Working on this AWESOME archive of 80s hardcore music and skate culture. Centered around the ANN ARBOR, Michigan scene.
The past couple of years I have been taking pictures and shooting lots of video. Skating and local music is the main focus. A lot of this stuff ends up on the localCHAOS website . I've also recently started publishing the 80's zines "Local CHAOS" again . Issue #17 has been recently release and is available for free. If you would like a copy then drop me an email with your postal address.
ROCK AND ROLL!!!
Motorcycles are another big part of my life. I've had bikes on and off since high school ...but in 1997 I become REAL hardcore. Even though I live in Michigan I am a year 'round rider. A specially prepped Kawasaki KLR650 is my winter bike. Snow, slush .. .stupid cagers .. I ride through it all.
Oh yea ... did I mention that my KLR650 FUCKING RULES! If I had to own only one motorcycle out of my stable ... it would be the KLR. This bike will eat your Harley and shit out MT500s.
I am looking for skateable pools, ditches, banks and backyard ramps
70s/80s hardcore/punk - Negative Approach, Necros, JFA, Black Flag, BLITZ, UK SUBS, Butthole Surfers, Big Boys, X, Misfits, Chaos UK, MDC, Dead Kennedys, Germs, Ramones, PIL, ALL the local Ann Arbor bands from back then. State, Ground Zero, Dismissle, G.O.C, Lunatics, Sudden Death, Cult Heroes, Destroy All Monsters, MC5, bands I played in (service, 3d-jesus, PVC), 70s (Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, KISS, Pink Floyd, Blue Cheer, T-REX, King Crimson), 60s acid rock/pop/folk - (all that shit), 50s rock. 40s "swing, big band", Cab Calloway is HYPE! ROOTS Reggae, SKA and anything in between. The list is very long.
Blue Velvet, Hairspray, Pecker, Cry-Baby, Gummo, The Wild One, Road Warrior, Mad Max, Any rad skate video ( pool skating ), Matewan, Pulp Fiction, Clockwork Orange, Carrie, Easy Rider, ... I know there are more .. Oh! Blackboard Jungle (the original), Cape Fear (original version), Lolita (original version), Casablanca, Wild at Heart, Rear Window, The Birds, Psycho, The Birdcage, Pricilla "Queen of the Desert", Bongwater, The Leather Boys, Animal House, Creepshow, Up in Smoke. Salo:120 Days of Sodom was in interesting flick ...
I read technical manuals mostly. Fun stuff would be Juice magazine. That one is a fave .. so is Juxtapoz.
Caligula - "The ORIGINAL party animal"