Parts of Me, Who I Am & the People I Would Like to Meet:
Animation Junkies, Burlesque Dancing Girls, Sideshow Carnie Folk, The Cinema Obsessed, Enjoying Atomic Cocktails, Reading Indy Comic Book, Cooking Big Meals for Unexpected Guests, Dia de los Muertos - Day of the Dead Decor, Midday Escaping to Galleries and Museums, Vintage Disneyland, Backyard Gardening, Girrls with Glasses, Gothic Cosplay Lolitas, Mid-Century Architecture, Googie Landscapes, Morbid Curiosities, Halloween Frights, Exploring Haunted Houses, Kitschy Interior Design, Low Brow Artist, Lucha Libre - Masked Mexican Wrestling Live, Midnight Movies, NerdyBoy Antics, Paper Machè Monsters, Power Tool Drag Racers, Pulp Novel Pinups, Roller Derby Vixens, Rockabilly Betties, Soapbox Racing Villains, Swashbuckling Girl Pirates, Closet Case Sci-Fi Fanatics, B-Movie Character Actors, Ultra-Mods by Day - International Spys by Night, Tattoo Covered Women and their Pets, Pachinko Playing Madmen, Tiki Polynesian Hipsters, 8mm Expositionists, Toy Collecting Fanatics, Jetlagged Travel Pals, Veterans of the Cyberpunk Movement, Dancers of The Truffle Shuffle, Door-to-Door Tijuana Bible Salesmen, Otaku Proud Gals, Victorian Steampunk Tinkerers, Universal Monsters of Ages Long Ago, Vintage Los Angeles Sight Seeing, Web Design Artists, Late Night Zombie Hunting.
Things I Hate, Piss Me Off or Scare the Shit Out of Me: Cheating Girlfriends, Liars, Selfish Bastards, Ballroom Slushies, Cheapskates, Fakers (all talk, no action), Cellphone Whores, Gum Smacking Loud Mouths, White Kids with Dreadlocks that call Me "Brah", Giant Poodles - Small Masters, Pickled Beets, Candy Corn, Valentine's Day Chalk Hearts, Celebrity Tabloid Culture (TMZ), Hummer Limousines, Science being replaced by Creationism (aka The Intelligent Design Movement), Spinning Rims, Patchouli Oil, $1,500.00 Flip-Flops, The Guy that Hit Me on the Freeway December 2006 (a beautiful Oldsmobile one minute, a crushed pile of shit the next), Crying Infants during R Rated Movies, Flying Insects bigger than a Silver Dollar, Versace'anything, the touch of Silk/Satin on my Fingertips (I choke up), the smell of Newspaper Ink, Fox News, the overwhelming stench of Night Blooming Jasmine, BLING BLING YO!, any word ending in izzle, G.W. Bush & His War Crime Gang™.
Favorites
Favorite Quotes: "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." -Raoul Duke (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
"Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it." -Steve Zissou (The Life Aquatic)
"Look at my life now. Hatred has become a job. I had true hatred for Doctor Venture, I didn't have to fake it. That sweet loathing just pored out whenever I saw his pathetic face. I just wanted to kick his ass. I wanted to build a machine to kick his ass. I wanted to build an empire, that housed the machine, to kick his ass!" -The Monarch (The Venture Bros.)
"Heads, I Win!" -The Last Known Words of Ritchie Valens
Favorite Words: pi•ña•ta
|pen'yät?| noun
A brightly decorated figure of an animal, usually made of papier mâché, containing toys and candy, and hung in the air so that blindfolded children, taking turns swinging sticks and bats, can smash the figure and share the scattered contents as part of the celebration of a birthday (esp. in Spanish-speaking communities).
dis•com•bob•ulate |?disk?m'bäby??lat| verb
Disconcert or confuse (someone) : this attitude totally discombobulated Bruce [as adj. ] ( discombobulated) he is looking a little pained and discombobulated.
rig•ma•role |'rig(?)m??rol| noun
1) A lengthy and complicated procedure : he went through the rigmarole of securing the front door. 2) A long, rambling story or statement.
ho•mun•cu•lus |h?'m? ng ky?l?s| noun
1) A very small human or humanoid creature. 2) Historical a supposed microscopic but fully formed human being from which a fetus was formerly believed to develop.
trog•lo•dyte |'trägl??dit| noun
1) A hermit. 2) A person who lived in a cave (esp. in prehistoric times). 3) A person who is regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned.
speak•eas•y |'spek?eze| noun
An illicit liquor store or nightclub (during Prohibition).
Je•ze•bel |'jez??bel; -b?l| noun
1) A shameless or immoral woman.
2) Your mom.
Drinks
Spirits, Ales, Brews & other Mad Concoctions:
Sailor Jerry's Dark Rum n' Coke (pored in a chimney on the rocks), Johnnie Walker Red/Black/Blue (neat), Jim Beam Black Label, Rebel Yell, Dewars and Soda, Car Bomb (only with good friends), Gray Hound, Blue Hawaiian, Mai-Tai, Singapore Sling, Whisky Sour, Creamsicle, White Russian. Any red wine over three bucks. Any amber ale touching my lips from a Pint Glass. Any fruity liquid dynamite served up in a Tiki Mug. Strong Hot Tea the morning after (oH mE AcHiNg HeAd).
Artists
Folks I'm Envious of: Ken Adams, Gregory Ain, Mike Allred, Josh "Shag" Angle, Tex Avery, Ralph Bakshi, James Bama, Glen Barr, Welton Becket, Tim Biskup, Reynold Brown, Charles Burns, Mitch Byrd, Ray Caesar, Steve Cerio, Frank Cho, Luke Chueh, Stoney St. Clair, Dan Clowes, Dave "Squid" Cohen, Chris "Coop" Cooper, Dave Cooper, Salvado Dali, Geof Darrow, Charles and Ray Eames, Gil Elvgren, Shepard Fairey, Paul Frank, Rudi Gernreich, Mike Giant, Nemo Gould, Edward Hopper, Don Hertzfeldt, Ryan Heshka, Josh Howard, Kenneth "Von Dutch" Howard (before his son sold out his name), James Jean, Rockin' Jellybean, Chuck Jones, Brandon "Ragnar" Johnson, Chip Kidd, Margaret Kilgallen, Jack Kirby, Pierre Koenig, John Kricfalusi, Michael Lau, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Chynna Clugston-Major, Aaron Marshall, Barry McGee, Frank Miller, Joan Miro, Hayao Miyazaki, Mark Mothersbaugh, Takashi Murakami, Patric Nagel, Niagare, Richard Neutra, Mitch O'Connell, Katsuhiro Otomo, Gary Panter, Eric Powell, Bill Plympton, Dave Pressler, Lou Ramono, Chris Reccardi, Alex Ross, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Mark Ryden, Eero Saarinen, Isabel Samaras, Chris Sanders, Todd Schorr, Julius Shulman, Eric So, Joe Sorren, Jeff Soto, Drew Struzan, Eric White, Robert Williams, Franklin Lloyd Wright, Michelle Valigura, Amanda Visell, Joe Vitale, Derek Yaniger. Anyone that has the patience to create clay/metal sculpture, mozac tile or paper machè. All of Kid Robot!
Music
Genres:
50s', 60s', 70s', 80s', Ambient, Blues, Big Band, Boogie Woogie, Brit Pop, Calypso, Darkwave, Doo Wop, Glam, Gothic, Industrial, Indy, Jazz (Cuban, Brazilian), Lounge, Motown, Mambo, New Wave, Punk, Rockabilly, Ska, Soundtracks, Surf, Synth, Techno, Trance. Cheesy film scores using a Theremin, Ukulele, Mouth Harp or Kazoo... just about anything out there.
Film Composers:
John Barry, Elmer Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, Howard Blake, Angelo Badalamenti, Carter Burwell, Danny Elfman, Benjamin Frankel, Michael Giacchino, Jerry Goldsmith, Vince Guaraldi, James Newton Howard, Maury Laws, Arthur Lyman, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Mark Mothersbaugh, Nic Raine, Howard Shore, Alan Silvestri, Mark Snow, J.G. Thirlwell, John Williams, Christopher Young. Bernard Herrmann was the greatest composer that ever lived, yeah I said it!
Movies
My BIG List of Directors & Their Films: Robert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen), Woody Allen (Radio Days, The Purple Rose of Cairo), Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight, Boogie Nights), Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou), Dario Argento (Demons, Trauma), Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream), Luc Besson (The Professional, La Femme Nikita), Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Planet of the Vampires), Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles), Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, What's Up Doc?), Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later), Mel Brooks (Blazing Saddles, The Producers), Tod Browning (Freaks, Dracula), Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Ed Wood), Frank Capra (It Happened One Night, Arsenic and Old Lace), John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape from New York), William Castle (The Tingler, House on Haunted Hill), Jackie Chan (Police Story, Who Am I?), Sylvain Chomet (The Old Lady and the Pigeons, The Triplets of Belleville), Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle), Joel and Ethan Coen (The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother Where Art Thou?), Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), Roger Corman (Sorority Girl, Bucket of Blood), Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy), Alfredo B. Crevenna (Santo Versus the Martian Invasion, Santo contra los villanos del ring), David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch, Videodrome), Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Joe Dante (Matinee, Explorers), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile), Jules Dassin (Rififi, Topkapi), Brian De Palma (Phantom of the Paradise, The Untouchables), Fred Dekker (Night of the Creeps, Monster Squad), Federico Fellini (8 ½, La Dolce Vita), Abel Ferrara (King of New York, The Addiction), David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club), Richard Fleischer (Soylent Green, Fantastic Voyage), John Ford (The Quiet Man, The Searchers), John Frankenheimer (The Challenge, Birdman of Alcatraz), Sam Fuller (Naked Kiss, The Steel Helmet), Lewis Gilbert (You Only Live Twice, Moonraker), Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, A Woman is a Woman), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, Dagon), Hal Hartley (Henry Fool, Trust), Ray Harreyhausen (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts), Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep, Land of the Pharaohs), Walter Hill (Johnny Handsome, The Warriors), Alfred Hitchcock (North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief), Ishiro Honda (Goodzilla, Destroy All Monsters), John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles), John Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Key Largo), Brian G. Hutton (Kelly's Heroes, Where Eagles Dare), Lex de la Iglesia (800 Bullets, Common Wealth), Peter Jackson (Dead Alive, Heavenly Creatures), Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Mystery Train), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Delicatessen), Alejandro Jodorowsky (Santa Sangre, El Topo), Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire, The Butcher Boy), Mike Judge (Office Space, Idiocracy), Elia Kazan (A Face in the Crowd, A Streetcar Named Desire), Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales), Ryuhei Kitamura (The Midnight Meat Train, Azumi), Jeff Krulik (Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Ernest Borgnine on the Bus), Stanley Kubrick (Spartacus, Lolita), Akira Kurosawa (The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood), John Landis (The Blues Brothers, Trading Places), Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M), Walter Lang (The King and I, Moon Over Miami), David Lean (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia), Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, The Ice Storm), Sergio Leone (The Good The Bad and The Ugly, For a Few Dollars More), Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!), Ernst Lubitsch (To Be or Not to Be, Heaven Can Wait), Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon), David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Lost Highway), Alexander Mackendrick (The Man in the White Suit, The Lady Killers), Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World, Careful). David Mamet (House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner), Jean-Pierre Melville (Le Cercle Rouge, Bob Le Flambeur), Takashi Miike (The Audition, Ichi the Killer), Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Truly Madly Deeply), Vincente Minnelli (The Long Long Trailer, Father of the Bride), Frank Oz (Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), George Pal (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine), Nick Park (Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, Chicken Run), Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election), Sam Peckinpah (The Getaway, Ride the High Country), Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man), Roman Polanski (Chinatown, The Fearless Vampire Killers), Michael Powell (Peeping Tom, The Thief of Bagdad), Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City), Sam Raimi (Evil Dead II, Darkman), Guy Richie (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Adam Rifkin (The Dark Backward, Detroit Rock City), Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn), George Romero (Day of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead), Stefan Ruzowitzky (Anatomy, Anatomy 2), Ernest B. Schoedsack (King Kong, Mighty Joe Young), Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Casino), Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner), Tony Scott (True Romance, The Hunger), Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach), John Schlesinger (Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy), Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), Steven Soderbergh (The Limey, Traffic), Penelope Spheeris (Suburbia, The Decline of Western Civilization: The Punk Years), Rey Dennis Steckler (Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?), John Sturges (Ice Station Zebra, The Great Escape), Seijun Suzuki (Tattooed Life, Underworld Beauty), "Beat" Takeshi Kitano (Sonachine, Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction), Jacques Tati (Mon Uncle, Playtime), Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, The Devil's Backbone), Paul Verhoeven (Starship Troopers, RoboCop), Larry & Andy Wachowski (The Matrix, Bound), John Waters (Hairspray, Pink Flamingos), Orson Welles (Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane), Wim Wenders (Until The End of the World, The Million Dollar Hotel), James Whale (Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein), Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Some Like it Hot), Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, Code 46), Robert Wise (West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still), John Woo (The Killer, Hard-Boiled), Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Orgy of the Dead), Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. (The Blob, 4D Man), Woo-ping Yuen (Iron Monkey, Wing Chun), Sam Wood (A Night at the Opera, Day at the Races), Robert Zemckis (Used Cars, Death Becomes Her), Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World, Bad Santa) and a slue more! I have a special fondness for the works of Maurice Binder, Robert Brownjohn & Daniel Kleinman (the master creators behind the 007 James Bond title sequences).
Television
Newish (If I ever turn the blasted thing on):
Anything Adult Swim (The Boondocks, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Squidbillies, Venture Brothers), Ace of Cakes, Battlestar Galactica (new), The Colbert Report, The Daily Show With John Stewart, Dexter, Diners Drive-Ins and Dives, Dinner: Impossible, Doctor Who (new), Futurama, Good Eats with Alton Brown, Green Porno, Heroes, Iconoclast, Iron Chef America, LA Ink (Kat Von D doesn't smoke cigarettes, she just eats them), Lost, Mad Men, Man vs Food, My Name is Earl, Primevil, Pushing Daisies (one of my favs right now), Real Time with Bill Maher, Reno 911, Rescue Me, The Sarah Jane Adventures, 30 Rock, Torchwood. I'm addicted to Turner Classic Movies!
Childhood Favorites, Late Night Delights & Guilty Pleasures:
The A-Team, The Adams Family, Adventures in Music (staring Korla Pandit), The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr., The Adventures of Pete & Pete, ALF: The Animated Series, Alice, Alive from Off Center, Amazing Stories, American Bandstand (before 80s' MTV killed it), American Chopper, The Andy Griffith Show, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Animaniacs, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Are-Oh-Vee, Automan, The Avengers, BBC World News (Indian women with English accents are hot!), Bonanza, Batman (classic), Batman - The Animated Series, Battle of the Planets (Gatchaman), Battlestar Galactica (classic), Beakman's World, Beat the Geeks, Beetlejuice, The Ben Stiller Show, Benson, The Bernie Mac Show, Bewitched, Big!, Big O, Bionic Six, Bobcat's Big Ass Show, Bosom Buddies, The Brady Bunch, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, The Building, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, California Gold (with host Huell Howser), Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Card Sharks, The Carol Burnett Show, El Chapulín Colorado, Cheers, CHiPs, China Beach, Clerks - The Animated Series, Colin's Sleazy Friends, Commander USA's Groovie Movies, The Cosby Show, Count Duckula, Cowboy Bepop, Dangermouse, Dead Like Me, Deadliest Catch, Diff'rent Strokes, Dinner for Five, Dirty Dozen: The Series, Dirty Jobs, Distraction, Diver Dan, Doctor Who, Dragnet, The Drew Carey Show, Cowboy Bebop, Duck Tales, The Dukes of Hazzard, Dr. Shrinker, Eerie Indiana, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, The Electric Company, Elvira - Mistress of the Dark, Emergency!, Exit 57, F Troop, The Family Film Festival (with host Tom Hatten), Family Ties, Fantasy Island, The Fairly Odd Parents, Fast Times, FLCL, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Frasier, Freakazoid!, The Fugitive (classic), Fullmetal Alchemist, G.I. Joe, Galaxy High, The George Carlin Show, Get Smart, Gilligan's Island, Gimme a Break!, GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, The Gong Show, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Grace Under Fire, The Great Space Coaster, The Green Wing, The Groovy Ghoulies and Friends, Grounded for Life, Growing Pains, Happy Days ("Don't jump that shark Fonzie!"), Hard Time on Planet Earth, Head of the Class, HeeHaw, Home Movies, The Honeymooners, House M.D., I Dream of Jeannie, I Love Lucy (especially all the Hollywood episodes), The Incredible Hulk, Inhumanoids, The Invisible Man, Jackass!, The Jeffersons, The Jetsons, The Job, Joe Bob Brig's Drive-in Theater, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, Jonny Quest (classic), Junkyard Wars, Kablam!, King of Queens, The Kids in the Hall, The Krofft Supershow, The Land of the Lost, The Larry Sanders Show, Late Night with David Letterman, Laverne & Shirley, The Little Rascals/Our Gang Show (with host Tom Hatten), Loco Slam, Lost in Space, The Love Boat, M*A*S*H, Mad About You, The Man Show, The Mickey Mouse Club (classic), The Mind of Mencia, Misfits of Science, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Mama's Family, Married... with Children, Mondori Days, Monster Garage, Monstervision, Monsters, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Movies till' 5am, Mr. Show, The Munkees, The Munsters, The Muppet Show, My So-Called Life, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mythbusters, New Zoo Revue, News Radio, Night Flight, Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Nightmares - The Series, Northern Exposure, 100% Weird, The Oblong, Out of Control, Outer Limits (classic), The PJs, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, Picture Page (with host Bill Cosby), Post Modern MTV, The Price is Right, Primevil, Quantum Leap, Ready Steady Go!, The Real Ghostbusters, Remote Control, The Ren & Stimpy Show (classic), Request Video, Rhoda, Robotech, Robocop: The Series, Rollergirls (it's all about Clownsnack!), Roseanne, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Rubik the Amazing Cube, 7 Days, Samurai Champoo, SCTV, School House Rocks, Sealab 2021, ShaNaNa, Shorties: Watchin' Shorties, The Sifl and Olly Show, The Simpsons, The Six Million Dollar Man, SNL, Spiderman And His Amazing Friends, Square Pegs, The Sopranos, South Park, Star Trek (yes all of it, I'm so ashamed), Stingray, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, 21 Jump Street, Taken, Tales from the Crypt, Tales from the Dark Side, Taxi, Terrahawks, That '70s Show, That's Cat, That's My Bush, The Third Eye, Three's Company, Thunderbirds, The Time Tunnel, Tiny Toon Adventures, Titus, Tom Slick/Super Chicken, The Transformers, Travel Sick, TV Funhouse, Twilight Zone (classic), Ultimate Film Fanatic, Under the Mountain, Unhappily Ever After, V - The Series, The Vampira Show, Video 1, Viva la Bam!, War of the Worlds, Wheel of Fortune, Whitney and the Robot, Who's the Boss?, Wild Boys, The Wizard, Wonder Woman, The Wonder Years, WWF Smack Down!, Yan Can Cook, You Can't Do That on Television, The Young Ones, The X-Files.
Too Good for TV: Æon Flux, Art:21, Austin Stories, Band of Brothers, The Big Joe Polka Show, Black Books, Carnivale, Cold Lazarus, Cracker, The Dave Chapel Show, Deadwood, Eek! the Cat, Evil Roy Slade, Farscape, Father Ted, Fishing with John, Freaks and Geeks, Futurama, G vs E, The Good Life, Greg the Bunny, Heat Vision and Jack, High Octane, Kid Notorious, The Incredibly Strange Film Show (Son of The Incredibly Strange Film Show), Invader ZIM, The League of Gentlemen, Let's Bowl, Life on Mars (British), Liquid Television, Lucky Louie, On the Air, Max Headroom, Reel Wild Cinema, Rome, Sherman Oaks, Slings and Arrows (thanks sean!), Spaced, Six Feet Under, The State, Strangers with Candy, Strip Mall, Stroker and Hoop, Super Nerds, Tenacious D, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Twin Peaks, Ultraviolet, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Viva Variety, Wild Palms.
More Cathode Ray Crack:
Cartoon shows from the late 50s' to the early 80s' (Classic Warner Bros., Hanna/Barbera, Walter Lantz, Harvey Toons, Rankin/Bass, Jay Ward Productions). Boy Toy commercials from the early 80s' (M.U.S.C.L.E. MEN - Collect all 236! - New from Mattel). Animated Holiday Specials (Merry Christmas Charlie Brown, How the Grinch Stole Christmas). After School Specials that never made their mark (Billy Ate Something Strange). Badly written PSA's devoted to the brain dead youth of 80s' America (so remember kids, "Say Nope to Dope and Ugh to Drugs"). The Z Channel and ON TV (the first pay-cable stations). Pretty much anything that was canceled or killed off by the advent of the Infomercial!
Books
Novels:
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler), 1984 (George Orwell), Arabian Nights (Husain Haddawy), Battle Royale (Koushun Takami), Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut), Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning (David J. Skal, Elias Savada), Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined (Drew Carey), Fantastic Voyage (Isaac Asimov), Father of Frankenstein (Christopher Bram), Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk), Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants: From the Man Who Brought You I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Music Beach Party (Sam Arkoff, Richard Trubo), Glory Lane (Alan Dean Foster), The Gremlins (Roald Dahl), Histories (Herodotus), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Lenny Bruce), I Am Legend (Richard Matheson), Jurassic Park (Michael Chichton), Little Birds (Anais Nin), Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain), The Long Goodbye (Raymond Chandler), Man Who Fell to Earth (Walter Tevis), Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (Rudolph Grey), Our Man Flint (Jack Pearl), The Real Frank Zappa Book (Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso), Red Dwarf: Better Than Life (Grant Naylor), Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare), A Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket [I'm up to book 3]), Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (John Waters), A Third Face: My Tale of Writing Fighting and Filmmaking (Sam Fuller), Visigoth Stories (Gary Amdahl), James Whale (James Curtis), Women (Charles Bukowski), Working (Studs Terkel).
Graphic Novels, Manga, Comic Books & Funny Paper Antics:
Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo), Arsenic Lullaby (Doug Paszkiewicz), Astro City (Kurt Busiek/Brent Anderson/Alex Ross), The Atomics (Mike Allred), Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Frank Miller/Klaus Janson/Lynn Varley), Big Guy and Rusty (Frank Miller/Geof Darrow), Blood The Last Vampire (Benkyo Tamaoki), Blue Monday (Chynna Clugston-Major), Dork (Evan Dorken), Fullmetal Alchemist (Hiromu Arakaw), Genshieken (Kio Shimoku), Ghost World (Daniel Clowes), The Goon (Eric Powell), The Goon: Chinatown (Eric Powell), Hard Boiled (Frank Miller/Geof Darrow), In Me Own Words - The Autobiography of Bigfoot (Graham Roumieu), The Interman (Jeff parker), Kingdom Come (Mark Waid/Alex Ross), The Kurosagi: Corpse Delivery Service (Eiji Otsuka/Housui Yamazaki), The Last of the Independents (Matt Fraction/Kieron Dwyer), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Alan Moore/Kevin O'Neill), Lenore (Roman Dirge), Madman (Mike Allred), Marvel Zombies (Robert Kirkman/Sean Phillips), Midori Days (Kazurou Inoue), My Monkey's Name in Jennifer (Ken Knudtsen), The New Frontier (Darwyn Cooke), Optic Nerve (Adrian Tomine), Rex Steel: Nazi Smasher (Bill Presing/Matt Peters), Shaolin Cowboy (Geoff Darrow/Wachowski Brothers), Shutterbug Follies (Jason Little), Sock Monkey (Tony Millionaire), Top 10 (Alan Moore/Gene Ha Titan), Wanted (Mark Millar, J.G. Jones), Watchmen (Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons). Anything that includes Nazis being overtaken by giant jungle dinosaurs, super-science gone horribly awry, insane henchmen shooting wildly with Tommy Guns, Johnny Quest/007 action adventures featuring a ingenues villain's plan for world domination.
Coffee Table:
Airstream: The History of the Land Yacht (Bryan Burkhart, David Hunt), The Art of The Incredibles (Mark Cotta Vaz, Brad Bird, John Lasseter), Atomic Cocktails: Mixed Drinks for Modern Times (Gideon Bosker, Reed Darmon, Karen Brooks, K. Brooks), Babes, Beasts and Brawn: Sculpture of The Fantastic (Steve Kiwus), James Bama: American Realist Deluxe (Brian M. Kane, James Bama), Batman Animated (Paul Dini, Chip Kidd), The Best of American Girlie Magazines (Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel), Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-up Legend (Karen Essex, James L. Swanson), The Book of Tiki (Sven Kirsten), The Brown Derby Restaurant: A Hollywood Legend (Sally Wright Cobb, Mark Willems), Building Sci-Fi Moviescapes (Matt Hanson), Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus (Elizabeth A T Smith), Chromaphile: The New Works of Ragnar (Ragnar), Charles and Ray Eames (Gloria Koenig), Devil's Advocate: The Art of Coop (Chris Cooper), Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album (Matthew Robertson), Film Posters of the 60s: The Essential Movies of the Decade (Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh), Goth-Icky: A Macabre Menagerie of Morbid Monstrosities (Charles S. Anderson, Micheal J. Nelson), Haunted Paradise (Glenn Barr), Hi-fi's and Hi-balls: The Golden Age of the American Bachelor (Bob Sloan), Hollywood Escapes: The Moviegoer's Guide to Exploring Southern California's Great Outdoors (Harry Medved, Bruce Akiyama), Edward Hopper: 1882-1967, Vision of Reality (Ivo Kranzfelder), I Am Plastic: The Designer Toy Explosion (Paul Budnitz), Kings of the Road (Ragnar), Pierre Koenig: 1925-2005: Living with Steel (Neil Jackson), The Lonely Heart: The Art of Tara McPherson (Tara McPherson), Lucha Libre: Masked Superstars Of Mexican Wrestling (Lourdes Grobet, Alfonso Morales, Gustavo Fuentes, Jose Manuel Aurrecoechea, Deborah Holtz), Margaret Kilgallen: In the Sweet Bye & Bye (Eungie Joo, Clara Kim), Mexican Masked Wrestler and The Monster Filmography (Michael Cotter), Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s (Cara Greenberg), Mosh Girls + Monsters (Josh Howard), Motel Fetish (Chas Ray Krider, Chas Krider), Richard Neutra, 1892-1970: Survival Through Design (Barbara Lamprecht), 100 Houses For 100 Architects (Francesca Acerboni), The Outer Limits Companion (David J. Schow), Popping Through Pictures (Amanda Visell), The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film (Michael Weldon), Ray Gun (Eugene W. Metcalf, Frank Maresca), The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide (The Staff and Friends of Scarecrow), Screencraft: Production Design and Art Direction (Peter Ettedui), The Shatner Show (Glen Dresser), Shop America: Mid-Century Storefront Design 1938-1950 (Steven Heller/Jim Heimann), The Stanley Kubrick Archives (Alison Castle), Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (John Waters), A Stiff Drink and a Close Shave: The Lost Arts of Manliness (Bob Sloan, Steven Guarnaccia), SuicideGirls (Missy Suicide), Supersonic Swingers: New Works by SHAG (Shag), The Twilight Zone Companion (Marc Scott Zicree), Billy Wilder: The Complete Films (Glenn Hopp), Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959: Building for Democracy (Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer). Any Cook Book outlining rancid and obscure recipes of Americana from the 1950s' to the 1960s' (Did people really eat things like Frankfurter Pie and Gelatin Salad Loaf?! [shiver])
How To:
Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director (Lloyd Kaufman), Retro Style: the 50s Look for Todays Home (Marion Haslam), PAD: The Guide to Ulta-living (Matt Maranian), Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture (Alan Hess), Day of the Dead (Gina Hyams), The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead (Max Brooks).
Magazines:
Atomic, Barracuda, Bachelor, Bizarre, Cinema Retro, Cinefex, Dwell, Film Threat (online), FLM, Found, From Parts Unknown, Geek, Giant Robot, Hi-Fructose, Horror Hound, illo., Juxtapoz, Meat Paper, Now Playing, Super 7, Tease!, Tiki Magazine, Video Watchdog. I miss Ben Is Dead and Psychotronic.
Heroes
Dead:
The Ghosts of Forrest J. Ackerman, Charles Addams, Don The Beachcomber, Charles Bukowski, William Castle, George Carlin, Stoney St. Clair, Salvador Dali, Walt Disney, Douglas Fairbanks, Paul Frees, Samuel Fuller, Bill Hicks, Calamity Jane, Chuck Jones, Margaret Kilgallen, Don Knotts, Korla Pandit, Dennis Potter, Joey Ramone, Oliver Reed, Teddy Roosevelt, El Santo, Hunter S. Thompson, James Whale, Anna May Wong.
Living: Michael "Little Mike" Anderson, Bob Burns, Gary Busey (he just won't go down), Crispin Glover, Ray Harryhausen, Ricky Jay, Dean L. Kamen, David Lynch, Dylan Moran, Mark Pauline, Charles Phoenix, Robert Rodriguez, Henry Rollins, Deep Roy, William Shatner, Danny Trejo, Sarah Vowel, John Waters, Robert Williams.
Fictional: Alfalfa (The Little Rascals), C. C. Baxter (The Apartment), Bub the Zombie (The Day of the Dead), Howard Bannister (What's Up, Doc?), Charlie Brown (The Great Pumpkin), Chiun (Remo Williams), Baron Von Frankenstein (Mad Monster Party), Enid (Ghostworld), Gregorius the Great (Night and the City), Pee-wee Herman (Pee-wee's Playhouse), Sean Thornton (The Quiet Man), Sidney Stratton (The Man in the White Suit), Special Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks), Tyler Durden (Fight Club), Vultan (Flash Gordon), Winslow Leach (The Phantom of the Paradise), Steve Zissou (The Life Aquatic).
Special: The first cavemen who harvested fire, the wheel, aged liquor, celluloid film, fruit pie and German Chocolate Cake (Where do you find coconuts in Germany anyways?)
Politics
This I Believe:
END THE WAR NOW!
Try to clean up the mess we made.
Train the best we can.
Set a true deadline.
Pull our troops out.
Support Gay Marriage
Shame on anyone that voted 'yes' on Cal Prop 8.
Food & Health
Support your local Farmer's Market.
Support your local Green Grocer.
Support your local Fruit Vender.
Support your local Soap Maker.
Support your local Tea Merchant.
Support your local Butcher.
Green Living
Try to live as Green as you can without stressing yourself out about the state of the world. Be informed but not sucked in to all the hype.
About me: I'm working on it, I'm working on it. STOP BUGGING ME!!!
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone that has the patience to read my interests. I'll fill in the rest later, Honest Injun! Here, have a fat slice of strawberry cake while you wait.
Please stay away: Mystery Bands or Unknown DJs If I haven't heard of you then I DON'T WANT YOU!
iPod, iPhone, iCrack Pyramid Scammers I am not willing to sellout my friends for a chunk of cold technology!
Ringtone Crackheads You sell a shitty service NOBODY WANTS! Stop with the SOUND BANNERS!
MySpace Whore Spam What's the benefit of spreading these fake emails? I have better things to do than to hit my spam blocker button till my fingers bleed!
Portland has a city code that forbids anyone to paint over or destroy murals or original painted signs on their older buildings. Majority of the buildings in the district are these WONDERFUL old brick buildings that have been converted into "artist" lofts... with great old advertisements and signs painted on them.
I wonder if it's the same for the rest of the architectural elements and water towers, they're all over. *sigh*
It started with a bottle (or so) of wine and a "you have to see what I found!" next thing I know, there I am, Jenn the smart ass, reenacting a scene from a really bad 70's porno when someone whips out a camera phone.
Parts of Me, Who I Am & the People I Would Like to Meet:
Things I Hate, Piss Me Off or Scare the Shit Out of Me:
Favorite Quotes:
Favorite Words:
Spirits, Ales, Brews & other Mad Concoctions:
Folks I'm Envious of:
Genres:
Film Composers:
My BIG List of Directors & Their Films: 
Newish (If I ever turn the blasted thing on):
Childhood Favorites, Late Night Delights & Guilty Pleasures:
Too Good for TV:
More Cathode Ray Crack:
Novels:
Graphic Novels, Manga, Comic Books & Funny Paper Antics:
Coffee Table:
How To:
Magazines:
Dead:
Living:
Fictional:
Special:
Groups I Support:
I'm working on it, I'm working on it.
Anyone that has the patience to read my interests.
Here, have a fat slice of strawberry cake while you wait.
Mystery Bands or Unknown DJs
Here's a Few Sites to Check Out (just close your eyes and click-a-way!):
Online Now!
