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paulzon

The second thoughts of an idle fellow

About Me

I am a strange chap who lives in London. I keep myself busy mostly with writing, sound and visual projects, collecting absolutely awful records, design, web design and administration, photography and various other things.

Some of my websites
zonicweb.net
the museum of bad album covers ,

I am also currently working with the recently formed dance label Accidental Music .

My Interests

Music
Art and Design
Bionic Design
Politics
History
Writing
Photography
Books
US foreign policy
History of Palestine 1916 - present.

I'd like to meet:

Eccentrics and troublemakers.

A preview from my forthcoming "museum of bad single covers"

Some of my photos from Vietnam and Cambodia.

Music:

J.S. Bach
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Jimi Hendrix
Manuel Gottsching
Brian Eno
Tim Buckley
Hamilton Bohannon
King Tubby
Misty in Roots
Iggy and the Stooges
The Clash
The Sex Pistols
Nico
The Velvet Underground
Early Black Sabbath
Bill Nelson
Stevie Wonder
Lalo Schifrin
Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Tony Williams
Tim Buckley
Bert Jansch
Davey Graham

Movies:

Mouchette (Robert Bresson)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
Kes (Ken Loach)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
Just about everything else by Stanley Kubrick.
Scum (Alan Clarke)
Made In Britain (Alan Clarke)
The Firm (Alan Clarke)
Christine (Alan Clarke)
Road (Alan Clarke)
Just about everything else by Alan Clarke as well!

Television:

Magic Roundabout

Books:

The Fall - Albert Camus
The Devil in the Flesh - Raymond Radiguet
The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
The Tao te Ching - Lao Tzu
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
1984 - George Orwell
The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Capital Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy - Karl Marx
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Lots of Friedrich Nietzche and John Paul Sartre

Poetry
George Byron
Arthur Rimbaud.

Heroes:

Mr. Rusty

My Blog

"Spunk loving sluts". George Galloway's speech on his suspension of Parliament.

Another fire breathing epic from George Galloway. Here he delivers what must be the first speech in the long history of the Houses of Parliament to contain the phrase "spunk loving sluts"!Vi...
Posted by paulzon on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:10:00 PST

The correct meaning of "Jihad"

This post was inspired by hosts of ignorant, ill informed idiots who seem to think that they can pontificate about the religion of Islam without ever having read one single word of the Q'uran. Here go...
Posted by paulzon on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST

The BBC have a peculiar sense of irony.

...Or how to completely confuse a child. Thanks to the Aklamate....
Posted by paulzon on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:43:00 PST

Arab facade: Lessons from history in Iraq

On the 8th March 1917, Lieutenant General Stanley Maude issued a "Proclamation to the People of the Wilayat of Baghdad". Maude's Anglo-Indian Army of the Tigres had just invaded and occupied Iraq - af...
Posted by paulzon on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:26:00 PST

Michael Moore's "Sicko" (full version)

I posted this before, but that version was taken down. If it doesn't work, click HERE. ...
Posted by paulzon on Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:19:00 PST

Nazi TV (1930s)

Josef Goebbels' pioneering attempt at TV "light entertainment", as enjoyed in the TV parlours of Berlin in the 1930's. This was some of the world's first world's first regular tv programming, wit...
Posted by paulzon on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:29:00 PST

Museum of bad album covers exhibition in Belfast.

Over 50 original albums from my hideous music collection are currently on display in Northern Ireland at the Golden Thread gallery in Belfast from June 15 to July 28. This is a part of the "Alert For ...
Posted by paulzon on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:43:00 PST