Me. Playing guitar. Me playing guitar.
I can vaguely remember a time when I wanted to meet people.
The Anabolics, Cheap Trick, The Clash, The Stones, The Reigning Sound, Traveling Wilburys, Sahara Hotnights, Blondie, The Sword, Kiss, T-Rex, The Raspberries, The Beach Boys, The Ronnettes, Bowie, Dead Boys, The Oblivians, Television, Rush, The Gore Gore Girls, The Ramones, The Damned, Buddy Holly, The Cramps, Velvet Underground, NY Dolls, Johnny Thunders, The Go-Gos, X, The Donnas, The Turtles, Carl Perkins, The Pretenders, The Records, Neurotic Outsiders, The Dirtbombs, The Compulsive Gamblers, The Ponys, The Shirelles, The Cars, The Troggs, The Who, The Pretty Things, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Gino Washington, The Runaways, Joan Jett, Fountains of Wayne, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Motley Crue, THe Mighty Hannibal, Turbonegro, The Supremes, The Detroit Cobras, The Sword, Aerosmith, The White Stripes, Sam Cooke, The Strangeloves, The Shangri-Las, Grant Lee Buffalo, The Darkness, Crucified Barbara, The Supersuckers, Apples In Stereo, Slant 6, Suzi Quatro, The Flamin' Groovies, Iggy Pop, Queen, The Who, The Pixies, The Shirelles, Van Halen, Faster Pussycat, Terry Reid, The Kinks, The Datsuns, Johnny Cash, Ash, Zumpano, Nikki & The Corvettes, The Bloody Hollies, The Black Lips, Irma Thomas, Eddie Floyd and pretty much anything Stax ever released, and all my friends bands.
Almost anything by Woody Allen, Roadhouse, Spirit of '76, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Spinal Tap, Detroit Rock City, Caddyshack, In The Company of Men, Your Friends And Neighbors, Fletch, The Big Lebowski, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, King of Comedy, Goodfellas, Zoolander, The Mayor of Sunset Strip, Jawbreaker, Friends With Money, Little Miss Sunshine
Sex And The City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ali G, Desperate Housewives, Arrested Development, Home Movies, The Simpsons, and almost anything on Bravo or TLC that doesn't involve people who weigh 900 lbs.
It Came From Memphis, Blood And Money, Like Water For Chocolate, A Million Little Pieces, The Brothers Karamazov, Sarah, In Cold Blood, The Onion Field, Memoirs of a Geisha, Run Catch Kiss, A Fine Balance, my parents' books: Fat Chance, What Men Want, Fat Camp, Miracle At Sing Sing, Last Days of The Sicilians, Once Through The Heart, lots of books by Latin American writers, lots of history books, true crime stories and rock n' roll bios like The Dirt (Motley Crue), Walk This Way (Aerosmith), Please Kill Me (awesome!), Lovesick Blues (well, that's country), Wonderland Avenue...
Poison Ivy from The Cramps and Lita Ford with her badass black Destroyer in The Runaways. And the 'rents.