Jenn is now vending her wares online. Check out her shop if you need glass trinkets & baubles (no "tobacco pipes" you damn hippie), & other jewelry items. Click the link below & buy your mom something nice.
Golly gee, it’s pretty much all below isn’t it? Other interests- toy collecting (mainly Star Wars, Transformers Alternators, Justice League, the new He-Man series was fun, some McFarlane stuff, & various odds & ends to make my Star Wars dioramas look even gayer than they started out). I’ve got a 1961 Vespa VLB & Jenn has a 1985 T5. Vegetarianism is sort of an interest. I enjoy some video games- mainly RPG forgotten realms type stuff. Also, I’m a bit of a monkey enthusiast. I prefer the smaller critters to the great apes. Both New World & Old World are cool in my book. Prosimians are fine too. If the Good Lord saw fit not to bless Jenn & me with children, I’d like to get a Lemur, or a Capuchin, or maybe a Spider Monkey…
For the most part we are using this to keep in touch with people we already know. Generally we aren’t in the habit of adding any & every band, but if we’ve mentioned you on the sidebar, or we are friendly with you we will certainly add. I also have a little soft spot for adding foreigners who we don’t know personally, since the English skills might not be too great, & maybe all this rambling didn’t make sense. Rick always claimed myspace wasn’t for 15-year-olds writing bad poetry & chronicling high school dramas for posterity, so if you fit that bill, we’d like to meet you just to prove Rick wrong. Also, trashy women because they are so damn hard to find on the internet.
Chances are we’ve been at shows together, so you can probably guess. That being said, I’ll try to keep this brief, there is plenty that’s being omitted. First & foremost Reggae. Preferences toward Rocksteady & early Reggae, but most anything from the late 50's to mid-70's will do. If I had to choose one favorite song, it would probably be Rivers of Babylon by the Melodians. Other groups I love are the Maytals, the Wailers, the Pioneers, the Upsetters, Silvertones, Dynamites, the Jamaicans, Dave & Ansell Collins, Harry J Allstars, Prince Buster, Laurel Aitken… See this is turning into the list thing I didn’t want to do. I’ve never gotten into the Dub sound, too hollow, almost empty for my taste. Perhaps it’s because I don’t do drugs. Roots Reggae has a limited appeal to me, mainly due to subject content. Not a huge Dancehall fan, but occasionally it is fun. 2-Tone is all right, but never my true love. I once caught the Selecter in NC, probably around 95, Pauline was asking if anyone had Ecstasy, I guess England turned into a nation of ravers. As far as 3rd wave goes, I’ll stick with bands that have the traditional approach. You can’t match the Slackers, or Django. Dr. Ring Ding is great, the Insteps were wonderful. I like the Israelites, oh talking about Jump Up Records- I don’t listen to much soul, but the Inciters are great. Now when I've said I "don't like" various sub-genres above, it really means they just aren't at the top of my list, truth be known almost any reggae will do. Now, on to Oi! & streetpunk. Why don’t you just cut & paste someone else’s list here? You know how it goes anti-heros, templars, apa, blanks 77, oxymoron… see if we kept this going it would just lose all interest. Occasionally the old inhibitor switch gets damaged & I start listening to folk music- we just caught the Kingston Trio a little while back. Also, can’t explain it, but Neil Diamond has a certain appeal…
John Waters movies, films by Tim Burton or Stanley Kubrick. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was amazing. You’ve gotta love The Harder They Come, particularly on DVD, so you can subtitle the whole damn thing. Pretty much all Sci-Fi is cool by me- particularly Star Wars, Predator, Alien. Comic movies are hit & miss- the X-men is holding up, & the Batman franchise was finally redeemed. The Spiderman series was fun, Hellboy was enjoyable, League of Extraordinary Gentleman was tolerable. Also, anything with swords & limbs getting hacked off can’t be all that bad- Gladiator, Conan, Crouching Tiger, 13th Warrior. I'm also partial to talking animal movies. Babe is the Citizen Kane of the talking pig genre.
Often times with television, it’s running in the background not receiving full attention. In that case, I prefer the history channel so I can passively learn about WWII or Hitler. Jenn keeps up with Passions & Days or Our Lives. It’s cool, because I can watch every 6 months & nothing’s changed (except Timmy’s been replaced by an Orangutan). We’ve got the Replay TV so I don’t have to stay up ‘til 3 AM watching my favorite Adult Swim Cartoons. I also enjoy the new Justice League series. The new Batman kinda sucks, but I watch it anyway.
I guess if it hasn’t had a movie made that I could watch instead, I’ll have to go with books with lots of pictures. Last book I read for fun was Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. Those Lemony Snicket books are an easy read & fairly enjoyable (best to stay a few grade levels behind; don’t want to try anything too challenging). Going back to books with pictures, classic graphic novels like Frank Miller’s Dark Night Returns, & Alan Moore's Watchmen are great. Also Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was amazing. Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey was fun too. Of course, I could list all the various How-to-guides/Histories on various youth cultures- you know them. Occasionally I’ll pick up something from the “summer reading list†table at the bookstore- you can find nice things, Animal Farm, 1984, The Prince… I also like Tolkien & C.S. Lewis (particularly The Screwtape Letters). On that religious tip, Dante’s work is cool too. On the work front, you gotta give it up for the DSM-IV & Kaplan & Sadok. I like Stahl’s texts, they have lots of pictures. You might want to consider purchasing Your Defiant Child 8 steps to Better Behavior by Barkley & Benton, so your kid doesn’t turn out like you. Also, if someone has $180, I could use the Lewis text… Oh did I mention Chick Comics?
Papa Doc (a physician AND dictator), Baby Doc, Idi Amin- all tyrants with style