Publicly and privately careening in dejection and underachievement. Also, failing miserably at a myriad of activities including all things that have to do with what I call the giant sasquatch footprint of onus.
Things I Like: nice people, my cats, my family, my girlfriend Merrilee, Airstreams, 8-tracks, cryptozoology, Ludwig and Trixon drums, mid-century modern furtinure, getting stitches, riding bikes in sketchy and industrial sections of Birmingham, before and after plastic surgery pics--especially where the surgery was botched, extremely bad self-taught art especially if it has a "fantasy genre" theme, Reed Books, memorabilia from bad modern country stars like my Billy Ray Cyrus toy tour bus or my Randy Travis coasters or my mini-Clint Black cardboard stand up, huge metropolises with dense populations (Sao Paulo, Mexico City, Tokyo, Shanghai, Lima, Seoul, New York City, Buenos Aires, etc.), documentaries about any sort of crazed obsession, Cherry Coke Zero, the Kiwi accent, high ceilings, Smurfs, functional junk, sharpies, Ethiopian food, retro futurism, amphibians, Tv on DVD, What's on 2nd?, Polaroid One Step, scary ventriloquist dummies, slide projectors, bio-diesel, moon globes, blowing pumpkins up with gas and fireworks, books on extreme physical obsessions like self-mutilation or self-amputation, redneck technology, Collyer Brothers Syndrome, playing a show that I think was actually performed decently, a good thesaurus, the combined taste of mouthwash and my gums bleeding from flossing too hard, the New Journalism school of thought, the space needle, bread and carbs in general, Solipsism, geodesic domes, and BBQ Seitan.
Things I hate: being broke as a joke, ironic metal, new age-y bullshit, indoctrination of the religious variety, English peas, the British music press, nationalism, people with mercurial demeanors, vegetarians who talk loudly in public about being vegetarian, good friends being lost to drugs or suicide, the smell of A1 sauce, leopard or cheetah print anything, running, asking someone a question in 2008 and having them tell me that I should "google it", my knocked out bottom tooth that I never have gotten fixed, neoconservatism, dream catchers, people who try to "tan" themselves, Skittles, personalized license plates, "folk" art not made by crazy people, camping, fishing, hippies, people with trust funs, bubble tea, car maintenance, beach sand, armpit hair, business casual, electroclash people who dress like they're in an 80s areobics class, board games in general, homeopathy, bands with two lead singers, restaurants who play music way too loud, Pentecostalism; American broadcast news a.k.a irrelevant, sensationalistic fear-based pseudo-tele-journalism; missing white girl syndrome, sexism, racism, torture, slavery (yes, it still exist in the modern world), burkas, really watery tomatoes, pennies, black or gay republicans, hunting, most children and old people, Stephen King books, anyone who is Dutch, people with asymmetrical ears, and any bands formed after the year 2000.
Music
The Mummies, Jesus Lizard, Chrome, Simply Saucer, Halo of Flies, Harvey Milk, Soft Boys, Bauhaus, Mia Doi Todd, White House, Born Against, Charlie Rich, Cecil Taylor, Steel Pole Bathtub, Big Boys, Monsula, Breadwinner, Black Mountain, James Brown, The Fallouts, Effigies, Boredoms, Stooges, Supersister, Spooky Tooth, The Wrens, Howling Hex, No Means No, Carter Family, Muhal Richard Abrams, The Alice Cooper Band, Kevin Ayers, Juana Molina, Korla Pandit, Los Salvajes, The Moontrekkers, Beatles, Chavez, Mogwai, Cab Calloway, The Who, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bad Brains, B-BQ Killers, Lloyd Price, Devo, Big Black, Doc Watson, Big Mamma Thorton, Sonny Terry, Jerry Lewis, Elizabeth Cotton, Velvet Underground, Nig Heist, Dis, The Kills, Cringer, Little Joe and the Latinaieres, Bob Wills, Loincloth, Zolar X, The Avenger 4, Pylon, Galaxie 500, Penthouse, AC/DC, Don Cherry, Polvo, The Misfits, Skip James, Rosetta Tharpe, Ghost, The Screamers, Sleep, The Damned, The Clean, Celtic Frost, The Haunted, Crimpshrine, GISM, Cheap Trick, The Dixie Ramblers, Botch, Carcass, Robyn Hitchcock, Judee Sill, Saccharine Trust, Mono Men, Bone Dali, Jack 0' Nuts, Thee Headcoats, Helmet, Chet Atkins, Man is the Bastard, Rodriguez, Glen Cmpell, Motorhead, Link Wray, Boredoms, Nina Simone, Hendrix, Rites of Spring, The Enzymes, The Troggs, Lime Spiders, Marianne Faithful, Bill Monroe, Southern Sound, The Ventures, Anus the Menace, Pauline Oliveros, Jackie and the Cedrics, Glenn Kotche, Roscoe Robinson, Lester Bowie, Crime and the City Solution, Flat Duo Jets, Sun Ra, Boris, Dickies, The Chambers Brothers, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Acid Mothers Temple, Liquid Liquid, X, Girl Trouble, The Lord High Fixers, Ralph Jackson, The Germs, Swans, Shannon Wright, Minutemen, Les Savy Fav, The Answers, Negative Approach, Bikini Kill, Rodan, The Crystals, The Girls, Uncle Dave Macon, Wimple Winch, The Dirty Three, Nation of Ulysses, Guadalcanal Diary, Bathory,The Gizmos, The Masters Apprentices, Herbie Hancock, ( Pound Hammer, Joy Division, Gray Matter, White Heaven, Led Zepplin, Birthday Party, Monks, Necros, Earl Scruggs, Trumans Water, Lead Belly,The Weirdos, Hank Williams Sr. Jorge Ben, Neil Young, Youth Brigade, Ted Leo, Big Star, Total Sound Action Group, Peechees, Heavens to Betsy, Delta 5, The Paris Sisters, The Monorchid, Joa Gilberto, Swell Maps, Prime Family Movers, Spitboy,Void, Klaus Nomi, The Gossip, A Frames, Mastodon, Marion Williams, Blind Guardian, New Bomb Turks, Six Finger Satellite, Killing Joke, Brainiac, Son Haus, Gil Scott-Heron, Fatal Flying Guiloteens, The Rogers Sisters, Cass McCombs, The Glands, The Gizmos, Stanley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, Art Blakey, Charley Patton, Horace Tapscott, Davey Jones withthe King Bees, Nico, The Evaporators, Major Stars, Ear Harvin Trio, Jimmie Rodgers, Shellac, Mission of Burma, Spacemen 3, Lydia Mendoza, The Count Five, Uzeda, Low, Hasil Adkins, Mutantes, Christmas, Tim Buckley, Throbbing Gristle, Jimmy Smith, Tar, Lee Hazelwood, The Mentally Ill, Radio Birdman, Dianogah, Don Cab, Elf Power, Harold Alexander, The Iguanas, Brigitte Fontaine, Errol Dunkley, The Cke, Band of Susans, Roberta Flack, Phil Ochs, Sly Stone, Eck Robertson, The Ronnettes, Come, 25% Toby, Deerhoof, Didjits, Ride, XTC, Lee County Killers, Rapeman, Helium, The Music Machine, The Delmore Brothers, Bessie Smith, Ramones, Orange Juice, John's Children, Robert Johnson, Syd Barret, Skip Spence, Spotniks, The Notekillers, Clyde McPhatter, Osibisa, Peter Green, Bread, Joseph Jarman, Al Hopkins and the Hill Billies, Barclay James Harvest, Crackerbash, Cabaret Voltaire, The Beachnuts, Miracle Legion, The Cramps, VSS, Schlong, Moondog, Esquiteria, Holy Modal Rounders, The Coasters, The Tornados, The Misunderstood, Larry "Wildman" Fisher, The U-JERK, Vernon Dalhart, Jackson C Frank, MC5, Ornette Coleman, Bratmobile, Tiny Tim, The Fruit Jar Guzzlers, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Neurosis, Mayhem, Ignition,
Movies
The Love Story, Alma, Encounters at the End of the World, Mr. Freedom, Gate of Flesh, Ichi the Killer, The Fire Within, My Winnipeg, Who Are You Polly Magoo?, Brand Upon the Brain, Equinox, Punishment Park, Weekend, Rabbit Proof Fence, Sylvia, Derailroaded, Partner, CSA: Confederate States of America, Wages of Fear, Grizzly Man, Black Roses, The Profit, Rashomon, Thumbsucker, Helvetica, Keane, The Killer, Five Easy Pieces, Mardi Gras: Made in China, An Angel in the Air, Salo,Viridiana, The King of Kong, Control, Leon The Professional, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Unborn in the USA, Rize, Blue Sunshine, The Killers, The Last Supper, The Naked Kiss, All that Heaven Allows, Freaknik: Hip Hopumentary, Breathless, Banannas, The Mack, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Brazil, Two Lane Blacktop, Straight No Chaser, Cannibal Holocaust, Drugstore Cowboy, Grey Gardens, King of Comedy, M, Vagabound, Blazing Saddles, Suspiria, 24 Hour Party People, Sleeper, The Last Laugh, He Restoreth My Soul, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Metropolis, Aquirre- The Wrath of God, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Weather Underground, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Brakhage shorts, Carnival of Souls, Jubilee, Tremors, Up in Smoke, The Shinning, Hell House, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Breaking Away, Rock 'n' Roll High School, A Bucket of Blood, Last Tango in Paris, The Godfather, The Model Couple, The Deadly Invention, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 and even 2, Dark City, Suicide Kings, Bonnie and Clyde, Do the Right Thing, I am Curious (Yellow), The Secret of Roan Inish, The Honeymoon Killers, Badlands, Splendor in the Grass, Hud, Miami Blues, Tapeheads, Border Radio, Oh! What A Lovely War, Baby Doll, How To Draw A Bunny, Superman II (The Richard Donner Cut), Taxi Driver, Bring Me the Head of Alfred Garcia, Diary of a Lost Girl, Big Night, The Satellite Sky, Scorpio Rising, Dr Mabuse- The Gambler, Caddyshack, The Empire Strikes Back, Cutter's Way, Images, Dead Man, Scarface, Dolemite,The Proposition, The Deer Hunter, Best Boy, The short Films of David Lynch, If..., Cries and Whispers, Shizopolis, Southern Comfort, Shawshank Redemption, The Jimmy Show, Bus 174, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Actress, Mondovino, The Edward R. Murrow Collection, Stagecoach, The Whole Wide World, Bullets Over Broadway, It Happened One Night, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, My Favorite Year, L.I.E., The Wrong Man, The Crying Game, Gas Food Lodging, The Bank Dick, Jupiter's Wife, Rosemary's Baby, A Brighter Summer Day, Bad Day at Black Rock, To Have and Have Not, The Docks of New York, 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Man Bites Dog, The Awful Truth, Road To Morocco, Heaven Help Us, Female Trouble, Noam Chomsky: A Rebel Without a Pause, Buffalo 66, The White Shiek, Deranged, Body Of A Female, Naughty Dallas, They Saved Hitler's Brain, Curse Of The Doll People, Gun Crazy, Hellhole, The Laughing Woman, Naked World, All the Sins of Sodom, The Sadist, Trouble in Paradise, The Tennant, Murderball, The Loved One, The Squid and the Whale, The Last Prom, The Acid Eaters, Private Parts, White Slaves of Chinatown, Band of Outsiders, Let Me Die A Woman, Tongues Untied, Black Jesus, The Cool And The Crazy, The Sunshine Boys, SheDevils on Wheels, Wild Guitar, Satan's Sadist, Pink Flamigos, The Apartment, Endless Love, Land Without Bread, I Dismember Mama, The Toy, Spider Baby, Strange Brew, Rushmore, Myra Breckinridge, Three Kings, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Nutty Professor, Beyond the Sea, After Hours, Stalag 17, Lyme Disease: The Untold Story, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Evil Dead, Meatballs, Gates of Heaven, Radio Bikini, Brother's Keeper, A Year and a Half in The Life of Metallica, Wild at Heart, The Atomic Cafe, Citizen Ruth, A Walk on the Moon, Alice, Death in Gaza, Parting Glances, The Long Goodbye, The Twonky, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Haxan, Flower Power, Friday, Gimmie Shelter, Riot on Sunset Strip, Benjamin Smoke, Don't Look Back, Freaks, Do the Right Thing, Rude Boy, Slasher, Fantasia, Mildred Pierce; Dance, Girl, Dance; Boogie Nights, Eraserhead, Brazil, Roadhouse, The Godfather, Hard-Boiled, Ran, Crumb, Stir Crazy, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, No Direction Home, Desparate Man Blues, Written on the Wind, Artist and Models, Privilege, The Wiz, Blackboard Jungle, Bigger Than Life, A Clockwork Orange, Vernon Florida, Nosferatu The Vampire, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Super-Masochist, The Sugarland Express, Tom Dowd and the Language of Music, Berkeley in the 60's, The Gospel Road, Hands on a Hard Body, Skidoo, The Decline of Western Civilization 1 and 2, Putney Swope, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Shakes the Clown, A Boy and his Dog, Blade Runner, Pinocchio, Intolerance, Cinemania, Annie Hall, Raising Arizona, The Producers, Charley, Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Guyana: Crime of The Century, Wild in the Streets, Young Frankensteun, Election, The Fifth Element, Safety Last, The Kids Are Alright, Hollywood Shuffle, Boys Don't Cry, Private Benjamin, The House of Yes, CB4, El Topo, Island of Lost Souls, Un Chien Andalou, Take The Money And Run, Sisters, My Favorite Year, Z Channel: A Magnificient Obession, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, M*A*S*H*, The Talent Given Us, Nothing Last Forever, The Fog Of War, I'm Gona Get You Sucka, A Night At The Opera, Slaughterhouse-Five, Another State of Mind, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Loved One, The Man From Planet X, My Man Godfrey, 12 Monkeys, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Midnight Run, Mysterious Island, Breaking the Waves, Dr. Strangelove, Children Of The Dammned, The Omega Man, Topsy-Turvy, Manhattan, Victor/Victoria, Through a Glass Darkly, Twenty Million Miles To Earth, Blow-Up, Slap Shot, Radio Days, Delicatessen, Flirting with Diaster, Breakdance, What's Up Tiger Lily?, The Jerk, Battle of Algiers, This Island Earth, Zelig,Blade Runner, The Aristocrats, Crumb, Waiting For Guffman, It Plays Where It Lays, Deconstructing Harry, Radio Bikini, The Best of Everything, Cocksucker Blues, The Seventh Seal, Nw York Stories, City of God, Forbidden Planet, How to Irritate People, The Space Children, Pan's Labyrith, The Thing,Five Deadly Venoms, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Children of Men, The Best of Hootenanny!, Sianspheric: RGB, Wire on the BOx: 1979, Jesus Camp, The Rutles, Annie Hall, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Hearts and Minds, Space is the Place, Beat Street, Django, Night of the Hunter, and I kind of remembering liking that movie Monkey Shines with the guy in the wheelchair killing the monkey with his teeth at the end.
Television
WE HAVE SIGNAL
and...Jam, The Day Today, Charlie Brooker, The Armando Iannuci Show, Saxondale, Mad Men, Million Dollar Listing (a.k.a. The Douche Bag Express), The Mighty Boosh, Entourage, Fantasy Island, 60 Minutes, Weeds, I'm Alan Partridge, The Dean Martin Show, Space 1999, The Golden Girls, Big Train, The Prisoner, Tonight Show with Jack Parr, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, Project Runway, The Country Boy Eddie Show, Dean and Co., Little Britian, Cheaters, Errol Morris' First Person, Dukes of Hazzard, Dog Bites Man, I'm Alan Partidge, (sadly I usually fall asleep to) Current Tv--I call it the bike messenger channel, This American Life (though I prefer the radio show), I.R.S.'s The Cutting Edge, Night Flight, Fawlty Towers (not really though), Phoenix Nights, Twilight Zone, Disinformation, Little Britain, Sliver Spoons, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Kath and Kim, Lucky Louie, The Spike Jonze Show, Battle of the Sexes, Brady Bunch, Weeds, Generation Kill, Undeclared, Raumschiff Orion, Kath and Kim, Max Headroom, Space Giants, SCTV, Futuramama, Mork and Mindy, Les Shadoks, Deer Hunting Shows, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, The Office, Comedy Cetral's Roast Of Pamela Anderson, Zoom, John Adams mini-series, Hee Haw, You Can't Do That On Television, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Strangers With Candy, Brass Eye, Soap, Funny Business, Wonder Woman, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Greg the Bunny, Black Books, Quatermass Experiment, Time Tunnel, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, The Beverly Hillbillies, alt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Get Smart, EGG, ROOTS, The Blue and the Grey, The Gong Show, Pilot Season, Kids in the Hall, The Critic, The Muppet Show, Mission Impossible, Good Times, Twin Peaks, Six Million Dollar Man, Mash, OZ, Bozo the Clown, Flipper, The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, Freaks and Geeks, 30 Days, UFO, Reno 911, The A-Team, Cop Rock, The Soup, You Bet Your Life, The Monkees, Pink Lady and Jeff, Shark Week, The Avengers, The Bionic Woman, Planet of the Apes, Inside The Actor's Studio, VH1 Classic, Daily Show, Spaced, The Colbert Report, The Simpons, VH1's Bands on the Run, The Wonder Years, Eerie Indiania, The Outer Limits, Meet the Press, SNL, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Stingray, Candid Camera, Chicago Cubs Baseball on WGN with Harry Carry, CHIPS, The Steve Allen Show, Chico and the Man, Deadwood, Remote Control, Real People, That's Incredible, Stairway to Stardom, James Brown's Future Shock, TV Funhouse, Old Kid TV shows like Cousin Cliff, Special Olympics, Daily Show, Archie Bunker, 30 Rock, Hootenanny, Tales Of Tomorrow, Dog Bites Man, Comedians of Comedy, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Rock School, Superfriends, The Critic,The Ron Reagan Show, all that Rankin and Bass shit like Mad Monster Party, and of course, I got to get my 227 on bitches!
Books
The Gang Who Wouldn't Write Right- Marc Weingarten, The Freedom Manifesto- Tom Hodgkinson, A Practical Guide to Racism- C.H. Dalton, Evil Paradises (Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism)- Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, Echo and Reverb (Fabricating Space in Popular Recording 1900-1960)- Peter Doyle, Gulcher- Richard Meltzer, Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984- Simon Reynolds, The Areas of My Expertise- John Hodgman, Where Dead Voices Gather- Nick Tosches, Jim Goad- The Redneck Manifesto, Hit Men- Fredric Dannen, Googie Redux ltramodern Riadside Architecture- Alan Hess, Alabama Baptist-Southern Baptist in the Heart of Dixie- Wyane Flynt, Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel-James R. Goff, JR., Franny and Zooey- J.D. Salinger, Stiffed- William Knoedelseder, The Killer Inside Me- Jim Thompson, Suicide- A Study In Sociology, Holy Cow- Sarah Macdonald, Irony Lives!- PAul Krassner, Notes of a Dirty Old Man- Charles Bukowsi, The Man in the High Castle- Philip K. Dick, American Pastoral- Philip Roth, The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton, Dangerous Visions- Harlan Ellison, My Boy: The Philip Lynot Story- Philomena Lynott with Jackie Hayde, A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole, Europe Central- William T. Vollman, Readt Steadt Go!-Shawn Levy, Space is the Place: The Life and Times of Sun Ra- John F. Szwed, Broken Record: The Inside Story of the Grammy Awards- Hnery Schipper, Why People Believe Weird Things- Michael Shermer, The Public Burning-Robert Coover, Will You Be Quiet Please?-Raymond Carver, Mystery Train- Greil Marcus, Night- Elie Wiesel, A Scanner Darkly- Philip K. Dick, Side Effects- Woody Allen, The Atrocity Exhibition- J.G. Ballard, Underworld- Don DeLillo, Live from New York- Tom Shales and Jason Andrew Miller, Satan's Music Exposed- Lowell Hart, Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron- Daniel Clowes, Rejuvenile- Christopher Noxn, The Things They Carried- Tim O' Brien, The Official Boy Scout Handbook, Tropical Truth- A Story of Music and Revolution on Brazil- Caetano Veloso, Smile While Your Lying- Chuck Thompson, Slaughterhouse-Five- Kurt Vonnegut, In the Fascist Bathroom- Greil Marcus, Contesting The New Southern Order (The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills)- Clifford M. Kuhn, Answer Me Compendium- Jim Goad, Will You Miss Me When I' Gone (The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music, Jesus’' Son- Denis Johnson, he Wind From Nowhere- J.G. Ballard, The Kid Stays in the Picture- Robert Evans, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung- Lester Bangs, Independence Day- Richard Ford, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat- Oliver Sacks, Crazy From The Heat- David Lee Roth,The Stranger- Albert Camus, Old School- Tobias Wolff, Sonic Cool- Joe S. Harringtom, The Sun-Moon-and Stars Steven Brust, Inherit the Wind- Jerome Lawerence and Robert E. Lee, Made in America- Bill Bryson, Generation of Swine- Hunter S. Thompson, Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD, Shit Magnet- Jim Goad, the End of Faith- Sam Harris, The Lefthand of Darkness- Ursula K. le Guin, The CIA, The Sixties, and Beyond- Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain,The Politics of Lust: John Ince, Lords of Chaos- Michael Moynihan and Soderlind, Analog Days- Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco, Tales of Pirx the Pilot- Stanislaw Lem, We Got The Neutron Bomb- Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen, Please Kill Me- Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, American Hardcore: A Tribal History- Steven Blush, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon- Tony Fletcher,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Magazines: The Economist, Too Much Coffee Man, Skyscrapper, Giant Robot, Punk Planet, Utne Reader, Dwell, Juxtapoz, Giant Robot, Harpers Weekly, Flaunt, The Baffler, The Onion, Cimarron Weekend, Touch and Go, Flipside, MRR, Bitch, Nest, Entertainment Weekly, Gearhead, Might, Chunklet, The Believer, Alabama Game and Fish, Mojo, Venus, Bust, The Wire, Wired, Table of Contents, Herbivore, Forced Exposure, Speed Kills, Conflict, Outre, Filmfax, Bunnyhop, Alabama Cock Bobber, etc.
Heroes
People who mix sports with music, you know stuff like The Chicago Bears "Superbowl Shuffle," and John Fogerty's "Centerfield." Unintentional mixtures are cool too (stuff used at sports games): "The Rockafeller Skank" - Fatboy Slim, "Rock and Roll Part 2 (The Hey Song)" - Gary Glitter, and "Takin' Care Of Business" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive, but I wouldn't consider the people who first thought to use these songs at professional sports games as "actual" hereos; that said, they are damn good Americans for their panache-fueled vision to inherently know things like "Blitzkrieg Bop" would be a rad song to play while people are doing The Wave.
About me: So thanks for taking time to even read the first sentence of this crap. I pre-apologize if you are offended by anything on my page. I don't mean to offend anyone, but people write in complaining about things that have written all the time so I suppose there's just something about me that is easy to hate--believe me, I can relate. Anyway, what a fucking mess I have made of my life (and other people's as well). That said, I have never met a person, even one whose life I have left eternally wrecked, who abhors me more than I do myself. C'mon people work for it! Regardless, I have accomplished many grand failures. I have played in various bands, including Man or Astro-Man? (
Man Astro-Man? interview/ reuinoin footage of Touch and Go Records 25th Anniversary), The Mono Men, Servotron, The Causey Way, Shannon Wright, The Japancakes, The Vue, Har Mar Superstar, Humans, The Polyphonic Spree, and St. Vincent. I have opened shows for the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Cheap Trick, and Brian Wilson. I have appeared on David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, The Craig Kilburn show, the Jon Stuart show, Austin City Limits, Alternative Nation, and 120 Minutes. Despite the loss of much sanity from living in a van or bunk on a bus for 15 years, I have played over 2,500 shows in 33 countries, 50 states, and 600 cities. I have seen one million shades of shit concerning how poorly shows can be put on or promoted. As an ugly American and pathetically awkward traveler, I have been to 54 countries on the giant round ass rock called Earth, and thus, have seen most of the bleaker parts of humanity.
(Unprofessionally) I have more or less floundered at writing outside the world of ass-foolery known as music journalism. I mostly have just written for the NME, Flipside, Creative Loafing, Stomp and Stammer, Maximum Rock and Roll, and CMJ monthly. I am also the head writer for Chunklet magazine and have written the vast majority of two music books, "The Overrated Book," and "The Rock Bible." To show you how undubitably tragic my life has been: I've performed at or been to South by Southwest for 13 years straight. That should be a human's right violation by anyone's standards.
In 2002 at a party in San Francisco, I told Lars Ulrich of Metallica (to his face) that he looks like a epileptic, gay elf held captive by a pair of bicycle shorts when he plays drums. After performing in 2004 at The Noble Peace Prize awards, I hung out with Tom Cruise and to this day I receive Scientology gifts in the mail. My 2nd biggest claim to fame is that I once peed next to Ice-T backstage at a Pantera concert. My biggest claim to fame is shutting down the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport for being a suspected terrorist (for just traveling with a strange "pipe bomb-looking microphone"). I got out of the predicament and literally off the top 10 most wanted people in America list by using my TIVO for the F.B.I. (Polyphonic Spree Drummer Brian Teasley Makes the FBI's Ten Most-Wanted List).
Other than that, I occasionally write a fragmented piece of irrelevant bullshit for myself and whoever will read it. I also book rock shows in Birmingham, AL at a club called Bottletree, live with my girlfriend and 5 cats, and work on my ever-present grudge against the cosmos.
SOME DUMB VIDEOS OF THE DUMB BANDS I HAVE PLAYED IN AND OTHER STUPID STUFF:
Vinyl Release: Steve Haze - Catch it. Sales Charts top 10 Vinyl (first pressing in white vinyl) Distribution by: DeeJay.de Katalog No.: PPM005 Artist Profile: myspace.com/stevehazeone
My new record just came out this week on I-Tunes and CD Baby. I have included a video talking about the record, hope you enjoy it! Please leave us some feedback to let us know what you think! Thanks for your support.
-Ray Stephenson
PS: This album would make a great stocking stuffer ;)
Just stopping by to say hi and give you some news. The award winning album 'Welcome To Murraysville' from Phil Murray and the Boys From Bury is available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes - nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert - NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person march and rally for Nuclear Freeze. Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.
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