My Top 50 Favorite Albums (in order of how I thought of them)
1. The Beatles--Revolver
2. Minutemen--Double Nickels on the Dime
3. Guided By Voices--Bee Thousand
4. Badfinger--Wish You Were Here
5. Television--Marquee Moon
6. Pink Floyd--The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
7. Husker Du--Zen Arcade
8. The Replacements--Let It Be
9. Cheap Trick--In Color
10. Pavement--Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
11. Big Star--Radio City
12. KISS--Dressed To Kill
13. David Bowie--Hunky Dory
14. The Flaming Lips--Cluods Taste Metallic
15. Truck Stop Love--How I Spent My Summer Vacation
16. Kill Creek--Proving Winter Cruel
17. Zoom--Helium Octopede
18. The Mothers of Invention--We're Only In It for the Money
19. Neil Young--Rust Never Sleeps
20. The Beach Boys--Pet Sounds
21. Nick Drake--Pink Moon
22. Dinosaur Jr--You're Living All Over Me
23. Ultimate Fakebook--This Will Be Laughing Week
24. Sonic Youth--Daydream Nation
25. Rolling Stones--Let It Bleed
26. The Who--Sell Out
27. The Kinks--Are the Village Green Preservation Society
28. Led Zeppelin--Physical Graffiti
29. The Jesus Lizard--Goat
30. Urge Overkill--Saturation
31. Sloan--Between the Bridges
32. Descendents--Milo Goes to College
33. Soul Asylum--And the Horse They Rode In On
34. Pixies--Doolittle
35. Supergrass--In It for the Money
36. The Posies--Frosting on the Beater
37. The Jayhawks--Tomorrow the Green Grass
38. Syd Barrett--The Madcap Laughs
39. Thin Lizzy--Jail Break
40. Red House Painters--Red House Painters (Rollercoaster)
41. My Bloody Valentine--Loveless
42. Chavez--Ride the Fader
43. The Zombies--Oddessy and Oracle
44. Teenage Fanclub--Grand Prix
45. The Jimi Hendrix Experience--Axis: Bold As Love
46. Nirvana--In Utero
47. Sebadoh--Weed Forestin'
48. Meat Puppets--II
49. The Velvet Underground--The Velvet Underground
50. Wilco--Summerteeth
I also dig: Queen, The Embarrassment, The Blackpool Lights, Vitreous Humor/Danny Pound Band, Titanic Love Affair, Beastie Boys, Breeders, Arthur Dodge and the Horsefeathers, Swervedriver, My Morning Jacket, Spoon, Rogue Wave, Run DMC, REM, You Am I, Yes, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Lemonheads, Rufus Wainwright, NWA, Deerhoof, Simon and Garfunkel, NUGGETS, Dungen, Ramones, Devo, Casket Lottery, The Shins, Lilys, Smoking Popes, Touchdowns, Harry Nilsson, Screaming Trees, the second half and ONLY the second half of "Layla", Diamond Nights, Ghosty, Trail of Dead, Nada Surf, Ben Folds and acoutraments, Elliott Smith, PiL (and I guess the Sex Pistols too), Todd Rundgren, Pretty Things, Matthew Sweet, Aimee Mann, Def Leppard, Public Enemy, Oasis, "Merry Christmas from Johnny Mathis", Joni Mitchell, Jason Falkner, Bjork, Tawni Freeland, Helmet, Mudhoney, The Melvins, TopHat, The Slits, Slint, Skunk.
Movies
Favorite Filmmakers:
1. Woody Allen--Annie Hall, Love and Death, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Sleeper
2. Cameron Crowe--Almost Famous, Say Anything, Jerry McGuire
3. Cohen Brothers--Fargo, Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing
4. Marty Scorsese--Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Mean Streets, The Departed
5. Spike Lee--Do the Right Thing, Inside Man, Bamboozled
6. Francis Ford Coppola--Apocalypse Now!, The Godfather Series, The Conversation, Peggy Sue Got Married
7. Spike Jonze--Adaptation, Being John Malkovich
8. Alexander Payne--About Schmidt, Election, Sideways, Citizen Ruth
9. Wes Anderson--Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket
10. Rob Reiner--This Is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally...
11. Stanley Kubrick--A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove
12. Steven Spielberg--Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Schindlers List, A.I.
13. Sam Mendes--Road To Perdition, American Beauty
14. Trey Parker--Team America: World Police, BASEketball, Orgazmo
15. Christopher Guest--Waiting For Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, For Your Consideration.
Other Faves:
Detroit Rock City, Dazed and Confused, Goonies, Dumb and Dumber, Who's Harry Crumb?, UHF, Help!, Easy Rider, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, School of Rock, The Beach Boys: An American Family, The Jacksons: An American Dream, Bandwagon, 24 Hour Party People, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science Of Sleep (Gondry is about to become an all-time fav), Clerks, Bulworth, Better Off Dead, High Fidelity, all Monty Python, American Splendor, Donnie Darko, 40 Year Old Virgin, etc.
Favorite Docs (Music/Other):
The Flaming Lips: Fearless Freaks, The Minutemen: We Jam Econo, MC5: A True Testimonial, The Who: The Kids Are Alright, Beatles Anthology, Grizzly Man, Fahrenheit 911, Bowling For Columbine, American Movie, Driver 23, The Atlas Moth, Stevie
Television
MR SHOW IS THE BEST GODDAMN TV SHOW OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Freaks and Geeks, South Park, The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, That's My Bush!, My Name Is Earl, The Office (both of 'em), Extras, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Project Runway, Undeclared, The Shield, Beavis and Butthead, Chapelle's Show, old SNL, The Sopranos, Spongebob Squarepants.
Books
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Mother Night, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater!, Breakfast of Champions. John Irving: A Prayer for Owen Meany. Michael Azerrad: Our Band Could Be Your Life. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
About me: This pretty much explains it...
I play in a band called Dead Girls Ruin Everything. Here's our first video; it's for our song "All Is Forgotten".
Here's our second video, for our song "Coming On Strong"...
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I also play Guitar Hero a lot...
I created my own profile using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM and you should too!
Who I'd like to meet:
Neil Young--though I probably wouldn't say anything more than a few monosyllabic utterrances, or I might get something out like "I really like that one song you did..." or "Dude, what the fuck was up with Landing On Water?" At that point, I would probably be asked to leave, and I would do so graciously (after pocketing a handful of pretzels from the deli tray).
Sorry I've been such a shitty brother, neglecting you and all... things have been really busy, just got back form Croatia and have another trip to Rhode Island here in a couple of weeks (yeah, I know, RI... WTF?). Anyway, looks like you guys had a bitchin' time in the Dominican. Still haven't gotten the 'Popes album...
Congrats big man- Knew you always had it in ya. You've come a long way since the Springstein days at G-Ma's house!! Sorry we couldn't be there but Texans don't last long in Lawrence for some reason!!
Hey Cam, Lambda Lambda Lambda huh? Where's Poindexter? When are you guys gonna venture out and play in the West Texas Desert? Oh...and I don't know WHY Bono isn't dead yet? He will never be an All time Great until he O.D.'s or shoots himself. You know, like all of the other famous ones...except Mama Cass and her Ham Sandwich. Take care Buddy!
Excuse me, sir, how are you? Would you have ever guessed me as being a skier? Turns out I picked it up really well; i'm out on the slopes every day i'm not in the office. Ski bum, snow bunny, powder slut - what ever you want to call it. Well, except that last one...
Dude, I suck. I was still asleep when you texted me and then had forgot that you even texted me until late last night. If you decided to buy Angst in my Pants, I hope you like it. It has some of the most awesome songs ever. Moustache is the defining moment in music history.
Heya, got my present. Thanks! Looking forward to finding some new favs there. But for the love of god Cam, you need to learn how to insert ID3 tags into burned CDs! Happy New Year :)
Nope, not yet! If you send it regular post it can take a week or two... looking forward to it though! Hope you had a good time the other night, there are still smoldering piles of fireworks all over the place here.
I do hope the Hawks had a lovely Christmas. I'm sure its not the same without having fifteen or so raging drunk teenagers running around the basement beating drums, playing guitars and peeing off the balcony. Ah, brings a tear to my eye!!!!
