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Dan Mathews's Interests
General
clown art, ancient Rome, and spicy food (especially Mexican and Indian
What does grilled meat remind you of?
"Do you eat cigarette butts?"
Now this is how to handle an organ!
Music
Go! Team, Nina Hagen, Dolly Parton, Goldfrapp, Voluptous Horror of Karen Black, Loretta Lynn, Smiths, Happy Goodmans, Camera Obscura, Cocteau Twins, Pizzicato 5, Pretenders, ELO, Devo, The Doors, Yma Sumac, Swing Out Sister, Ray Conniff, The Slits, Grandaddy, Sex Pistols, Ethel Merman, Bent, Go-Go's, Claudine Longet, Jerry Jeff Walker, Esquivel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, B-52's, British Sea Power, Abba, Siouxsie & the Banshees, St. Etienne, Stephen Malkmus, and Mary Schneider, Australia's premier yodeler.
Movies
Harold & Maude, Final Destination 2, Little Miss Sunshine, Exorcist, Transamerica, Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, Amarcord, Desperate Living, Strangers on a Train, Close Encounters, Mommie Dearest, Black Christmas, Bedknobs & Broomsticks, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Team America, Willy Wonka, Waiting for Guffman, Valley of the Dolls, Five Easy Pieces, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Nashville, Night of the Hunter
Television
Strangers With Candy, Lawrence Welk, CBS Sunday Morning, Roseanne, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, HR Puffnstuff, Trilogy Of Terror with Karen Black, Movin' With Nancy (Nancy Sinatra's acid-influenced 60's special on NBC - now on dvd), and most of all Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
Books
"A History of God" by Karen Armstrong, "My Face For The World to See" by Liz Renay, "Liar's Club" by Mary Karr, "Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls, "Chaplin: My Autobiography," "America in 1876" by Weymouth/Glaser
Heroes
Tofu ManChew
Benjamin Lay, "the rebellious gnome” (1681-1760).
He was a four foot tall hunchback who was so distraught by slavery and animal cruelty that he shunned city life and lived in a cave near Philadelphia. He made his own clothes to avoid supporting slave labor as well as the killing of animals for their fur or leather, and refused to eat meat or other animal products. He occasionally ventured into the city to rant at public meetings about the hypocrisy of a supposedly religious society embracing such vicious practices, once thrusting a sword into a hollowed-out bible filled with fake blood, which he then sprayed onto the faces of shocked slave owners. Although considered a pariah by colonial society, he persuaded Benjamin Franklin to publish some of his tirades.
About me: I live just north of the Great Dismal Swamp and I love thrift shopping and honky tonking. By day I'm an animal activist and by night I'm a writer (my book, Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir just came out in paperback on Atria/Simon & Schuster - read some reviews here ). I dislike TV, especially reality TV, and anyway life is more fun to live as a participant than as a voyeur. Gotta go!
Who I'd like to meet: Alfred Hitchcock
Bobbie Gentry
Nat Turner
Robert E. Lee
Wendy O. Williams
Mata Hari
Plutarch
Pythagoras
Tura Satana
Russ Meyer
Jesus Christ
Tinkerbell
I am not in "awe" of too many people but you are certainly one of them for doing what you are doing with PeTA and for being such an out and proud gay man. My respect for you is immense. Keep it up. Love ya. *kiss*
Your book COMMITTED is so fantastic!!You have such amazing spirit and strength.Thank you for everything you are doing and have done, not just for the animals but for the animal activists like me.When it feels like too much i just read some of your book :) Hugs Sheree x
hey Dan... how was Indy? I am kicking myself in the a@#!! I was only an hour and a half away when u were there for your book signing... I could have come and been your local stalker!! :)
Dan... I just watched your interview with Pam and Larry King. It was so great. Your so awesome and you are so inspiring. God Bless everything you do. Your so fabulous!
Dan, remember when the Humane society used to eat dead chicken? Now they just finished off world vegetarian week. How exhilerating. And this zoo shit could be sorted out so easily! The "rainforest cafe" at the Cleveland Zoo Serves up all variety dead meat. FOr gosh darn sakes, Enjoy your romp into KY!~
