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Pow-La!

some weasel took the cork out of my lunch...

About Me

Pow-La...
Shaken and Stirred!
Hedonistic: Merriam-Webster, Greek, 1 : the doctrine that pleasure or happiness is the sole or chief good in life

My Interests



Travel, wine, music, design, dancing...

Music:


Aberfeldy
Air
Alien Sex Fiend
Arvo Pärt
Bach
Banco de Gaia
Basement Jaxx
BAUHAUS
Beastie Boys

Billie Holiday
BT
Cirrus
Clan of Xymox
Cocteau Twins
COIL
Concrete Blonde
The Crystal Method
The Cure
Daniel Ash
The Darkness
David Bowie
Dead Can Dance
Death in June
Death in Vegas
Delerium
Depeche Mode
Diamanda Galas
DJ Frane
Dntel
THE DOORS
Duran Duran
Dusty 45's
Earthmonkey
Edith Piaf
Edward Ka-Spel
Einstürzende Neubauten
Erasure
Erlend Øye
FC Kahuna
Feilds of the Nephilim
Fischerspooner
FSOL
INXS
Johnny Cash
Joy Division

‘though the first bullying shards of Joy Division music are punk in sound, they don't clarify. This more than anything will become their signature - everything about them will be seized on, floridly discussed, and stay unexplained. Physical to a fault, the music exhibits all the the signs of the cerebral and none of its content - invention pours out of these dullard-geniuses, so stripped of hidden agendas that hidden agendas is all that many remark upon.’
Kasabian
The Killers
Kings of Convenience
Kruder-Dorfmeister
Kylie Minogue
Laibach
Lamb The Ledgendary Pink Dots!!!
Lemon Jelly
Lisa Gerrard
Madonna
Mantrakid
Martijn de Kleer
Massive Attack
Ministry
Miss Kitten
Modest Mouse
Morrissey
Mouse on Mars
Muslimgauze
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
New Order
Nick Drake
NIN
Nirvana
Nitzer Ebb
The Orb
Peace Orchestra
Peter Murphy
Pink Martini
Portishead
The Postal Service
Propellerheads
Queen
Sergei Rachmaninov

Röyksopp
Sigur Ros
Sisterhood

The Smiths
Soft Cell
Stray Cats
The Streets
Swans/M. Gira "Failure"
Tear Garden
Thievery Corporation
This Mortal Coil
Throbbing Gristle
Tones on Tail
Tosca
Tricky
U2
Vhs or Beta
Violent Femmes
Virgin Prunes
Visage
..
The White Stripes
The Wolfgang Press
Wire
Xymox
Electronica, New Wave, Darkwave, Downtempo, Experimental, Avant Garde, Post Punk, Lo Fi, Disco, Trip Hop, Rockabilly, Industrial, Big Band, Symphonies and Opera etc...

Movies:

I love movies... Sci Fi, Action, Animation, Cult/B, Suspense, Independent, Foreign.
Directors/Writers: Tim Burton, David Lynch, Ken Russell, Luc Besson, Coen Brothers, Michael Moore; pretty I like to be entertained, and if it's a little strange or twisted... even better!

Clockwork Orange
Sweeny Todd, Harold & Maude, Beetlejuice, The Doors, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Henry & June, Indiana Jones, Mad Max, Bladerunner, The Beastmaster, Amadeus, Fargo, The Graduate, Blue Velvet

Dracula (1931)
Lair of the White Worm, Triplets of Belleville, Alice in Wonderland, Wild at Heart, The Hunger, Blue, Amelie, Napoleon Dynamite, The Labyrinth, Leon.

Raising Arizona

My Blog

Death

So I just found out that a very close friend of mine died.  He died a month ago.  No one told me.  I'm a fucking shambles.  I missed his service, because NO ONE TOLD ME.  Not ...
Posted by Pow-La! on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:31:00 PST

Famous?

I'm Famous!
Posted by Pow-La! on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 07:31:00 PST

check it

paulainargentina.blogspot.com
Posted by Pow-La! on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:16:00 PST

Sheila liked the rodeo

Sheila liked the rodeo She'd take a ring side seat And she'd murmur, Doobee Doobee Doo She'd eat... Then one day wild Eliza bolted And knocked her off her seat She now sits in my wardrobe She's di...
Posted by Pow-La! on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:55:00 PST

Buenos Aires

I board the plane in 25 days... My tummy is getting squirley just thinking about it.  New Year's in the tropics!  I'm so used to snow or fog clouding the fireworks.  Itinerary: Firs...
Posted by Pow-La! on Sun, 04 Dec 2005 04:31:00 PST

ARGENTINA

I got my ticket!  I'm really leaving the country......  Now if I can only remember the three years of Spanish I took 15 years ago!...
Posted by Pow-La! on Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:45:00 PST

Beer in the morning

OMG the pleasures of beer in the morning..... So Darrin and I are sitting here nursing our 2 1/2 bottles of wine, smacked by a Mack truck hangovers while his two kids are screaming in the background!...
Posted by Pow-La! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mushrooms!!!!

. You scored as Mushrooms. Shrooms! You're still goin for one of the most natural drugs. You'd like to visit a whole other world, and see things you've never seen before. Fucking trippy.Mushrooms88_fo...
Posted by Pow-La! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Duran Duran

Duran Duran in concert was t'tally radical! (Arisia agreeing over my shoulder) Nanner, Nanner, Nanner................ ...
Posted by Pow-La! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Goth's guide to.... (funny!)

(Thanks Jett) A Goth's guide to... ...movie theatre etiquette 1. Sit strategically. If you are six feet tall, skinny, and skeletal, don't sit in front of a small person. While your stature reach...
Posted by Pow-La! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST