VIDEO OF SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB-AMERICADIO, FROM NEW CYPHER ALBUM RELEASED MARCH 11, 08-ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES LABEL.
I'd like to meet:
Denis Leary, Gordon Ramsey, the late Clayton Moore (the Lone Ranger), Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut ("Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.") I'd love to interview Billy Childish and see how he lives and runs his music, writing, painting, publishing empire.
COOL PEOPLE I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF INTERVIEWING.....................................
R. Crumb, Lou Reed, Oakley Hall, Peter Prescott twice-Volcano Suns, Hasil Adkins, Celibate Rifles thrice, The Morlocks thrice?, The Dwarves, Buck Naked & Bare Bottomed Boys, Tara & Tim twice-Antitam, Nick Saloman-Bevis Frond, Chandler -Raunch Hands, Buster Bloodvessel & Bad Manners, Country Joe McDonald, Tom Rapp-Pearls Before Swine, Lloyd Dangle-Troubletown, Keith Knight-K Chronicles, Ron Turner-Last Gasp Comix, The Miracle Workers-4 times, The Pandoras-twice, Kaleidoscope members Chris, Chester, Solomon and Stuart for an article I wrote in Ptolemaic Terrascope #035, Greg & Andy-Chesterfield Kings, Mark Wyatt & Ron House-Great Plains, The Tell Tale Hearts, Wayne Jayne County, The Vipers, Michael Wilhelm-The Charlatans and many up and coming bands.
PEOPLE I'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO MEET IN MY LIFE...............
Rod Serling, Tim Leary, Don Van Vliet (thanks for showing me how to hold chopsticks), Steve Buscemi, Soupy Sales, Diamonda Galas, Joe Eszterhaus, Clarence Page, Joe Cocker, Wim Wenders, Gordon Parks, Eric Clapton, Gifford Doxsee (fellow Dresden survivor w/ Vonnegut), author Irvine Welsh, Ken Babbs, Stark Naked (Katrina), Kesey,-Merry Pranksters all, Byron Coley, The Dillards, John Hartford, pre-Kurt Courtney Love, Billy Zoom, Michael Nesmith, Peter, Paul & Mary, Aum, Leo Kottke, Led Zeppelin, author Oakley Hall, author Dan Kennedy, Dorothy Moskowitz (United States of America vocalist), John Cipollino, Janis Joplin, Jerry Mathers (the Beaver), Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Hans Conried, Florida Freibus (Dobie Gillis's tv mom), Bob Denver (Maynard/Gilligan), Buffalo Bob Smith, Roscoe Lee Browne, Ruth McDevitt (Emily on Kolchak-The Night Stalker), Anthony Zerbe, Kathy Ireland, Canned Heat, Glenn Schwartz, Orville Redenbacher, poet Robert Bly, Satchadananda, Chef Paul Prudomme, Jonathan Edwards, Grateful Dead, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, Marianne Faithful, Paul Krassner, Moby Grape, Supergrass, Grace Slick, China Slick, George Kennedy and Bill Graham. More to come as I download my memory.
Music:
#1 FAVORITE-THE MENDOZA LINE! Loving currently,
Oakley Hall, The Sadies, Brendan Benson, Wussy,The National. Palomar, Drug Rug, Beachwood Sparks, Ike Reilly, Great Lake Swimmers, The Low Lows, Drug Rug, NCM, Little Man Tate, Pearlene, Drakkar Sauna, The Broken West, Hallelujah The Hills, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, David Kilgour, Oranger, Vietnam, Beatnik Filmstars, The Ass Ponys, Grinderman, Sparklehorse, Yo La Tengo, MV & EE and the Golden Road, Supergrass, Elliot Smith, The Fall, The Bevis Frond, The Kills, The New Pornographers, Drive-By Truckers, The Willowz, Sonic Youth, Mary Lou Lord, the FIRST Clap Your Hands Say Yeah album and Strange Fruit. DISCLAIMER - I've listened to thousands of songs by hundreds of bands in my life and there are just too many that I love to fit them all in here!
Favorite "COUNTRY" guys, Doug Kershaw and my much missed friend, John Hartford.And JAZZ! Did I mention that I love jazz, mainly from 50's and 60's. Favorite artists- Bill Evans, "Trane" and McCoy Tyner. I also love Middle Eastern music, classical Indian and Hawaiian slack key guitar.Thanks to HARP (RIP), Blurt!, Magnet Magazines and Pitchfork for helping keep me on top of new stuff and SCRAM Magazine for the old stuff I might have missed!!OLD ALL-TIME FAVES- Velvet Underground, Kaleidoscope, Capt. Beefheart & The Magic Band, the Stooges and, of course, The Beatles.
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*****************************************************BANDS THAT I'VE SEEN PLAY OVER THE DECADES: (many working at Atlanta Pop Fest. '69, The Ludlow Garage-Cincy, Bill Graham Presents venues and other festivals and shows that I've worked.)
The Headcoats, Lime Spiders, The Nomads, The Headcoatees, Flaming Lips, Soft Boys, Mission of Burma, Jesse Colin Young, Redd Kross, The Fastbacks, Flying Burrito Bros., The Dickies, Claw Hammer, Alice Cooper, Drive-By Truckers, Oakley Hall, McKendree Spring, Nirvana, Mother Earth, Pink Floyd, Supergrass, Les Thugs, X, Sweet Hollywaians, Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Fall, The Bats, Yo La Tengo, The Clean, Raunch Hands, Bomboras, Bright Eyes, Gillian Welch, The Bevis Frond, Angel In Heavy Syrup, Martha & The Muffins, Ahn Trio, Casino Royale, The Donnas, Beachwood Sparks, The Mummy's, Brother JT, Tav Falco & Panther Burns, The Lyres, The Vapors, Blue Man Group, The Fleshtones, Translator, Flipper, Joe Cocker, Peter, Paul & Mary, John Hammond, The Bobby Teens, The Mutants, Lord High Fixers, Hazel, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Mono Men, The Sadies, Wellwater Conspiracy, Ravi Shankar, Violent Femmes, Camper Van Beethoven, Slater Kinney, The Gris Gris, Calexico, Green On Red, Rank & File, Dinosaur Jr., The Feelies, The Sadies, Dream Syndicate, The Mekons, The Call, The Offs, Psychotic Pineapple, Firehose, Tom Rapp, Nick Cave & Bad Seeds, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Kinks, Lene Lovich, Squeeze, Lazy Cowgirls, Doc & Merle Watson, Asleep at the Wheel, Steve Allen, The Makers, Wall of Voodoo, Jayne County, REM, The Crawdaddy's, Mountain, Spirit, Sweetwater, Chicago Transit Authority, The Collectors, The Shout Out Louds, Aum, BB King, Anton Barbeau, Blue Hippos, Hoyt Axton, Michael Nesmith, Laurie Anderson, Bad Manners, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Boy Racer, Tom Hobson, Robyn Hitchcock, Califone, Capt. Beefheart & His Magic Band, The Stranglers, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Talking Heads, The Charlatans, Moby Grape, Cheap Suit Serenaders, The Collectors, Country Joe & the Fish, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Kaki King, Taj Mahal, Kings of Leon, David Lindley, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Minutemen, Lyle Lovett, The Dwarves, Dead Kennedy's, The Cramps, Young Marble Giants, Husker Du, Rilo Kiley, Young Canadians, The Muffs, The Morlocks, Buck Naked & His Bare Bottomed Boys, The Pandora's, Gun Club, Chesterfield Kings, Miracle Workers, Redd Kross, The English Beat, John Cippolina Band, Cheepskates, Thee Fourgiven, Plan 9, The National, Lazy Cowgirls, Sonic Youth, Grateful Dead, King Sunny Ade, Butthole Surfers, Lemon Pipers, Meat Puppets, Los Lobos, Green Day, The Plastics, Mr. T Experience, Janis Joplin & Big Brother, Pacific Gas & Electric, Johnny Winters, The Dillards, Doug Kershaw, Devo, John Hartford, Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Dan Hicks & the Accoustic Warriors, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs & the Foggy Mt. Boys, Leo Kottke, Lou Reed, John Cale, Chris Darrow, Graham Parker & the Rumour, Garland Jeffries & the Rumour, Blondie, Rockpile, the Clash, Iggy Pop, Rolling Stones, Celibate Rifles, Patti Smith & Band, Chris Isaac, The Headcoatees, Sam the Sham & the Pharos, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, The Flock, Tim Curry, Sha-Na-Na, Devo, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Pere Ubu, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Santana, Dead Moon, Davey Allen & the Arrows, It's A Beautiful Day, Delaney, Bonnie & Friends, The Staple Family, Oingo Boingo, Baby Huey & The Babysitters, The Chocolate Watchband, Electric Prunes, Scratch Acid, Chuck Berry, Little Feat, The Mondellos, the Contractions and many, many opening acts that I've forgotten (sorry).
Movies:
NEXT (2007) with Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore and the ultra luscious Jessica Biel. Dir. by Lee Tamahori. Based on a Philip K. Dick story. Do a search on the story line. Very original and enjoyable.
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) Best weird, quirky film I've seen in several years. Nicole Kidman as Arbus and Robt. Downey Jr. as her reclusive, hirsute neighbor (think dog-faced boy). Rent this, you will LOVE IT!!!!!
Dig! (amazing documentary on the love-loathe relationship between the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols.) Favorite film of all time..King of Hearts.
Idiocracy
Iraq For Sale
Sicko
King of Hearts (maybe favorite film of all time)
What's Up Doc and Something About Mary favorite 2 comedy's.
Knights of Fuzz documentary DVD featuring music and videos of ALL of the greatest garage punk and psych bands from the 80's!
Also enjoy ancient Westerns from the '30's, '40's and '50's.No Pussy Blues
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BLANCHE - "No Matter Where You Go"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU0oOPNKGpY
I love the inexpensive DIY quality to this. They're not only playing on stage, they're acting on a stage for the song.
Television:
LOVE!..... Sons of Anarchy, Sanctuary, Breaking Bad, The Shield, Dexter, Rescue Me, Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares,Terminator: The SCC, The Riches, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Daily Show, Bill Maher, Primeval, orig. BBC Robin Hood series, Robin of Sherwood from '83, Criminal Minds, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Mad Men, Damages, Saving Grace, Burn Notice, the late, lamented The Job w/ Denis Leary, Bones, NCIS, History Detectives, Eureka, Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen, CSI, Sara Silverman Show, Heroes, Prison Break, The Middleman, Tonight Show, Big Love, The Wire, Weeds, Showbiz Show w/ David Spade, Deadwood, Sopranos and Nip/Tuck (but the last season sucked).
Greatest 2 series every broadcast- Sex in the City and BBC's ('84) Robin of Sherwood. (Sorry Sopranos, you came in a close 2nd to Sex AND Blackadder was brilliant as well and made the finals list.)
Books:
CURRENT READ: SWAN PEAK by James Lee Burke. The latest thriller starring Dave Robicheaux and his out of control pal, Clete Purcel, but played out in Montana instead of his usual Big Easy locales. This is his 17th in the series and I've enjoyed them all. (Be sure to check out last years' Tin Roof Blowdown, one of the best yet, about Katrina devastating New Orleans and the following chaos. Burke is NOT a fan of Bush or FEMA)
Swan peak so far has been impossible to put down, as Burke to me, is probably one of America's greatest living writers. He could write about purchasing toilet paper and make it fascinating! this is his 26th novel.
DEVIL MAY CARE-by Sebastian Faulks. The newest James Bond novel written on the 50th anniversary of Ian Fleming's first Bond book. The intention was for it to be written in Fleming's style, with lots of touchstones to many past events and characters from Bond's past in the service. The story picks up in 1967, after Bond's recovery from his mis-adventure in Japan (you only live twice) and amnesia. The villain, Dr. Julius Gorner, who despises all things British, due to his disfigurement ( a hairy monkey paw) and the teasing and abuse that he took as a school boy. His plan is to use his pharmaceutical empire to mass produce heroin and dump it on the market cheaply, to bring England to its knees with drug addicts and destroy it. An ok read overall.I HAVE FUN EVERYWHERE I GO -Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heros and the most notorious magazines in the world -by Mike Edison. A laugh-out-loud saga of depravity and mayhem. _The Onion.
What more can I add?
Recent Read: ROASTING IN HELL'S KITCHEN by Gordon Ramsey, 2006 Harper Books.
Fascination and revelatory auto bio by the explosive chef, restaurant owner and tv personality. I had read excerpts online last year and finally decided to dig in. I wasn't sure that I was interested in his early years and upbringing, but was totally sucked in by page 2. His father was an abusive alcoholic and his brother grew up to be an insatiable junkie, in and out of rehab programs dozens of times. He even dosed Gordon with blotter once as a prank. How funny! This is an amazing person and extraordinary life. He richly deserves all of his hard-earned success. A great read about someone who's one of my heros.
Recent Read: ROCK ON! by Dan Kennedy, 2008 Algonquin Books. Humorous inside look at Dan's year and a half aboard Atlantic Records as Dir. of Creative Development, just as the mighty label-dinosaurs started going biting the dust. I'm amazed at all of the details that he recalled and love his bad attitude that he maintained throughout. In general though, as he signed on my flyleaf, "Barry, I apologize in advance." An amusing and quick read, but not essential by any stretch.
RECENT READ: Love and War in California by Oakley Hall. 2008 St. Martin's Press 280 pages. Fiction of a young San Diegoan at the start of WWII.
RECENT READ: BOOM! VOICES OF THE 60'S by Tom Brokaw. 2007 Random House 789 pages. Insightful in parts, a big yawn in others. Not particularly recommended.
RECENT READ: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND by Richard Witts. 2006, Indiana U. Press. 137 pages.
Witts, biographer of NICO and lecturer at U. of London, offers up a brilliant, socio-cultural look at the times, after war politics and art scene that spawned the band, as well as close-up looks at the members themselves. A fascinating read that I was not prepared for, frankly. This is NOT just another thrown-together book about a rock band. Anybody who's a serious fan of the VU must read this to really fully appreciate where they came from. (Good prices on used copies through Amazon.com.)
LAST READ: I greatly enjoyed Kurt Andersen's latest, HEYDAY:A NOVEL. It takes place, back and forth, between England and New York (and the Cal. gold rush) in 1848. Please do yourself a favor and research reviews online for this book. It's so vivid, I find myself dreaming about it at night! A fascinating book about a very fascinating time in history!/Users/barry/Desktop/sadiesPoster.jpg
Loved Sunjata Massey series, everything by David Sedaris, Oakley Hall's (the author) Ambrose Bierce series, James Lee Burke books, everything by Dr. Thompson and the best, most mindblowing autobiographies that I've ever read, Faithfull, by Marianne Faithfull, Hollywood Animal by Joe Eszterhas and Confessions of A Raving, Unconfined Nut by Paul Krassner. So, so happy that I managed to get them all autographed by the authors and meet them!
CURRENTLY ENTHRALLED WITH - The Terror by Dan Simmons.
FAVORITE CLASSIC COMICS - Carl Bark's Donald Duck & Uncle Scrooge* Marge's Little Lulu* Russ Manning's Magnus-Robot Fighter*
FROM THE '80'S - The Rocketeer, Miracle Man, Judge Dredd & 2000 A.D. mags*
Myspace.com Blogs - Oakley Hall 'Lazy Susan' - Toronto Oct 5 - Oakley Hall MySpace Blog
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....
Heroes:
Kurt Vonnegut, Gordon Ramsey, Ken Kesey, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, Paul Krassner and Clayton Moore.
