Check this out! Some seriously righteous rock 'n roll from the MC5! Look at 'em wake up those stoner hippies! YEAH!
Music
How cool is this? Janis Martin, "The Female Elvis" who cut her first record at the age of 16, playing at the 10th Rockabilly Rave 2006, Camber Sands, UK. RIP, Janis.
Ramones, Sex Pistols, Misfits, Iggy Pop, MC 5, Angry Angles, The Turpentine Brothers, The Green Goblyn Project, Love, The Leaves, Big Black, Mission of Burma, The Epoxies, Fluttr Effect, Robby Roadsteamer, Harry and the Potters, Old Skool CBGB's, Sweet, Spinal Tap, Joe Black's Midnight Spookshow, Wednesday 13, The Soviettes, Die Cheerleader, The Lurkers, The Adverts, Amen, The Cramps, Dead Boys, Wire, Salem 66, Beef from Phantom of the Paradise, The False Prophets, The Fugs, The Damned, The Gargoyles, Jeff Dahl, X-Ray Spex, Circle Jerks, Avenue Q soundtrack, The Real Kids, Mary Prankster, GWAR, Johnny Thunders, The New York Dolls, The Buzzcocks, New Marble Giants, 50 Foot Wave, A Flux of Pink Indians, Honey Bane, Jane County... that's a good start!
Ahhhh! A little snapshot as to why seeing The Ramones live was the most fun you could have with your pants on. From 1985, "Wart Hog".
Movies
I see up to five movies a week for my work... we'd be here all day! ;)
The Murderdolls... "Dressed to Depress"
Television
Battlestar Galactica of the new vintage, Farscape, Doctor Who of all eras, ORIGINAL Star Trek, and dear God, I sound like the biggest geek of all time!
OK... check THIS out. One old geezer. One acoustic guitar. And it's PUNK AS SH*T! TV Smith of The Adverts, introduced by Casey Chaos of AMEN. Like... wow...
Books
Again, too many to name! Recent reads that I've liked and people I read all the time include: Sol Stein, Kelly Link, Fred Chappel, Joe Conrad, Tolkien, Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Lovecraft, E. Waugh, Jerzy Kosinski, Ian Fleming, Peter Straub, Dante, Milton, that "Bard Avon" or "Avon Bard" guy who wrote that Mel Gibson movie a few years back, JP Miller, Nigel Kneale, Reginald Rose, Paul Celan, Rilke on Cezanne, DH Thomas... for a start!
About me: Hey, thanks for stopping by. I'm Mike Marano, also known as "Mad Prof. Mike". For about 15 years, I've been doing the "Headbanger Movie Reviews" for the nationally syndicated show MOVIE MAGAZINE INTERNATIONAL (www.shoestring.org). At a very young age, I decided I wanted to spend my life watching movies, and somehow, I'm doing just that. I also cover movies for venues like Cemetery Dance, Science Fiction Weekly, Sci Fi Magazine, Sci-Fi Universe, Paste Magazine, The Weekly Dig, Chizine... the list goes on for a while. I cover up to five movies a week, which can sort of make your brain melt, but then again, so can a real job, so... I'm not bitchin'!
I also write horror and some science-fiction. My first book, Dawn Song, made a pretty big splash, netting a bunch of really good reviews and The Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards... which is really cool, because the awards themselves are nifty-looking things to just have on your shelf (even though currently the things are still packed in a box from my last move). I did a novella-length adaptation of Joe Stefano's old Outer Limits script "A Feasibility Study" which I'm really kind of proud of. My work has appeared on Gothic.Net, and has been anthologized in books like Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn, Queer Fear and Outsiders, among others. My work has been translated into German, Czech and Greek... and I actually got paid for the Greek edition! Whoo-hoo!
In September, I'll be wearing a new hat as co-fiction editor (or is it "fiction co-editor"?) of the award-winning .. magazine ChiZine (www.ChiZine.com).
I'll have a piece in the upcoming collection of essays about Joss Whedon's FIREFLY/SERENITY from BenBella Books called FINDING SERENITY. Now, in light of this, I thought I'd post my "Which FIREFLY Character Are You?" quiz results:
Your results: You are Wash (Ship Pilot)
Wash (Ship Pilot)
70%
Inara Serra (Companion)
65%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
65%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
60%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
60%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
55%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)
55%
Alliance
55%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
45%
River (Stowaway)
40%
A Reaver (Cannibal)
15%
You are a pilot with a good if not silly sense of humor. You take pride in your collection of toys. You love your significant other.
Who I'd like to meet: Well... I wouldn't actually want to meet this person, I just want to see him or her. This is gonna sound strange, but I've always just wanted to see a stranger on the subway or bus reading my work. I wouldn't be a dick and tap him or her or the shoulder and say, "I wrote that!" It would just be huge for me to see my work "out there" in this particular way.
In general, though... I'm looking to hook up with people who love books and movies and cool music.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my new erotic horror novel THE 13TH is now in stores everywhere! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride!
There's even a website devoted just to the book, with an interactive map of the places and characters at www.the13th-horror.com.
Edward Lee called THE 13TH "A double-barreled shotgun blast of macabre entertainment -- an expert amalgamation of grotesquerie, eroticism, mystery, and pitch-black occult horror that no fan of the genre can miss."
And Gary A. Braunbeck said, "John Everson's The 13th is the first out-and-out horror novel in a long while to actually scare the **** out of me while reading it. It's stylish, extremely well-written, filled with richly-drawn characterizations, and boasts a labyrinthine plot worthy of Umberto Eco. Trust me -- this one will fry your nerves and break your heart."
“While some may find scholar S.T. Joshi's claim in his introduction that Pulver “can take his place with that of the masters of our genre” (including Poe and Lovecraft) a trifle hyperbolic, all will agree that Pulver is a writer to watch. (Dec.)” – Publisher’s Weekly
“Whatever your expectations may be, check them at the door. Pulver has a truly unique style for the horror genre, and this collection of short stories is a perfect vehicle for this sort of style . . . Pulver is an original.” - Rick Kleffel’s The Agony Column
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/
If you would like to read a sample of one of the stories from ISLINGTON CROCODILES’ you can do that now as one of the stories is posted on the Islington Crocodiles blog page. RAIDERS is the disturbing story of Barwise and Micky.
As Graham Joyce says in his foreword to ISLINGTON CROCODILES, ‘This is the edge.’
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel SACRIFICE is now in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride! Here are a couple reviews it's gotten so far:
“SACRIFICE is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend SACRIFICE.” —Famous Monsters of Filmland
“John Everson manages in SACRIFICE to dispense buckets of blood, provide edgy perversity, and walk the tenuous tightrope of horror and sex without falling: It’s rather an amazing feat.” –Hell Notes
thanks for adding me. and what an excellent list of music you have going there! (i was always a big fan of the anarcho-punk stuff, flux of pink indians, hagar the womb, sleeping dogs... good stuff!)
"Armed with a devilish wit, quirky dialogue, and a unique, palpable flavor, DROP DEAD GORGEOUS provides readers with a fly-on-the-wall view as the shit gloriously hits the fan in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Where's Bono when you need him?" --Andre Duza, author of DEAD BITCH ARMY
"Intriguing novel from a new emerging talent in the horror genre..." --Dan Henk (Lone Wolf Tattoo)
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my new erotic horror novel 
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel 
