I like rhythm'n'blues, rockabilly, doo wop, pop, surf, garage punk, psychedelic, progressive rock, soul, funk, classic rock, punk, post-punk, industrial, old school rap, acid house, psychobilly, post-rock, neo-progressive, novelty, renaissance, baroque, classical, late-romantics, modernism, post-modernism, minimalism, ragtime, Dixieland jazz, Harlem stride, post-bop, free jazz, fusion, exotica, space age bachelor pad, experimental, porn music soundtracks, the blues and the abstract truth.
Favorite albums: FRANK ZAPPA: Roxy & Elsewhere, LOVE: Forever Changes, THE RESIDENTS: Not Available, THE CRAMPS: Songs The Lord Taught Us, PHILIP GLASS: Einstein on The Beach, CHRIS & COSEY: Core, PSYCHIC TV: Themes 3, FRED FIRTH: Technology of Tears
Personal Theme Song: THE MONKEES Porpoise Song (Theme Song from HEAD)
Current most played songs on my iTunes: (38 Plays each) THE BEATLES: Come Together, BOOTSY'S RUBBER BAND: Physical Love, (36 Plays) THE SMITHS: How Soon is Now? (35 plays) ALTERED IMAGE: See Those Eyes, (34 Plays) MOTORHEAD: Ace of Spades
Movies
Un Chien Andalou / Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves / Duck Soup / Head / Long-Haired Hare / Beneath the Valley of The Ultra-Vixens / Eraserhead / The Trip / Blood for Dracula a.k.a. Andy Warhol’s Dracula / Flesh For Frankenstein (a.k.a. Andy Warhol's Frankenstein) / Party Doll A Go-Go / Magical Maestro/ Porky in Wackyland / Robot Monster / Jackass 2 / Yellow Submarine
Television
WEEDS, SOUTH PARK, HEADCASE, PENN & TELLER'S BULLSHIT, SNL, DINERS DRIVE-INS & DIVES, CASH IN THE ATTIC, and whatever cartoon is playing on Boomarang. I have box sets of MONTY PYTHON, LOONEY TOONS, REN & STIMPY, ERNIE KOVACS, INVADER ZIM, FIREBALL XL-5, ROCKY & BULLWINKLE, etc.
Books
BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS - Vonnegut, NAKED LUNCH - Burroughs, FEAR & LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS - Thompson, CATCH 22- Heller, ALICE IN WONDERLAND/THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - Carroll, THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH - Dick, HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY series - Adams, ESSENTIAL HOWARD THE DUCK - Gerber, ONE LONELY NIGHT - Spillane, THE STORY OF O - Reage
Heroes
Frank Zappa, Andy Warhol, Marshall McLuhan, Hunter S. Thompson, William S, Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut,Groucho Marx, John Cage, Salvador Dali, William Gaines, John Lennon, Richard Pryor, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten),Mark Twain, Ernie Kovacs, Larry Flint, Redd Foxx, Harry Reems, Timothy Leary, Robert Crumb, & Patti Smith.
About me: Check Out my eBay Store!!! Lots of rare records, comix, and other things you don't need!!!
http://stores.ebay.com/Murg-Man-Music-and-More
I wrote a column for NONzine, published out of Oklahoma City, called "Tiger Beat From Hell," where I deconstructed Rock'n'Roll.
I have written for a wildly diverse group of publications ranging from High Times and OUTline Magazine (Oklahoma's first metrosexual publication) to Cool & Strange Music! and Native Peoples Magazine. My work also appears on many websites, most notably on TulsaTVMemories.com where I also tend to rant on the group blog at least a couple of times a weeks (just in case you need to know my every thought).
The blog is a collection of my published pieces. New stuff will be posted every week.
BTW, here's en except of a description of me from a German website translated by a Google translation program:
"Mr. Murg writes a range of cultural matters; arts, the music, the literature, and the policy, and clarifies usually the indigenous American artists who work in the experimental avant-garde and fields. Its subjects not-natives of interview often leave the edge of the traditional culture."
That pretty much sums it up.
What's on this site? Check out the archive:
(To find the older posts, click "View All Blog Entries" above in "Wilhelm's Latest Blog Entry." That will take you to the blog page, aka "Pop Culture Gone Wild." On the "Blog Archive" section, click "Older" and that will take you to my older posts. There are a few pages on the archive, so you might have to click "Older" more than once to find what you are looking for.)
& General Columns: --- BARBARIANS BATTLE THROUGH SPACE (2006) – Rant on what Progressive Rock was all about. --- THE BEST NEW REELEASES YOU WILL NEVER HEAR (2/2007) - new releases by Explosions in the Sky, Under Byen. Thee More Shallows, Maher Shalal Hash Baz --- THE BLOOD SOAKED ART OF THE SPLATTER PLATTER (2006) – Songs of Teen Death ---BUBBLEGUM: PLASTIC MOLDED BLUES (2006) - In Praise of the most overlooked form of great pop --- FIVE YEARS AHEAD OF THEIR TIME! (2006) – Reviews of new releases by Red Krayola, Acid Mothers Temple, Comets On Fire, & The Lizards ---GODS OF THE WILD GUITAR: WRAY, DALE & ALLAN (2006) A little distorted feedback going out to three guys that made me pick up a guitar, The late Link Wray, The King of The Surf Guitar, Dick Dale, and The Leader of the Pack, Davie Allan --- MINIMALISM (2007) New releases of Terry Reily, Glenn Branca, and Philip Glass ---MONSTERS IN THE TREMBLING AIR (2006) - A Halloween Edition ---SELECTIVE NOSTALGIA & CONFUSED HYPOCRISY (2007) - which mediums has legs?
--- A SHORT GUIDE TO INDIAN ROCK (2006) – A Native American Who's Who in rock and pop music. ---A SHORT HISTORY OF THE LOUNGE REVIVAL & "COOL & STRANGE MUSIC!" --- SOUL PSYCHEDELICIZED (2006) --- Rant on Isaac Hayes and Other Masters of Soul - What was I on? -- UNKNOWNS REISSUED (2006) –Overview of AnthologyRecordings.com reissuing some rare Progressive, Psychedelic, Punk, Post-Punk, and Dub releases ---WAS IT ALWAYS SUPPOSED TO BE NOISE? (2006) - review of The Residents' "Tweedles," Laibach's "Volk," and The Frankenstein Consort's "Classical A Go-Go"
COOL & STRANGE MUSIC!!!! MAGAZINE: ---Manipulating The Medium & The Devil's Music (1996)
TULSA TV MEMORIES DOT COM: --- MEMORIES OF TULSA RECORD STORES OF THE SEVENTIES:THREE ARTICLES (Turning Base Vinyl into Gold, Expose Yourself: The Closing of Starship, Scratchy Memories of the Bill's T Records Empire)
MUSIC: --- HASIL ADKINS Demolition Rock'n'Roll- an overview (April 1997) --- AMERICAN HARDCORE Review of the film ---THE BANANA SPLITS Review: Kellogg's Presents The Banana Splits (1996) ---THE BEATLES Tiger Beat From Hell: "Fixing" The Beatles (2006) Film Review: The U.S. vs John Lennon (2007) --- BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY Psychedelic Blues: Interview with Guitarist Sam Andrew (2006) --- THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND -Barking With The Bonzo Dog Band: Interview with Neil Innes (1998) -Tiger Beat From Hell Column: The Persistence of The Bonzo Dog Band (2006) ---JAMES BROWN TIger Beat From Hell- The Strange Case of James Brown (2007) --- JOHN CAGE Review: Works for Pianos Vol. 7 (2006) ---MARTIN DENNY -Review: Afro-Desia - The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny -Review: Hyonotique/Exotica III ---¡FORWARD RUSSIA! -Review: Give Me A Wall (2006) ---PHILIP GLASS Review: The Voyage (2006) --- WANDA JACKSON The Queen of Rock’n’Roll: Interview (2006) ---ELTON JOHN Review: The Captain & The Kid (2006) ---KAADU Review: Music for Moviebikers (2006) ---NIGHT SHIELD Underground Native Rap: Interview (2004) ---YOKO ONO Tiger Beat From Hell: Yoko Dedux(2007) ---BRIAN PARTON -BigBoss Sound of Native Rockabilly (2005) -Tiger Beat From Hell: The Red Hot Rockabilly Sound of Brian Parton(2006) ---CLARA ROCKMORE Tiger Beat From Hell:The Theremin: Entertaining People With Your Hands (2007) SOFT MACHINE Review: Middle Earth Masters --- SONIC YOUTH Tiger Beat From Hell Column: Kill Your Idols (2006) – Review/Attack, depending on who you ask. --- STYX Being Gay in Classic Rock: Interview with Bassist Chuck Panozzo (2006) ---TINY TIM Review: God Bless Tiny Tim (box set) ---TUXEDOMOON Tiger Beat From Hell Column: Paradise Reclaimed at Tuxedomoon’s Bardo Hotel (2006) – An epic poem on the greatness of Tuxedomoon ---JIMMY WOLF Punk Rock Blues: Interview (2003)
ART:
---JIM BLANCHARD From Oklahoma to The Underground: Interview (2006) ---COMICS -Review: Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries 1900-1969 (2006) -Review: Comic Books for Big Kids - Dick Tracy & E.C. Comics's Shock Suspenstories Vol. 1 (2006) -Review: Scalped No.1 (Vertigo Comics)(2007) ---PHILIP JONES GRIFFITH Review: Vietnam Inc.(2006) ---GREG IRONS Review:You Call This Art?!! A Greg Irons Retrospective (2006) --- VICTOR MOSCOSO The High Priest of Psychedelic Art: Interview (2006) --- GARY PANTER From Pee-Wee’s Playhouse to Jumbo’s Inferno: Interview (2006) ---PIN-UP ART Review: Jeepers Peppers: A Gallery of American Pin-Up Art by Louis K. Meisel (2006) ---ANDY WARHOL - Review: Andy Warhol Screen Tests, Andy Warhol "Giant" Size, & Warhol's World (2006) - Review: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Popism, & The Day The Factory Died (2006) ---ALBERTO VARGAS Review: Works From The Max Vargas Collection ---S. CLAY WILSON Buggery in The High Arts: Interview (2006)
FILM: ---ANIMATION -Review: Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation (2006) -Queer Duck: The Movie - Interview with Mike Reiss (2006)..---KENNETH ANGER Review: The Films of Kenneth Anger Vol.1 (2007) ---ART HOUSE MOVIE REVIEWS -A (2006) -Animal Charm: Golden DIgest (2006) -Lemonade Joe (2006) -Peep "TV" SHow (2006) -Tribulation 99- Alien Anomalies Under America (2006) -Who Wants to Kill Jesse? (2006) -Vera (2006)
Whe The #$&% is Jackson Pollock? (2007 )---B-MOVIE REVIEWS -The Brainiac (El Baron del Terror) (2006) -Creation of The Humanoids (2006) -Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster (2006) -Mommie, Dearest (2006) Slime City (2006) ---PETER CUSHING Reviews: Asylum, And Now the Screaming Starts, & The Beast Must Die (2006) ---JACKASS Review: Jackass Number two (2007) ---RON JEREMY Book Review: The Hardest (Working) Man In Show Business ---MIKE KUCHAR Review: Sins of The Fleshapoids(2006) ---DAVID LYNCH Review: Inland Empire (2007) ---BETTY PAGE Review: Varietease and Teaserama (2006) ---PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Review: Whoever Says The Truth Shall Die - A Film About Pier Paolo Pasolini (2006) ---ROCKY HORROR STUFF Review:Shock Treatment (2006) ---SEXPLOITATION Reviews - Girl Meets Girl Collection (2006) -Shock-O-Rama (2006) ---KEVIN SMITH Review: Clerks II (2/2007) BOOKS: ---LIZ GOLDWYN Pretty Things: The Art of Burlesque - Interview (2006) ---EVE HOWARD Over the Knee Romantic: Interview (2001)
I will be a guest performer at The Gypsy Tuesday for Open Mic night. Dakota Darkhorse to feature! Sign-up begins at 7 show starts at 8. Hope you can make it out!
Tonight, April 21 10:00 PM EST tune in to hear our selected tunes and a live chat with Babs Martin on "Howl" with host Nik Beat on CIUT 89. 5 FM or streaming live on CIUT.FM from the University of Toronto. "Howl" streams live and you can listen on-line! If you haven't heard Nik Beat's "Howl" then you are in for an hour of great entertainment!
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