Politics, TV watching, Photography, Improv Comedy, Pop Culture, NYC History, Coney Island, Dreams.
Music
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Punk, Reggae, New Wave, Power Pop and Garage, 60's, 70's and 80's,Hard Rock 70's, British Invasion 60's, Rockabilly 50's and 80's, 90's to presents times, and any sound that reaches deep into my soul (that's another category I like).
Groups I like, The Ramones, The Beatles, The Magnetic Fields, Jethro Tull, The New York Dolls, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Yes, the Dictators, The Smiths, Morrisey, the Moody Blues, ELP, Interpol, The Damned, Bow, Wow, Wow, The Cramps, Electic Light Orchestra, The Kinks, The Animals, Queen, Areosmith, The Yardbirds, Robin Trower, OMD, Led Zep., They Might Be Giants, The John Barry Orchestra (007 flicks), The Specials, Madness, The Beat, The Selector, Yellowman, Gregory Issacs, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Ken Booth, The Clash (again for Reggae) and soooooooooooooooooooo many others!
Movies
The first 5 James Bond films, the rest of the Bond serise, The Right Stuff, Casablanca, Fahrenheit 911, Rock and Roll High School, Hard Days Night and Help, The first 5 Marx Brother's Films, Most Cohen Brothers' Films, Bullit, The French Connection (featuring my HS John Dewey),Taking of Pelham 123, Early Woody Allen(before he was afraid of being funny), the original Planet of the Apes, Dr. Strangelove, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Up in Smoke and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie, Sky Captian and the World of Tomorrow, The Aviator, Taxi Driver, Goodfellows, Meanstreets, Rockers, The Harder They Come, Quadrophenia, North by Northwest, The Birds, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Frenzy, Blazing Saddles, The Producers, The Life of Brian, The Meaning of Life, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and all Curly 3 Stooges shorts.
Television
The Best Show On WFMU, WFMU in General, Glen Jones and X Ray Burns Radio Program(it's all radio but it is broadcast like TV),Pushing Daisies, Monk, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Daily Show, Las Vegas, 30 Rock, The Office,, Uncle Floyd, Countdown w/ Keith Oberman, Torchwood, Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares,Top Gear, Colbert Report, The Mitchel and Web Look, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Soupy Sales Show (Kiddie show only exists in my memory of growing up in the 60's. He was thrown off of channel 5 for telling the joke,"what begins with f and ends with uck? Firetruck!" He also told kids to go into their parent wallets and send him the green paper inside for which he recieved 1 week off), Queer Eye (I have learned so much from that show), Star Trek( I used to go to the first Star Trek Conventions in the 70's, mostly to buy old issues of Mad Magizine), The Prisoner, Monty Python's Flying circus, the Young Ones, Ab Fab, Black Adder, Mr Bean, The Avengers, The Man From Uncle, Lost in Space(the 1st season is really good!) , Shindig, Ready Steady Go!,The Upright Citizens Brigade, Fireball XL5, DoDo the Kid From Outer Space, Speed Racer, Loony Tunes, NY1.
Books
Don't Think Of An Elephant by George Lakoff.
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas by Hunter Thompson.
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.
Anything else from the last 2 authors.
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast
CBS Relections in a Bloodshot Eye
Like Punk Never Happened
Childhood's End
Cuny Brooklyn College
Brooklyn, NEW YORK
Graduated: 1981
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: TV /Radio Comunications
Clubs: Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity
Wrote for school paper Vangaurd
1976 to 1981
John Dewey Hs
Brooklyn, NY
Graduated: 1975
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
About me: I'm what you may call a rarity in NYC. A native New Yorker. Well really a Brooklynite but that is part of the 5 boroughs that make up our great metropolis. I graduated from P.S.99, John Dewey HS, and Brooklyn College.
Born and educated in the boro of Brooklyn I come from a family that ran roller coasters and candy stores. My Aunt Molly and Uncle George ran and lived under the Thunderbolt roller coaster in Coney Island for 60 years and raised two sons, one of which I am named after.
I run a popular bar in Greenpoint Brooklyn called Boulevard Tavern. I DJ at Boulevard every Tuesday, Punks on 45. A night of Punk, New Wave, Pop, and Soul singles. All vinyl 45s, all night. 7" never felt so good.
I love politics and comedy, although those 2 seem to overlap lately.
we're at it again... Coney Island High Presents New Year's Eve with The Dickies! The Room at The Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, betw. 2nd & 3rd Streets, NYC
The Dickies New Year's Eve Show 12/31/08 at 10 pm Includes Detention Dance Party after show Guest Star DJ Jesse Malin Coney Island High DJs spin all night long.
Detention Dance afterparty begins at 1:01 am. $10 with pass for non-ticketholders.
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