Occupation(s): Editorial Director, MrSkin.com
Hobbies: Whatever only requires one hand.
Interests: Obscenity, horror, (s)exploitation, 70s Times Square, berserk movies, Howard Stern, Mad magazine, National Lampoon, vaudeville, Borscht Belt comedians, hairy armpit chicks, crazy-long nipples, fiery red pubes, dreadlocks on white women, Disney, sneaker douchery, tattoos, the history of pornography.
Music: 60s psychedelia, 70s AM radio, vintage glam/glitter/garage, bubblegum of any era, noisy art rackets, black/death/doom metal, Top 40 girly pop, power electronics, novelty records, soundtracks, rock operas, concept albums.
Films (Non-Medicine): 2001: A Space Odyssey, Forbidden Zone, Russ Meyer (esp. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), John Waters (esp. Female Trouble), Showgirls, Head (Monkees), Lemora, Xanadu, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Sleepaway Camp, Billy Jack, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (74), Texas Chain Saw Massacre Part 2 (86), Eraserhead, Hardcore (1979), Cruising, Caligula, Sextette, Cannibal Ferox, Cannibal Holocaust, Freeway, Blood Sucking Freaks, Smile, Maniac, Death Race 2000, the Ilsa series, Joe, Alice Sweet Alice, Mandingo, Drum, Skidoo, Fight Club, Dr. Phibes, Je Taime Moi Non Plus, The Pit, Lord Love a Duck, Thriller: A Cruel Picture, Farewell Uncle Tom, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, I Spit on Your Grave.
Books:
MR. SKIN'S SKINTASTIC VIDEO GUIDE!, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Ghastly One, Tales of Times Square by Josh Alan Friedman, National Lampoon 1964 Yearbook Parody, Behold a Pale Horse, "Saturday Night" by Hill & Weingrad, Yes, I Can by Sammy Davis Jr., Will by G. Gordon Liddy, Flicker by Theodore Roszak, Danny Peary, Medved Bros, Mark Twain, James Thurber, Chuck Pahlahniuk, Thomas Berger, Martin Amis, Feral House, Fantagraphics, FAB Press, Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
Artists: Tony Millionaire, Peter Bagge, Dan Clowes, Gregory Jacobsen, Melinda Fries
Heroes: Caligula, Idia Amins, Jim Jones
Enemies: Sonic Youth, Jim Jarmusch ... pretty much anything that drips out of NYC wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses indoors.
Dreams: Wet.
Quote: "My entire life had been flushed down the toilet and I realized it was my own fingers jiggling the handle." – Selwyn Harris