Rock, rock radio (LRC on WMBR FM), drawing contests with my dad and two bros, writing, beer, my cats Lucy and Ivan The Terrible, and cheating death on my bike in the streets of greater Boston.
After that last video, shit, I'd like to meet Bip.
The Prime Movers, The Bags, The Moving Targets, The Motormags, Squirrel Bait, Mad Man Films, Darkbuster, The Skels, The Beat Awfuls, Viva Viva, Holy Fuck, The Black Lips, The Swinedells, Lyres, The Clash, The Fleshtones, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Gun Club, Dinosaur Jr., The Adolescents, Wire, The Clean, You Am I, The DM3 and damn near everything Dom Mariani has done, The Avengers, The Buzzcocks, The Testors and damn near everything Sonny Vincent has done, Devo, AC/DC, Minor Threat, Killing Joke, The Pogues, Mung, Stiff Little Fingers, Rocket From The Crypt, The Takers, The Rolling Stones, The Konks, Sorry, Mission Of Burma, Bullet LaVolta, The Curses, Leatherface, The Sonics, The Beatles, The Dickies, The Lawrence Arms, The New Bomb Turks, The Buff Medways and most of Thee prior incarnations of Billy Childish, My Own Sweet, The Also-Rans, Barry And The Remains, The Tampoffs, Lubricated Goat, The FM Knives, The Wipers, Gaza Strippers, Some Action, The Queers, The Real Kids, The Zulus, The Weird Lovemakers, The Minds, The Rezillos, The Mr. T Experience, Six Finger Satellite, The Oblivians, The Hot Snakes, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, The Cheater Slicks, Big Black, The Fall, Husker Du, Naked Raygun, The Saints, The Dogmatics, Padden To Gutter, The Hookers...
Latest hits: The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski), La Vie En Rose, Mafioso, Palindromes.All time faves: Wild At Heart, Barfly, Star Wars, Angel Heart, Miller's Crossing, Matewan, La Strada, Sweet Sweetback's Baadass Song, Bottle Rocket, Barcelona, Westway To The World (The Clash), True Romance, Diva, Waiting For Guffman, Urrgh!, Dead Man, Best In Show, Apocalypse Now, Do The Right Thing, Polyester.
I haven't had cable since last summer. This is not a horrible thing since I still somehow get MSNBC and Spike. Lately it has been Countdown w/Keith Olbermann, The Shield, Hardball, 24, and The Black Donnellys. Conan still manages to shine, too. Since myspace doesn't have a radio section (they SHOULD) I will list some of my favorites, station by station: WMBR - The other Late Risers Clubs when I'm not on, Gorilla Got Me, The Intercontinental, Music For Human Beings, Culture Shock, Lullabies Help The Brain Grow, The Breakfast of Champions, Psychosomatics, Research & Development, Aural Fixation, Three Ring Circus, The James Dean Deathcar Experience, The Bovine Ska & Rocksteady Reality, Coffeetime, Lost Highway, What's Left, The Choice Is Yourz, Backwoods, American Primitive, Mellow Madness, The Lost & Found, French Toast, The Pontoon Palace, Bats In The Belfry, Time Travelling, Morning Wood (RIP), and Eoin's Brigade (RIP). WZBC - Psychotic Reactions, John Straub whenever I happen to stumble across him doing ZBC Rock, ZBC Rock, Petrina's shoegaze show (don't remember the name), and NCP. WHRB - Dinos on the Record Hospital. That's really all that needs to be said. WFMU - The Best Show On WFMU with Tom Scharpling, The Cherry Blossom Clinic, Three Chord Monte, Music To Spazz By, The Evan "Funk" Davies Show, and Teenage Wasteland. WHJY - Soundcheck with Big Jim Stearns. KXLU - whenever Peter Choyce fills in. WBZ - The Paul Sullivan Show and The Steve LaVelle Broadcast.
I've enjoyed stuff by James Ellroy, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Chabon, Milan Kundera, Charles Bukowski, Roddy Doyle, Lester Bangs, Yann Martel, Tom Robbins, Elmore Leonard, Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Pete Hammill. Just re-read Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls and just started Douglas Brinkley's The Great Deluge - Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Keith Olbermann and Seafood Jones