All over the map...
Art: doing reel-to-reel tape manipulation tracks under the name Clomas, BIGTIME!! , trying to form an experimental extreme metal band called "Blood Coma" (along with a couple of other music projects that have yet to come to fruition), trying to figure out how to play the 2-string electric bass and noise generator I made out of a leaf rake, occasionally doing some classic country music DJ-ing under the name DJ Kenworth, pen and ink drawings of phallic creatures and dead babies, pen and ink random pattern designs, writing and illustrating morally questionable limericks.
Collecting:
Minor league, Japanese and Korean baseball cards, game used jerseys & team photos;
Music;
Antique medical devices (exam, surgery, dental, OBGYN, autopsy & veterinary instruments);
Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Denver, Minneapolis, South Dakota and foreign (mainly German, French, Soviet/ex-USSR & Eastern Bloc) transit tokens and passes (vecturism).
Proud AVA member since 2001...Seriously.
Sports:
Baseball:
San Francisco Giants and their minor league affiliates: Fresno Grizzlies (AAA), Connecticut Defenders (AA), San Jose Giants (High A), Augusta GreenJackets (Low A), Salem-Keizer Volcanoes (Short Season A), AZL Giants and DSL Giants (Rookie)
Tokyo Yomiuri Giants (Japan)
Busan Lotte Giants (Korea)
Hockey:
Seattle Thunderbirds and Colorado Avalanche
Football:
American: San Francisco 49ers
International (Soccer): 1.FC Kaiserslautern Red Devils (Germany)
Other: Watching stupid people hurt themselves (but not in the "Jackass" way), Time Cube Theory and rants , Lego, aquariums, cats, gears and machinery, the art of Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Durer, Dali, Escher, Giger and Bruegel the Elder; abortion and fetuses, pessimism, heresy, misanthropy, carnivorism, entropy, smoking, plastination, Soviet propaganda, tacky Christian and Catholic trinkets, King Vitamin, Amish porn, the word "chalybeous", 7-11 smoked sausage and cheddar dogs smothered in nacho cheese, Maker's Mark bourbon (in moderation, of course...it's also good for cooking), making inane lists of things I like.
If you like my art posted in my pictures, then go to my CafePress store, please...damn it!www.cafepress.com/charhodder (sorry...for some reason, it won't let me link to my store.)
I'd like to get Tom Mischke, Nikola Tesla, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, Kurt Vonnegut, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, George Carlin and Bill Hicks into a room with my father and myself...That would probably be some of the most insane conversations to ever occur.
Co-Conspirators & Minions:
I Have Friends...Yay!
Clomas, BIGTIME!!
Greyduck
Ken Jacobson
Sirens Fall Silent
aAron ß
Winged Lady Collective
Damn Special Secret Agent of God
s c o t t - i s h
His Execellency, David Elrod
Secret Chiefs 3
Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots
Kuru Cult
Arrrrr me name be Steve
Billy
Barry
slug
Neurosis
ISIS
Red Harvest
Brandon Kent
Heather
Zombryo
Miss Batty Paige
Savage Aural Hotbed
Woven Hand
Amalgam
Trishalicious!
FAGGOT
Nineteen Twelve Industries
The Mischke Podcast
Cult of Luna
Red Sparowes
Split Lip Rayfield
Oysterband
PEEPING TOM
Grinderman
View All Of These Poor Bastards
Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Grinderman, Tom Waits, Einstürzende Neubauten, early Test Dept., SPK, Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Ken Butler, Cult of Luna, ISIS, Red Harvest, Dunkel:Heit, V:28, Johnny Cash, Harry Partch, Serge Gainsbourg, Waylon Jennings, Minch, Stikky, George Jones, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Peeping Tom, Tomahawk and just about anything else Mike Patton is involved in, Secret Chiefs 3, Savage Republic, Iceburn, 3Sacchetti, Zloty Dawai, Ne Zhdali, Il Maniscalco Maldestro, Merde sur la Mer, Into Another, Sensefield, Black Heart Procession, Swans, Angels of Light, Buzzov-en, Man is the Bastard, Bastard Noise, Slayer (duh!), 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Wesley Willis, People Like Us, Acme, Converge, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Candiria, Manowar (yes, Manowar), Carcass, David Allan Coe, Botch, Flogging Molly, The Pogues/Shane MacGowan, The OysterBand, The Levellers, Refused, Low, P.J. Harvey, SOAD, NWA, Fishbone, Drowningman (except for the most recent album...the reformed band sucks!), Blue Meanies, Luther Wright and the Wrongs, Morphine, obscure and odd older country music, Oscar Brand, Milk Cult, Eyvind Kang, Dillinger Escape Plan, Iconoclast, Econochrist, Foetus, Hunting Lodge, John Coltrane, Clockhammer, Stan Getz with Kenny Clarke and the Francy Boland Big Band, Dazzling Killmen, The Cedars of Lebanon, J. Munly, The Denver Gentlemen, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, Leechwoman, Project Dark, John Lurie, John Zorn, Savage Aural Hotbed, Won Lump Some, Die Haut, Les Negresses Vertes (before the death of Helno), Freddy Quinn, Heino, Iron Horse (the bluegrass band), Hayseed Dixie, Neil Diamond, Leonard Cohen, Burst, Breach, Wolfstone, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Set Fire to Flames, Rachel's, A Silver Mt. Zion, Hungry Ghosts, Dirty Three, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, The Haunted, Rorschach, Neanderthal, Threadbare, Quicksand, Cave-In (up to and including the Jupiter album), Resin, Moss Icon, Indian Summer, Hellstomper, Kalamath Brothers, The Low and Sweet Orchestra, Suffer (Sioux Falls), Red Sparowes, Streetcleaner era Godflesh, O.L.D., State of the Union, Roscoe Holcomb, Split Lip Rayfield, Fetish 69, Eyehategod, Engine Kid, Johnny Dowd, Dirty Old Man River, Crime & The City Solution, Cop Shoot Cop, Crash Worship, Coalesce, Assück, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Paycheck, Johnny $ Dollar, Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare (Sr & Jr), Hank Williams (all three of them), 3 Finger Spread, Whirlpool, Warlock Pinchers, Tit Wrench, Orlando Terrell, The Shaggs, Red Simpson, Red Sovine, C.W. McCall, Trucker songs, Tim Rose, Old Man Gloom, Meathook Seed, Lawnmower Deth, Kylesa, The Kids Of Widney High, Ralph Gean, Tony Joe White, EXMORTES (best 7" artwork EVER!)
bands with umlauts in their names (the more umlauts, the more metal...it is a true mathematical ratio. Look it up.) and all Rapid City punk and hardcore bands...past, present and future
Non-music listening:
Tom Mischke (am 1500 KSTP Minneapolis/St. Paul M-F Noon-2:00pm Central Time)
- check out www.mischke1500.blogspot.com for The Mischke Podcast (complete shows a week after they are broadcast), Mischke Madness for the best Mischke clips on downloadable mp3 or the official KSTP site to stream his show.
Bill Hicks
George Carlin
Lenny Bruce
Lewis Black
The Big Lebowski (best movie EVER) and most other Coen Brothers' films, Pan's Labarynth, Thank You For Smoking, any Mystery Science Theater 3000, City of Lost Children, Airplane!, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Delicatessen, all of Terry Gilliam's films, Lost in Translation, The Usual Suspects, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Eighth Day, Cemetary Man, Cabin Boy, Wilder Napalm, the Naked Gun films, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Team America - World Police, Ameile, Groundhog Day, The Jerk, any Laurel & Hardy, Harrison Bergeron, Mother Night, Leon (The Professional), Metropolis (Fritz Lang, not anime), Meet The Feebles, Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums, Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers and other Satoshi Kon films, Straight To Hell, Very Bad Things, Suicide Kings, True Romance, Office Space, Catch 22, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Delerious, Until The End of the World, Desperado and El Mariachi, Down By Law, Trainspotting, The End of Violence, Four Rooms, The Last Supper, Killing Zoe, In The Company of Men, The Great Outdoors, Life is Beautiful, Night on Earth, Orgazmo, Pecker, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Producers (the original), Taxi Driver, Wild at Heart, lots of other films...
24, House, Prison Break, Jericho, Weeds, Monty Python, Breaking Bad, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder, Wonder Showzen, TV Funhouse, CSI and other shows in that genre, Mythbusters, Penn & Teller: BULLSHIT!, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, MST3k, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Kids in the Hall, The Venture Bros., Metalocalypse, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and most Adult Swim comedy programming, Paranoia Agent, Futurama, WWII documentaries and other History Channel shows, good science and nature documentaries
Not a fan of either show, but love this photo nonetheless: The only good thing to come from Knight Rider is that it taught the world that evil twins always have goatees.
Catch 22 and all other books by Joseph Heller, any Kurt Vonnegut, Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, Calvin and Hobbes, Enemy at the Gates and most other WWII books about the European Theatre of Operations especially The Battle of Stalingrad, The Sherlock Holmes canon, books on natural history especially about human evolution, Catastrophe by David Keys, And the Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave, The Avengers by Rich Cohen, Carlos Castaneda, From Beruit To Jerusalem by Thomas L Friedman, The Melacholy Death of Oysterboy... by Tim Burton, George Hayduke's revenge books, the Straight Dope books by Cecil Adams, The Lazlo Letters by Don Novello, any Hunter S. Thompson, Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost, God's Other Son by Don Imus, any William S Burroughs, dictionaries of odd or archaic English, Custer Died For Your Sins, Franz Kafka, Black Elk Speaks and other books on Lakota Sioux history and culture, A Pessimist's Guide To History, Everything is Bad For You, Poe, Orwell, Tom Robbins, A Brief History of Time, The Onion collections, the Life in Hell series, Anatomy books, The Old Man and the Sea, Of Mice and Men, Dirk Gentry's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, Willard R. Espy's books on words and wordplay, Atlases and maps, etc.
Fictional: Yossarian
Real: Doug (my dad), Tom Mischke, Bill Hicks, George Carlin, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Will Clark, Nikola Tesla, Frank Zappa