clown art, ancient Rome, and spicy food (especially Mexican and Indian
What does grilled meat remind you of?
"Do you eat cigarette butts?"
Now this is how to handle an organ!
Music
Go! Team, Nina Hagen, Dolly Parton, Goldfrapp, Voluptous Horror of Karen Black, Loretta Lynn, Smiths, Happy Goodmans, Camera Obscura, Cocteau Twins, Pizzicato 5, Pretenders, ELO, Devo, The Doors, Yma Sumac, Swing Out Sister, Ray Conniff, The Slits, Grandaddy, Sex Pistols, Ethel Merman, Bent, Go-Go's, Claudine Longet, Jerry Jeff Walker, Esquivel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, B-52's, British Sea Power, Abba, Siouxsie & the Banshees, St. Etienne, Stephen Malkmus, and Mary Schneider, Australia's premier yodeler.
Movies
Harold & Maude, Final Destination 2, Little Miss Sunshine, Exorcist, Transamerica, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, Amarcord, Desperate Living, Strangers on a Train, Close Encounters, Mommie Dearest, Black Christmas, Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Team America, Willy Wonka, Waiting for Guffman, Valley of the Dolls, Five Easy Pieces, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Nashville, Night of the Hunter
Television
Strangers With Candy, Lawrence Welk, CBS Sunday Morning, Roseanne, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, HR Puffnstuff, Trilogy Of Terror with Karen Black, Movin' With Nancy (Nancy Sinatra's acid-influenced 60's special on NBC - now on dvd), and most of all Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
Books
"A History of God" by Karen Armstrong, "My Face For The World to See" by Liz Renay, "Liar's Club" by Mary Karr, "Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls, "Chaplin: My Autobiography," "America in 1876" by Weymouth/Glaser
Heroes
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Benjamin Lay, "the rebellious gnome” (1681-1760).
He was a four foot tall hunchback who was so distraught by slavery and animal cruelty that he shunned city life and lived in a cave near Philadelphia. He made his own clothes to avoid supporting slave labor as well as the killing of animals for their fur or leather, and refused to eat meat or other animal products. He occasionally ventured into the city to rant at public meetings about the hypocrisy of a supposedly religious society embracing such vicious practices, once thrusting a sword into a hollowed-out bible filled with fake blood, which he then sprayed onto the faces of shocked slave owners. Although considered a pariah by colonial society, he persuaded Benjamin Franklin to publish some of his tirades.
About me: I live just north of the Great Dismal Swamp and I love thrift shopping and honky tonking. By day I'm an animal activist and by night I'm a writer (my book, Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir just came out in paperback on Atria/Simon & Schuster - read some reviews here ). I dislike TV, especially reality TV, and anyway life is more fun to live as a participant than as a voyeur. Gotta go!
Who I'd like to meet: Alfred Hitchcock
Bobbie Gentry
Nat Turner
Robert E. Lee
Wendy O. Williams
Mata Hari
Plutarch
Pythagoras
Tura Satana
Russ Meyer
Jesus Christ
Tinkerbell
Italian TV: In Rome for the Italian release of 'Committed'
Hey dude. I just finished reading your book last week. Very well written, and with awesome content. Overall, really enjoyable, querky and funny. Thanks for the add, if you're ever in Aust and feel like helping out, we need it.
So pleased to have you as a myspace friend, Thank you and I hope you like my songs. If you get time let me know what you think. All the best and thanks again.
Finished your book in 3 days! Loved it! The KFC protest in Paris and your incognito camera man friend MArk's stories were my favorite parts. I would have loved to be there on the front lines. I'm passing it on to my other animal enthusiast friends. Keep fightin' the good fight.
Dan thanks so much for adding me, i've recently become vegetarian been trying to for years but i've finally got there, i'm 3 months clean haha, i eat as little dairy products as i can, its really hard as i live in a small part of England & theres barely anything for vegans really & i hate salad, but i get soy milk & dairy free butter.And i feel fucken great for it. Anyhoo i love your work you're fab. Any veggies & vegans Add me pls, just put in the comment box where you saw me as i don't Add everyone xoxoxoxo Loves xoxoxoxo
Hey Dan, good luck on your case about elephants, I sent you a mail. It's about time someone did something about this issue!!! God bless all of you on the case! Cal
hey! whats going on? i was trying to add you on twitter so i could keep up with whats going on . . .or your next move/protest. has anyone ells had any problems with that? keep up the great work. your sidekick and worrier in the battle to save the animals . . .Eddie
If flowers were friends I would not pick u! I'll let you grow in the garden and cultivate you with love and care so I can keep you as a friend4ever ! you are so great Dan xx
Dan, i can't believe we lost bea authur! I almost broke down in tears when i read the news. But i was at the cafe down the street delivering vegan snacks and i had to hold it in. I got to chat with Ingrid the other day at Vegi-t. She nabbed on of the snack bars that I'm beginning to produce comercially. It's a marvel of nut buttery goodness. But about Bea, I hope Peta wants to plan soemthing special for her. be well!
Thank you so much for coming over last night. I hope you had a good time. I was pretty shitfaced when everyone got there and it was a bit less organized than I had hoped but I think everyone had a good time. I'm excited about Easter :) See you Sunday after 5.
