Rock, rock radio (LRC on WMBR FM), drawing contests with my dad and two bros, comedy, writing, beer, my cats Lucy and Ivan The Terrible, and cheating death on my bike in the streets of greater Boston.
Music
The Prime Movers, The Bags, The Moving Targets, The Motormags, Squirrel Bait, Mad Man Films, Darkbuster, The Skels, The Beat Awfuls, Viva Viva, Holy Fuck, The Black Lips, The Swinedells, Lyres, The Clash, The Fleshtones, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Gun Club, Dinosaur Jr., The Adolescents, Wire, The Clean, You Am I, The DM3 and damn near everything Dom Mariani has done, The Avengers, The Buzzcocks, The Testors and damn near everything Sonny Vincent has done, Devo, AC/DC, Minor Threat, Killing Joke, The Pogues, Mung, Stiff Little Fingers, Rocket From The Crypt, The Takers, The Rolling Stones, The Konks, Sorry, Mission Of Burma, Bullet LaVolta, The Curses, Leatherface, The Sonics, The Beatles, The Dickies, The Lawrence Arms, The New Bomb Turks, The Buff Medways and most of Thee prior incarnations of Billy Childish, My Own Sweet, The Also-Rans, Barry And The Remains, The Tampoffs, Lubricated Goat, The FM Knives, The Wipers, Gaza Strippers, Some Action, The Queers, The Real Kids, The Zulus, The Weird Lovemakers, The Minds, The Rezillos, The Mr. T Experience, Six Finger Satellite, The Oblivians, The Hot Snakes, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, The Cheater Slicks, Big Black, The Fall, Husker Du, Naked Raygun, The Saints, The Dogmatics, Padden To Gutter, The Hookers...
Movies
Latest hits: Tropic Thunder, Son of Rambow.
All time faves: Wild At Heart, Barfly, Star Wars, Angel Heart, Miller's Crossing, Matewan, La Strada, Sweet Sweetback's Baadass Song, Bottle Rocket, True Romance, Diva, Waiting For Guffman, Urrgh!, Dead Man, Best In Show, Apocalypse Now, Do The Right Thing, Polyester.
Television
Limited cable: mostly Adult Swim, Comedy Central, MSNBC, and the Weather Channel.
Since myspace doesn't have a radio section (they SHOULD) I will list some of my favorites, station by station:
WMBR - The other Late Risers Clubs when I'm not on, Gorilla Got Me, The Intercontinental, Music For Human Beings, Culture Shock, Lullabies Help The Brain Grow, The Breakfast of Champions, Psychosomatics, Research & Development, Aural Fixation, Three Ring Circus, The James Dean Deathcar Experience, The Bovine Ska & Rocksteady Reality, Coffeetime, Lost Highway, What's Left, The Choice Is Yourz, Backwoods, American Primitive, Mellow Madness, The Lost & Found, French Toast, The Pontoon Palace, Bats In The Belfry, Time Travelling, Morning Wood (RIP), and Eoin's Brigade (RIP).
WZBC - Psychotic Reactions, John Straub whenever I happen to stumble across him doing ZBC Rock, ZBC Rock, Petrina's shoegaze show (don't remember the name), and NCP.
WHRB - Dinos on the Record Hospital. That's really all that needs to be said.
WFMU - The Best Show On WFMU with Tom Scharpling, The Cherry Blossom Clinic, Three Chord Monte, Music To Spazz By, The Evan "Funk" Davies Show, and Teenage Wasteland.
WHJY - Soundcheck with Big Jim Stearns.
KXLU - whenever Peter Choyce fills in.
WBZ - The Paul Sullivan Show and The Steve LaVelle Broadcast.
Books
I've enjoyed stuff by James Ellroy, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Chabon, Milan Kundera, Charles Bukowski, Roddy Doyle, Lester Bangs, Yann Martel, Tom Robbins, Elmore Leonard, Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne, Pete Hammill. Just re-read Michael Patrick MacDonald's All Souls and just started Douglas Brinkley's The Great Deluge - Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
About me: I do radio at WMBR FM in Cambridge, MA, 88.1 on the terrestrial dial. I currently host the Wednesday installment of the Late Risers Club, a five-day program that I produced for eight years. It's got some history. Audio links to recent shows can be found here.
Job-wise these days, sometimes you can find me icing down cold sodies for rock bands (or lugging their amps, or selling their swag) at The Middle East or checking IDs at the door of Zuzu, which is basically the Middle East's hot sister. I also do publicity/management-type stuff for The Prime Movers and The Bags. You should buy their records and go to their shows. I am always looking for additional work to keep me busy, so if you have any leads, feel free to drop me a line.
I have also done some freelance writing on the side for Mercury, a Newport RI-based arts paper that is an offshoot of the Newport Daily News. Archives of past stories can be found on my blog, IndieBlack.
The Bags:
Lyres:
The Fleshtones:
God: My Pal
SATURDAY MAY 9TH A BILLION ERNIES IS GONNA ROCK THE MIDDLE EAST IN BOSTON! COME SUPPORT!
Click on the flyer to get your tickets, you won't want to miss this!
Brick By Brick Productions Presents:
Saturday May 9 @ Mid East Upstairs
1pm, $10, All Ages
A Billion Ernies (CA)
Tyrannosaurus Sex
Blue Light District
Jack Of All Boxes
SATURDAY MAY 9TH!
A Billion Ernies, california's best skacore, role into Boston.
Click on the flyer to get your tickets, you won't want to miss this!
Brick By Brick Productions Presents:
Saturday May 9 @ Mid East Upstairs
1pm, $10, All Ages
A Billion Ernies (CA)
Tyrannosaurus Sex
Blue Light District
Jack Of All Boxes
April 4th We're coming to Boston all ages stylee for a bash with Sonic Boom Six!
Sonic Boom Six comes back from the UK to celebrate the release of their brand new album City Of Thieves!
Brick By Brick Productions Presents:
Saturday April 4 @ Mid East Upstairs
1pm, $10, All Ages
Sonic Boom Six(UK)
Brunt Of It
Interrobang!?
Murphy's Kids (VA)
To pick up your tickets click on the flyer below!
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April 4th Sonic Boom Six comes back to Boston from the UK to celebrate the release of their brand new album City Of Thieves!
Special guests on this show include Brunt Of It, Interrobang!?, and Murphy's Kids from Virginia.
Brick By Brick Productions Presents:
Saturday April 4 @ Mid East Upstairs
1pm, $10, All Ages
Sonic Boom Six
Brunt Of It
Interrobang!?
Murphy's Kids (VA)
To pick up your tickets click on the flyer below!
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BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY! ROLLS INTO BOSTON ONCE AGAIN FOR AN AMAZING ALL AGES MATINEE!
CLICK ON THE FLYER TO GET YOUR TICKETS!
March 14 @ Bill's Bar
5 Lansdowne St Boston MA (Across from Fenway Park)
1pm, $10, ALL AGES
BOMB THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!
Sean Bonnette of Andrew Jackson Jihad
Laura Stevenson and the Cans
The Brass (ex-Latterman)
Interrobang!?
This Saturday we're going to rock The Middle East Downstairs with The legendary Pilfers for their first tour in 7 years!
Tickets are still on sale, click the flyer to get yours.
