It was the summer of 1976 in Los Angeles and The Ramones were playing second bill to the Flamin’ Groovies at The Roxy. Across the pond, The Sex Pistols were still months away from achieving everlasting infamy by calling their host a “fucking rotter” while live on British TV. Meanwhile, in a Kentucky Fried Chicken parking lot off Third Street in LA’s Fairfax District, an 11-year-old Marc Canter caught his fellow classmate, Saul Hudson (a.k.a. a just about teenage Slash of Guns N’ Roses), suspiciously eyeballing Canter’s mini-bike parked outside. In those days there was a lot of bike stealing. “I was one of the thieves, I know, ” Slash laughs. ”It’s quite possible I was thinking about taking off with it because I used to be like that back then. Anyhow, that’s how [Marc and I] met and weve been friends ever since.”
NOT INTO: Negativity, irresponsibility, side aches on the treadmill, and any kind of drug you snort.
MAKES ME HAPPY: Anything tiny, flowers, tea, and art.
MAKES ME SAD: Animal cruelty and obscene wealth.
HOBBIES: Dancing, skating, working out, posing nude, watching TV series on DVD, riding my bike, drawing, cross stitching, making greeting cards, reading, and writing.
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Chapstick, beer, sunglasses, Bovi, and love.
VICES: Junk food.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Watching movies, playing video games, reading, cooking, sleeping, playing with kitty, shopping, driving, and making arts & crafts.
“Back then there was this golden age of journalism.”
-Neil Strauss
Neil Strauss has a talent for honing in on the very essence of who a person is. It’s an attribute that has served him well as an interviewer for publications such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone, as a writer penning biographical books with the likes of Mötley Crüe (The Dirt) and Jenna Jameson (How To Make Love Like A Porn Star), and in his other life, as Style, the seduction guru and author of the pick-up bible, The Game.
INTO: Murder By Death, forensics, film editing, music making, sleeping, Siouxsie, the art of soap operas, country music, Cute Cannibals, claymation, tails, roadkill, reading upside-down, crying babies, painting on the public, bikes, real emo, skramz, playing shows, steampunk, Satan, Jewish people.
HOBBIES: Making movies, making music, making faces, making pictures, making cakes, making sex, Mercs, buying mice, buying fish, buying Chapstick, riding bikes, riding my bike again, riding dudes, working on bikes, working my hips (not).
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: My dog (Siouxsie), water, computer, avocados, dental floss.
VICES: I have none.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Sleeping and/or on my bike.
“I’m afraid of the Amish, that’s about it.”
-Scott Sigler
Scott Sigler has been building an army right under your nose. It’s been getting bigger for years, and it might finally be too big to ignore. Thousands of fans have listened to podcasts of his books, and now he’s taking over bookstores everywhere with Infected, his unsettling tale of something… unusual… under your skin.
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NOT INTO: Normal porn, I don’t know why – it just feels wrong, fake people, slimey food, liars, arrogant people, war films, mummies boys, spiders, being cold, feet.
MAKES ME HAPPY: The mice on the underground, being comfortable with someone, meeting new people, making true friends, smiling, being warm, outgoing people, Miu Miu, bread, road trips, box sets, pandas, jellyfish, letters, surprises, gifts.
MAKES ME SAD: Liars, two faced people, beans, being cold, being too hot, people that make folders on MySpace and/or Facebook for their “tatts.”
HOBBIES: Video games, music, traveling, gigs, guitar, singing, and travel. I really want to get into yoga, anyone want to come with me?
5 THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT: Phone, key, necklace, camera, Miu Miu.
VICES: Cake, boys with green eyes, hair dye, and drop E riffs.
I SPEND MOST OF MY FREE TIME: Playing video games or on trains. I’d like to go skiing, stay in a log cabin, ride in a hot air balloon, and to go camping.
