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Billy

There is no problem that cannot be solved by the proper application of beer.

About Me

Writing about myself makes me nervous.... and sometimes pretentious. *shrug*
Former angst-ridden industrial/Goth computer geek kid turned avant/indie/whatever computer geek mid-(I mean late-) 20s art fag... I'll rock it out to anything from Skinny Puppy to Django Reinhardt to Bloc Party.
Equally happy drinking cheap beer at House of Billiards as I am spouting off smokey theories about Basquiat's use of color at MOCA... and much happier at a museum than at Micky's (but definitely enjoy an occassional champage brunch at the Abbey)
I have an strange crush on Taylor Hicks.
Sometimes I am too sarcastic for my own good.
Musician, performance artist, and computer programmer turned hair stylist (and please, no mincing namby pamby hairstylist stereotypes) living in Santa Monica.
I've composed performance soundtracks that have toured the world from London to Slovenia, opened for Margaret Cho in my underware, performed as part of OutFest's Platinum experiemental art division three times and I still think the best parts of my life are ahead of me.

My Interests

music, performance art, computers, theatre, hot buttered gay monkey sex, Vidal Sassoon, cutting hair, hair color, beer, art, MOCA, museums, food, theatre, musicals, Camel Lights, feeling superior, infereriority complexes, my dog Chicken, electronic music, audio production, dive bars, Barney Frank, designers, Prada, Dolce and Gabbana

I'd like to meet:

I enjoy the company of people who can hold a multisyllabic conversation... who can define the word insipid and try not to be...
who can watch Salo and Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion back to back and thoroughly enjoy both...
People who don't live for circuit parties.
People who define success by happiness rather than finances (tho I'm by no means an ascetic...)
people who didn't vote for Bush.
Anyone who loves Barney Frank. Alexi Sayle.

Music:

Coil, The Replacements, Oingo Boingo, The Butchies, Guided By Voices, Sleater-Kinney, The Fall, Peter Gabriel, Throwing Muses, Grandaddy, John Auer, Radiohead, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Mogwai, Phil Western, Polyphonic Spree, Red House Painters, Manic Street Preachers, Hidden Cameras, Throwing Muses, Tahiti 80, Teitur, The Pogues, Mercury Rev, John Spencer Blues Explosion, Hood, M. Ward, American Music Club, The Fuzztones, Link Protrudi and the Jaymen, Killing Joke, Air, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Nat King Cole, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Gary Jules, Anti-Pop Consortium, Bardo Pond, Flying Saucer Attack, Flaming Lips, Blind Idiot God, Bowery Electric, Aube, Blue Nile, The Butchies, Bush Tetras, The Carpenters, Butthole Surfers, Nick Drake, Mark Kozelek, Controlled Bleeding, Sam Cooke, My Favorite, Julian Cope, cornelius, Elvis Costello, Current 93, Low, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Labradford, Man or Astroman?, Leonard Cohen, Stephen Sondheim, ? and the Mysterians, Silver Scooter, Frank Sinatra, Sky Cries Mary, Set Fire to Flames, Godspeed You Black Emporer, Sugarcubes, The Sundays, Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Experimental Audio Research, Sonic Boom, Spectrum, Sparklehorse, Tortoise, Unwound, Vainqueur, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iannis Xenakis, The Posies, m83, Kelly Clarkson, Bette Midler, Future Sound of London, Johnny Cash, Autechre, Joe Purdy, C. Duck Anderson and Nate Richert, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Download, Teargarden, Legendary Pink Dots, Beach Boys, Foetus, Bjork, Jane Siberry, Paul Westerberg, Barbara Streisand, Judy Garland, Liza with a Z, My Bloody Valentine, Miles David, Bobby Darrin, Frank Sinatra, Charles Trenet, Martin Denny, Charles Trenet, Django Reinhardt, Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, John Cage, Peter Gabriel, Black Sabbath, Devotchka, Iron and Wine, Deathcab for Cutie, Elton John, Earlimart, Dead Can Dance, Muslimgauze, Cracker, Camper van Beethoven, O Yuki Conjugate, Blind Boys of Alabama, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Belle and Sebastian, 13th Floor Elevators, Alex Chilton, Big Star, Beethoven, Rachmanninov, Paganini, Mussorsky. Gustav Holst, Phillip Glass, Ravel, György Ligeti, Modest Mouse, Taylor Hicks, Black Sabbath, Thelonius Monk, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Beethoven, Mozart, Mayhem, Samael, Ulver

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, LA Story, Salo, Lord of the Rings, Princess Bride, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion, Forbidden Zone, Evil Dead, Office Space, The Seventh Seal, Bring It On, Serial Mom, Pi, Legally Blonde 2, Little Nicky, Saved!, Amelie, Shrek, Decalogue, Decameron, Kill Bill, Drop Dead Gorgeous, I'm the One that I Want, Halleleuja: A Story of Deliverance, Hellraiser, LA Confidential, The Sum of Us, Bring it On, Mean Girls, Heathers, Super Troupers, Finding Nemo, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Office Space, Mulholland Drive, Hellraiser, Lost in Translation, Killer Kondom, Caddyshack, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Legend, Donnie Darko, Hardold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Meet the Feebles, American Beauty, The Matador, Cook the Thieft His Wife and Her Lover, Fish Called Wanda, The Hours, Seventh Seal, Ice Age, Super Troupers, V for Vendetta, Over the Hedge, Harold and Maude, Grandma's Boy, The Devil Wears Prada, What a Way to Go!, It's a Wonderful Life, Basquiat, Dressed to Kill, Finding Nemo, Hustler White, Meaning of Life, La Cage aux Folles, Man Bites Dog, What Dreams May Come, The Misadventures of Margaret, Josie and the Pussycats, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Dogma, Myra Breckenridge, Trick, Immortal Beloved, Amadeus, Richard III, Gods and Monsters, Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Television:

Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends, Reno 911, Absolutely Fabulous, Angel, Sex and the City, Will and Grace, Family Guy, Simpsons, Drawn Together, Blow Out, Queer Eye, Lost, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Passions, Top Chef, Top Model, South Park, Robot Chicken, Venture Brothers, Weeds, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Metalocalypse, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, Lucky Louie, The Sopranos, Doctor Who, Dark Shadows, Soap, Sabrania the Teenage Witch, Seinfeld, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Rome, Invasion, Stargate SG-1, Death Clock Metalopcalypse, Project Runway, Charmed, Nip/Tuck, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Blackadder, The Charmings, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Alexi Sayle Stuff

Books:

Naked Lunch, The Plague, Beautiful Losers, The Sound and the Fury, Queer, Junkie, Petrolio, Sarah, the Heart is Deceitful Above all Things, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lord of the Rings, Sandman, Hellblazer, the Dreaming, Preacher...

Heroes:

Vidal Sassoon, Trevor Sorbie, David Sedaris, Mark Kozelek, Jean Michele Basquiat, Jhon Balance, Barney Frank, Ron Athey, Vaginal Davis, my dad

My Blog

state board here I come

6 days. Freaky.
Posted by Billy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST