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Chad A:

Ziiip bleep bloop baaarroiing!

About Me

"On a crowded beach washed by the sun, he puts his headphones on. His modern world revolves around the synthesizer's song. Full of future thoughts and thrills, his senses slip away. He's a European legacy, a culture for today."

My Interests

ZoLO , weirdness, irony, vinyl, synths, spazzing, buggin', video, ideas, obscurity, bananas, soymilk, pinball, rubbish, design, mischief, feminism, nonsense, willing suspension of disbelief, rhythm boxes, 'Pataphysics, coincidence, performance, improvisation, urban decay, et. al.

I'd like to meet:

Spots, dots, bozos, people who are chuffed to be naff, a middle-aged mongoloid from Memphis, fizgigs and zolophiles, squares, triangles, ladies with appliances, girls with machines, stubborn beast-flesh creeping back, another marijuanabe.

Music:

ZoLo , Zonk, Wavo, Romo, Prog, RIO, Cold Wave, Avant-Rock, Experimental, Postpunk, (ex. Wazmo Nariz , Stump , Polysics , P-Model , XTC, Ultravox, Gentle Giant, Gong , Cardiacs , Etron Fou Leloublan, Fibonaccis , Albert Marcoeur , Debile Menthol, John Foxx, Chrisma , Ptose, Sparks, AKA, Der Plan, Deadbeats, Lene Lovich, Los Microwaves, Denim and Diamonds , Mobiles, Family Fodder, ELP, Split Enz , Patrick D. Martin, Wha-Ha-Ha, Hikasu, Confusional Quartet, Stranglers , Ceramic Hello, DAF, Aviador Dro , Pink Section, Dancing Cigarettes, Art Moulu, Snakefinger, Renaldo & The Loaf, Klaus Nomi , Gary Numan, Picky Picnic, Space Negroes, Goebbels & Harth, Plastics , No Secrets in the Family, Honeymoon Killers , Polyrock, Lucrate Milk, The Yummy Fur , Geza X, Devo, Pere Ubu, Oho , Dow Jones & The Industrials, KAS Product, Trin-Tran , Palais Schaumburg, Drinking Electricity, Voigt 465, Robotnicka , The Lucky Constrictors, everything on Zick Zack, Old School Hip Hop, turntable experimentation, Moog records, tape music, etc.

Movies:

Forbidden Zone, Liquid Sky, Arrebato, Persona, Joysticks, Ladies and Gentlemen: the Fabulous Stains, Sayadian's Dr. Caligari, Seaside Treats, The Men Who Make the Music, Terror Vision, nearly every film by Pedro Almodovar, plus most films by: Hal Hartley, Fellini, Bu&ntildeuel, Jeunet, Svankmajer, Lynch; also educational 16mm, Super 8, shorts, and any film with Crispin Glover in it (esp. High School USA, and Twister).

Television:

YouTube

Books:

Something Else Press, Atlas Press , OuLiPo, DaDa, Surrealism, Fluxus, conceptual, concrete & typographical poetry, Russian Cubo-Futurism, biographies of eccentrics, Absurdist theatre, "Found Poems" by Bern Porter, "Alphabetical Africa" by Walter Abish, and books by: Jarry, Roussel, Queneau, Roubaud, Pavic, Ionesco, Beckett, Calvino, Schwitters, Kruchenyck, Kharms, Rabelais, et. al.

Heroes:

Alfred Jarry, Pee-Wee Herman, Crispin Glover, Klaus Nomi, Nina Hagen, Eric Satie, George Maciunas, Geza X, King Vidiot, Defacely Marmeister, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, The Kipper Kids