Knocking it all down-
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-Francois Marie Arouet, aka Voltaire
I like to collect bizarre antiquities to disturb my friends and scare my neighbors, and to give my cats nice things to trash.
...and I like to kick rocks down roads...
that is my goal in life, to kick as many different rocks down as many different roads as I can before my heart stops beating (assuming I don't then become a rock-kicking zombie).
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This cool dude, one more time-
I'm missin' him.
Axegrinder - Angels of Light - Adam Ant - At the Gates
Bowie - Beethoven - Scott Biram - James Brown - Big Business - Buzzcocks
Johnny Cash - Nick Cave - Niko Case - Credence - the Cramps - Patsy Cline - the Coup
Discharge - Detroit Cobras - Nick Drake - Dirtbombs - Dalek - Devo - Dead Prez
Elysian Fields - EPMD
a Flock of Seagulls - Floor - Fishbone
Godflesh - Genocide SS - Holly Golightly - Al Green - Juliette Greco - Woody Guthrie
Billie Holiday - PJ Harvey - Merle Haggard - High on Fire - Husker Du - Wayne "the train" - Hayseed Dixie
Ice-T - Isis - Ice - Immortal Lee County Killers - Ice Cube
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Waylon Jennings - Robert Johnson - Jesus & Mary Chain
the Knitters - Junior Kimbrough
Lovage
Massive Attack - Madness - Mastodon - Meters - Curtis Mayfield - My Bloody Valentine
Neurosis - Willie Nelson (esp. for childhood theme music) - Gary Numan
Overcast
Public Enemy - Portishead - Charlie Parker - the Pretenders - Prince
Rudimentary Peni - Rolling Stones - Red Sparowes - Run DMC
Split Lip Rayfield - Scalplock - Swans - Specials - Stooges - Smiths - Slayerrr - Scorn - SLF
Torche - Turbonegro - TV onna Radio - a Tribe Called Quest - Hank Thompson - Talk Talk
Unsane
the Ventures
Tom Waits - Hank Williams Sr. - Hank III - and a little bit of Bocephus
X
Ypsilanti All-Stars
Zeek - ZZ Top...
(subject to change or addition without prior notice).
Neurot, Bloodshot, DefJam & Trojan- pretty much sums it up.
Locals: The Revival Preachers, Fourhorse, The Nightmare Continues, The Body, I Destroyer, Get Killed, White Mice, Wrong Reasons, Sickabillys, Cobra-Matics, the Amazing Royal Crowns, The Fabulous Itchies, Seemless, Heart-Shaped Bombs.... A little something for everyone.
Honey, I got both kinds of music here:
Bolt AND Thrower!
Nick Cave... dark and creepy. You're a bi-polar
genius, with equal passion for the most
degrading aspects of humanity, as well as the
beauty & wonder of God and Heaven.
Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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Hmmm...
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy... ride...
Wages of Fear, The ARISTOCRATS!, Session 9, Bad Santa (my hero), MILLER'S CROSSING, The Big Lebowski, The Man who wasn't there, and everything else by the Coen boys, *ALL* Kubrik (except maybe Lolita), ALL Kurosawa, The Lone Wolf & Cub series, A lotta Dogme / Lars von Trier films (but not all)- Celebration, Kingdom, Italian for beginners, The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark (Uff!!), Jeunet Films (except Alien IV- wtf was that frog thinking??) especially Delicatessen, Triplets of Belleville, Amelie, Scotland PA, Red Violin, Most any 18th century film- Tom Jones, Brotherhood of the Wolf (except for the silly end), Barry Lyndon, Black Robe, Plunket & MacClean, Liaisons Dangereux, Valmont, Ridicule, Quills, Pirates of the Caribbean (like it or lighten up!)... Brazil, Being There (Sellers was a genius!), All Christopher Guest movies, The last picture show, Whatever happened to Baby Jane, All about Eve, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Ruling Class (I wanna have like a million of Peter O'Toole's babies!), Lawrence of Arabia (the heavy eye liner kills me!), How to get ahead in advertising, The Beast, ALIEN I & III, THE THING (both versions)!, They Live, Dagon (the only half-decent HPL movie), Versus, Battle Royale, Evil Dead I & II, Pretty much all sci-fi, horror and b-films from the fifties and sixties and anything with Bruce Campbell in it!, Blaxploitation (The black gestapo, Dolomite, Coffey, etc...), Asian Action (Chow Yun Fat & Jackie Chan are both such dreamboats!), Predator, Robo-cop, Mad Max, Apocalypse Now!, Heart of Darkness, Full Metal Jacket, The Thin Red Line (a truly new-age war movie), A midnight clear, Hamburger Hill, No Man's Land, Catch-22, KELLY'S HEROES, Das Boot & Stalingrad- basically any movie with a high nazi bodycount, Les Yeux San Visage, La Jettee (see how sophisto I am?), Some of the Terminator stuff (well, maybe not), Hitchcock- Rope, Vertigo... Pulp Fiction, Res. Dogs, Jackie Brown, Snatch, Lock Stock, The Limey, Insomnia (both versions), Michael Moore movies (though, fuck him- I blame that fat smug RICH bastard for GWB's re-election!), Film Noire and related genres- Bogart & Bacall, Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Ã skugga hrafnsins (In the shadow of the raven), the Man With No Name trilogy, Hang 'em high!, HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Reflecting Skin, PARENTS, Watership Down, Spirited Away, Freeway, Brain Dead (dead alive), American Psycho, Lord of the Rings trilogy (except for the parts with Frodo), Conan the Barbarian, The Day After, THREADS, The Quiet Earth, Harvey (thanks Aura!), did I mention Bad Santa already?, Friday, The Life of Brian, Blade Runner, Birdie, Microcosmos, Winged Migration, Billy Elliot, The Producers, Shallow Grave, Demons 1&2 and Japanese/Asian horror- both the campy and the terrifying!- as well as various other, creepy roadtrip/ evil-trucker movies, zombie movies & apocalypse / post-apocalypse /post-utopian movies...
And RUN,RONNIE,RUN is the GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD.
What? Oh, that thing...
Okay, I actually have to admit to a very recent, hotel-induced, burgeoning lust-affair with exceptionally bad TV!! TV Funhouse!, Crank Yankers!, Extreme Vets!, CNN Situation Room with Wold Blitzer!, Animal Precinct!, and Your Local on the 8's!!
But not Anderson 360- fuck that primadonna!
Beyond that, during times of greater sanity:
Well, let's say brit-coms & BBC (Far'er Ted, BlackAdder... Poirot, Shirlock Holmes), Addams Family, and 50's-era Bugs Bunny for now...
Though SIR David Attenborough is DEFINITELY waaaay past due for a posse- and I am just the man to start one.
Who's with me??
Oh, and Frontline documentaries. And most all shows on HBO (6 ft under, BoB, Sopranos, Deadwood...)
And... um, VH1 Classic- Damn near anything on that channel makes me happy- too happy.
But, most happily, I am presently without a TV!
A LOT- but here are some of the basics...
Men, women & chainsaws - Carol J. Clover;
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole;
Hard-boiled Wonderland & the End of the World- Haruki Murakami;
The Last Days of Christ the Vampire - JG Eccarius;
Guns, Germs & Steel - Jared Dimond;
Origin of Species - Charles Darwin;
Candide - Voltaire;
Age of Reason - Thomas Paine;
Mutual Aid - Kropotkin;
Days of War, Nights of Love - CrimethInc;
Stalingrad - VE Tarrant;
In the penal colony - Kafka;
Living My Life - Emma Goldman;
Pacifism as Pathology - Ward Churchill;
You Can't Win - Jack Black;
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo;
The Hours - Michael Cunningham;
TAZ - Hakim Bey;
Pop. 1280 - Jim Thompson;
Frankenstein - MWS;
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Lovecraft;
Run Man, Run & All Shot Up - Chester Himes;
Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Anton Wilson;
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce;
Maakies - Tony Millionaire!!;
Great Livin' in Grubby Times - Don Paul;
The SAS Urban Survival Handbook - John "Lofty" Wiseman;
The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks.
...and any book that takes me away from school and my so-called life, if even just for a few hours....
MOST of my Heroes don't appear on no stamps.
DAGGERS UNITED: "the Hell's Angels of Kickball"
I think this word "hero" has been trivialized and beaten to death so much lately, that it is hard to believe there ever was such a true concept...
But, god bless the losers who try.
The Luddites and the Levellers, The Weavers and the Spinners, the uprisers of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943 and Al'Aqsa in 2000.
Hanan Ashrawi, Mordecai Vanunu, Emma Goldman, the Dalai Lama and anyone that can stand in front of a row of tanks- with either just a rock or a firm conviction!
Really, I don't much believe in heroes. ANTI-Heroes:
LENNY BRUCE, Don Rickles, Bugs Bunny!!, Gomez Addams, Drinky Crow, Thomas Paine, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, Abigail Adams, Voltaire, Han Solo, John Brown, Herschel Grynspan, Durutti, Darwin, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Robert Anton Wilson, Penn & Teller, etc...
And, my parents.
OH- and the entire Soviet army at Stalingrad- especially Pvt. Vasili Zaitsev (& Lt. Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko: the greatest female sniper of all time) - for killing just a plain fuck load of nazis, thus turning the tide in World War II (fuck Steven Ambrose)!
Not bad, for a bunch of friggin' commie pinkos.