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Shane Gill

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About Me

"I'm a chicken, What do I know from a bomb?"

My Interests

Duende, Magical Realism, The Black Bloc, Notre Dame de Paris, Karl Marx, Queens, Cobblestone, Pop Art, Joan of Arc, Montmartre, Guitars, Galway, The Piano

I'd like to meet:

"A kind of heightened reality in which elements of the miraculous could appear while seeming natural and unforced."

Music:

PJ Harvey + John Parish: Dance Hall At Louse Point, John Mayall and The Blues Breakers: Blues Breakers, Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man: Out Of Season, Ben Kweller: Ben Kweller, Antony and The Johnson's: I Am A Bird Now, Nick Cave: Live Seeds, Radiohead: In Rainbows, PJ Harvey: White Chalk, Grinderman: Grinderman, The Beatles: White Album, Beirut: The Flying Club Cub, Bruce Springsteen: Magic, M.I.A.: Kala, The National: Boxer, Chuck Berry: The Great 28, Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, The Cure: Pornography, Bat For Lashes: Fur and Gold

Movies:

On The Waterfront, A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, Mean Streets, Good Will Hunting, The Champ, Raging Bull, Style Wars, The Outsiders

Television:

Conan O'Brien, Hardball, Charlie Rose and Simon Schama's Power of Art

Books:

Albert Camus, Pablo Neruda, Karl Marx, Nick Cave, Edgar Snow, John Reed, Charles Baudelaire, James Baldwin, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Federico Garcia Lorca, Peter Guralnick, Arthur Rimbaud, Jonathan Safran Foer, Subcomandante Marcos, Piri Thomas, T.J. English, Francis Wheen

Heroes:

Cousin Brucie