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About Me

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My Interests

Art, architecture, LA & preserving whatever hasn't been razed for another strip mall or bad Home Depot makeover, lost civilizations, glam rock, Biba, fashion, '68-'78, the 20's & '30's, art deco & moderne, the ghosts of Laurel Canyon, silent film, vintage just about anything, British pop art, seeing the world, Saddhus, bad gossip blogs, groupies....but really only the ones from the 60's & 70's, early Peter Max & psychedelic poster art, my dog Sadie

Music:

Bowie, Iggy, Lou Reed, Francois de Roubaix, Lalo Schifrin, The Mamas & The Papas, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, ABBA, Gram Parsons, Willie Nelson, Alice Coltraine, Coleman Hawkins, The Smiths, Beatles, Stones, Prince Buster, Roxy Music, Eno, Deee-Lite, Brigitte Bardot, ELO, Serge Gainsbourg, Led Zep, Lord Kitchener, Love, T-Rex, Prince, Queen, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, Siouxie, Wings, Velvet Underground, Vince Guaraldi Trio, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Wham!, Young Marble Giants, La Mia Vita Violenta by Blonde Redhead, Kid A & Amnesiac by Radiohead, heaps of house & happy hardcore circa '88- '92

Movies:

Sunset Boulevard, The Cockettes, anything by Kenneth Anger & Wong Kar Wai, Stardust Memories, Manhattan, Cracked Actor, La Belle et La Bete, Belle Du Jour, Boogie Nights, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, The Royal Tenenbaums, Velvet Goldmine, Grey Gardens + The Beales of Grey Gardens, My Architect, In the Realms of the Unreal, low brow stuff like 40 Year Old Virgin

Television:

TV bores me but I still get sucked into it

Books:

The Beautiful Fall, The Secret History, My Early Years by David Hockney, Lost Hollywood, 50 Years of British Vogue, most anything by Eve Babitz, John Fante, Raymond Carver, biographies, history books, books on LA, architecture books

Heroes:

Henry Darger, YSL, Bowie, Luisa Casati, Barbara Hulanicki, Gram Parsons, David Hockney, Ossie Clark, Peter Blake, Egon Schiele, Paul Poiret, Billy Wilder for making the best movie EVER, Serge Gainsbourg, Pauline Boty, Antonio Lopez & Juan Ramos, Vivienne Westwood, Eve Babitz, Louise Brooks