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Andru Aesthetik

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About Me



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Male

I am a mirror.

I will reflect what you project.

The Dandy

Flappers & Philosophers

Weimar Berlin

The Suit

I co-run, design & write for Post-Punk.com .

I played guitar.

Check out the most underrated band in music history
The Chameleons for whom I run the official profile .

My Interests



    The Universe
    Black & White
    Aesthetics
    Dandyism
    Romanticism
    Modernism
    Nostalgia
    Classic Style & Timeless Glamour
    The 1920s & 1930s
    Silent Films
    Big Band & Swing Jazz
    Art Deco
    Romance & Chivalry
    French Maids
    Chemistry & Connection
    The Golden Age of Hollywood
    Film Noir
    The 1940s
    Post-Punk & New-Wave
    Cabaret/Burlesque
    Women in Dresses
    Women in Stockings & Heels
    Women who wear Boots
    Women who wear Glasses
    Women who are funny & fun
    Brunettes
    Architecture & Design
    Neon Lights
    French & Baroque Pop Music
    Suspenders, Vests & Ties
    Beatle Boots & Winklepickers
    Stripes
    Fedoras
    The Female Figure
    Necklines, Collarbones & Legs
    Vintage Erotica
    Classic Jazz
    Vodka, Gin & Tonic
    Sparkling Water
    Existentialism
    Taoism
    Deism
    Atheism
    Humanism
    Agnosticism
    The Macabre
    The Study Of Philosophy
    Pre-Code Films
    Ragtime Jazz
    City Streets At Night
    Restoration & Preservation
    20th Century History
    Art Galleries & Museums
    Streamline Moderne
    De Stijl
    Bauhaus Design
    German Expressionist Films
    Vintage Fashion
    The 1960s
    French New-Wave Cinema
    The Beat Generation
    '60s Surf, Mod, Psychedelic & Garage
    '60s French Pop & Ye-Ye
    Glam & Punk
    Shoegaze & Brit-Pop
    Post-Modernism
    Used Bookstores
    Candlelight & Incense
    Eye To Eye Contact
    Loyalty
    The Scent of a Woman
    The Smile of a Woman
    Sexuality & Sensuality
    Classical Music
    Ambience
    Dark & Seedy Bars
    Elegant Restaurants
    Long Drives To Nowhere
    Sleeping In
    Libraries
    Old Thrift Stores
    Practical Psychology
    24-Hour News Stands
    Reading The Dictionary
    Observation
    Mystery
    Sarcasm
    Articulation
    Symmetry
    Proportion
    Spacing
    Abstraction
    Somber
    Melancholy
    Irony
    Absurdity
    Minimalism
    Overkill
    The Agony & Ecstasy of Life


I'm also on here:

I'd like to meet:


whoever wants to meet me.

When Los Angeles Was Great.

When Hollywood Was Great.

When Movie Theatres Were Great

When Piers Were Great

When Art & Design Was Great.

When Cellphones & Computers Were Great.

When Women Were Great

When Romance Was Great

Music:



A Certain Ratio
A Perfect Circle
A Place To Bury Strangers
Air
Amusement Parks On Fire
And Also The Trees
The Animals
Antony & The Johnsons
Angelo Badalamenti
Asylum Party
Syd Barret
Bauhaus
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
Chuck Berry
Leonard Bernstein
Jane Birkin
The Birthday Party
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Blonde Redhead
Bohren & der Club of Gore
David Bowie
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Jeff Buckley
Buzzcocks
The Byrds
John Cage
CAN
Catherine Wheel
 Cave In
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
The Chameleons
Chapterhouse
Christian Death
Chocolate Watch Band
Clan Of Xymox
Coco Rosie
Cocteau Twins
Leonard Cohen
Nat King Cole
John Coltrane
Comsat Angels
The Creation
Crime & The City Solution (Rowland Only!)
The Cult
The Cure
Dick Dale & The Del-Tones
Digable Planets
Dandy Warhols
Danse Society
Miles Davis
Dead Can Dance
Claude Debussy
Deftones
Depeche Mode
Marlene Dietrich
The Distortions
Donovan
Doves
Dragons
Dredg
Bob Dylan
Echo & The Bunnymen
El Radio Fantastique
Brian Eno
Fad Gadget
Failure
Ella Fitzgerald
For Against
Gandalf
Serge Gainsbourg
Vincent Gallo
Gang Of Four
George Gershwin
Astrud Gilberto
Philip Glass
The Glove
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Goldfrapp
George Harrison
Francoise Hardy
The Haunted Mansion Soundtrack
Lee Hazelwood
Helen Stellar
Jimi Hendrix & The Experience
Billie Holiday
The Hollies
The Horrors
Hope Sandoval
Rowland S. Howard
IAMX
Interpol
Chris Isaak
Japan
Jesus And Mary Chain
Joy Division
Kaleidoscope
Kamelot
Keane
Killing Joke
The Kinks
Kitchens Of Distinction
The Knife
Kraftwerk
Ladytron
The Left Banke
John Lennon
 Love & Rockets
lowsunday
Love
The Lucy Show
M83
Manic Street Preachers
March Violets
Dean Martin
George Martin
Mazzy Star
Mew
Glenn Miller
Modern Eon
Modern English
Mogwai
The Monkees
The Monks
The Moody Blues
Ennio Morricone
Mother Father
Peter Murphy
Muse
The Music Machine
Mute Math
My Bloody Valentine
My Vitriol
The Names
New Order
Nico
Nouvelle Vague
Gary Numan
Oasis
Oceansize
Opeth
Roy Orbison
 OMD
Ours
 Pale Saints
Edith Piaf
Pink Floyd
Porcupine Tree
Cole Porter
Portishead
Primal Scream
Psychedelic Furs
Public Enemy
Pulp
Radiohead
The Raveonettes
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Lou Reed
Rialto
Ride
Riverside
Clara Rockmore
Roxy Music
Sad Lovers And Giants
 Sade
Erik Satie
The Seeds
The Shangri-La's
Artie Shaw
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sigur Ros
Frank Sinatra
 Siouxsie & The Banshees
Simon & Garfunkel
Sisters Of Mercy
Slowdive
 Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
The Sound
Spacemen 3
Phil Spector
Spiritualized
Starflyer 59
The Stone Roses
Suede
Swervedriver
Television
These Immortal Souls
Tomorrow
Tones On Tail
U2
Ulrich Schnauss
The Vanishing
Veil Veil Vanish
The Velvet Underground
 The Ventures
The Verve
Visage
Tom Waits
Scott Walker
The Wake
The Warlocks
Kurt Weill
White Rose Movement
Wire
Link Wray
The Yardbirds
Zombies


Movies:


    2001: A Space Odyssey
    2046
    The 39 Steps
    A Clockwork Orange
    À Bout De Souffle
    Abre Los Ojos
    Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
    Alphaville
    Amelie
    American Psycho
    Andrei Rublev
    Annie Hall
    Asphalt Jungle
    Aviator, The
    Bande à Part
    Battle Royale
    The Big Combo
    The Big Sleep
    The Black Cat
    Blow-Up
    Blue Velvet
    Bob Dylan's Don't Look Back
    Breakfast At Tiffany's
    Bride Of Frankenstein
    Buffalo 66'
    The Cameraman
    Carnival Of Souls
    Casablanca
    Chinatown
    City Lights
    Le Mépris (Contempt)
    Danza Macabra (Castle of Blood)
    Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
    Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)
    Der Müde Tod (Destiny)
    Detour
    Dial M For Murder
    Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box)
    Double Indemnity
    Dracula (1931)
    The Dreamers
    Ed Wood
    Elephant Man
    Eraserhead
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Faust
    Following
    Frankenstein (1931)
    Freaks
    Funny Face
    Gattaca
    The General
    Ghost World
    The Graduate
    Grand De Beaux (Grand Illusion)
    Happiness
    Hard Days' Night
    Harold & Maude
    Help!
    Hiroshima Mon Amour
    The Hours
    Immortal Beloved
    In A Lonely Place
    In The Mood For Love
    It (1927)
    The Killers
    Kinematografi (Persona)
    Kiss Me Deadly
    L'Avventura
    L'Eclisse
    La Dolce Vita
    La Maschera Del Demonio ('Black Sunday' 1960)
    La Notte
    Le Petit Soldat
    Les Vampires
    Lost In Translation
    Les Biches(Bad Girls)
    "M"
    Maltese Falcon
    Man Who Knew Too Much
    Masculin Feminin
    Metropolis
    Modern Times
    Mullholland Drive
    Murder, My Sweet
    Night And The City
    Night of The Hunter
    Nightmare Before Christmas
    North By Northwest
    Nosferatu
    Notorious
    One Hour Photo
    Orphée (Orpheus)
    Out Of The Past
    Peeping Tom
    Pollock
    Psycho
    The Raven
    Rear Window
    Return Of The Vampire
    Rules Of Attraction
    Rushmore
    Sabrina
    Saddest Music In The World
    Salome
    Det Sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal)
    Sex And Lucia
    Shadow of a Doubt
    Smultronstället (Wild Strawnberries)
    Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary Of A Lost Girl)
    The Shining
    The Show Off
    Sleeper
    Sleepy Hollow
    Solaris (Tarkovsky)
    Spellbound
    Star Wars (Ep. IV-VI)
    Storytelling
    Suspicion
    Suspiria
    T-Men
    To Catch A Thief
    Touch Of Evil
    Trainspotting
    Tron
    Un Chien Andalou
    Une Femme Est Une Femme
    Vampyros Lesbos
    Vanilla Sky
    The Vanishing
    Velvet Goldmine
    Vertigo
    Vivre Sa Vie (My Life To Live)
    Waking Life
    Welcome To The Dollhouse
    Wet Hot American Summer
    Wild At Heart
    Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
    The Wrong Man
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    Anything by these Directors:
    Hitchcock, Lang, Godard, Antonioni, Allen, Kubrick, Lynch, Cocteau, Chabrol, Fellini, Welles, Bergman, Bunuel, Murnau
    This list is absolutely way to long, but I can't help it!

Television:



Books:


    Le Spleen de Paris, Les Fleurs Du Mal
    - Charles Baudelaire
    A Moveable Feast
    - Ernest Hemingway
    Jazz-Age Stories, The Beautiful & The Damned
    - F. Scott Fitzgerald
    The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome
    - Oscar Wilde
    Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
    - James Joyce
    Death in Venice
    - Thomas Mann
    Lost Illusions
    - Honoré de Balzac
    Against Nature, The Damned
    - Joris-Karl Huysmans
    A Season In Hell, Illuminations
    - Arthur Rimbaud
    Venus In Furs
    - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
    Journey To The End Of The Night
    - Louis-Ferdinand Celine
    The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely
    - Raymond Chandler
    The Bell Jar
    - Sylvia Plath
    The Plague, The Myth Of Sisyphus
    - Albert Camus
    Unbearable Lightness Of Being
    - Milan Kundera
    The Idiot, Notes From The Underground
    - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Collected Stories & Poems
    - Edgar Allen Poe
    On The Road, Dharma Bums
    - Jack Kerouac
    Brave New World, Island
    - Aldous Huxley
    We
    - Yevgeny Zamyatin
    Women, Love Is A Dog From Hell
    - Charles Bukowski
    Less Than Zero, American Psycho
    - Brett Easton Ellis
    1984, Animal Farm
    - George Orwell
    Catcher In The Rye, Franny & Zooey
    - J.D. Sallinger
    The Trial, The Metamorphosis
    - Franz Kafka
    Tao Te Ching, Hua Hu Ching
    - Lao Tzu
    Beyond Good & Evil, Twilight of The Idols
    - Friedrich Nietzsche
    Being & Nothingness, Nausea
    - Jean Paul Sartre
    The Undiscovered Self
    - C.G. Jung
    Philosophies of Art and Beauty
    - Albert Hofstadter
    On The Heights Of Despair, Short History of Decay
    - E.M. Cioran

Heroes:



The Facts

Age: 31
Sex: Male
Staus: Single
Here For: Connection
Height / Weight 6'4" / 145 lbs.
Philosophy: Agnostic/Atheist
Sign: Pisces
Drink / Smoke: Yes / No
Occupation: Poet

My Blog

A Letter From My Brother (Part 2 - My Idiotic Family)

My e-mail exchange with my brother turned out to be quite a back-and-forth between us. Everything he said nearly made me want to slit my throat in frustration and drown in my own blood. I am more angr...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:45:00 PST

A Letter From My Brother On The Day After The Election

This morning I received an email from my 46 year-old brother that went as follows:Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:31 PMSubject: Sacry!Does anyone esle get this? Obviously, he can't spell but far w...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:22:00 PST

The Hypocrisy of Prop 8

The Hypocrisy of Religion and Those Who BeLIEveWhat was Prop 8 all about?It was an attempt to define marriage between ONE Man and ONE Woman ONLY, thus TAKING AWAY from gay couples the right to be lega...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:07:00 PST

Take The TimeTo Reflect On This

...And consider what it may mean for many as of November 4th 2008 ...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:08:00 PST

Barack Obama Elected President

Obama defeats John McCain in a HUGE landslide electoral victory.365 electoral votes for Obama163 electoral votes for McCainAmerica is respectable once again among the world and an incredible moment in...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:30:00 PST

McCain - The Greatest Hits (or misses?)

Bottled Hot Water To Dehydrated Babies Couldn't disagree more with himself. Proud Conservative Liberal Republican Democrat! McCain Stumps McCain! Bomb bomb bomb, bo...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:28:00 PST

A Progressive Voting Guide

I'll be voting with the Democratic Party for President, Congress, Senate & Assembly as anyone (who can actually WIN) is better than a Republican although in President Obama's case, I'll take him o...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:06:00 PST

Best Music of 2008

As I do every year, here is my personal list of favorite music that was released in 2008 in loose numerical order with Albums appearing first and then EP's and Singles.A.A.Albums:Ours - Mercy (Dancing...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:10:00 PST

Survival Principles

Use the hateTrust no oneExpect nothingGive what has been receivedDeny what has not been givenGuard your heartJudge before you're judgedReward loyaltyIgnore the traitorUse before you get usedExploit we...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:19:00 PST

The Pond of the Lone Black Swan

In a meadow far awayOf the lone black swanMy life resembles that Of a peaceful pondWhen the night has goneThings seem sereneIn the haze of dawnBirds chirp and singBut one cannot seeUnder the iron seaT...
Posted by Andru Aesthetik on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:45:00 PST