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Veslav Botkin

COMITAS FIRMINITAS AUCTORITAS

About Me

1840's-obsessed bookshop-employed brokedick-Mercedes-drivin' radio-makin' fellow and willfully obscure footnote to indie-rock history. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough: swore little; diced not -- above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house not -- above once in a quarter -- of an hour; paid money that I borrowed -- three or four times; lived well and in good compass; and now I live out of all order, out of all compass.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

The Modern Lovers, Karine Polwart, Yo La Tengo, Manu Chao, Amadou & Miriam, Rob Swift, Randy Newman, Spoon, Orchestre Baobab, dB's, Blind Willie McTell, Elvis Costello, Tinariwen, Johnny Fucking Cash, Replacements, Flamin' Groovies, Dirty Three, Wire, Feelies, Television, Luke Haines, Stephin Merritt, Charles Ives, Alvin Lucier, Prince Paul, A.C. Newman, Young Marble Giants, Bill Evans, Skip James, Sigur Ros, Dickies, Bessie Jones (no, not Smith, who's obviously amazing, too, Jones, from the Georgia Sea Islands), M.I.A., Reducers, Bix Beiderbecke, John Fahey, Sandy Bull except when he tried to sing.

Movies:

Nostalgia (Hollis Frampton), The Beat My Heart Skipped, Up and Down, Serene Velocity, The Man Who Wasn't There, L'Atalante, Sweet Smell of Success, DC Cab, Notorious, Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss, Hail the Conquering Hero, Bus 174, Russian Ark, Hudsucker Proxy, Andrei Rublev, The Heart of the World.

Television:

No.

Books:

Robert Burton, James M Cain, WR Burnett, John Webster, Lester Bangs, Don Delillo, Luc Sante, Ivan Stang, Chris Ware, Primo Levi, PG Wodehouse, Jaroslav Hasek, Fitzgerald, Stevens, Sterne, Melville, Ian McEwan, Edward Hoagland, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Joseph Mitchell, Gerry Reith