movies AND film, rock and/or roll, vintage, pop culture, schlock, kitsch, horror, b-movies, the "Studio Era", molls, hoods, glamour, tattoos (not mine), obituaries, cartoons, pretty shoes, lipstick, Las Vegas, true crime, pompadours and sideburns (not mine, of course), freaks, geeks, noir, good food and wine, dirty martinis, and long nites out.
Music
Soul satisfyin' rock 'n' roll of any sort -- but specifically, The Clash, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Both Elvis', Ruth Brown, Carl Perkins, The SPecials, The Bellefuries, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Iggy Pop, New York Dolls, The Cramps, Blondie, ska, punk, rockabilly, I'm also getting into garage and early punk lately
You're "How Soon Is Now?" ! Everyone likes you but you still can't seem to get a date. Be patient, damn it, and stay out those clubs. They're danmed depressing....
Repo Man, The Women, Night of the Hunter, Army of Darkness, Paths of Glory, The Shining, The Thin Man, Casino, Raging Bull, Auntie Mame, Hairspray, Polyester, all Coen Bros., noir, screwball, glamour, Goodfellas, SIlence of the Lambs, The Shining
Futurama, Looney Tunes, anything about forensics, mummies/bog men, serial killers and/or dead bodies and how they got that way, Iron Chef!, History Channel, Joe Bob's Drive In (RIP), Kids in the Hall, Young Ones, Ab Fab, The Simpsons
Books
Tough Jews, Geek Love, Why They Kill, (along the same lines I love true crime and old noir fiction), Up in the Old Hotel, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Low Life, Eloise, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. You will be sucked dry by a leech. I'd stay away from swimming holes, and stick to good old cement. Even if it does hurt like hell when your toe scrapes the bottom.
Furthermore, due to the adolescent behavior of a few, there will be no adds without some note of introduction first. It's only polite.
Otherwise, the usual...Obssessed with the dark, seamy underside of American pop culture -- the 10-in-1 of rock and roll, movies and style.
I can eat fire, escape from a straitjacket and pound a 4" screwdriver into my nose with a hammer in an ever so lady-like manner and some other things they don't teach you in finishing school. I have an obituary game. I've been in the society pages. I miss Joe Strummer.I can name every member of the Million Dollar Quartet. I know when a movie is so bad it's good again. And I know all sorts of interesting things and I have some funny stories. (That is of the funny, haha variety.)
Who I'd like to meet:
NOT TO BE NEGATIVE, BUT YOU DROVE ME TO IT...PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME YOUR BAND -- IF I LIKE YOU, I WILL FIND YOU! I'M SICK TO DEATH OF POP/ELECTRONICA/HIP HOP/EMO BANDS WANTING TO BE PALS, SO THEY CAN CLOG THE WORLD WITH MORE BAD MUSIC.
Someone who can rock and roll. Someone who gets why Las Vegas, Bugs Bunny, and John Waters are so damn funny. Someone who owns a lot of books and has read most of them. Someone who can identify in some small way with Ash (or Evil Ash), Repo Man, and Cary Grant. Someone who doesn't drink herbal teas. Someone who'll never say 'I really loved that episode of Sex and the City when...' Someone who knows all sorts of interesting things and tells funny stories. A sort of Robert Mitchum-esque, Gary Cooper-ish, Elvis-y fellow with less dependence on drugs and alchohol.
And, of course, I'm always glad to count fierce, funny women among my friends and acquaintances...
I actually just recommended it to a friend I ran into on the train! He saw my book, then mentioned a free black sailor's memoirs from a similar time period. "Echiano (sp?) the African".
