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ed_bracho

My mission's to kill time. Time's mission is to kill me.

About Me

Writer / Journalist / Radio Host & Producer *****************************Stuff I like_ laughter / reading / dropout culture / cumulus clouds / indie rock / noir movies / Samuel Beckett / amour fou / Wittgenstein / static reptiles / independent media / punk / Voyage au bout de la nuit / Bach / Schopenhauer / typography / Szymborska / electronica / Bárbaro Rivas / Blade Runner / hard-line dada / Lana Turner / arepas / neo-ludites / Boltanski / graffiti art / traveling light / paganism / 8 ½ / cybergnostics / Baudelaire / Turkish cuisine / César Aira / cotton clothes / Charlie Hebdo / King Lear / Santiago & Marcela / ennui / qahwa / Diane Arbus / South Park / Michaux / islands / California King Snake / Abstract expressionism / psychedelia / Lemebel / The Munsters / coral sand / Cassavetes & Rowlands / poetic terrorism / Antonioni / post-punk / Humphrey Bogart / puffs / ID magazine / Beethoven / photography / Ibn Arabi / burlesque performance / Cy Twombly / warm-hearted irony / ocassional football (soccer) / NME / palm trees / Will Self / silence / loud music / Yvonne Decarlo / The Night of the Iguana / mystic hedonism / Wild at Heart / Hölderlin / avant-garde jazz / sea / graphic design / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / sheesha smoking / Ficciones / militant idleness / Murakami / salsa brava / Russ Meyer / Tottenham Hotspurs / The Tempest & Caliban / Nutella / chaos theory & the necessary chaos…

My Interests

Music:

"It's extraordinary how powerful bad music can be" -Noël Coward-/////////////////////////////////////////////Some stuff I listen to_ Liars, Neon Blonde, Mew, We Are Wolves, Bloc Party, Giddy Motors, Sightings, The Notwist, Oval, Pole, etc. // Pixies, Sonic Youth, Wolfgang Press, The Smiths, Cabaret Voltaire, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, Björk, Pavement, Cat Power, New Order, etc.// Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Can, Sex Pistols, Pattie Smith, The Fall, Joy Division, The Clash, Throbbing Gristle, DNA, The Bad Seeds, etc. ////////////////////////////////ACADEMIC FAVORITES: Bach, T. Tallis, Corelli, Geminiani, Purcell, Händel, Telemann, Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Spohr, Brahms, Berlioz, H. Wolf, Grieg, Saint-Saëns, M. Reger, Britten, Satie, Respighi, Shostakovich, Messiaen, S. Gubaidulina, A. Part. ////////////////////////////////////JAZZ / SALSA & LATIN: Miles Davies, Gil Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Gerry Mulligan, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, David Murray, John Zorn, Tortoise, Tim Berne, Bill Laswell // Hector Lavoe, Maelo, Willie Colón, Fania All Star, Dimensión Latina, Tito Rodriguez, Agustín Lara, Daniel Santos, Felipe Pirela, Celia Cruz, Henry Fiol.

Movies:

"A cow is more relevant than a movie" -Jack Palance-

Television:

"I find TV highly educational. Each time someone puts it on, I go to another room to read a book" -Groucho Marx-

Books:

"What mess has not been said already in verse or prose?" -Roberto Bolaño-

Heroes:

"You can't be heroe" -David BowieNot-