Exciting food, bands that put on good shows, guitar playing and playing guitar, looking at vans, having two jobs, ice cream, wine, completing collections, archiving things, putting things in folders, sweating, flaring my nostrils, thinking about playing saxophone, buying records, selling records, making records, touring, not touring, working, not working.
Music
Drakkar Sauna, Grand Buffet, Tom Waits, Neil Young, Pavement and Stephen Malkmus solo, Silver Jews,Guided by Voices, the Buzzcocks, Bee Gees, Neko Case, Destroyer, Nancy Sinatra, The Who, Lee Hazelwood, and all the bands I am lucky enough to be a part of (Whippoorwill, The Coke Dares, Magnolia Electric Co., The Impossible Shapes, Indiana Beach, Le May).
Movies
Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Crimes and Misdemeanors, A History of Violence, Real Genius, Splendor in the Grass, Delicatessan, Stripes, Lost in Translation (I'm heavy on the Murray lately), Night of the Creeps
Grendel, American Psycho, Paradise Lost, His Dark Materials (all three of them), Trouble in Mind, Breakfast of Champions, House of Leaves, The Devil in the White City, The Trial, The Joy of Cooking
Heroes
Nicole Evans, Tom Waits, Stephen Malkmus, Bill Murray, Robert Pollard, Pete Townsend, Gertrude Stein, Brian Wilson, Barry Gibb, Ray Davies.
About me: I co-wrote my first science fiction novel between the ages of 11 and 12 with my friend Peter Sattler. It is called The Death Touch. We began working on a sequel, The Death Touch II: Return of the Mutants, but we got interrupted by the idea of girls and classic rock. I recorded my first song, "Cook Out", a parody of "Jerk Out" by the Time, in sixth grade. This was quickly followed by "I Want Your Socks," a George Michael Parody, and an obscure parody of "Roni" by Bobby Brown called "Rice-a-Roni." I was Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the Musical, when I was in seventh grade. My first band was called Wicker Basket and our demo tape consisted of me playing the riffs to "Fly By Night" and "Back in Black," a song which I had never heard until that day. We had to stop recording because none of us knew how to tune a bass. The first big concert I saw was Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh, live at Deer Creek music center. I won the tickets on the radio, along with a portable CD player and a ten dollar gift certificate to Blockbuster Video. The first commercial I starred in was for Insight Communications in Lafayette, IN. I portrayed a man in a shower who hears a trivia contest on the radio, jumps out of the shower (naked, grabbing a towel), consults all of his old college textbooks, but spends too much time doing it and loses the contest. I was paid in pay-per-view gift certificates. The second commercial I starred in was for Pay Less Supermarkets, a regional, Indiana based, grocery store. I starred as a bag boy who uses a ketchup bottle to announce all of the savings the customer is getting by using her Pay Less gold card. Finally, David Prowse, who was the person in the Darth Vader suit in the original Star Wars trilogy (not Sebastian Shaw, who was Anakin Skywalker at the end of Return of the Jedi, or James Earl Jones, who was the voice, but the actual guy who walked around in the suit) and also the bodyguard in A Clockwork Orange, signed the back of my 1974 Telecaster Deluxe at a comic book store in Bloomington, IN, in 1998.
Who I'd like to meet: Tom Waits, Stephen Malkmus, Cate Blanchett, Prince, Kirsten Dunst, Pete Townsend, Barry Gibb, Astrud Gilberto, Bill Murray, Stephen Colbert, Debbie Harry, Chelsea Handler, Anthony Bourdain, and Don Van Vliet.
If you're interested in catchy experimental acoustic instrumental music come check us out this saturday @ Rachels Cafe (300 E. 3rd St.) in Bloomington. We go on at about 8:00!
Tickets for the Chicago "FESTIVAL OF FIENDS" is now on sale. With the purchase of a weekend pass you will get. Access to the show and all events. One randomnly inserted autograph card, one autographed 8x10, a free dvd(see site for sample titles, and finally the April 2009 issue of Autograph Magazine featuring the Forrest (Famous Monsters Of Filmland) Ackerman collection. While supplies last.The Festival Of Fiends weekend pass also gets you entrence to the PRICK OR TREAT TATTOO FESTIVAL being held in the same hotel For more info head over to http://ultimatehorrorcon.com/
It's fixed; the bad connection sound was just the pot breaking ground as it moved against the case inside. I'm playing it now; AOK. Lumpy@dulcet tone service
