I perforate folks for a living at Johnson Tatttoo in Taylor, Michigan -
the business my Dad started in 1965, when I was 3 years old.
http://www.johnsontat.com . I spend
all my spare time collecting weird old records, books & movies.
Weird old records, books, movies;
Christian Dissent;
Pizza;
Beer.;
Polka;
Strange Religion; Cults;
Mind Control;
Conspiracy;
Black Gospel Music;
Vocal Harmony;
Roots Music;
Outsider Art and Music;
Detroit, Local History;
Psychiatric Survivors,
Shrink-Resistant;
Kitsch; Flatulence; Dysphoria; Cognitive and other forms of Dissonance; Defensive Pessimism; Potty Humor in general; Brutal Honesty; Recluse; Introversion; Inversion; Self-Contradiction; Self Deprication; Self-Mutilation; Self-Mutation; The Path to Righteousness; Pathological Self-Righteousness ...
Mighty Fist of the Brown Bomber, Detroit
Beware The Central Scrutinizer!
I'd Like To Meet: My Future Self, The Ghost of Frank Zappa,
Wild Man Fischer!
ABOVE: JOAN JETT & DEBORAH HARRY IN THEIR PRIME
............... BELOW: BO DIDDLEY (R.I.P.)IN BONDAGE!
Boris Artsybasheff: Radio Propaganda:
Boris Artsybasheff: Naught So Sweet As Melancholy:
Golden Gate Quartet, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band, Southern Sons, Zao, Spirit of Memphis Quartet, Black Sabbath, Soul Junk, Brian Eno, Throbbing Gristle, Scorn, Napalm Death, Parliament / Funkadelic, Carcass, James Brown, Bootsy Collins, Autopsy, Nervous Norvus, Hank Williams, David Allan Coe, 13th Floor Elevators, Undisputed Truth, Laibach, Brainticket, Kool Keith, Carl Perkins, King Crimson, Charlie Feathers, Can, The The, Johnny Cash, If-Then-Else, Iggy and the Stooges, Buckethead, Primus, Negativland, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Hasil Adkins, Fad Gadget, Blast, Swans, Mick Karn, Dali's Car, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Faust, The Cramps, Fred Frith, The Residents, Extol, Wire, Mouse On Mars, The Stranglers, Eric Dolphy, Kentucky Colonels, Nihilist Spasm Band, Chairmen of the Board, Joan Jett, Frank Pahl, The Pop Group, 23 Skidoo, Howlin' Wolf, John North Wright, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Five Blind Boys of Alabama, Harry Partch, Wild Man Fischer, Grand Funk Railroad, Louis Jordan, Butthole Surfers, The Dancing Cigarettes, Violence and the Sacred, Minutemen, Stump, Nick Cave, Nurse With Wound, Mickey Katz, EN, BTO, ELP, BOC, ELO, SPK, MOD, DOA, CIA, FBI, DOD, DIA, R2D2, C3PO, NAACP, Tom Waits, The Temptations, Eric Dolphy, Nina Hagen, Apocalyptica, Drum and Tuba, Dick Hyman's Moog Records, The Jethros, Stanley Clarke, Blowfly, Ohio Players, Daniel Johnston, Al Green, Dead Boys, Graham Central Station, Larry Graham, Country Bob and the Blood Farmers, Hickoids, Bad Livers, ORIG-Port Huron, Michigan Band - Hunting Lodge, John Lee Hooker, Andre Williams, Material, Sly and Robbie, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Shaggs, Mortification, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu, Motorhead, Stump, Big Boys, The Violinaires, Dixie Hummingbirds, ZZ Top, Devo, Louvin Brothers, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Wayne Butane, Alice Cooper, Arthur Brown, Ennio Morricone, Anthology of American Folk Music, York Brothers, Truck-Driving songs, Novelty, educational and instructional records, ...Sikki Spacek & his Cleveland Cohorts
Smells Like Venison Jerky
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Easy Rider, Orig Dawn of the Dead, Salesman, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Titicut Follies, If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do?, The Brain That Would Not Die, X The Man With X-Ray Eyes, Crumb, These Are The Damned, Girly, Shanty Tramp, J.C., When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? American Splendor, Kitten With A Whip, Marjoe, Tribulation 99, Sonic Outlaws, Trekkies, Tributary, Skidoo, The Manchurian Candidate, Suddenly, Blackenstein, Baby Snakes, 9-11 Press For Truth, Space Is The Place, Dr. Strangelove, Shakes The Clown, W.R. Mysteries of the Organism, The Baby, Theremin, Mr. Death, I Like To Hurt People, The Atomic Cafe, Down By Law, Romper Stomper, Plan 9 From Outer Space, John Waters!, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, It's Alive, The Apostle, Rudy Ray Moore, Door to Door Maniac, Skidoo, The Zapruder Film, Astro Zombies, The Illustrated Man, Santo and the Vampire Women, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, The Zombies of Sugar Hill, Superstar - The Karen Carpenter Story, Repo Man, RoboCop, Blade Runner, Spider Baby, Eraserhead, Waco - Terms of Engagement, The Forbidden Zone, H.G. Lewis, Godzilla VS Mothra, Chase The Devil: Religious Music of the Appalachans, Gummo, Space Is The Place, The Power of Nightmares, Off The Charts, Derailroaded, Farewell Good Brothers, Jodie Foster, Wild In The Streets, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, (Karloff) Frankenstein, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, City of Women, A Boy And His Dog, Zachariah, Videodrome, The Brood, Eraserhead, The Rapture, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Where The Buffalo Roam, Freaks, Darktown Strutters, Black Bikers From Hell, Blacula, Blue Collar, Baby Doll, The Outsider, Black Sunday, The Omega Man, Soylent Green, Falling Down, The Thing, The Day The Earth Stood Still, ...
T.V. is Mind Control Technology - it sucks your brain out through your eye sockets, but I still watch odd broadcasts from the History Channel, C-Span, A and E. Documentaries on PBS. Freaks and Geeks. Hogan's Heroes. Sanford and Son, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Jot, The Prisoner, Land of the Lost, Monty Python, The Goodies, Fawlty Towers. Bygone local broadcasts: Bill Bonds. The Ghoul. Sir Graves Ghastly. Big Time Wrestling from Cobo featuring the Sheik and Dick The Bruiser. Sonny Elliot. Bill Kennedy At The Movies. Rita Bell's Prize Movie. All the cable channels I can't afford to pay for.
The Sheik abuses the rules:
Little - "t"
The Sheik Must Be Hungry!
Philip K. Dick, Kierkegaard, Blake, Sinister Forces series by Peter Levenda, Joe Haldeman, The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson, Biographies of interesting people, Alex Constantine, Apocalypse Culture, Three Christs of Ypsilanti, Flannery OConnor, Richard Brautigan, C.S. Lewis, J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson, The Beginning Was The End by Oscar Kiss Maerth, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Kafka, E. Howard Hunt, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Shock Totem, Big Gurl, Drowning In Fire by Th Metzger, R. Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, psychedelic era underground comics, Creepy & Eerie comics of the '70's, T. Casey Brennan, John North Wright, Peter Bagge, Bob Fingerman, Eightball, Chester Brown, Fiona Smyth, Joe Matt, Julie Doucet, Chick Comics, The Art of Jack T. Chick, Howard The Duck, Art Forms in Nature, My Life Without God by William Murray, Harlan Ellison, 1984, Brave New World, JIM FLORA! I Aint Got Time To Bleed by Jesse Ventura, Snitch Culture, The Clown and the Crocodile by Joseph C. McLelland, The Mental Machine by The Electrifying Mojo, Lunar Notes by Bill Harkelroad, The Final Jihad by martin Keating, Choosing Death by Albert Mudrian, Elevator Music by Joseph Lanza, American Hardcore, Strange Creations by Donna Kossy, Toxic Psychiatry, Beloved Son by Steve Allen, Swaggart by Ann Rowe Seaman, The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos, The Truth Behind Left Behind, The Rapture Plot, The Day and the Hour, Bob Black, End-Time Visions, Willhelm Reich, Norbert Cox, The Last Days According to Jesus, Telegangelism and American Culture, Disneyland of the Gods, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Deceived by Mel White, The Positive Power of Negative Thinking, The Sirius Mystery, Raven - The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones, The Psychic Battlefield - A History of the Military-Occult Complex, Journey To Nowhere, Intimate Strangers - The Culture of Celebrity, Are You Running With Me, Jesus?, The Stammering Century by Gilbert Seldes 1928, The American Axis - Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich, Lawgic - Cruel and Usual Punishment, Hell's Angel by Ralph "Sonny" Barger, Ishmael Reed, Selling Satan by Mike Hertenstein and Jon Trott, Cult Rapture, The Wise Wound by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Graves, Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swedenborg, Bodies Under Siege - Self-Mutilation and Body Modification, In Close Harmony - The Story of The Louvin Brothers, Lexicon Devil, Marshall McLuhan, The Passionate Years by Caresse Crosby, Bare-Faced Messiah, Tales of Times Square, Incredibly Strange Music, The Industrial Culture Handbook, Howard Finster - Stranger From Another World, Forgiven - The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry ...
T. Casey Brennan