[David Bowie with Louise Lecavalier in London, 1989]
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Glam rock
"All the young dudes,
Carry the news.
Mod culture
"I'm the face, baby,
is that clear?
Subcultures
Hinduism
Tattoos and body modification
Androgyny
Fetishes
Phobias
Archetypes
Writing
Pop art
Surrealism
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What Pete Townshend has to say about me:
At 12:26 PM, The Boy Who Heard Music said...
Your Blog is SO SPOHISTICATED!!! (spelt wrong deliberately). Wandered here by accident and recognised your name - you have been so COOL to Rachel. Pete TOWNSHEND. (We meet at last)
[Check out this blog comment from PETE TOWNSHEND to ME right here. ]
I'd like to meet David Bowie in this world . . .
. . . and Andy Warhol in the next.
For me, there are two kinds of music:
David Bowie-- and everything else.
[David Bowie, New York, 2007]
David Bowie
The Who (including solo Townshend)
The Beatles (including solo Harrison and Lennon)
Iggy Pop and/or The Stooges
Jérôme Soligny
Patti Smith
The Rolling Stones
Rachel Fuller
Mikey Cuthbert
The Velvet Underground (and solo Lou Reed and John Cale)
The Cars (including solo Ric Ocasek)
Roxy Music (and solo Eno)
The Psychedelic Furs
Richard Hell and the Voidoids
Meatloaf
Zveri
Queen
Peaches
The Front Porch Swingin' Liquor Pigs
Green Day
The Boomtown Rats
Pink Floyd,
The Small Faces,
Ricky Nelson,
Tin Machine,
Boy George,
Vince Taylor and the Playboys,
Einsturzende Neubauten,
Aretha Franklin,
Public Image Ltd.,
The B-52's,
Steve Burns,
Inflatable Boy Clams,
Xiu Xiu,
Jane's Addiction,
The Cure,
Spice Girls,
Tina Turner,
Nine Inch Nails,
The Replacements,
Hindustan,
Mott the Hoople,
Neutral Milk Hotel,
Pearl Jam,
Suicide,
The Decemberists,
Tom Waits,
T-Rex,
The Kinks,
Alice Cooper,
Erkin Koray,
The New York Dolls,
The Animals,
Stevie Wonder,
The Arcade Fire,
Buddy Holly,
Johnny Cash,
Missing Persons,
Elvis,
James Brown,
The Hazzards,
The Clash,
Joan Jett,
GrandMaster Flash,
The Pretenders,
Modest Mouse,
Run DMC,
Pogues,
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy,
Parliament/Funkadelic,
Little Richard,
The Gossip,
Frank Zappa,
Laibach,
Jimi Hendrix,
Black Sabbath,
The Mekons,
Regina Spektor,
The Jam,
Bob Dylan,
Patti LaBelle,
The Secret Machines,
Die Krupps,
Public Enemy,
B. B. King,
Tiny Tim,
The Dead Milkmen,
Toadies,
Neil Young,
Blur,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Big Star,
Kraftwerk,
Tesla,
Leonard Cohen,
Cole Porter,
Motorhead,
Ben E. King,
The Ronettes,
Bad Brains,
Donovan,
Camper Van Beethoven,
The Pet Shop Boys,
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet,
Kelly,
Vince Taylor,
Twisted Sister,
The White Iron Band,
The Quik,
The Bonzo Dog Do Da Band,
Gavin Friday,
Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
The White Stripes,
The Sex Pistols,
Janis Joplin
One hit wonders.
I'm also a sucker for musicals/operas.
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Life On Mars is the most beautiful song ever written.
Top Albums You Need:
Richard E. Grant is the greatest actor of our era.
"I have of late,
but wherefore I know not,
lost all my mirth and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition
that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory;
This most excellent canopy the air,
look you,
this mighty o'rehanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire; why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
What a piece of work is a man,
how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a God!
The beauty of the world, paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Man delights not me, no, nor women neither, nor women neither.
Withnail and I
The Man Who Fell to Earth is the most beautiful movie ever made.
Amadeus
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Kids Are Alright
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Basquiat
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Life and Times of Andy Warhol - Superstar
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Quadrophenia
Cracked Actor
Psycho (the 1960 version)
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
Annie Hall
Coffee and Cigarettes
Any Eddie Izzard stand-up routine
Jurassic Park
Capote
A Hard Day's Night
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Jaws
The Image
Clue
Cannibal Tours
An Inconvenient Truth
Strangers With Candy
Rasputin (the HBO film)
The Prestige
A Clockwork Orange
This Is Spinal Tap
Animal House
Gangster No. 1
Spellbound
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (with Jeremy Brett)
The Kids in the Hall
Classic Star Trek
Strangers With Candy
Posh Nosh
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job
Tom Goes to the Mayor
Anything of Alan Partridge
The Young Ones
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
The Whitest Kids U'Know
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Rocko's Modern Life
Little Britain
Rutland Weekend Television
Monk
The Simpsons
The Prisoner
Family Guy
Any nature shows, especially Steve Irwin.
Comedy Central Presents (or other various stand-up comedy shows)
The entire VH1 Classic channel
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Upanishads
1984 by George Orwell
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again by Andy Warhol
The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
Hose's Neck by Pete Townshend
I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews
Without Feathers by Woody Allen
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Right when I was being shot and ever since,
I knew that I was watching television.
The channels switch, but it's all television."
-
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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David Bowie is my muse.
For creating music for the pure love of art.
Pete Townshend is my guru.
"These are my fucking friends. They may be your fucking icons, but they're my fucking friends. And they're dead."
George Harrison is my brother.
For so many things.
S. Moline,
E. Mrja,
R. Meyer,
D. Mullins.
I admire:
Anyone who creates art.
Anyone who lives peacfully and respectfully.
Anyone who still believes in all that lovely hippie shit.
Nikola Tesla
My fictional heroes--
Thomas Jerome Newton
Jack 'Strafer' Ceilliers
Jay Gatsby
Dr. Frank N' Furter