Ten Facts About David "Lefty" Leibowitz
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1. I am the founding member of New Jersey's pre-eminent surf gang, the Jersey Surf Diablos.

2. I am currently working on a documentary entitled "Traction Park: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park."

3. I co-founded Gotham Girls Roller Derby, an all-female roller derby league that plays monthly during the season in New York. I still announce for them.

4. I co-founded the urban exploration group The Jinx Project. We wrote a book called Invisible Frontier: Exploring the tunnels, ruins, and rooftops of hidden New York and got it published by Random House. Buy it here.

5. My band the Unliked once opened for the great GG Allin & the Murder Junkies. GG's band had lost their equipment somehow, so the bass player borrowed my guitar and amp. It was the only piece of equipment that didn't end up getting destroyed.

6. I MC'ed for the Brothers Cup, a hip-hop trio that opened for Ice Cube and Cypress Hill and was the winner of the Austin Chronicle's "Best Rap Group" award in 1993 and 1994.

7. I spent a summer as a roadie for Shelter, the band comprised of luminaries from straightedge hardcore bands like Youth of Today and Judge who decided to take their asceticism to the next level by becoming Hare Krishnas. I ate lots of good Indian vegetarian food that summer.

8. I was head referee for a Texan professional wrestling league. Ask me about when I was bit on the ass by Little Tokyo during a midget match, or when I got knocked out by the legendary Cowboy Bob Orton.

9. I played pedal steel guitar for Prince Lefty and His Ramblin' Kings for many years. We played monthly shows at Great Lakes in Park Slope, Brooklyn, covering 60's honkytonk standards by folks like Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and George Jones.

10. I infiltrated San Cristobal de las Casas during the first Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, 1993.