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Alexander Chow

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About Me


Currently: Art Director for NYLON Guys magazine. Freelancer for many other magazines, including British GQ, POP, Vogue, New York Times, SPIN, Entertainment Weekly, URB, Jane, Details, and more.

My Interests

AIM - deadelevators

I'd like to meet:

Freddy Krueger and Laura Palmer.

Music:

Joy Division - Closer
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds / Wish
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Skinny Puppy - Last Rights
Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Killing Joke - What's This For...?
Ministry - The Mind is...
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Phil Collins - Face Value
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Wild Swans - Bringing Home the Ashes
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju
Joni Mitchell - Blue
The Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
Neils Children These New Puritans Digitalism, Klaxons, Kitsune, etc

Movies:

Blade Runner
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The Tenant
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Lost In Translation
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
Nightmare on Elm St I & III
The Fifth Element
Chungking Express
The Descent
Leaving Las Vegas
Stay
Audition
The Machinist
ATale of Two Sisters
Hellraiser
Once

Television:

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Books:

Philip K Dick - Ubik / Three Stigmata...
Nicole Krauss - The History of Love
Michelle Tea - Valencia
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Donald Justice - Collected Poems
Dave Eggers - A Heartbreaking Work...
Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake
Alex Garland - The Beach
Harukai Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Donald Justice - Collected Poems

Heroes:

Rene Magritte
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Damien Hirst
Robert Frank
Bridget Riley
Francis Bacon
Bill Viola
Peter Saville