WHO AM ME ANYWAY?!

For those of you who have dumped into this thingy of mine and wondered who the hell am I? and why there ain't much of me on the profile?

Well, I more used to babbling off my opinions than babbling off about my self. Though, I'm sure, anybody will get a good idea if I get carried away with my opinions and, if done in person, by the amount of spit I produce.

Plus, not only am I new to this whole internet socializing mess; I'm kinda suspicious of it. I've heard and read one too many stories about innocent people turning into shut-ins by their 78th consecutive hours on the 'net. Hell, I don't trust this computer here: it keeps demanding that I initialize the word 'internet'. Talking about built-in ego.

Bitch-squealing aside, here's a go at my social resume:

NAME:
Don-O

HOME:
was born and 1/8th raised in Santa Monica, CA. Outside of a few months in living (against my will) in Roy, Utah and working in Grand Canyon, Arizona, lived all me life in LA until Dec. 2004. Now I'm stuck in Grover Beach, CA (pop. MUCH less than LA....trust me). You can smell the homesickness from here!!

AGE:
Too old to breath...at least according to what "Da Media" keeps telling me.

RELIGON & POLITICS:
I don't know. Maybe Hitler has more depth than I do, but I will admit I have a VERY reaction to: neo-cons, Fox News, american health system, attention whore politicians and celebrities, anybody who uses religion as a shield or a weapon, commercial radio, homophobia (I'm straight, but I've been around guys with testosterone coming out of the ears with one hand on their can of beer and the other grabbing their dicks for dear life. NOT pretty), drunks (I don't drink), advertising, the continuing changes in audio and video formats (this DVD-R sh*t better work!!!), telemarketers, Mr and Misses Ann Culter & Dennis Miller, and pretty much any hypocritical and reeks old big brother, his media and his arm pit smell....and same to you too Mike Love.

TV SHOWS I GLADLY WAIST TIME ON:
MST3K, I Love The 70's and 90's (never been a fan of the 80's), Daria, Fernwood/America 2-Nite, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Flying High (a cheap-o 'Coffee Tea or Me' show in 1978), WKRP In Cincinnati, SCTV, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Bakersfield PD, Bevis & Butthead, King Of The Hill, Disinformation Show, Jackass, the old 'Gong Show', etc.,

RADIO SHOWS I GLADY WAIST MORE TIME WITH:
This American Life, The Molotov Cocktail Hour, Le Show, Over The Edge, etc.,

MUSIC THAT I KILL MY TIME WITH:
Stereolab, Burt Bacharach (including Dionne Warwick), Swing Out Sister, ELO, ON-J, Martin Denny, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, Frank Zappa, The Ramones, Jimmy Smith, Steely Dan, Zootz Rift, Moog records, Samantha Fox (only for the covers), Raymond Scott, Moog records, Charles Brown, Miles Davis, Lord Buckley, Henry Rollins (just the spoken word stuff), good lounge compilations, Julie London, Talking Heads, old LA Radio air checks (like KHJ-AM and Ten-Q), Negativland, The Friends Of Dean Martinez, Pizzicato Five, Firesign Theater, Monty Python, Steve Martin, Bran Flakes, Evolution Control Committee, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Brian Wilson, They Might Be Giants, 'Weird Al' Yankovic, Dr. Demento compilations, old Blue Note compilations, Neeeeeeil Haaaaaamburgerrrrrrrrrrrrr, etc.,

BOOKS (and other publications) I BARRIED MYSELF IN:
Hunter S. Thompson, Stay Free, Murder Can Be Fun, Alan Hess, Bad Azz Mofo, Evan Dorkin, Steve Gerber, early Bill Ward, Zine World, Inner Swine, Xerography Debt, Charles Bukowski, 8 Track Mind, Cool & Strange Music (rip), Factsheet Five (rip), Peter Bagge, R. Crumb, Harvey Pekar & American Splendor, Eric Schlosser, David Sedaris, Chris Ware, Tarot The Witch Of The Black Rose (best T&A comic out there right now), etc.,

MOVIES THAT I EAT MY LIFE AWAY:
Xanadu (probably the biggest obsession I can think of in this list), Used Cars, American Splendor, Flash Gordon (1980 version), The Blues Brothers (btw, f*ck that '2000' piece of crap), Slacker, Galaxina (ONLY for Dorothy Stratton and nothing else), The Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary, So Wrong, They're Right, Local Hero, Monty Python films, Bukowski: Born Into This, Crumb, Roger & Me, Reflections Of Evil, Sideways, Forever Friends, Harold & Maude, Gumball Rally, 1941, La Dolce Vita, Spectres Of The Spectrum, Tribulation 99, etc.,

OTHER UNCATAGORIAL "JUNK" I'M STUCK IN:
Russ Meyer and anything else with big breasts (yes, I'm straight again), playing Grand Thief Auto: Vic City, drawing coming and making zines, reading zines, old Las Vegas, collecting old Las Vegas radio commercials, old Playboys (mid-60's to 1980), postcards (especially period pieces from the 50's to 70's), Taschen Books, Googie, Tiki, anime (only with big breasts) (ugh! me man again), old buildings, John Waters, old airline memorabilia, 60's and 70's pop art, etc.,

WEB STIES I'M SUCKERED INTO:
LANDWASTER BOOKS:

These poor fools published by first title to see actual print 'The Whatever Of Shmuck-O Rat'. Currently slugging myself through my second...

XANADU PRESERVATION SOCIETY:
I co-run this monolith site to one of my biggest obsessions, that 1980 "musical fantasy of all time", Xanadu! Stared Olivia Newton-John and with music by (mostly) ELO. And yes, I'm straight, too.

'JOZINE':

A personally slapped this together with my own hands (and it shows). It's on my other bigger obsession: 'Josie & The Pussycats' and the rightful creator, Dan DeCarlo. BTW F*ck Archies Comics and that piece of shit movie.

That's all fer now as of 3/14/05. Subject to change without thinking.
Don-O