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Andy Warhol, James Brown (the proper one), Esquivel, Sergio Leone, Doris Wishman, Andy Milligan, Bettie Page, The Queen (or Jeanette Charles), Arthur Lee, Menahem Golan/Goran Globus, Charles Hawtrey, Edith Massey, Miles Davis, Tura Satana, James Hunt, Fred Willard, Audrey Campbell, George Clinton, Liberace, Tony Blackburn (but not DLT), Alexis Korner, Yanni, John Clellon Holmes, Paul Bowles, Charles Bukowski, PJ Proby, Donald Cammell, Jackie Wilson, Dan Duryea, Joan Bennett, Fritz Lang, Gloria Grahame, Jane Russell (properly), Jayne Mansfield, Ali Bongo, all of the Partridge Family (plus Reuben Kincaid), Warren Oates, Sam Peckinpah, Tom Waits, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Alex Trocchi, Jack Nicholson, John Huston, maybe even David Bowie and, oh, probably Diana Dors. If you think this list is bizarre, maybe I should post the list of people I *have* met, which include Harry Reems (of Deep Throat fame), Jim Bowen, William S Burroughs, Paula Klaw (sister of Irving), John Waters, Michael Cimino, Traci Lords, Leonardo DiCaprio, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Gene Pitney, Quentin Crisp, Quentin Tarantino, Tracey Emin, Professor Griff (twice), Martin Scorsese, George Clooney, Joe Dallesandro and Paris Hilton.
Tough one... If I were to entertain you today I'd play you The Box Tops' version of Call Me, Initials from the Hair Soundtrack, Free Design's Bubbles, Bobbie Gentry's Mississippi Delta, Grace Jones' The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game, Funky Kingston by Toots And The Maytals, Funky 4 Plus One's That's The Joint, Aaron Neville's Hercules, Mohair Sam by Charlie Rich, John Handy's Hard Work, Lupe Fiasco's Theme Music To A Drive-By ("Put it in your car and cruise...") To upset you or simply induce melancholy, I would play you Freda Payne's Bring The Boys Home, Jackson C Frank's version of Milk And Honey, Marvin Gaye's Abraham, Martin, John, and anything by the late Tammi Terrell, especially the happy ones, which I would preface with the words, "She collapsed onstage and died of a brain haemmorhage at the age of 24, you know."
Off the top of my head: Olga's House Of Shame, Female Trouble, The Kingdom, DiG!, Blue Velvet, INLAND EMPIRE, Magnolia, Barbarella, Z Channel, Touch Of Evil, Two-Lane Blacktop, Treasure Of the Sierra Madre, Deadly Weapons, Clerks 1 & 2, El Santo And Blue Demon Vs Dracula And The Wolfman, Killing Of A Chinese Bookie, The Year Of Living Dangerously (or The Last Wave), Grey Gardens, Performance, Dodgeball, Half Nelson, the Pusher trilogy, Once Upon A Time In The West, Once Upon A Time In America, Peeping Tom, New York New York, Deep Red, Pieces, Velvet Goldmine, The Red Shoes, The Honeymoon Killers, Chungking Express, Happiness, Deuce Bigalow 1 & 2, Roten Lippe Sadisterotica, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Memories Of Murder, Danger Diabolik, What Have I Done To Deserve This, The 400 Blows, Pierrot Le Fou, Airplane 2, Towering Inferno, Last Days, Home From The Hill, Written On The Wind, A Clockwork Orange, The Wild Bunch, The Virgin Suicides. The House Of Flying Daggers, Tokyo Drifter, Fox And His Friends, Orphee, Fight Club, The Chelsea Girls, Pandora And The Flying Dutchman, Zatoichi, Videodrome, Day Of The Dead, Scarface, The Big Heat, The Big Cube, Vertigo, Shadow Of A Doubt, Family Plot (Barbara Harris, where are you now?)... That kind of thing, really.
That's My Bush!
The complete works of William S Burroughs and WSB Jr. Plus I demand that you read The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld Of Andy Milligan.