Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Who you are??
Q: What’s the most curious record in your collection?
A: I have a first edition of Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. I love to play this for company and then discuss the actions of aliens.
Q: List some artists who have shaped your creative life.
A: Okay, here are a few that just come to me for now: Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Harry Belafonte, Stevie Wonder, John Lennon, Paul Mccartney, Beethoven, Mick Jagger, Tom Waits, Thelonius Monk, Prince Rogers Nelson, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Bach, Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Brian Carroll, Ennio Morricone, Nick Cave, Joey/Johnny/Dee Dee, Saul Hudson, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Chaim Witz, Johnny Rotten, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Thom Yorke, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, George Romero, Andy Warhol, Woody Allen, Jack Kirby ,Charles M. Schulz.
Q: List some songs that were beacons for you.
A: What a Wonderful World, Thriller, We Didn’t Start the Fire, HBO 1983 Intro, E.T. Theme, Hava Nagila, Jenny Says, Higher Ground, Paint it Black, When the Man Comes Around, Fraggle Rock Theme, Rock n Roll Singer, Power of Love, Highway Man, Red Right Hand, Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat, Like a Rolling Stone, All Along the Watch Tower, Impressions, Breathe Me, Powerman, God Gave Rock n Roll to You, Call Me Al, Sound of Silence, People Are Strange, Pink Panther Theme.
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and a girl in a restored but beat up old cadillac ambulance with a 35mm camera, my dog, the Preacher series, a katana sword while driving the Earth.
Q: What’s hard for you?
A: Carpentry, patience with others, looking at spiders, finding things when you need them, last level of CONTRA, choosing a good pair of suspenders, growing up, drawing the line between reality and fantasy, backflips on a pogo stick.
Q: What’s wrong with the world?
A: Some woman’s dog made millions while a farmer made 30,000 dollars, greed, power, people confusing wealth with happiness, reality television, unstable education.
Q: Favorite scenes in movies?
A: Bruce Campbell laying down the law in Army of Darkness,
King Kong escaping the Broadway theater and seeing Fay Wray again,
Tim Curry singing Sweet Transvestite,
1st scene in Jaws,
Lewbowski Bowling scenes,
Dave Disconnecting Hal9000,
Steve Martin enraged at the car Rental Place in Planes, Trains and Automobiles,
the transformation scene in An American Werewolf in London,
Last scene in Night of the Living Dead,
Jack Nicholson announcing the baseball game in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,
the introduction of Dark Helmet in Space Balls,
Alvy winning Annie back then losing her,
Harry waits in the road to speak with Anna but she walks past him in The Third Man.
Q: Can you describe a few other scenes from movies that have always stayed with you?
A: The Explorers building their carnival spaceship to fly into space,
when the vampires attack the people at the house at the end of Lost Boys,
dinner table scene in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
Rocky Balboa training,
Ghostbusters first job in the hotel,
Zipadee Doo Dah in Song of the South,
Linda Blair’s voice changing to the devils in the Exorcist,
Jack Nicholson having a drink at the bar at the Overlook Hotel,
Drugstore scene in Natural Born Killers,
Feed Me Seymore song in Little Shop of Horrors,
Everything laughing at Bruce Campbell in the Cabin in Evil Dead 2,
the waterslide in the Goonies,
the Frenchman in Monty Python’s Holy Grail,
David Bowie’s Magic Dance song in Labyrinth,
Antonius Block plays chess with death in the Seventh Seal,
Freddy Kruger using a victim as a marionette with his veins in Nightmare on Elm St. 3.
Q: Can you tell me an odd thing that happened in an odd place? Any thoughts?
A: Everyday 21 newborn babies will be given to the wrong parents in hospitals, Elvis was originally blonde, Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing, 22% of the time, a pizza will arrive faster that an ambulance in Great Britain, 3 people die every year, testing if a 9 volt battery works on their tongue, the 'Guinness Book Of Records' holds the record for being the most stolen book in public libraries, The worlds best known word is 'okay', the second most well-known word is Coca-Cola, In 1995 a Japanese trawler sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a living cow from 30,000 feet, Charles Chaplin once won 3rd prize in a 'Charles Chaplin look-a-like contest, Only one book has been printed in more copies than the Bible - the IKEA-catalogue, Donald Duck' was banned in Finland, because he doesn't wear pants, Did you know that originally a danish guy invented the burglar alarm, but unfortunately it got stolen, More people die from a champagne cork popping, than from poison spiders. ( This is who we are and what we do.) - Lazy Boy -
Q: Most interesting recording you own?
A: It’s an old rare recording of a lengthy interview of Stanley Kubrick talking about his films and life. It is magical.
Q: You are fascinated with irony, what is irony?
A: Irony is spending half of your life making fire extinguishers, and then dying in a fire because you didn't have a fire extinguisher.
Q: Do you have words to live by?
A: “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.
Q: What remarkable things have you found in unexpected places?
A:
1. Real beauty: oil stains left by cars in a parking lot.
2. Shoe shine stands that look like thrones.
3. Pictures of other people in pawn shops.
4. Great acoustics: a hotel balcony.
5. Best food: homemade beef jerky in flagstaff, arizona.
6. Most gift shops: orlando, florida.
8. Most unlikely location for a Chicano crowd: A Star Wars convention.
9. Most poverty: Washington D.C.
10. Convicts all dressed in orange picking up trash on the side of a highway in unison.
11. A tall chinese man with red hair and a southern accent.
12. Best nights sleep: A Drive-In in the middle of nowhere.
13. Most people who wear red pants: San Francisco.
14. Most beautiful horses: Detroit
15. In Lawrence, KS. 2003, a man stepped outside with a samurai sword and threatened to kill people with his sword. He was eventually taken to jail.
16. Largest vagina - Anna Swan (1846-1888) She was 7’8” Gave birth to a 26 lb baby. They say her vagina was 6 inches wide.
Q: Most thrilling musical experience?
A: Probably the most thrilling was when i was young I got to see the Boston Pops with John Williams perform and not the performance, but them tuning up. Like the scales on the clarinets and flutes/ the warming up of the trumpets and french horns, the melodies on the piano, the audience talking and stomping their feet, the squeaks of the chairs, the percussion being set and jingled, mixed all together was brilliant.
Q: What would you have liked to see but were born too late for?
A: 12th century Renaissance festivals,
Vaudeville performances,
burning of witches,
pyramids being built,
the last stone being set for the Great Wall of China,
the film premieres of Haxan, Metropolis, King Kong,
and the reading of the War of the Worlds by Orson Welles.
Q: What is a gentleman?
A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
Q: Favorite Bucky Fuller quote?
A: “The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.”
Q: What do you wonder about?
A:
1. Do plants talk with other plants?
2. Do caterpillars know they are going to turn into butterflies?
3. Is there a drain at the bottom of the ocean?
4. Do raindrops prefer to fall on certain things?
5. Is there more rape at the equator or the North Pole?
6. Will we eventually us humans marry robots?
7. Why do zombies like brains?
8. Can you really break glass by singing in a high pitch?
9. Do animals believe in a God?
10. Do ants ever daydream about becoming independent?
Q: What are some sounds you like?
A:
Baseball games on old transistor radios.
Seagulls chirping on the beach.
Hungry Cows mooing.
Rubbing a wet finger on a wine glass.
Old Typewriters.
Wolves howling.
Raindrops on a tin roof.
Steel Drums.
A jackhammer in a big city.
A fight Bell.
Pennies in a glass jar being shaken.
Horses running.
Light sabers hitting.
A 50 piece band tuning up.
Wood Burning.
Popcorn popping.
Pigeons.
Humming Birds.
A Japanese chef chopping vegetables on a wood block.
British police sirens.
Lawn mowing on weekends.
When Batman hits a villain.
Old timey cameras taking pictures.
Opening a new jar of pickles.
New york stock exchange.
Reel countdowns before movies.
Skateboarders skating on wood surfaces.
Slicing apples.
Zippo lighters.
Fans cheering their teams on to win.
Lots of silverware dropping on marble floor.
Rollercoasters.
Muscle Cars.
Piano lessons from an apartment window.
Old cash registers.
Saloon pianos from western movies.
Pinball machines.
Firecrackers.
Auctioneers.
Trolley Bells.
Q: What’s scary to you?
A:
1. Spiders crawling on me when I don’t know it.
2. Turbulence on any airline.
3. Jail door closing.
4. Gunfire at night.
5. Car dies in the middle of nowhere when it just begins to get dark and rains.
6. Loose rabid dogs.
7. Driving around sharp curves on a high cliff while being tired.
8. Falling out of a roller coaster midway through the ride.
9. In a movie…which wire do you cut to stop the time bomb, the green or the blue.
10. Germans with giant machine guns.
11. Falling through ice on a lake while ice skating and being drifted down.
12. Side Effects of test drugs.
13. Going in for surgery and the doctors doing the wrong surgery.
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