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Allison

we've come together to gather stars

About Me

filmmaker, writer, professor, macarthur fellow, founder rock film and music fest, mom to 3 amazing, thankfully grown, kids Tiffany, Devon, Ruben.

My Interests



Music:



aaron kyle, alley cats, allman brothers, america, anders & woods, andre bejamin, animal collective, antoine, april march, the bags, barry ryan, beach boys, (pre-disco) bee gees, beau brummels, the bell sisters, bergen white, bert jansch, big star, biff rose, bill fay, billy eckstine, bing crosby, black dice, blackfire, blue cheer, blues magoos, blur, brill building, bob lind, bobbie gentry, booker t and the mgs, bowie, boyce & hart,(pre-disco) boz skaggs, brenton wood, brinsley schwaz, brute force, burt bacharach, buffalo springfield, byrds, caetano veloso, the cake, can, captain beefheart, carter burwell, carter family, chad and jeremy,charlie parker, charlie rich (the silver fox), cheap trick, chris hillman, chuck & mary perrin, cilla black, combustible edison, cowboy copas, the creation, the critters, cyrkle, curtis mayfield, darlene love, dave dee- dozy- beaky-mick and tich, david johanson, (strip music by) david rose and his orchestra, david sylvian, dead meadow, dead moon, diane renay, the dillards, dinosaur jr, dot allison, duran duran, dusty, eden ahbez, the electric prunes, elliot smith, elvis p and c, esquivel, eve, evie sands, france gall, fred neil, flying burrito brothers, francoise hardy, fucking champs, gale garnett, gary usher, gato barbieri, gene clark, georges delarue, george jones, geaorge harrison, george martin, gosdin brothers, grandpa jones, GTOs, gun club guy de ferran, harlan howard, harmony grass, herb alpert, herbie hancock, henry mancini, the hollies, the honey cone, howard shore, human hands, iggy, j mascis, jackie wilson, jacques dutronc, japan, jarvis cocker, jean richie, jefferson airplane, jerry goldsmith, jesse ed davis, jim & jean, joanna gault and her symphono pop scene, joannie sommers, joe boyd, joe meek, john barry, john coltrane, john doe, johnny cash, john phillips, john trudell, joni, june christie, kate bush, keely smith, jurgen kneiper, kim fowley, kinks, L7, lani hall, larry klein, laura nyro, the lazy cowgirls, lazy smoke, led zeppelin, lee hazlewood, left banke, lefty frizzell, lemon pipers, leonard cohen, lesley gore, loretta lynn, love, lulu, luther grosvenor, the luv'd ones, manfred mann, marc bolan, margo guryan, mark fosson, mark mothersbaugh, marianne faithful, marshall mathers, marvin gaye, marvin rainwater, mary hopkin, mary j. blige, mary weiss, mccartney, mc5, mel torme, memphis horns, mike johnson, mike nesmith, the millennium, the minutemen, meat puppets, miles davis, moby grape, monitor, mono in vcf, montage, the moon, the murmaids, muscle shoals rhythm section, my barbarian, my bloody valentine, nancy sinatra, nashville teens, neil young, nick drake, nick lowe, nilsson, nino tempo & april stevens, non, oasis, os lobos, os mutantes, otis redding, pat boone. patti smith, pet clark, peter & gordon, phil ochs, pink floyd, polly harvey, poppy family, public nuisance, pulp, psychedelic furs, reparata and the delrons, redd kross, richard & mimi farina, richard hawley, richard rodney bennett, ride, robert wyatt, early) rod stewart, roky erikson, runaways, sam & dave, sandie shaw, sandy denny, sandy salisbury, sandy posey, saint etienne, the scaffold, scott walker, scott mckenzie, the seeds, shadow morton, shangri-las, the shocking blue, sly stone, smog, sonic youth, smiths, smokey robinson, stax records, stone roses, sun records, suzi quatro, swan dive, the switch, syd barrett, sylvia juncosa, tim rose, television, terry melcher, thee midniters, thee shams, 13th floor elevators, throbbing gristle, tiffany anders, timi yuro, trevor lucas,turtles, twice as much, twink, twinkle, the tyde, the valerie project, vashti bunyan, warren zevon, wayne fontana and the mindbenders, wayne shorter, wendy & bonnie, william alwyn, victoria williams, wipers, wrecking crew, x, yardbirds, the zombies

Movies:


..2046, 28 Up, 3:10 To Yuma (both versions), 8 1/2, A Hard Day's Night, A Woman Is A Woman, (almost all) AIP films for 50s and 60s,Ali: Fear Eats The Soul, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Alice In The Cities, All That Heaven Allows, All You Need Is Cash, Alphaville, Backstreet (all versions), Bad Timing, Baja, Bandwagon, Beat Girl, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Bless Their Little Hearts, Blow Up, Blue Velvet, Bobbycrush, Bonnie And Clyde, Bound For Glory, Breakfast At Tiffany's,Carnival Of Souls, Charade, Charlie Is My Darling, Chinatown, Christmas On Earth, Chungking Express, Cinderella Liberty,Cisco Pike, Claire Dolan, Cleo from 5 To 7, Coal Miner's Daughter, Coming Home, Dazed And Confused, Desert Fury, Devil In The Blue Dress, Dogfight, Down And Out With The Dolls, Drugstore Cowboy, Edgeplay: A Film About The Runaways, Faces, Far From The Madding Crowd, Fargo, Fucking Amal, Get Carter (Hodges version), Giant, Gimme Shelter, Grizzly Man, Happy Together, Harold And Maude, Having A Wild Weekend, Head, Heir To An Execution, Hollywood Homicide, How To Stuff A Wild Bikini, I Know Where I'm Going, I Love You Alice B. Toklas, I shot ANy Warhol, Imitation Of Life, In A Lonely Place, In Memory Of My Father, In The Soup, Jackie Brown, (almost all) James Bond movies,JFK, King Creole, Kings Of The Road, Kiss Me Deadly, Klute, La Dolce Vita, La Rounde, Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, Last Tango In Paris, L'Atlante, Leave Her To Heaven, Letter From An Unknown Woman, Letter To Three Wives, Lilith, Linda, Living On Velvet, Lolita, Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, Lord Love A Duck, Loving You, Masculine Feminine, MC5: A True Testimonial, McCabe And Mrs. Miller, Mickey One, Mildred Pierce, Model Shop, Murder My Sweet, My Dinner With Jimi, My Foolish Heart, Naked, Nashville, Nenette et Boni, Night Moves, Night Tide, No Country For Old Men,No Direction Home, Notorious, Odd Man Out, Outlaw Josey Wales, Out Of The Past -- anything with Mitchum, Outrage, Pandora's Box, Paralax View, Paris, Texas, Peeping Tom, Penelope, Performance, Privilege, Psych Out, Purple Rose Of Cario, Pursued, Put The Camera On Me, Robin And Marion, Rock 'N' Roll Circus, Salt Of The Earth, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Shadow Of A Doubt, Shakespeare Was A Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jack's Home Movies, Shampoo, Shirley Clarke's The Cool World, Shoot The Piano Player, Smashing Time, Stardust and That'll be The Day, Smoke Signals, Sunset Boulevard,Tarnation, The Accident, The Apartment, The Aristocrats, The Band That Would Be King: Half Japanese, The Barefoot Contessa, The Bellboy, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Lebowski, The Celebration, The Departed, The Disorderly Orderly, The Earrings Of Madame De, The Flesh And The Devil, The Front, The Gleaners And I, The Go-Between, The Hired Hand, The Hours And Times, The Killing, The Last Picture Show, The Long Goodbye, The Lusty Men, The Man From Laramie, The Manchurian Candidate (both versions), The Mother And The Whore, The Naked Kiss, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Painted Veil, The Party, The Red Shoes, The Servant, The Seventh Sin, The T.A.M.I. Show, The Trip, The Way We Were, The Wild Bunch, The World Of Henry Orient, There's Aways Tomorrow, They Live By Night, Three To Get Ready (Duran Duran Notorious tour), Three Women, Thunder Road To Sir With Love, Todd Haynes' Superstar, Tonight Let's All Make Love In London, Two Lane Blacktop, Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders, Vertigo, Wild In The Streets, Wings Of Desire, Woman On The Beach...

Television:



MAD MEN! Mostly Vintage: Shindig, Hullaballoo, The Fugitive, The Rifleman,Dark Shadows, The Monkees, Dobie Gillis, Family, The Johnny Cash Show, The Fugitive, Route 66, Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond, old variety/talk shows; Ed Sullivan, Dick Cavett, David Suskind Show. Law & Order C.I., Curb Your Ethusiasm, TCM, AMC, Encore Western channel, and I am still grieving the loss of the Dragnet remake with Ed O'Neil.

Books:



"Friends, You Drank Some Darkness", a collection of Swedish Poets edited by Robert Bly, "My Life" by Isadora Duncan, "Celluloid Rock" by Alan Warner, "Girl Groups" by Alan Betrock, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by John Einerson, "Papa John" by John Phillips

Heroes:

QUANAH, IDA, WIM, VOSS, BILL W., RING, MARY, SYD, SIRK, & SARAH JACOBSON

ISADORA, GENO, DOTTIE, OLLIE, JACK, MICHAEL, AMMA, BARBARA RUBIN GIRL DIRECTOR, & JEAN THOMAS "THE TRAIPSIN' WOMAN"

and my beloved and deeply missed friend Katrin Cartlidge

To read my memories of Katrin in Salon: CLICKHERE

To visit the Katrin Cartlidge Foundation: CLICKHERE

My Blog

This Mama for Obama and why

Dear Friends,I have to start this letter with a quote from one I received from my friend, filmmaker and Cal Arts professor Jon Reiss, "I have never written to any of you for something overtly politica...
Posted by Allison on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:21:00 PST