Zane Smith - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am ex-San Francisco rock-n-roll refugee who fell off the face of the earth in 02'. In 04'i found myself in NYC re-born as a hardcore chef and general kitchen deviant. I now spend my time trying to convince wealthy long islanders to eat well and to stop going to bad restaurants. Victory will be mine..oh, yes...Z

My Interests

Restaurants, deviants, vintage country music, punk rawk, all things lounge and retro, classic pin-ups, tiki culture, horror films, my dog ramone, books, good eats...

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people doing interesting things..

Music:

Exotica and Lounge, Tiki, Rockabilly, Classic Country, Old School Hip Hop, Classic Metal and Punk, Anything Interesting...

Movies:

Old horror films, anything with Barbara Steele or Rosalba Neri, documentary stuff, 70's explotation films, alt-porn, strange, Russ Meyer, Argento, Fulci, Kitschy Stuff

Television:

No time for TV....

Books:

Klosterman, cooking,too many to list

Heroes:

My mom

My Blog

Current Obsessions

Tiki Decor Capitols Ultra-Lounge Series Thai Fish Sauce British Hip-Hop Gus Soda (Cranberry-Lime) Chipotle's Carnita's Burritos Tivo-ing every Good Eats episode 1950's Jazz (Art Pepper, Chet Baker, Mi...
Posted by Zane Smith on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:56:00 PST

Best of 16-20

16. Brazilian Girls "Self Titled"...The sexiest record of the year by far and probably the coolest band around right now..If you dont know them they are sultry electronic jazz (kinda..hard to exp...
Posted by Zane Smith on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:46:00 PST

Best of 11 - 15

11. Mary Gauthier "Mercy Now"..I cant explain how much i liked this record..Mary's songs are so rampant with heartbreak and hard living that they just stick to you..She didnt write her first song till...
Posted by Zane Smith on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:51:00 PST

My best of 05"

Well, like most of the people on my list of friends i am obssessed with music and spend and enormous sum of $$$ on music...So here is my top 20 for 05'..Some of these records did not come out in 05' b...
Posted by Zane Smith on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:48:00 PST