| Influences |
I have had a variety of influences, even if just to show me who not to act like...I have the utmost respect and admiration for truly quirky, eccentric ne'r -do-wells who flipped the middle finger in the face of conventional wisdom and got away with what folks told them they couldn't do:
Lenny Bruce (RIP man, we love ya for what you did for us and what you put up with doing it), Hunter S. Thompson (There was always more you could've done, but thanks for that strange, scary trip. You helped give me perspective reading "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas" in elementary school of all places), Oscar Wilde for being decadent and an elegant asshole, Robin Williams for surviving the drugs, even if he was funnier and stranger during that period, Eddie Izzard for being British and a transvestite, Tim Curry for being British and playing a transvestite, all the members of Monty Python for folks in Britain probably wishing they weren't British and occasionally dressing like transvestites. Siouxsie for being a right bitch, rather hot and making some great fucking music, Edgar Allen Poe for being charmingly morbid, Allan Freed and Morgan Block for creating my profession and "Rock and Roll", Mel Blanc for creating that sarcastic bastard rabbit that kept me mesmerized for hours on end, JR Ewing for creating the art of being a right bastard and people loving it. Optimus Prime for being so damn noble, GG Allin for not, Henry Rollins for telling it like it is, Charles Bukowski for not (though maybe sometimes he did in a rather twisted way), Bruce Campbell, Doctor Demento, Bela Lugosi, Larry Lujack (WLS Chicago with Li'l Tommy Circa 1980), Gen from Genitorturers, Lon Chaney, John Belushi, Steve Martin (Back when he still did stand-up and was just silly), Rod Serling, Vincent Price (Elegant, funny, a consummate professional, bon-vivant, gourmet, Renaissance man with one of the most awesome, mac-daddy voices ever), Graf Orlok, Terry Pratchet, Alfred Hitchcock, Friedrich Nietzsche for being deep, twisted and German and the list is still evolving as I start realizing just where all these scattered parts of my persona actually came from in the first place...
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| Sounds Like | 
Thanks to Shannon for access to the bands.
What do we sound like...? Hmmm, hard to "tag" or itemize. And really , why should we? You change your clothes everyday (Hopefully), we change the music here and there. For starts and kicks, we play "The Music of the Night" or the Nocturnal A.D.D.. Think alomg the lines of Rozz Williams playing Scrabble with Al Bundy imitating Ted Bundy while watching Jenna Jameson play hot oil Twister with Linnea Quigly who had a thing for Vampira but ended up with Elvira, meantime GG Allin has stolen David Hasslehoff's wallet while he was trying to pay for a drink for Bela Lugosi who wished he could've made it to be cast in a Hammer flick...
Head hut yet? Let's just say we "channel" a variety of punk, alternative (80's and newer), Gothic, Industrial, Steampunk, Electro, spoken word clips, cartoon theme music, occasional musings in German (A language I am fascinated, if not very good in) & random observations on Life, Luv and Liquid-Drano induced Lemmings. A Sampling if what we have and will play:
45 Grave, Abney Park, Absurd Minds, Amduscia, And One, Acumen Nation, Americlone, Anders Manga, Android Lust, Angels on Acid, Angels & Agony, Angelspit, Au4, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Attrition, Bauhaus, Bella Morte, Bigod 20, Big Black, Birthday Massacre, Bjork, Blaqk Audio, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Blue Monday, BOSCH, Brainclaw, Burning Retna, Camouflage, Carfax Abbey, Chemlab, Christian Death, Claire Voyant, Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, Colony 5, Collinwood 13, Combichrist, Cop Shoot Cop, Concrete Blonde, Covenant, Creature Feature, Cruxshadows, Das Ich, Dave Gahan, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Delerium, Depeche Mode, Devo, DeVision, Diary of Dreams, Die Krupps, Dollshead, Dreamside, Dr. Steel, Dunkelwerk, Ego Likeness, Eisbrecher, Elvis Hitler, Einsturzende Neaubauten, Exploited, Fields Of The Nephilim, Foreshadowing, Frontline Assembly, Front 242, Funker Vogt, Genitorturers, God Lives Underwater, Godhead, Gothminister, Gruesome Twosome, Hanzel und Gretyl, Hocico, High Blue Star, Human Drama, Killing Joke, In Extremo, Hate Dept, Haujobb, Hednoize, Iggy Pop, Jane's Addiction, Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Klinik, KMFDM, Kraftwerk, L'ame Immortelle, Lacuna Coil, Leæther Strip, Lords of Acid, London After Midnight, Laibach, Letzte Instanz, Lycia, Lunascape, Marilyn Manson, Martin Gore, Massive Attack, Massiv In Mensch, MDFMK, Megaherz, Ministry, Mission UK, Mortiis, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Necronmantix, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Noise Unit, ohGr, Panzer AG, Peter Murphy, Pitchshifter, Poe, Pop Will Eat Itself, Portishead, Pride and Fall, Project Pitchfork, Psyclon 9, Rammstein, Raumschmiere, Red Flag, Rob Zombie, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Smashing Pumpkins, Southern Death Cult, Supernumblivemachine, Swans, Switchblade Symphony, SPK, Skinny Puppy, Slayer, Terrorcouple, Tiamat, The Azoic, The Cramps, The Cranes, The Creatures, The Cure, The Electric Hellfire Club, The Last Dance, The Pixies, The Sand, The Shroud, The Smiths, The Tear Garden, Tre Lux, Type O Negative, Tones on Tail, Tweaker, Vendemmian, Violent Femmes, Voltaire, VNV Nation, White Zombie, Within Temptation, Wolfsheim, Wumpscutt, X Marks the Pedwalk, Zeromancer, Zombie Girl, & EVEN more..........
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