Gil
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Advertising |
| Occupation | Online advertising sales rep |
| Location | Lawrence, KS, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | HI! I'm a stuck-up elitist vegetarian post-punker musician/writer/screenwriter. I've been in about two dozen punk and other bands, two films and three music videos, wrote and directed my first commercial in 2005 and appeared and co-wrote two episodes of a local public access TV show. I have good common sense but generally elect to not pay any attention to it. Coffee snob, music snob & snob all around; I'm into Amiga computers and Major League Soccer, the Kansas City Wizards specifically. I'm known as Cardinal Sin in the Church of the SubGenius, and my first national publication credit was on six pages of their fourth book, Revelation X, the "Bob" Apocryphon. I'm still waiting for my check. I was friends with William S. Burroughs and interviewed him. I've also interviewed Robert Anton Wilson, Greg Gihn of Black Flag, Kevin Seconds, Dag Nasty, Naked Raygun, Stanton Friedman, Leah Haley and Marc Davenport. Socio-politically, I'm an Animal activist and Libertarian with anarchist leanings. Militant vegan and chronically out-of-work writer. |
| Interests | I don't play lots of video games, but I love Fallout. Fallout 2. Waiting for Fallout 3. I'm at my happiest and most creative when drumming. I've got the best drum kit I've ever had in my life and am really enjoy developing new beats and playing to the songs of my favorite bands (see below) and getting the drum lines exactly perfect. Lately, I've taken to creating my own digital music, "Dope Beats", tearing down other songs and bits of sounds from media and building them up in a totally different, new form. Sort of like Burroughs' cut-up method, but with music. On top of this I sprinkle talk radio, audio books, whatever I find interesting. It's all the creativity of being in a band without any of the personality conflicts! Drumming, writing game software, Screenwriting, Gourmet vegetarian cooking, reading, Coast to Coast AM, cumpulsory cat-handling, yak-tackling, fishwinking, MagicTheGathering-smashing, Needle-teasing, brook-cooking, Same-Sex Handshaking, Pagan Obfuscation/Rustling, Bus-Thrusting, Up's Syndrome, Dysfunctional Evuncular truncation, Whovian movement, Tax-Whacking, Moonbase tasting, Nessie Wrestling, Scot-Tossing (not you, Scot), Wizard-drizzling, Aftermath handling, Bouts of Fallout, Theater petering, Drive-in Kipling, Thurman-Hurdling, space alien draining, mopwater bottling, Pants-trance-sending, Covert yogurt-gurgling, Taffy-Staffing, Crab-apple management, Choke-Hold-Yodeling, Stiffing Tiffany, Joss-Tossing, ex-wife-stifling, dope-groping, unprecedented jet-setting, drug-juggling & wind-tunnel binging, |
| Favorite movies | Planet Terror (not so much "Death Proof"), Horror Rises from the Tomb, Escape from Sobibor, The Good German, the Good Shepherd, Poltergeist, Alien/Aliens, anything with Christopher Walken, or Christopher Lee, Lord of the Rings *and flies*, The Road Warrior, The Ultimate Warrior, Escape from New York, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Hellboy, Carnival of Souls, Munich, anything with "of the dead" or "living dead" in the title, Monster (written and directed by school buddy and one-time bandmate Patty Jenkins), An American Werewolf in London, the Aviator, Bedazzled (both), Blade I, II and III, Blade Runner, Blood Feast, Brazil, Bubba Ho-Tep, Casino, Casablanca, The Corporation, the Crow (screenwritten by close personal friend John Shirley--read everything you can get your hands on by him, start with Crawlers or Wetbones), Dagon, Dark City, Dawn of the Dead (both), the Day after Tomorrow, the Deer Hunter, Dog Soldiers (really worth seeing), Doctor Strangelove, Doctor Who (all the movies from Peter Cushing to 1996's Fox television movie with Paul McGann and The Curse of Fatal Death with Rowan Atkinson) Domino, the Evil Dead trilogy, Great Balls of Fire!, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (although the TV show was far better), Land of the Dead, the Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Mad Max, Crash (both), Robocop, Saws I, II and III, the Scorpion King, Shallow Grave (Christopher Eccleston rules), SLC Punk, Sin City, Spider Man I and II, Spinal Tap, Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan, Team America: World Police, Unforgiven, Underworld (1, not so much 2), Withnail and I, X-Men I II and III, Young Frankenstein and 28 Days Later. |
| Favorite music | Oh, yes, yes. Devo, the Dickies, Echo &; the Bunnymen, Ian McCullough, Will Sergeant, Bad Brains, Iggy Pop, The Panther Moderns, Obsession, SadoNation, David Bowie, Buzzcocks, Circle Jerks, The Clash, The Creature Comforts, Ultimate Fakebook, Dag Nasty, Cycle Sluts from Hell, The Dammned, Jihad Jerry and the Evildoers, the Didjits, Thomas Dolby, Einstein's Secret Orchestra, Electrafixion, Government Issue, Philip Glass, The Knockout Pills, The Living End, Morrissey, the Meatmen, the Misfits, Naked Raygun, Dead Kennedys, Psychedelic Furs, Presidents of the United States of America, the Rutles, Reverend Horton Heat, Joey Ramone, The Ramones, Social Distortion, Soul Side, Hyperopia, Cryin' Out Loud, Supersuckers, Todd Rundgren, music like Goblin but NOT Goblin, U.K. Subs, Broken Bones, Adan and the Ants, Brand X Barbie, the Fishstix, the Wipeouters, Yello, the Micronotz, Wayback Machine, Eleven Eleven, 2-Mile Death Plunge. Have a listen and tell me what you think. |
| Favorite books | (Authors) and friends* John Shirley*, Bruce Sterling*, Wm Gibson, Wm Burroughs*, Phillip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Robert Anton Wilson*, Joe Bob Briggs* If Chins Could Kill: Diary of a B-Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell, the Traveler, the Specialist, How To Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion, Pattern Recognition, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: M15, M16 And the Shayler Affair, Atomic Iran, Bigfoot: Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, Crash at Corona, Ghost in the Shell, Profoundly Disturbing: Movies that Shocked the World, Into the Fringe, Visitors from Time: The Secret of the UFOs, Taken, Lost was the Key, Unlocking Alien Closets, the Illuminatus! trilogy, the Western Lands trilogy, Nova Express, the Ticket that Exploded, Exterminator!, Zeitgeist, Heavy Weather, Globalhead, The Artificial Kid, the Difference Engine, Snow Crash, American Gods, Neuropolitique, Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore, World War Z. There's lots more books I adore, but I could type for days and not really make a dent. I know you know what I mean. |
You've broken up with your old band and are about to release your first solo album. Please write the liner notes:
What a bunch of nice guys they were. I hope they like what I'm doing now.