Scotty D

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Construction
Occupation Business Representative /Painters Union
Location Cranston, Rhode Island, United States
Introduction Long time freelance writer ex-film and rock nitcrit with The Providence Phoenix/aka/The New Paper, current film columnist with Providence Monthly, lyricist and social coordinater for The Dino Club, 21 year rank and file member of the IUPAT, currently Labor Kingpin of LU 195, longtime worshipper of Sam Shepard, Carl Yastrzemski and Lee Marvin
Favorite Movies (10, At this point in time) Mean Streets Citizen Kane Some Like It Hot The Searchers Vertigo The Wild Bunch The Long Goodbye Blue Velvet Rio Bravo Do The Right Thing
Favorite Music Iggy Pop (and The Stooges) Brian Wilson (and the Beach Boys) Lou Reed (and The Velvet Underground) Johnny Thunders (and The New York Dolls) Beatles, Stones, Ramones, Mink DeVille, Dylan, John Cale, Kinks, Wilco, White Stripes, Alejandro Escevedo, MC5, Johhny Cash, The Raspberries, Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson, Prince, The DB's, Alex Chilton, The Replacements, The Small Faces, Hank Williams Sr., Hoagy Carmichel, Steve Earle, Beck, Lee Hazelwood, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra
Favorite Books A Fan's Notes-Frederick Exley Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams-Nick Tosches The Night Alone:A Novel-Richard Meltzer 92 in the Shade-Thomas McGuane On the Road-Jack Kerouac The American Cinema-Andrew Sarris Suspects-David Thomson Pyschotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung-Lester Bangs