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Simon

a conquistador of the useless

About Me

the skinny motherfucker with the (not so) high voice, bluffing castellano in isolation, drinking coffee before 9.00, running on empty and getting out.

My Interests

6 am from every direction.

I'd like to meet:

girls, mostly...

Music:

Brian Eno, Erk Satie, Kate Bush, Bruce Springsteen, Black Flag, Lou Reed, Antioch Arrow, White Rainbow, Pandit Pran Nath, Scott Walker, Lungfish, Crass, Fela Kuti, the whole Ethiopiques series, Nina Simone, Ivor Cutler, Robert Ashley, Pere Ubu, Popol Vuh, The Temptations, Rose Royce, Rhys Chatham, Neu!, Can, Sylvester, Boredoms, The Faith, The Germs, Nation Of Ulysses...

Movies:

John Cassavetes, Werner Herzog, Jean Luc Godard, David Lynch, Lars Von Trier, Alfred Hitchcock, John Waters, Wim Wenders, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman Also Twelve Angry Men and pretty much anything featuring James Stewart.

Books:

Raymond Carver, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph Conrad, Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Noam Chomsky, JD Salinger, Pablo Neruda, Mikhail Bulgakov, Chris Leo and a lot of crap about music theory...

My Blog

Midweek mundanities of minimalist masters

Spotted so far this week:Terry Riley, riding his bike the wrong way down Bleecker.Steve Reich, picking his nose in the bathroom at the World Financial Centre.Stay tuned for lurid tales of La Monte You...
Posted by Simon on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:58:00 PST