Name

Kami

About Me

Soft-spoken, radically progressive/progressively radical, music lovin'-tattooed &
dredlock'd old, reclusive punk chick.

You can be my friend if...

You have a pulse (sorry zombies -- love the look, hate the bite). Open minds with a yen for equality and social justice are especially welcome. Lovers of punk, ska and reggae from the 60s, 70s and 80s get extra brownie points. And extra, UBER points if you went to shows at Club COD & Space Place back in the early 80s in Chicago (or even remember when Exit was on Wells street).

Favorite bands:

The Ruts, Crass, Pure Hell, The Dream Dates, Xray Spex, Bad Brains, Poison Girls, The Dirtbombs, The A-Lines, The Objex, The Dead Boys, The Voids, The Screamers, Crime, Government Warning, VKTMS, Black Flag (only the Keith Morris era), Hey Girl!, Culture, Autistic Youth, Israel Vibration, Mannequin Men, Nat King Cole, 7 seconds, JFA, The Bags (The Alice Bag Band not the other one), Death, Thee Headcoats, Holy Shit!, Shotwell, Hortense and Alton Ellis, Stiff Little Fingers, Teen Idles, The Baseball Furies, The Rezillos/Revillos, A Patia No, Cococoma, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Electric Eels, The Ramones, Radio Birdman, Demented Are Go, Peter Tosh, The Devotchkas, The Penetrators, Black Uhuru, Theo and The Skyscrapers, Vee Dee, Mission of Burma, Ella Fitzgerald, The Pleasure Kills, Pablo Moses, The Buzzcocks, Judy Mowatt, Patti Smith Group, Conflict, The Fall, Subhumans, Los Crudos, The Cramps, Elliott Smith, Flux of Pink Indians, Penetration, Digital Leather, Stephen Marley, The Noisettes, The Virus, Nina Simone, 999, A Global Threat, Suicide, The Slits, Zounds, Algebra Suicide, Government Issue, Dead Kennedys, The Adolescents, Youth Brigade, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Nuns, Minor Threat, Abrasive Wheels, Blonde Redhead, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Varukers, The Magnetic Fields, LeTigre, Lunachicks, Tony Bennett, Bobby Womack, The Weirdos, The Pixies, Sweet, Missing Persons, The Selecter, The Boys Next Door (Nick Cave's 1st band, not the other one), The Sonics, Donny Hathaway, Slade, Strange Rebel Frequency, Joe Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Link Ray, The Seeds, Suzie Quatro, The Horrors, The Rotten Fruits, Grinderman, Diamanda Galas, Ella Fitzgerald, Janis Ian, The Sounds, The Damned, Crime and The City Solution, The Replacements, Husker Du, Joanne Shenandoah, Rema Rema, Suicide, Cocteau Twins, Janis Joplin, Toots and the Maytals, Sam Cooke, APB, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dick Dale, Gang of Four, Texas Terri, Frank Zappa, P-Funk, Thelonius Monk, Johnny Thunders, The Crystals, Dead Can Dance, New Bomb Turks, Billie Holiday, Sonic Youth, New York Dolls, Professor Longhair, MDC, The Muffs, Shonen Knife, Edith Piaf, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Model Army, The Poison Girls, Billy Bragg, Led Zeppelin, The Effigies, The Pogues (with Shane), Agent Orange, English Beat, Op Ivy, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, The Dils, Madness, Youth Gone Mad (the old punk band, not the newer one), Let's Go Bowling, Radiohead, Blondie, Bad Manners, Stereototal, Ted Leo, Iggy Pop, The Waitresses, The Jam, The Bay City Rollers, The Specials, The Toilet Boys, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mephiskapheles, The Scofflaws, Desmond Dekker, E.L.O., Cream, The Who, Fugazi, Television, Vivaldi, Boomtown Rats, Rudimentary Peni, Pere Ubu, The Runaways, Betty Blowtorch, Stereolab, Beethoven and Mozart--to name a few.

Favorite movies:

Repo Man, Rock n Roll High School, Lady Snowblood, Basquiat, The Wings of Desire, Howl's Moving Castle, Diva, Once Were Warriors, Spirited Away, Hotel Rwanda, V for Vendetta, Run Lola Run, East of Eden, The Hours, The Lost City, A Bronx Tale, Super Session, La Femme Nikita, Lucky Number Slevin, The Maltese Falcon, The Devil's Backbone, Monster's Ball, Pulp Fiction, Waiting for Guffman, Amelie, The City of Lost Children, Smoke Signals, Sexy Beast, Wag the Dog, Snatch, Donnie Brasco, Fight Club, Nightmare Before Christmas, Babycakes, Mad Max, Wild In the Streets, Times Square, The Godfather, Slaves of New York, Spirited Away, The Warriors, Angelheart, Mystery Men, The Hunger, Dogtown and Zboys, Another State of Mind, Suburbia (the old punk rock movie, not the newer one), Waking Life, Sling Blade, My Bodyguard, Bless the Beasts and the Children, Valley Girl, Welcome to the Doll House, The Matrix, Alien and Aliens, Like Water for Chocolate, Rebel Without a Cause, Quadrophenia, Tank Girl, What the Bleep Do We Know, and a whole lot more.

Favorite books:

Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, A Room of One's Own, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Love and Rockets, 30 Days of Night, To Kill a Mockingbird, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Thru The Fire, Wild Seed, The Neon Wilderness, Burning in Water-Drowning in Flame, Snowcrash, Twisted Sisters, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Working, Mrs. Dalloway, On the Road With the Ramones, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Johnny Cash's autobiographies, Baker Street: Honour Among Punks and Children of The Night, and many many more.

Favorite Magazines:

Being marginalized has always been such fun. Gabba Gabba Gazette and The Coolest Retard (based out of the early Chicago punk scene) were the first punk zines I was ever into as a budding tween in late 70s Chicago. I've never had ANY use for mainstream women's magazines. 'Bust' was a refreshing change, but sometimes they wade a little too much into the trendy pop culture pool for my tastes. I'll still take them over Cosmo or Vogue, though. I still dig Maximum Rock n Roll, although I was a whole lot more religious about grabbing every issue back in the 80s and 90s. I also tune into Tattoo magazine throughout the year. Just wish there was a more even display of people of color with ink -- and, yes, I'm well aware of Urban Ink, but the way they display/portray tattooed women makes me wanna hurl and rip my dreads from my skull.

Favorite TV shows:

I don't watch a whole hell of a lot of TV, but I've been known to tune in to Dexter, Nurse Jackie, Project Runway, True Blood, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Late Night w/David Letterman and LA Ink. The Bob Newhart Show, The Munsters, The Mod Squad, WKRP in Cincinnati, The Cosby Show, Bewitched, Welcome Back Kotter, The Nightstalker, The Twilight Zone, Hawaii 5-O, Julia, Lost in Space, The Partridge Family, Room 222, The Monkees, HR Pufnstuff, Banana Splits and Sigmund and the Seamonsters are among my faves in classic TV.

Orientation:

Straight

Zodiac Sign

Libra

Kids?:

I like being an 'honorary aunt' to my friends' kids, but motherhood is not for me

Smoke/Drink?

no/yes