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Alan

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About Me



My Interests

Music, films, art, architecture, graphic design, long distance running, Peter Saville, Jean Michel Basquiat, Mies Van Der Rohe, Lebbeus Woods, Zaha Hadid, Barbara Kruger, Shynola, Impresa Uniqa.

I'd like to meet:

When he was still with us, "El Gordo" Porcel ("Porny Porcel") Also, La Cicciolina, but Koons beat me to it. Fuck.

Music:

Primal Scream, Boards of Canada, Underworld, Death in Vegas, South, Kasabian, LFO, Blur, Autechre, Richard Ashcroft, Bola, Badly Drawn Boy, Air, David Holmes, Pulp, Chris Clark, Two Lone Swordsmen, Andrew Weatherall, Plaid, David Bowie, Boom Bip, Swayzak, Leftfield, Unkle, Mum, M83, Desert Sessions, Eagles of Death Metal, The Kills, Mogwai, Phoenix, Oasis, Massive Attack, John Frusciante, Savath and Savalas, A Gun Called Tension, The Strokes, Solotempo, Isan, Signer, Trevor Jackson, Photek, Spiritualized, New Order, Silver Apples, Rilo Kiley, Scott Walker, Giorgio Moroder, Ben Watt, The Givens Kids, Buzzin' Fly, Warp, Roule, Soma, Mo' Wax, Morr, Lex, Guidance, Skam, F Comm, 240 Volts, Rephlex, Output, Twisted Nerve, Ed Banger.

Movies:

Breathless, The Low Down, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Masculine Feminine, Sexy Beast, Blow-Up, Irreversible, Crash (Cronenberg film, not that travesty of an Oscar winner), Basquiat, 24 Hour Party People, Aberdeen, State Of Grace, All About My Mother, Dangerous Game, Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, Thief, Miami Vice, Heat, L'Auberge Espagnole, Les Poupees Russes, Hamlet (Almereyda version w/ Ethan Hawke), most Kubrick, most David Lynch (NOT Mulholland Drive- awful film), Gilliam, Cronenberg, Winterbottom, Haneke.

Television:

The Office, The Prisoner, Homicide, EastEnders, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, 24, Lost, Doctor Who?, Scrubs, Paula Deen's Home Cooking, Hell's Kitchen, The Magic Garden, What's Happening?

Books:

Hunter Thompson, Will Self, Martin Amis, J.G. Ballard, Henry Miller, Yukio Mishima, Benjamin Tammuz's "Minotaur"

Heroes:

"I can remember standing by the wall, and the guns shot above our heads, and we kissed, as though nothing could fall. And the shame was on the other side. We could beat them forever and ever..."