D'y'like vintage music, vintage clothes, vintage cars? Tiki? Sideshows? Vaudeville? Mid-century modern architecture and design? Groovy old neon signs? OK then.
D'y'like vintage music, vintage clothes, vintage cars? Tiki? Sideshows? Vaudeville? Mid-century modern architecture and design? Groovy old neon signs? OK then.
Punk, hardcore, garage rock, greasy R'n'B, 60s soul, deep funk, exotica, ancient Asian court and traditional music, soca, calypso, salsa, mambo, cha cha, Afro-Cuban, jump blues, bebop, surf, chicken/monkey/popcorn records. Black Flag, The Sonics, MC5, The Stooges, The Heartbreakers, The Dictators, Angry Samoans, The Blasters, Sugarman Three, The Beach Boys, Perez Prado, Joe Houston, The Stalkers, Wynonie Harris, A-Bones, The Godfather of Soul James Brown, Tito Puente, Martin Denny, Duke Ellington, Fisherman Trio, SIT & Die Co., Circle Jerks, The Daktaris, The Mentally Ill, Hank Ballard, Patsy Cline, The Fleshtones, The Orangu-tones, Art Pepper, The Descendents, Flamin' Groovies, Swingin Neckbreakers, www.wfmu.org, ach I could go on and on.
Big Lebowski, Goodfellas, Bad Lieutenant, MC5: A True Testimonial, Rockets Redglare!, The Shining, Wizard of Oz, Bedazzled (1967), Repo Man, Decline of Western Civilization, Topper, In Like Flint/Our Man Flint; Peter Sellers, James Coburn, Lee Marvin; anything with clothes by Edith Head. You get the idea.
The Simpsons, Addams Family, Get Smart, Superman, That 70s Show, Twilight Zone, Batman, Hawaiian Eye, Mannix, original Star Trek, Rockford Files, the Avengers. Stuff like that.
Ya got about 100 years, I'll tell you my faves. Lifetime achievement award (have loved this book since 5th grade): Orwell's 1984. Idolize Philip K. Dick. Recent fave and a must-read: Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion. On the turntable now, and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, are Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock'n'Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood (by Domenic Priore) and Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry (by Holly George-Warren). Also NEW MUST GET: Punk 365 by Holly George-Warren (includes 5 photos by me!!)!
Phast Phreddie Patterson, Syd Gottfried, Patsy Cline, Andy Shernoff, Greg Ginn, Jimi Hendrix, Rex Doane and all my other fave DJs as well as the staff at WFMU, Karen McBurnie, Domenic Priore, Eleanor Roosevelt. Lots, actually, come to think of it.