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Please check out my musical acts' pages on here, neither of whom-unlike many bands- randomly add strangers but will more than gladly allow strangers to add them: Canned Hamm , the two man modern madcap dance and song duo:
http://www.myspace.com/cannedhamm
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and July Fourth Toilet, long running full on candystore conceptual music commune:
http://www.myspace.com/julyfourthtoilet
Both bands play shows and have precious albums.
As well as Hallmark:
http://www.myspace.com/hallmarkgroup
New band WET DIRT as yet has no MySpace.
I deejay a nite in TO called FEELINGS. It's very sensitive.
I have also been making a series of self-help booklets entitled Y2K Compatible. Message me for details on how to obtain copies of tehse curios.
I star in a movie called "Male Fantasy" that that recently came out on DVD.
I have written a treatment for a Canned Hamm film and a treatment for Son Of Seeing Things, I take serious inquiries. Or enquiries. Whatever.
My writing pops up in various arcane places including Roctober mag and the book "Lost In The Grooves."
I occasionally host the odd variety show as one of my personas. One persona is Randy Vowels, a former downtown east side bar rock legend.
I am available for writing, drawing, cartooning, hosting, acting, singing, performing gigs if you need me. We shall discuss 'terms'.
Music
Whatever glitters or shimmers and then some!
Movies
Peeping Tom is the best date movie ever!
Television
BTW (bulbous thigh whistle): MySpace is so unhip (sooo unhip that Tom is mopping his brow with American Apparel whilst nervously reading this Profile tidbit) that they haven't included RADIO as an Interest so I include it here, just another thing for the CIA to learn about my mind (our minds) on their internet creation.
RADIO: Bob and Ray, The Goon Show, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, The Great Eastern, Night Lines with David Wisdom, the Firesign Theatre (sorta counts): all of them defunct classics!
TELEVISION: Seeing Things (note: CBC TV please get in touch with me, I have an idea for a TV show called Son Of Seeing Things, anybody been in touch with Louis Del Grande lately? Cuz I'd be playing his son), Gong Show, Twin Peaks, SCTV, Hilarious House Of Frightenstein, Horrors Of Ivan, the "Bicycle Man" very special episode of Diff-rent Strokes, PeeWee's Playhouse, Rockinitis (Cable 4!!!), Ernie Kovacs, Tim and Eric.com, Abbott and Costello, The Avengers, Twin Peaks, Kingdom, Strangers With Candy (but not the movie), Get A Life (a true unheralded forerunner of modern absurd TV), Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge, The Goodies, Monty Python, The Royle Family.... I watched sooo much TV as a kid that I find I am still filtering through so much that I haven't even bothered getting cable. I don't have time. Hint: free movies at the library, all you need is a card!
Books
Voraciously eat them up cover to cover. Literature is the new porn! Digging:Denis Johnson. Barry Hannah. Andy Milligan's bio. Pynchon. Candy. Lolita. Etcetera. Then there's comic books....
LAST ITEMS READ WITH THANKS TO OPRAHHH: the collected Metamorpho The Element Man, the collected Black Hole by Charles Burns, Oliver Reed's autobio "Reed All About Me", Sam Fuller's autobio, the public poetry that they put up in the busses, the collected Superman from the late 1950's (Weisinger era!!!), J.G. Ballard- The Concrete Island, The Atrocity Exhibition, Vermillion Sands, Bob Dylan- Chronicles, Basil Wolverton In Space, Kramer's Ergot 5, two recent Chris Ware hardbacks, Cinema Sewer, rereading lots of Steve Gerber and getting others as I enjoy his Man Thing (not literally), Howard the Duck, Destroyer Duck, and with Mary Skrenes the unfinished Omega The Unknown and Hard Time, Grant Morisson's Seven Soldiers, Joe Simon's Green Team, Outsiders, Prez: First Teen President, and Brother Power The Geek, started a book my friend Ani loaned me called The Fuck Up (not bad), a book on the films of Al Adamson, a book on British horror, Chuck Eddy- the Accidental Evolution Of rock n roll (a mess), Dungeon graphic novels by joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim, Howling At the Moon autobio by Walter Yetnikov, Paul Auster's City of Glass graphic novel brilliantly adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, Jim Shaw "Everything Must Go" exhibition catalogue, Pale Fire by Nabokov (if you want to converse about this book pleeeez drop me a line!), The Push Man and other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Top 10: The Forty-Niners by Alan Moore, new ish of Scram, Of Walking In Ice by Herzog, Nabokov-Pnin, Barnabas Collins: A personal picture album by Jonathan Frid, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer by Jimmy McDonough (amazing book, as is Shakey, his bio of Neil Young), The Comic Book Makers by Joe and Jim Simon (a way too telling book by Joe Simon who has plenty of exciting anecdotes about getting ripped off by publishers, great read but sadly no tales of his creations Prez: First Teen President and Brother Power The Geek), Treadmill To Oblivion by fred Allen (best title for a book ever? Fred Allen was a radio comedy giant, very innovative, even had a fake feud with Jack Benny, mostly forgotten now due possibly to his hatred of television, this book sold out five printings in its' first month alone upon release in 1954, I read the 5th printing, it's from the library and has been in the system for over fifty years! I wonder who signed it out before me? This has been a very wry and informative look of how he made a radio show, since I am scripting a Canned Hamm radio show right now it has been invaluable!), a book on the movie "It's A Gift", various books on the movies "Warm Hearts And Coronets" "Night Of The Hunter" "Rio Bravo" "It's a Gift", "Cat People" Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records, a book on Art Brut, Winters' tales by Jonathan Winters, Consider the Lobster: essays by David Foster Wallace, the Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau, Mr. Mike: a bio of Michael O'Donoghue, collected Love And rockets by Los Bros Hernandes, a book on Glam, In The Shadow Of No Towers by Art Spiegelman, Dogs And Water by Anders Nilsen, issues of Berlin by Jason Lutes, Nabokov- Pnin, Nabokov- The Real Life Of Sebastien Knight, The Essential Fantastic Four Volumes 1-5 by Lee and Kirby, Sonic Boom (Napster, MP3 and the new Pioneers of music) by John Alderman, Bare faced Messiah: The True Story Of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller (truth is stranger than fiction fer shure!), Ada by Nabokov, The Essential Zombie, Essential Marvel horror, issues of Alter Ego and Comics Journal, Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation, They came from Within : a history of Canadian horror cinema by Caelum Vatnsdal, a book about Nabokov's Pale Fire, The Acme Novelty date Book by Chris Ware, High Rise by JG Ballard, ART OUT OF TIME BY DAN NADEL IS A MUST GET FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN UNDERECOGNIZED COMIC ARTISTS FROM 1900-1969 WITH UNIQUELY BEAUTIFUL PERSONAL VISIONS!!!! AND THE NEW POPEYE REPRINT IS STUNNING AND AFFORDABLY PRICED! BOTH ARE MUST READS!,Mark Newgarden- We All Die Alone, Against the Day by thomas Pynchon, Nabokov's Ada: the place of Consciousness by Brian boyd, the National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody, Sleazoid Express, Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez, Pogo, William gaddis- carpenter's gothic, Soft machine bio, William gaddis- JR (note: last updated- years ago)
Heroes
Too many to count, how can one live in a vacuum? I own an autographed copy of The Richard Harris Love Album that reads "You Love Me Then Keep Me, Yours Forever And Always, Richard Harris"
About me: A firm believer in technicolour, have not yet mastered the art of astral projection, I'm just working on my nite moves.
Visit my BLOG at:
http://robertdaytons.blogspot.com
Who I'd like to meet: NOTE: be patient, rarely one here anymore and MySpace now won't even let me listen yto your music on their player (if you have any tech tips let me know)...
Struggling debutantes, aggressive pantywaists, hard working people of leisure, bold patterns and bright textiles, four colour newsprint oddities, K-Mart shoplifters, Aztecs, Incas, pop rocks casualties, weaknesses turned into strengths, beautiful flaws, Graduates of the Trudeau School Of Fashion, ladies in paper dresses, new archetypes, Nilsson post-Lost weekend advocates, lost weekenders in general, practicioners of glitz and glitter, entainers, people who try to be good to everyone, someone barely legal or older.
I DON"T WANT TO MEET: people who play in boring bands (guess what? I don't care, I've seen your ilk play before way too many times but I'm sure you'll be verrry successful, chances of you wowing me: 0.05 percent), women who list only their relationship status-always single- and astrological sign on their profiles then message me out of the blue from some far off land saying that "We have so much in common" when they clearly just want to scam me out of my cool collection of funny animal candles- even if they do look hot in their bikinis those funny animal candles are mine dammit, men who put up shirtless pics of themselves on their profiles- waxing is for dolphins, you hopelessly vain fools. But everyone else you're okay. Not just okay but GREAT!
Hey there Robert!!1 Wow, It's been so long since i have heard from you...i think i am going crazy!! lol. No wait i am crazy...i just miss hearing from you!!! :) SOOOOO....i decided that i will swing by like a monkey in the zoo on display and come say hi. I mean, what is better than that? Well there are many things that are but hey i can be the best thing in everyones life all the time. lol. I am not here to just promote a band, but i am here to get to know you because it is more than just the music...if that makes sense to you. lol. I sometimes make no sense!! Oh well!!! So how are you? How are you finding the winter? I keep hoping for spring to come early that way i can set myself free and run through the neighbourhood gardens!!! But i am sure no one will be happy with me!!! lol.
Anyways, i hope you are surviving the cold like a polar bear and his gang of penguins!!! I know i am....right inside the house!! lol
Take care and i look forward to hearing from you!!!
Hi Robert!! Some party animal with the world's biggest mouth told me that it..s a extra special day for you. SOOOOO, I thought I..d drop by before my memory loss kicks in and wish you a
HAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPYYYYY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!
May it be the best day of the year for you!!!! Don't forget to have a AWESOME DAY!!!! Don't over do it though or you might be hurting the next day....trust me on that one!!!
You deserve to have an AWESOME DAY....you are the best and i think you deserve something extra special!! So i want to give you this free song just for you!! i hope you like it!! I mean, it's not like i can afford to send you a send you a cake in the mail. I could try i guess! lol.
Let me know how everything goes after you recover from all the excitement....I would love to hear from you!!! Just remember that....It's YOUR DAY!!!
And again.....HAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPYYYYY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!
Hey Robert! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! Hope you are enjoying all the greatness Saskatchewan has to offer! Is Heather still here? Could you have her call us to arrange a for us to give her your record? We have been snowed in for the past 5 days so getting around has been a little tedious. I will do my best to get it to her if she could give me a call.
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