Los Angeles Lakers basketball (more of an obsession than an “interest” at this point, unfortunately), radio comedy (especially The Goon Show, Phil Hendrie, Scharpling and Wurster, and the Ricky Gervais X-FM programs), God and country.
Music
Too many to list in full, but let’s say Arthur Alexander, solo Alex Chilton (yes, I’m a glutton for punishment), Bash and Pop, The Collected Works of Bob Dylan, Howlin’ Wolf, Joe Tex, Bobbie Gentry, all things Monsieur Jeffrey Evans (Gibson Bros., ’68 Comeback, etc.) and Greg Cartwright (Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Reigning Sound), Bobby Patterson, Bobby Lee Trammell, Buck Owens & Don Rich, Small Faces and Faces, Nick Lowe, The Muffs, The Rich Kids, Charlie Feathers, Tom T. Hall, Tommy Keene, Ted Leo, Jack Nitzsche, Cheap Trick, Dean Martin, The Raspberries, The Boys, The Undertones, Guided by Voices, 20/20, The Beat Angels, Dead Hot Workshop, Nils Lofgren, Don Covay, The Piersons, 60 Ft. Dolls, Dan Penn, Kim Fowley, Eddie Hinton, Lazy Lester, Lee Hazlewood, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Green on Red, Dream Syndicate, The Flamin’ Groovies, Joe South, Kelley Stoltz, The Go (the Sub Pop-era), Primal Scream (except I’m a heretic, I prefer their faux Stones/Exile-style records), Terry Manning, Rod Stewart’s Mercury Years, Slim Harpo, John North Wright (Teenage Teenage Volleyballers!), Mott the Hoople, Tav Falco, the Replacements, Dwight Yoakam and Warren Zevon.
Movies
The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Wild Bunch, The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Point Blank, Hickey and Boggs, The Long Good Friday, Tunes of Glory, Heat, Get Carter (the original, obviously), Cutter’s Way, The Hit, Support Your Local Sheriff, Support Your Local Gunfighter, Big Trouble in Little China, Assault on Precinct 13 (John Carpenter version) The Yakuza, Charley Varrick, The Hot Rock, Cockfighter, Two-Lane Blacktop, The Killing, Out of the Past, Vera Cruz, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, The Seven-Ups, Night Moves, Scum, Cisco Pike, The Limey, The Edge, just about anything with W.C. Fields, young Bob Hope, Lee Tracy, James Cagney, Robert Mitchum, Warren Oates, Alex Rocco, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, Eric Roberts and Mickey Rourke (especially movies with Eric Roberts AND Mickey Rourke), the early British films of Peter Sellers (i.e. The Wrong Arm of the Law, Two-Way Stretch, etc.) and pretty much everything by John Ford, Sam Fuller, Robert Aldrich, Don Siegel, John Sturges, Sam Peckinpah, Sergios Leone, Corbucci and Sollima, John Carpenter, H.K.-era John Woo, Alex Cox and Walter Hill.
Television
The Rockford Files, Deadwood, The Sweeney, Barney Miller, Bakersfield P.D., Harry O., The Phil Silvers Show, Dragnet ’67-‘70 (because I judge weed by the company it keeps), Life on Mars, Moonlighting, Richie Brockelman Private Eye (yes, all five episodes), Magnum P.I., Get a Life, The Bob Newhart Show, Buffalo Bill, Black Books, The Larry Sanders Show, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mr. Show, The Kids in The Hall, Hot Seat with Wally George, Kojak, Hogan’s Heroes, The White Shadow, What’s Happening, The Prisoner, Sledgehammer, Three’s Company (I enjoy very dry, subtle humor), The League of Gentlemen, The Lawrence Welk Show.
Books
I’m ashamed to say I don’t read as much fiction as I should aside from a lot of hardboiled stuff like Raymond Chandler (my first, last and everything), Ross Macdonald, George V. Higgins, Jim Thompson, James Crumley, Charles Portis, Peter Dexter, Elmore Leonard, Charles Willeford, Walter Tevis, Lionel White, and George Pelecanos. I do read lots of music, bios and entertainment volumes. Favorites include the usual suspects like Nick Tosches and Richard Meltzer as well as Brit music critics like Nick Kent, David Cavanagh, Jon Savage and Keith Cameron. Also, David Thompson, Robert Polito, Robert Gordon, Jimmy McDonough, Joe Queenan, Stanley Booth, Peter Guralnick, and California historians Carey McWilliams, Reyner Banham, and Marc Reisner.
Heroes
Vin Scully, Brent Babb, Raymond Chandler, Don Rich, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Derek Erdman, John Facenda, Paul Mooney, Jack Oblivian and Tommy Stinson.
Bob Mehr's Details
Status:
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Orientation:
Straight
Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
Bob Mehr in your extended network Posted at 4:46 PM Jul 13, 2008 view more
About me: Finally deciding to jump on My Space midway through 2007. Very cutting edge, I know.
I guess I would have to say I'm a professional journalist and music critic (though some would argue with that assessment).
Since late 2006 I've been the music writer for the Scripps-owned daily paper in Memphis, The Commercial Appeal. I'm also a regular contributor to SPIN, MOJO magazine in the U.K. and German Rolling Stone. I've previously been a writer/editor for the Chicago Reader, Village Voice Media in Seattle and the New Times' flagship paper in Phoenix.
I've done liner notes for a bunch of different CDs, including Water Records' reissue of Fred Neil's self-titled 1967 Capitol album, and a long essay for Rhino's forthcoming expanded edition of The Replacements' Tim. I'm in the early stages with a couple bigger projects as well.
I'm also working on my low post moves.
Who I'd like to meet: Al Davis, Don Rickles, Bob Dylan, David Milch, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Karl Pilkington, the surviving members of the Peckinpah stock company (L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, etc.), Ron Wood, James Garner and 'Funky' Donnie Fritts, a.k.a. The Alabama Leaning Man (so cool, he needs two nicknames).
STEVE WYNN & the MIRACLE 3 perform MEDICINE SHOW 25th Anniversary of the seminal Dream Syndicate album “Medicine Show”. New York and Los Angeles shows only!
SAT. JUNE 27 - NEW YORK @ The Bell House (Park Slope, Brooklyn) Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30 Paramount Styles (feat. Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys) @ 8:30 Doug Gillard (of Guided by Voices and Death of Samantha) @ 7:30 http://www.thebellhouseny.com
SAT. JULY 9 - LOS ANGELES @ The Echo (Echo Park) Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 @ 9:30pm The Urinals @ 8:30pm http://www.attheecho.com
I'm playing a game called Let's-See-What-Bob's-Favorite-Bands-Are-And-Then-Check-Them-Out-Because-They're-Probably-Good. It's a really hard game to explain. Title isn't very descriptive.
