There's really not much to say about me, other than I finish sentences and am usually punctual. I'm a writer, editor, scallawag.
Music, film, liter-a-toor, amour, trivial sociological discussions, and a pleasant dinner with a knife and fork.
People who breathe rhythmically and blink in feigned comprehension. A woman who can spell and riposte so bad it hurts.Also, most of these people:
Rock 'n' roll of all stripes; blues; jazz; atmospheric...favorite bands include Ween, Afghan Whigs, Explosions In The Sky, Amp, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Modest Mouse, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Melvins, Shock G, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien/Deltron 3030, Stereolab, The Godz, The Isley Brothers, The O'Jays, Sparks, The Go Gos, The Kills, The Thrills, The Spills, The Chills, The FDghsdsills, Minutemen, Queen, Fuckemos, Fu Manchu, Public Enemy, Teenage Fanclub, Tad, MUUUUUDhoney, Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp, Leonard Cohen, King Missile, Shangri-Las, Twilight Singers, R.L. Burnside, Mississippi John Hurt, Black Oak Arkansas, Warren Zevon, Bruce Cockburn, Deep Purple, And You Will Know Us Because We Are Lost In Your Backyard, Marvin Gaye, Spiritualized, Greyboy, Beck, The Muffs, Cheap Trick, Social Distortion, Neil Young/Crazy Horse, The Move, Goodness, Fastbacks, The Mono Men, Supersuckers, The Fixx, The Pretty Things, David Bowie pre- and post-Spiders, Thin Lizzy, Brian Eno, Mott The Hoople, R.E.M., Minus 5, Wilco, Butter 08, Fantomas, Yuka Honda, Isis, Cibo Matto, Funkadelic, Eddie Hazel, Bootsy Collins, Tommy James & The Shondells, The Loved Ones (R.I.P., Char Vinnedge), In God's Eyes You Are All Whores, Donald Fagen, Steely Dan's "Pearl Of The Quarter," King Crimson, Gryphon, The Beach Boys, John Frusciante, The Pharcyde, Busta Rhymes, DAS EFX, Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, Spearhead, Guru, Kool Keith, Ultramagnetic NCs, Nina Simone ("Mississippi Goddam" indeed!), Pink Floyd, Genesis, Edwin Starr, Tom Waits, Jane Weidlin, Anna Waronker, Petra Haden, that dog., The Temptations, Undisputed Truth, The Gits, Jolly Mon, Tangerine Dream, Laura Nyro, Peter Murphy, Ice Cube, Peter Murphy & Ice Cube, Ash, Frausdots, Matthew Sweet, Public Enemy, Liz Phair, Beastie Boys, The Rolling Stones' "She's A Rainbow," Maria McKee's "Absolutely Barking Stars," Freedy Johnston's "This Perfect World," Too Much Joy's "Donna Everywhere," Belly's "Stay," Tanya Donnelly, Frank Black, The Posies, Pixies, The Eagles Of Death Metal, The Breeders, Drive By Truckers, Nashville Pussy, Robert Downey Jr., McKinley, Throwing Muses, Poi Dog Pondering, Abra Moore, and a whole lotta other stuff I kinda forget and will add later to make me look cooler than I really am.
Kentucky Fried Movie, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Seven Chances (Buster Keaton), The Electric House (Buster Keaton), Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire, The Groove Tube, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Great Dictator, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Dig!, Duck Soup, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Monsieur Verdoux (dark but boring Chaplin), Brain Donors, Penn And Teller Get Killed, The Big Lebowski, Going Upriver, Friday Night Lights, Nixon, The Usual Suspects, Kingpin, Scream, Hype!, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, There's Nothing Out There, Shaft In Africa, Across 110th Street, Pulp Fiction, Superfly, Superfly T.N.T., The Fearless Vampire Killers (or, Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck), Assault On Precinct 13, The Thing (John Carpenter), Die Hards I-III, Stone Reader, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Slacker, Dazed And Confused, Le Dernier Combat, Fritz Lang's "M," The Bank Dick, Love And A .45, Standing In The Shadows Of Motown, The Dancing Outlaw, Confederate States Of America, We Jam Econo, Another State Of Mind, Let Him Have It, The Committments, Superbad, Knocked Up, 40-Year-Old Virgin, etc., etc., etc.
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Cheers, Millennium, All In The Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Office, 30 Rock, most of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, The Larry Sanders Show, Soap, The Richard Pryor Show, The Simpsons, King Of The Hill, Futurama, NewsRadio, Eerie, Indiana, Northern Exposure, The Critic, Battlestar Galactica, The Sarah Silverman Show--I hate these things. Christ, I haven't watched serious network television since about 1999!
The Roaches Have No King, Desolation Angels, A Whore Just Like The Rest, I, Shithead, You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again, Killer Instinct, City Room, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Book, Girlfriend In A Coma, High Concept, Friday Night Lights, The Autobiography Of A Brown Buffalo, Planet City, The Dark Stuff, Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung, Youth In Revolt, Girl, Microserfs, The Devil And Sonny Liston, Where Dead Voices Gather, Rebel Without A Crew, Spike Mike Slackers & Dykes, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Main Lines, Blood Feasts And Bad Taste, Nobody's Perfect, Saucerful Of Secrets, Learning How To Die, Autumn Rhythm, Growing Up (At 37), Life In The Funhouse, King Of Comedy (Mack Sennett "autobiography"), My Life In Baseball: The True Record (Ty Cobb's "autobiography"), Cobb (Al Stump's biography), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, Shoeless Joe, Eight Men Out, Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover, and a bunch of stuff.
Groucho Marx, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Pops, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Lewis Black, Jack Kerouac, Richard Meltzer, Nick Tosches, Bill Hicks, Brian Wilson, Mickey Melchiondo, Eddie Hazel, Ernie Isley, Greg Dulli, Michael O'Donoghue, and that one guy.