Music, films, KMN, Wrestling, freakshows, and music again.
Some people more than once, I'm a bit wary initially....and Mel Brooks
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Punk Rock from Day 1 (Sonics) to today, I'm not interested in lists but The Ruts and The Rat Pack and and Dion and Bobby Darin and the Rezillos and The Kinks get an honourary mention. Ska, Blues, Good 60's soul, good rock'n'roll, bad 60's surf,(I'm being cremated to Wipe Out by the Sufaris - fact!) soundtracks Anything with drive and passion is good and i'm discovering great new (and old) things all the time. The U.K. HTB roster is pretty fine, past and present and it would be wrong to single any specific bands out, but one split up and one moved on, and both were important, and one taught me I shouldn't care so much...life eh ? One part of doing the job is that I never thought I'd end up working with bands I was buying records by on the way home from School back in the 80's. It's wierd , but nice.
Anything good, and quite a lot of garbage too. Kevin Smith, John Hughes, Mike Leigh, (my record label, Meantime was named after his film), Shane Meadows, Scorscese, Adam Sandler (don't ignore Eight Crazy Nights just cos it's a cartoon either - it rocks!), Mel Brooks, Hitchcock, Raimi, bad B movies and splatter, crap comedies. Best films ever - Cool Hand Luke, Taxi Driver, Shawshank, Gross Point Blanke and The Apartment. There's a really good British film called Born Romantic that I watch now and then..it's quite a messed up film, messed up like life.
Too much t.v., if nothing's on there's always the Paramount Comedy Channel! 'Outlaws' on BBC 3 was really good. M*A*S*H always is the best. Just got the boxset of 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin' which has to be the best comic satire in UK TV history, brilliant! 'My Name Is Earl' is ace too and so is 'Monk', 'Ideal', and 'Maid Marion and Her Merry Men' has just come out on DVD!! I wish they'd do a 'GONG SHOW' DVD, check out GENE, GENE, THE DANCIN'MACHINE!!!!
Cathi Unsworth, Underground film stuff and books about criminals, musicians and deviants. Rat Pack Confidential, Naked, Headpress. Biographys
Mel Brooks for making The Producers. I think I have more respect for people than have heroes. And Adrian Monk, the defective detective, he rocks! And C.C. Baxter, and Ferris Bueller, and Senator John Blutowski, most of my heroes appear to be fictional....and Chuck Barris!