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About Me

I can usually find something to love in almost any genre of music. As long as it's made with heart and not the wallet ... I mainly listen to goth, industrial (not ebm or futurecrap), noize, punk (mainly 70's, 80's, and crusty punk), new wave, standards, swing ... it's all in my music list.

I love cats, dogs, and all animals. And by that I mean I'm adamantly opposed to animal abuse of any kind. That means factory farming and animal experimentation like forcing animals to watch American Idol, Friends, or FOX "News".

Currently listening to: Dethklok: the Dethalbum (watch Metalocalypse!), The Meatmen: Rock 'N' Roll Juggernaut (bless their sweet souls), Broken: Homeland Insecurity (in my top-5 of my favorite punk cds of all time), Meat Beat Manifesto: Satyricon (still can't stop listening to this album after all these years), and Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22 "City of Light" Cello Concerto (Stunning, stunning work. This is one of the most powerful pieces of music in any genre I have ever heard).

Oh yeah, also listening to Jello Biafra's new spoken word 3cd called "In the Grip of Official Treason" (he's a FAR better news source than anything in the mass media market), and i've been throwing on The Empire Strikes Back soundtrack at work too.

GAH! And I FINALLY got all of the Jack Benny radio episodes as well. They came with all of the Mel Blanc shows, and the Dennis Day shows as well. Absolute timelessness.

Currently watching: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Volume 5. It has 3 of their best ones on it: Touch of Satan, Time Chasers, and Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders ("Believe in magic... or i'll kill you!"). Those, and Neil Hamburger in "Left for Dead in Malaysia". Watching this made me wonder why I bought a dvd player.

So I decided to start doing some music top-10 lists starting with New Wave. Why New Wave? *shrugs* Gotta start somewhere! No real criteria here except for what my own personal tastes are. Funny how many of them are German though ... I'll be adding lists of Goth, Industrial, Punk, HC, Standards, 80's, and any other genre I feel like disecting. Oh - and worst of's DEFINITELY soon enough.
So here goes:
1) B-Movie "Nowhere Girl"
2) Peter Godwin "Images of Heaven"
3) The Knack "My Sharona"
4) Peter Schilling "Major Tom (Vollig Losgelost)"
5) Rheingold "Fan Fan Fanatisch" (thanks, Picasso!)
6) Fuzzbox "Love is the Slug"
7) Nena "99 Luftballons"
8) Echo & The Bunnymen "The Killing Moon"
9) Trans-X "Living on Video"
10) Secession "Touch"

Some that didn't make the list but were close are:
Men Without Hats "I Like"
Blondie "Dreaming"
Alphaville "Big in Japan" & "Forever Young"
Frida "I Know There's Something Going On"
Book of Love "Boy" & "Modigliani (Lost in your Eyes)"
Pet Shop Boys "Always On My Mind"
When In Rome "The Promise"
Hawaiian Pups "Baby Judy"

My Interests

Records, CDs, my cats, collecting books, collecting spooky/horror toys, collecting Star Wars toys yet again, and collecting NJ Devils memorabilia

I'd like to meet:

YOUR MOM... and of course:

Music:

Nightwish, Diary of Dreams, Elis, Unheilig, Pet Shop Boys, Suicide Commando, Dimmu Borgir, Nick Cave, Merry Thoughts, Nitzer Ebb, Bauhaus, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Converter, Needle Sharing, Anne Clarke, Crematory, 5F_55, Xymox, Echo & The Bunnymen, Killing Joke, Meat Beat Manifesto, PAL, The Faint, Bolshoi, Joy Division, BlutEngel, 18 Summers, The Cascades, Fields of the Nephilim, Beseech, Sisters of Mercy, The Residents, Snakefinger, Pop Will Eat Itself, Gene Loves Jezabel, Love & Rockets, Aube, Terminal Cheesecake, Duran Duran, Virgin Prunes, Dead Can Dance, The Mission, The Sisterhood, Tiamat, 69 Eyes, Goethes Erben, Wolfsheim, Die Form, Mortiis, Deine Lakaien, Das Ich, Therion, Crematory, Project Pitchfork, Lucifire, Atrocity, The Cult, Specimen, March Violets, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, This Morn' Omina, Hypnoskull, Skinny Puppy, Play Dead, Ultra Vivid Scene, Within Temptation, s.i.n.a., Winterkalte, Imminent Starvation, Panacea, Synapscape, Ah Cama-Sotz, Wire, Massive Attack, Portishead, Asp,No Means No, Ludichrist, etc

Movies:

Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Shaun of the Dead, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Land of the Dead, Vincent, Latcho Drom, Goodfellas, Spinal Tap, Manos: The Hands of Fate, anything with Bruce Campbell, Christopher Walken, Paul Giamatti or Vincent Price in it , Suburbia, Blade 2, any Hitchcock films (ok ... nearly any!), most John Waters films, all Monty Python films, and Nightmare Before Christmas. I used to have "all Terry Gilliam" films listed here, but fuck that now. I never walked out of a movie in my life before seeing Brothers Grimm. The scene where he brutally showed a cat getting killed absolutely disgusted me (and others in the theatre). ..... .. ..

Television:

Metalocalypse, Spaced, Black Books, Red Dwarf, Kids in the Hall, Young Ones, Comic Strip, Rome, Scrubs, Deep Sea Documentaries, Little Britain, Allan Partridge, Mighty Boosh, Flight of the Conchords, (notice a pattern here ...?)

Books:

In no order whatsoever: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Blankets by Craig Thompson, Edgar Allen Poe, Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind, In The Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott, American Elf by James Kochalka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, Dorothy Parker, Watership Down by Richard Adams, Tolkein, any books on Norse Mythology, any music encyclopedias (All Music Guides, Thirsty Ear, Rockdetector, Rough Guide, etc ... ), The Tao Of Pooh, Owly by Andy Runton, anything by Garth Ennis, Mutts, Darth Bane, pretty much anything by R.A. Salvatore, The Wheel of Time series (RIP),

Heroes:

George Carlin, Jack Benny, Lewis Black, Groucho Marx, and of course Neeeeilllllll HAMBURGER! :)

My Blog

A contemplative thought.

Two years ago I passed the halfway point of my father's life.I didn't even notice.Should this bother me? Should I have been aware of this moment? My father died as the result of a stroke that initiall...
Posted by dj skellington on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:26:00 PST

My First Blof

Hoo-que. Might as well see what this "blog" thing the kids all seem to be raving about is. Seems to me it's like one of those old generic "Ill write a family newsletter and send it out to everyone bec...
Posted by dj skellington on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:24:00 PST