WHO’S WHO: Contributors to The Catalog of Cool Online
DICK BLACKBURN co-wrote, directed and acted in the 1973 horror film Lemora and wrote the 1982 black comedy Eating Raoul. He wrote and directed for TV’s Tales from the Darkside and co-created the series Beakman’s World. He’s written for The Village Voice, The London Guardian, Evergreen Review, the Austin Chronicle and the L.A. Weekly.
KIM COOPER (Kitten with a Hip) edits Scram,
an occasional journal of unpopular culture, and with David Smay corrals the
contributors to pop anthologies like Bubblegum
Is the Naked Truth and Lost
in the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed.
PERRY LANE contributed to the original Catalog of Cool and
Too Cool and was a member of Napa Valley’s Idlers car club.
ALLEN "CHARMIN" LARMAN is producer and host of the Red Hot radio show on KCSN-FM. He was also co-compiler of the Chitlin' Circuit Soul compilation on Rhino Records and provided musical research for the soundtrack to the film O' Brother Where Art Thou. He presently serves as president of the Marvin Sease Fan Club.
BOB MERLIS is a regular contributor to Automobile
magazine. He recently annotated ZZ Top’s boxed set Chrome,
Smoke and BBQ and is working on a good all-around tan.
GENE SCULATTI (Editorial Top Cat) is the author of The Catalog of
Cool,
Too Cool, The
100 Best Selling Albums of the 60s and, with Davin Seay, San
Francisco Nights: The Psychedelic Music Trip. With Ronn Spencer, he
co-hosted and produced the radio shows The Cool & The Crazy (KCRW-FM,
Santa Monica, 1984-88) and Unprovoked Attack (KPFK, Los Angeles, 1979-80).
DAVIN SEAY recently wrote about the last days of the Doors for Mojo
magazine. He has penned biographies of Al
Green and Snoop
Dogg. The first installment of his serialized novel, The Purple,
is now available at www.thepurple.net.
RONN SPENCER is a graphic designer and photographer. He was art director
for the Sex Pistols' American advertising and merchandising campaign, and his
clients have included Bug Music, E! Entertainment Television and Warner Bros.
Records. Recently, he has taught design and photography at the University of
Arizona and The Tucson Museum of Art School. Ronn's latest CD design is Marshall
Crenshaw's What's
In the Bag? You can view his photography at www.ronnspencer.com.
JIM TROMBETTA contributed to the original Catalog of Cool and
Too Cool .
DANNY WEIZMANN is a socko vaudevillian singer, songwriter, tap dancer
and all-around noodnik. Dig his website
or download his tunes on Apple's iTunes. He digs Tony Bruno, The Beverly
Hillbillies and the lyrics of T.S.O.L. the very most.
SAL ZERO wrote the screenplay for Martian Crime Wave and was a featured writer for the humor magazines Loco and Shook Up.
And the initials belong to...
Editors: Gene Sculatti GS, Kim Cooper KC
Alan Karp AK
Alan Nashigian AN
Amy Linden AL
Andy Meisler AM
Art Fein AF
Bill Bentley BB
Byron Laursen BL
Chris Davidson CD
Chris Schneider CS
Chuck Thezge CT
Danny Weizmann DW
David Chute DC
Davin Seay DS
Domenic Priore DP
Dr. Demento DD
Ed Ward EW
Gregg Turner GT
JD King JDK
Jim Trombetta JT
