Memphis
Tag team
Luchador
Technical
Hardcore
Super Heavyweight
Jobber
Monster
Power wrestler
80's WWF
Old School Brawler
Clogging, jamming at various locations throughout VA and NC, freight-hopping (New Year's Resolution 2004 fulfilled!!!), DJ-ing at a local radio station when I find the time, hiking off the trails, fixing my bike, knitting, going to Pentecost churches deep in the mountains (they have the best music you know!), tarot/oujia and other superstitious noncense, watching unbearable B-movies and trying to get to heaven before they close the door.
Who says I want to meet anyone? If anything, this page could be solely for my own vanity, so I can look at my page and go "damn, Barry, you are COOL!"...I'm always looking for more people who may be interested in going clogging or contra dancing and who love to sit on porches at night enjoying comfortable silence and won't leave said porch too early even if they have work in the morning.More than anything, I would like to meet friends who challenge me and can show me something I have never seen or even heard of before. I will try my best to do likewise.
There's no way I can make this list without sounding like a pretentious hipster music dude because I love so much music but here goes in random order: Hank Williams Sr and Hank Williams III, Uncle Dave Macon, Carter Family, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Aunt Molly Jackson, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Jimmie Rodgers, Tom Waits, Bessie Smith, Blind Willie Johnson, Dave Terras, Henry Thomas, Skip James, Marian Anderson, Gogol Bordello, Doc Watson, Woody Guthrie, Sara Gunning, Memphis Jug Band, Clarence Ashley, Barbara Dane, Leadbelly, Larry Sigmon/Barbara Poole, Leroy Troy, Mamie Forehand, Gillian Welch, Charlie Feathers, Dock Boggs, Luminescent Orchestri, Rosetta Tharpe, Rev. Charlie Jackson, Liz Cotten, Cannon's Jug Stompers, and Roscoe Holcomb. For the most part I live off of anything--blues, folk, gospel, world or otherwise--recorded in the 1920s-30s. If you can't already tell, I'm a big snob about old timey stuff. But of course I have many not-so-guilty musical pleasures from my teeneage years, so if you ever get to know me don't worry I won't shove all that old folk music down your throat--I'll probably put on a Hanson album instead...oh, and I LOVE the songs of the Letter People. You remember them, those inflatable letters from kindergarten? Well, those songs are a permanent fixture on my ipod. Mr. C, H, R, P and Ms. E especially.
.. width="425" height="350" ..MARY POPPINS, THE CROWD (most any silent film actually), GHOST WORLD, ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND, The ROCKY films, FORBIDDEN ZONE, anything by George Melies (shown above) and THOR: ANTHORLOGY (well, the last one is actually just a dvd compilation, but it's about Thor, the legendary rock warrior!! How can you go wrong???).
I don't have a tv...youtube and myspace are now my official time-wasters.
The Spoon River Anthology, The Land Where Blues Began, Babbitt, The Grapes of Wrath, and pretty much anything by Anton Chekov, Karen Armstrong, Mary de Morgan, Shel Silverstein, Breece D'J Pancake, John Bellairs and Charles Bukowski.
Extraordinary people who think they're ordinary.