Dr. Snakeskin's Page

Name:

Darius James

Bio:

Born in 1954 and not dead yet.

Website:

http://glembotzkynyc.com/dariusjames/index.php

Info For Stalkers - Email, IM, Skype and Whatnot:

Contact me here....

J-O-B:

What's that?

Recordings:

Louie 'Pops' Armstrong; Fats Waller; Miles Davis; John Coltrane; Charlie Parker; Sun Ra and his Arkestra; http://www.wkcr.org/ ; Jimi Hendrix; Diamanda Galas; Roberta Flack; Throbbing Gristle; Jemeel Moondoc; Demo Moe; Electrocute; Boy from Brazil; Nick Drake; Jeff Buckley; Washington Phllips; Jamie Liddell; Songs from a Random House; Lo Galluccio; Howlin' Wolf; Fishbone; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Funkedelic; The Nasty Party; Esquerita; John Lee Hooker; Phil Spector; http:// www.femmes-breaks.com/ (this shit is SERIOUSLY funky--no half-steppin' here) ; John Lee Hooker; Johnny Cash; Thelonius Monk; http://www.wfmu.org/ ; Bud Powell; Nina Simone; early Sun-Records Elvis; Roberta Flack; Louis Jordan; Phil Schnapp; Frank Sinatra; Keith Richards; Beck's Mtv Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack; Velvet Underground; Quio "like Oooo..." Ennio Morricone; Captain Beefheart; The Fugs; Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys; Nico; Flo n' Eddie; James Booker; Mr. Airplane Man; http://www.ubu.com/sound/index.html

Flick Picks:

King Kong; Godzilla; The Seventh Victim; I Walked with a Zombie; Cat People; Curse of the Cat People; The Leopard Man; Cooley High; Touch of Evil; Daughter of Dracula; Angel Heart; Cruising; Good Fellas; Taxi Driver; J.F.K.; White of the Eye; Mario Bava's Black Sunday; Shirley Clarke's The Cool World; The Bride of Frankenstein; Super Fly; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Shivers (aka They Came from Within); Putney Swope; Coonskin; Welcome Home, Brother Charles; ANYTHING with Mantan Moreland; La Maman et La Putain; Once Upon a Time in the West; Ernest Saves Christmas; Brain Dead; Freeway; Freeway II: Confessions of a Trick Baby; Penetentiary I, II, III (with the Midnight Thump!); Ed Wood; Bonnie & Clyde; Barbarella; Earth Vs. Flying Saucers; Invasion of the Body Snatiches and the Phil Kaufman remake; El Topo; The Abominable Dr. Phibes; Theater of Blood; Horror Hospital; Badlands; Roma; An American Werewolf in London; Dr. Strangelove; After the Fox; Dead Man; Night of the Hunter; Rosemary's Baby; Repulsion; Saloon Kitty; The Bad Seed; ANYTHING with Nastassia Kinksi; NOTHING with Uma Thurman (which pretty much cancels out the films of Quentin Tarantino with three exceptions); Salo; Fantomas; Witchcraft through the Ages; Haille Gerima's Bush Mama; Freaks; Sweet, Sweetback's Baadassssss' Song; The P-Funk movie the Hudlin Brothers never got to make; Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!; God Told Me To; Maya Deren; Island of Lost Souls; Corman's The Masque of the Red Death; Edgar Ulmer's Detour and The Black Cat; Fleischer Brother cartoons; Gumby animations; http://www.ubu.com/film/

The Written Word:

Valdimir Nabokov's "Lolita" and "Laughter in the Dark"; the short stories of Edgar Allen Poe; Octave Mirbeau's "The Torture Garden"; Miquel Angel Asturias' "Mulata"; Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn"; Gore Vidal's "Live from Golgatha" and his current attacks on the empire (this is one man who knows where the bodies are buried) ; William Burroughs' "Naked Lunch"; Terry Southern's "Magic Christian"; Robert Gover's "One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding" and "Here goes Kitten"; Salie-Ann Glassman's "Vodu Visions" Monique Wittig's "Les Guerilleres"; anything by Kathy Acker and Dennis Cooper; "Demons of the Flesh" by Zeena and Nikolas Shreck; "Notes of a Hanging Judge" by Stanley Crouch; Amos Vogel's "Film as Subversive Art"; Charles Chestnutt's "The Conjure Woman"; Maya Deren's "The Divine Horseman"; Chester Himes' Harlem cycle with Coffin Ed and Gravedigger, "The Quality of Hurt" and "My Life of Absurdity" (has kept my head together here); Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Kappa"; "Dope Fiend" by Donald Goines; "God's Boot" by Brad Fox"; "Blues for a Black Cat" by Boris Vian; "Revolution for the Hell of It" by Abbie Hoffman; "Black Sunlight" by Damdudzo Marechera; the works of Michael O'Donohue; "The Splintered Day" by V.K. Mina (love this woman); "Lipstick Traces"; "The Werewolf of Paris" by Guy Endore; "Flash of the Spirit" by Dr. Robert Farris Thompson; Amos Tutola in general; Jazz Dance: The Story of Vernacular Dance; Cook books; The Big Book of Conspiracies; The Big Book of the Unexplained; CHRON!IC!RIOTS!PA!SM! by Fly; The Red Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor; As Serious As Your Life by Valerie Wilmer; Every Napkin Scribble by Stewart Home (genius in the extreme. exquisite); Hear Me Talkin' To Ya by Shapiro and Hentoff; Hot Rain by Lo Galluccio; Gumbo Ya-Ya by Saxon, Dreyer and Tallant; The National Lampoon's Would You Buy A Used War From This Man?, "Dr. John Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of a Night Tripper" (I reread this book at least once a year. Its hilarious without trying to be and it gives amazing insights into the roots of American pop culture. Superior to the Miles autobiography. Jack Rummel really nails it). During this last reading, I had a scary memory: At the age of 19, I was riding in a car driven by JAMES BOOKER, Dr. John's keyboard genius, from Newton, Mass. to New Haven, Ct. They had a gig at Carnegie (sp?) Hall. I had hitched hiked from New Haven to check them out and they gave me a ride back. Read the book and you will realize why it might be scary had I only known. However, they were all very nice to me. Dr. John made sure I was looked after by a former member of the San Francisco Dolls)

Who Are What You Eat:

Semi-Vegetarian

Orientation

Vanilla with Fudge Swirl

Band Members:

Whoever I can afford at the time of the gig.

Band Influences:

Satan