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Derek

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About Me

My apartment is a mood lit underworld psychedelic tiki trip. I like to spin 45's and make my cat dance to them. My alter ego is the Baltimore Footstomper. I believe way too many conspiracy theories. I believe that if you add some water you can make your own sauce. I like walks in the park while sniffing nitrous oxide.

My Interests

Vintage guitars/amps, Egyptology, old lamps, The Creepy T's, orgone therapy, things taken out of context, Aztecs, revolution, nose picking, nehru shirts, view masters, tacky Florida souvieniers, surrealism, grease, salt and alcohol, ancient civilizations, the Weimar Republic, the Onion, Africa, slowly killing houseplants, looking through old junk, Kennedy era 60's, reading, sleazy carnivals, freak show history

I'd like to meet:

Post apocalyptic space junkie transvestites!

Music:

New York Dolls, Modern Lovers, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Redding, The Cramps, The Stooges, The Sonics, The Ramones, Old novelty records, Arthur Lyman, Chaino, 13th Floor Elevators, The Seeds, The Dirtbombs, Captain Beefheart, Charlie Feathers, Wanda Jackson, Bo Diddley, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Television Personalities, Pre-Tommy Who, The Yardbirds, The Flesh Eaters, The Gun Club, Stax/Volt, Flamin' Groovies, Robert Johnson, The Monks, The Clash, Black Flag, Female garage bands, the 5678's, Guitar Wolf, Chuck Berry, Brazilian samba, Os Mutantes, Sonny Burgess, The Jam, Thee Headcoates, Martin Denny, Suicide, Chicken songs, crying songs, monster records, Dead Boys, any versions of: Louie Louie, Caravan, Taboo, Peter Gunn theme, Miserlou or Baia. Can, The Silver Apples, exotica/tiki records, old psychedelic electronic records, bubblegum, fornicating female freaks, Kay Martin, The Fleshtones, The Fuzztones, corny songs with bad singers, The Animals, Roach Motel, James Brown, The Damned, Elvis Costello, 60's dance records, The Avengers, The Trashmen, The Flamingos,The Zombies, Zacherle, XRay Spex, T. Rex, The Kinks, The Mummies, Korla Pandit, Minor Threat, Circle Jerks, The Germs

Movies:

Bloodfeast, Female Trouble, Forbidden Zone, Clockwork Orange, Night of the Living Dead, Rock and Roll High School, Spirit of '76, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Weekend, French New Wave, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Dr. Strangelove, The Girl Can't Help It, Thunder Road, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, Luis Bunuel films, Film Noir, The Wizard of Oz, Monster of Piedras Blancas, Motel Hell, Beach Ball, Eating Raoul, Glen or Glenda, Slithis, The Wild One, 2000 Maniacs, Rubin and Ed, Fast Sofa, Humanoids From the Deep, Roger Corman, Seven Samurai, Scorpio Rising, The Manipulator, Ballet Mechanique, Metropolis, A Bucket of Blood, Satirycon, Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (no, not the remake), Death Race 2000, American Splendor

Television:

Bewitched, The Munsters, I Dream of Jeannie, Green Acres, The Simpsons, Star Trek (original only), Batman, SCTV, Ernie Kovacs, Leave it to Beaver, Bullwinkle, Mr. Show, Twilight Zone, Ghoul a Go Go, Sid and Marty Kroft, The Addams Family, PBS, Sanford and Son, Underdog, Astro Boy, Three Stooges, Family Guy, Pee Wee's Playhouse

Books:

Post Office, The Job, Mumbo Jumbo, Breakfast of Champions, Ham on Rye, The Shock of the New, Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, Venus on the Half Shell, The Catalog of Cool, Psychotic Reactions and Carberator Dung, Geek Love, Yanomamo-The Fierce People, Elvis Musical Pop Up, The Place of Dead Roads, To Kill a Mockingbird, Complete works of Rimbaud, Siddhartha, Research's Incredibly Strange Music vols. 1-2, Libra, Harvey Pekar, R. Crumb, Zippy the Pinhead, Catcher in the Rye, A Confederacy of Dunces

Heroes:

William S. Burroughs, Arthur Rimbaud, Atilla the Hun, Robert Johnson, Oscar Wilde

My Blog

Astonishing

What a great word.  It's astonishing that the first six Ramones albums are so great.  It astonishes me that I have to pay so much money every day.  It's astounding that I've discovered ...
Posted by Derek on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:54:00 PST

Roky Erickson Live in South Florida @ Little Steven's Undergroung Garage Oct. 30th, 2006

Roky's set was incredible and tight. He didn't rambleat all but was not allowed enough time. Here's how itwent. Let me preface this by tellingyou that Little Stevie should change the moniker from"th...
Posted by Derek on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:07:00 PST