currently:
i am mainly interested in lying in bed and reading 'sandman' comics.
late-night creepy confessions!and boys and desserts. basically.
and napsitos, wherever/whenever i can steal 'em.
CREEPY CREW 4 LYFEWANDERING THE AISLES OF TARGET ENDLESSLY
THE GOTH DANCE, ESP. WITH JESSIE, ESP. TO 'BALL OF CONFUSION' AND OTHER LOVE & ROCKETS JAMS
(and the hipster teapot, can't help it, it just happens)backseat doowop girl groups!
always: being busy with 10 things at once.
also always: flappers.
VAMPIRES!!!
also: fetish parties.
good DESIGN. MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE. the manufactured object.
living in/travelling to paris, london, miami, new york. speaking french. trying to remember spanish and speaking it to strangers when drunk.
sweden & scandinavia in general...
art history
architecture history
urban design and planning
urban sociology
various style movements involving two or more of the following:
males as dandies, ambiguous notions of sexuality, loud music and all-night dances
especially but not limited to
fin-de-siecle/decadent europe (esp. france), 60s mod, 70s glam, club kids, and the mid-90s rave scene (good times!)
if you fail to recognize the common threads among them we can't be friends.
all kinds of art: wanky super-conceptual contemporary stuff
ART NOUVEAU
ancient greek sculpture
dutch baroque painting
the history painting wing of the louvre
victorian architecture (esp. romanesque revival)
international style architecture...
sugar-free energy drinks and SPARKS
'outsider music' (the shaggs, jandek, langley schools project, kids of widney high etc.).
ANYTHING HACIENDA or FACTORY RECORDS!
the new york YANKEES.
jewelry-making.
scheming, planning, always scheming. *destroy destroy destroy*
I'd like to meet:
people who greet me with a rattling bottle of pharmaceuticals will automatically gain a warm, fuzzy place in my heart.
PEOPLE WHO ARE GENUINE, FUN, and MAKIN' SHIT HAPPEN! i dig people who are stoked on what they're doing!
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quotes...
Boat Car Guy: Man this must be like... parallel universe night. You know that cat that was just in here? Just ran out the door? Well, he comes up to the counter, you know, and I say "What's the word, turd?" And he lays down this burrito and he kind of looks at me, kind of stares at me and says, "I have but recently returned from the valley of the shadow of death. I'm rapturously breathing in all the odors and essences of life. I've been to the brink of total oblivion. I remember and ferment the desire to remember everything."
Wiley: So, what did you say to that?
Boat Car Guy: Well, I mean, what could I say? I said, "If you're going to microwave that burrito, I want you to poke holes in the plastic wrapping because they explode. And I'm tired of cleaning up your little burrito doings. You dig me?"
Music:
'WHAT MUSIC DO YOU LISTEN TO?' IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO ANSWER SIMPLY.
THE SHORT ANSWER:
i get down equally to BRITPOP - GLAM ROCK - POST-PUNK - - acid house/electro-house/tech-house/non-boring mnml techno - OLD punk rock - old goth shit - shoegaze/post-rock/intelligent heavy shit - GOOD HIP HOP - mash-ups - new wave - no wave - dark wave...
i really adore classic chicago house and detroit techno.
very few people understand this! don't even bother trying to pigeonhole my tastes. closing your ears based on subcultural limits is for the insecure. what i like doesn't dictate how i look AND VICE VERSA. deal!
currently, 'recreationally':+fucking sludgy heavy shit... honestly at this point if my ears aren't bleeding i'm bored!
+non-boring electro, techno, tech-house
+non-boring hip-hop
+some random new albums this very second 06-15-2008: TORCHE / black mountain / fucked up / pissed jeans / monotonix / clockcleaner / times new viking / no age / lil wayne...but it doesn't really matter because in the end i always come back to the same damn manchester bands.
my all time favorites for varying reasons include david bowie, t-rex (and tyrannosaurus rex), new york dolls/johnny thunders/heartbreakers, DEAD BOYS, X, big star, the faces, did i mention the JACOBITES and solo nikki sudden BUZZCOCKS have been one of my favorites since i was 14 and will always remain so!!!! same with the descendents. oh and E.L.O.!!!
blur, the church!!, the damned, bob dylan up to 'blood on the tracks', erasure, the field mice, the gun club, the happy mondays, jesus & mary chain, love and rockets, my chemical romance (fuck yeah i said it!!!), GRAM PARSONS, the pet shop boys, PLACEBO!, pulp, the ramones, the rolling stones, elliott smith, the stone roses, THIS MORTAL COIL, velvet underground, the waterboys, wolfsheim, wire, and the beatles' 'abbey road.' and all the native tongues-DAISY age-early 90s-etc type hip hop groups... yeah...
AS FOR THE REST:
*anything and everything on these labels: 4AD, bomp, FACTORY/les disques du crepuscule, sarah, creation, vice, mute,rough trade, warp, KOMPAKT, gomma, intl DJ gigolos, ed banger, GET PHYSICAL, def jux
*old dirty 60s/70s shit, psych rock, garage
*trashy glam and glitter shit
*old punk and post-punk
*darker new-wave-era stuff, synth-pop, darkwave, EBM
*old skool rave jams, electro-house bangers, mnml techno, funky house, soulful drum n bass/jungle, any ill ish with bass bass bass
*BAGGY FOREVER!!! hah and related electronic-tinged rock
*british rock and indie of various eras, whatever they did it better
*60s SOUL: STAX stax stax!! NORTHERN, tamla motown...
*old ska/rocksteady/reggae
*good hip hop
*some classic country
Movies:
the andy warhol/paul morrissey/joe dalessandro trio: 'FLESH,' 'TRASH' and 'HEAT'
24 hour party people
ALUCARDA
angels in america
basquiat
benny & joon
BLADE RUNNER
blow-up
dead alive
the DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART II: the metal years
do the right thing
downtown 81
DRUGSTORE COWBOY
heathers
hedwig and the angry inch (well i preferred it onstage)
the last temptation of christ
the HUNGER
the idiots
kids
labyrinth
the legend of leigh bowery
LOST BOYS
my own private idaho
pumping iron (seriously)
quadrophenia
SECRETARY
sid & nancy
true romance
velvet goldmine
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
and TRAINSPOTTING of course
Television:
i've been known to watch it.
Books:
TRAINSPOTTING and just about every other book by irvine welsh, except maybe 'filth'
everything bret easton ellis... obviously especially 'less than zero' and 'glamourama,' and i've come to really like 'the informers' a lot
'bad behavior' and most stuff by mary gaitskill
'london fields' - martin amis
'bright lights big city' and 'brightness falls' - jay mcinerney
disco bloodbath - james st. james
poppy z. brite when she still wrote goth vampire smut, and yes i am aware of how dorky that is
JT leroy stuff from when everyone still thought he was a real person
a rebours / against the grain - j.k. huysmans
me talk pretty one day - david sedaris
the unbearable lightness of being - kundera
slaughterhouse five - vonnegut
stranger in a strange land - heinlein
the world according to garp - irving
and lately i rediscovered my old stash of tank girl comics and magazines from the 90s.
Heroes:
shaun ryder, debbie harry, ian curtis etc.
NAN GOLDIN. peter hujar.
LEIGH BOWERY. klaus nomi.
ana mendieta (fuck carl andre!), yves klein, joseph beuys, tracey emin, felix gonzalez-torres
