freakpowertix

Here are the rules:

1) Only list 8 facts.
2) You must then list 8 TAGS at the end of the post. This means you must name 8 people on Buzznet who now must do the same blog.***
3) Go comment on their profile and tell them to come read yours! Mark demands participation.

1. The first movie I can remember seeing was “Ice Station Zebra.” I believe I was about 2 years old (tagging along with the ’rents at the drive-in).  A submarine trapped under the ice!  All star cast (Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown!). Claustrophic! Unforgettable!  :P

2. I’ve been obsessed with vampires since I was very little. I couldn’t really watch the soap opera Dark Shadows (when i was 5) because it scared me too much.  Only a few months before my 6th birthday, I did make it through a good chunk of the TV horror movie The Night Stalker before I had to go to bed – but asked the next morning if the hero Carl Kolchak killed the story’s vampire, for fear he’d come for me next, otherwise. I graduated to the Night Stalker tv series later (at age 8), but watched it with a rosary at the ready. And I readily appreciated Christopher Lee over Bela Lugosi, although I have nothing against Lugosi. Lee was lucky enough to be in sexier movies, to boot.

3. I was raised Catholic and tried to practice the faith until my early-to-mid 20s.  See #2.

4. I possibly knew more about Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal than any other 7 year-old in the country, thanks in large part to this record album produced by Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber – The Watergate Comedy Hour. I also dragged a neighbor kid to see All the President’s Men when I was only 10.  And Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail 1972 turned me into a Hunter S. Thompson fan in college, not Las Vegas (that came later).

5. High school started to seem like a nightmare during my junior year: glasses, braces, AND bad bad skin made me a bit of a shut-in for a span.

6. I was de facto “president” of the College Democrats at St. Mary’s College during the 1987-88 school year. Fuck the Democrats. Wimps.

7. I didn’t really get into punk rock until I was pushing 30. Repo Man had a big impact on me, though, in 1984, and I clearly remember being blown away by the Replacements “Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out” a year later. But immersion didn’t come until much later. My ex got into Green Day, which is a terrific band, especially live (but responsible for a lot of shitty copycat acts!), but she also discovered all of their supatalented peers that never moved up to major labels – Operation Ivy, Tilt, Pansy Division, the Hi-Fives, all these Lookout! Records groups, etcetera. At the same time, I was getting into the whole zine thing, in part through my friend Dishwasher Pete. Oh, yeah, and she discovered the great maximumrocknroll fanzine: there was a whole, huge world out there that I had no idea about. I was so excited by the discovery, and will always appreciate her central role in that in such a big way.

8. For various reasons, I feel like a late bloomer. And blogging helped me get over some nasty mental blocks & traumas. That’s one big reason I value the community I’ve found here. That, plus the camaraderie, global network, humor, friendship, and peer support for my ideas, writing, photography, interests.  I also like sharing myself reciprocally. Plus I like wasting time and being lazy... (I can do without the [Jeffree] Starr-fucking that eventually crept into this site, I know far more about AFI, MCR, “Blacq Audio,” and Pete Wentz than I care to [actually wish I could delete some of their images from my head, I do]).  But it’s been worth it, regardless...

i've been "tagged" several times.  Now I aim for some real big fish! (including some prodigal chilluns! ;)