Dec 05
I was watching “The Matador” the other day – that figures, the new Bond is out and I’m watching Pierce Brosan in a comedy or whatever it was supposed to be – and they had the song “Garbage Man” by The Cramps in it. That reminded me how much I liked The Cramps. So here’s a couple of Cramp videos. One is “Garbage Man” and the other is “Human Fly” played live at a California mental hospital in 1978. They’re both better than “The Matador.”
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
