never had a chance to see live.Anyway, I've always been a collector nerd, as long as I can remember and have always been fairly militantly obsessive & fanatical when it came to my music-- I grew up on Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Joan Jett, Zeppelin, Sabbath, AC/DC & all that other stuff kids listen to in the 70s, became a fanatic Irishman (well, into my Irish heritage to put it more accurately) & started collecting (predominantly Irish rebel folk) records when I was about 11 & segued quickly from there into collecting metal & then punk/HC records...And at about the same time (13/14) dove feed first into the whole punk/HC thingy & didn't really come up for air for over the next 12 or 13 years. Then, straight outta High School I went over to Ireland & the UK for 3 months, getting further & further into the whole anarcho/peace punk thing & discovering the wonderful world of CRUST & GRIND.... all of which inspired me to come back & start a record label / distribution, which I ran for 9 years, putting out a butt-ton of punk/HC records, selling a larger butt-ton more & gaining mad, mad record collecting mania (as if I wasn't bad enough to begin with) that has stuck with me to this day. And even though I've not done said label/distro for 9 years now, I still go on mad music buying binges... rare is the month that I don't spend at least $100 on new muzak... and when I say "muzak" I mean VINYL, whenever I can help it... The best releases that I listen to frequently I have on BOTH formats... But there's not nearly as much JOY in buying or listening to CDs as there is vinyl..Only NOW -- since I've ceased running label/distro, I've branched further & further away from the punk/HC ghetto I entrenched myself in for so long & listen to all kinds of poop.Oh, OK, I've still not run out of space... And this is "My Space" duuuude, so here's some more "music" I'm "into" & some bands in general that share fond spots on my record shelves & will take up large footnotes in my future biography :And this is "My Space" duuuude, so other than the stuff listed at the top-- here's some more "music" I'm "into" & some bands/ musicians in general that share fond spots on my record shelves & will take up large footnotes in my future biography (goes & looks at the shelves yep, I AM so OCD & anal as to keep all of my collection in alphapetical order): 7 YEAR BITCH, 16, A3 (AKA The Alabama 3), THE ACCUSED, ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY, TORI AMOS, AOS3, FIONA APPLE, THE ASTRONAUTS (UK)(!), ARTICLES OF FAITH, AXEGRINDER, BLACK FLAG ("My War" - Side 2 top o' the list!), BLACK SABBATH, BUZZOV*EN, NICK CAVE, CELTIC FROST, CHRIST ON PARADE, CIRCLE JERKS (Best live punk band of the 80s), CLANCY BROTHERS, CONFLICT, CRASS, CRO-MAGS (Age of Quarrel era), CULTURE SHOCK, DEEP PURPLE, DEVIATED INSTINCT, DOA, the DWARVES, DYSTOPIA, EYEHATEGOD, FU MANCHU, GRINCH, HELLBASTARD, BOB HOWARD & THE BOYS, ICONS OF FILTH, LOUIS JORDAN, KYUSS (& most of the spin-off bands, incl. QUEENS OTSA, Desert Sessions, UNIDA, etc.), LOGICAL NONSENSE, LYNYRD SKYNRD, MDC, MASSIVE ATTACK, MELVINS, MONSTER MAGNET, MOTORHEAD, MURPHY'S LAW, NAUSEA, NEGATIVE APPROACH, NASHVILLE PUSSY, NEUROSIS, THE OBSESSED, OMEGA TRIBE, PINK FLOYD, PINK TURDS IN SPACE, POISON GIRLS, PRIMUS, JOHN PRINE, RUDIMENTARY PENI, SISTERS OF MERCY, SKINNY PUPPY, SPIRIT CARAVAN, ST. VITUS, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, THERAPY?, THATCHER ON ACID, THIS MORTAL COIL, TOM WAITS, TUMMLER, VENOM, HANK WILLIAMS SR., the WOLFETONES, ZOUNDS(!).... uhhhh, yeah, those, a whole hell of a lot of others.... and SLAAAAYYYYER!! Yeah, Slayer. Woohoo- Slayer. After all, ya cant be fukkin METAL if you dont like Slayer. And I was a metalhead hesher long before I was a punker.But, "black metal" blows. "Living Color is my favorite black metal band" & goofy nerds who wear chain mail & make up just need to go play Dungeons & Dragons & stay away from musical instruments & recording devices because they're not "evil", they're just SILLY. Besides a good portion of black-metallers are nazis and nazis suck. Not to mention, a lot of 'em are into sacrificing little fuzzy animals and I'm a Vegetarian into animal rights & LIKE little fuzzy animals. Also, I was raised a Catholic & while I don't go to Church or buy into it anymore, I ALSO don't want to hear some talentless fool ramble about how "evil" he or she is. So (other than the tongue-in-cheek variety-see above list) fuck a bunch of "black metal"... I'd rather listen to polka.
The Warriors is the best film ever... My dad took me to see it when it just came out, when he was reviewing movies & I was all of 8 years old & I was blown away by it & never quite stopped being blown away by it. Other than that Wings Of Desire is really good (as are most Wim Wenders films). True Romance is also classic.... as is Love and a .45.... as is the Third Man, Reflecting Skin, Donnie Darko, Kiss of Death (w/ Richard Widmark - screw the remake!), Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Aguirre:The Wrath of God & most Herzog films, Night on Earth & most Jarmusch films & a bunch of others I can't think of at the moment.... I like road films... road films are good... I also like many independent films, old / silent films & stuff like that. I LOVE most everything done by the British "Comic Strip Presents", with Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (w/ Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmonson) being at the top of that list. "Mr. Jolly" is the most hilarious, drunken flick ever made & if you think so too, WRITE ME, because I think only about 2 dozen people other than my wife, myself & Stu from Satanic Malfunctions in Scarborough (who 1st played it for us in England back in 1990) have ever heard of it.
TV is insipid mindrot.... I love how a turned-on Television can instantly turn a room full of intelligent people (formerly engaged in stimulating conversation) into drooling zombies. So, I rarely watch TV other than movies/DVDs/concert films that I CHOOSE to watch (& choose to press the "Stop" button on if they suddenly suck). But there ARE some exceptions to that statement.... and the Sopranos would be one of those exceptions... the Showtime series "Weeds" would be another, though I've gotta watch both of these @ the in-laws as we allowed our cable to be cancelled when -- after 9/11 -- we found ourselves joining the ranks of TV-engrossed drooling zombies.
Books about Irish history, the Irish struggles and the IRA / Noam Chomsky / The novel "American Skin" / Historical Fiction & Historical non-fiction / Stephen King novels / Donald Westlake novels/ Dan Kennedy books / Psycho-Cybernetics/ The "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series & anything else by Robert Kiyosaki / Just finished Penny Rimbaud's "A Revolting Life" and "Sleeping With The Devil- How Washington Sold our Soul for Saudi Crude" by Bob Baer.... both very good
Brian Boru. Padraic Pearse. My "Unkel" Ed (RIP), my uncle Denny, my Dad, Mum & wife.... most anyone who's made their own way in the World (& made their own WORLD), despite the odds..... oh yeah, John Yarmuth, Craig Proctor & Robert Kiyosaki are all pretty damn cool in my book too.