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androck

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About Me

Uh... hi. I'm an... uh...actor, rock... er musician and all around swell guy, and my name is... er uh... Alex. I have a myspace music page too, for my in flux band PERMISSION (formerly known as ROLLO ), it's myspace.com/permissionyc . For both bands (as well as my previous band to those 2, TRANSIT BELLE), I was/am lead singer, co-songwriter, aranger, guitarist, bassist, booker and poster designer. My personal musicality is presently on hiatus, however, 'til whenever, b/c of acting work, though an as yet untitled album is in the works... Besides my own stuff, last year I toured with a band called "The Navigators", and I've also jammed with a few other performing luminaries as well since then... If you want to know more about said acting work, head on over to the little link on your left, or see me @ IMDB . I'll tell you some stuff while you're here: I'm in the midst of shooting a lead role in an indie feature entitled "A Truth and a Lie", as well as in the prepro stages for a play called "Another Man's Poison". I recently played the role of a zealous fan on Rescue Me, a wise-ass private eye on Law & Order, and a hard guy police interrogator for FUSE's The Whitest Kids You Know. I also fairly recently wrapped a lead role in an unusual indie feature called BUSTER , and I've been playing ongoing host-guy to a comedy pilot called mediocre new york as well as a magazine show for guitarists called "In Tune". Last year saw me shoot leads in a couple other indie features ("Together" and "Therapy") as well. The future holds a lot of good shite... If you're wondering what Starna is, well, that's the name o' my fledgling production co. If you're a fetching woman, or you're just a plain interesting sort, and y' wanna head out fer a drink sometime, why... let's. Below are some musical reviews de me. For acting ones, just ask, I have a slew of 'em (a couple grace my resume)."(Alex Emanuel)'s fist-in-the-eye brand of rock... raw, garge, punk rock, heavy on the 70s style but with enough of a modern slant to be interesting" -Splendid Ezine"singer Alex Emanuel has a cocksure blues growl that hits it right on the head..." -Ewan Wadharmi, Hybrid Music reviews“(The guitar) is joined by Alex Emanuel’s vocals-equal parts gutter beg and glamour scoff” - Daniel Janoff/10x10 Magazine, Chicago“Vocalist/bassist Alex Emanuel’s unique, raspy snarl perfectly fits the mood as he moans about perversion and breakdowns ('I'm gonna make my breakdown, I’m moving too fast')” -Dave Madden, Splendidezine.com“Okay, read closely. I can't be absolutely positive, but I'm fairly certain that the lyric 'I’ve just not, got the runs' appears (on the track, 'Live Wired'), and if that's the correct lyric, well, excellent—it means Alex Emanuel isn't going to bother with ostentatious rock lyric posturing, and actually say what he means… (he) even goes a little Tom Verlaine-esque w/ his lyrics and vocals at times” -Stephanie R. Myers, Motherwest.com/the-deli"Alex Emanuel’s vocals are cool in the style of Bob Pollard, Jeremy Enick, and that dude from the Libertines" -Storylinerecords.com"Rock with a punk edge. Lots of energy and grit, packed full of attitude. (Alex Emanuel)'s delivery adds to the charm-great choruses with an almost Buck Cherry, Cobain vocal style. Angsty energy drive the songs along without any whine" -Gildthelily“(lead vocalist Alex Emanuel's declaration) ‘I’m in love with getting laid' completes the classic rock sentiment… ‘Jennifer Love Hooker’, with its ‘my woman from So Cal yo' chorus is catchy” –Dave Cobb, Splendidezine.com"Reminds me of modern day X. New-wave garage rock, boy/girl vocals, sweet basslines, and a certain debauchery feel to it" -Mystery & Misery"Sonically, you have to sort of twist yourself off-center, adventurous, I found quite a few things to like here... tightrope-walking vocals are a tricky propostion, but Alex (Emanuel) succeeds" -Cake magazine« Au départ est la transpiration. Le rock’n’roll fait suer. Le reste en découle : la chatte, bien sûr. Pussy Galore, voilà ce que Permission nous renvoie salement dans les gencives. Ce n'est pas l'ombre de John Spencer qui plane, ce sont leurs ancêtres communs qui hantent chaque déhanchement, chaque feulement. Cette musique est terriblement SEXUELLE & ELECTRIQUE. Le ventre de New York est comme ça, putain : non pas des flatulences, ni de vagues remous, mais de vrais coups de poignards. Permission c'est l'ulcère. PERMISSION attaque langoureusement le bide à la perceuse. C’est si doux! Normal, tout le monde est bourré. La liqueur fait son effet. On danse sur les tables, et on recommande une tournée. PERMISSION : le meilleur groupe de Rock & Roll de 2005 » -DJ NIC (a.k.a Nicolas RICHARD) PERMISSION, Chronique parue dans ‘Le Son de Paris’, 2005Prior bands I've played/toured and/or recorded with besides Permission, Rollo, Transit Belle and The Navigators: The Galenas, Rodan, Lucan, Hygiene, Sammy, Chavez, Pen Pal, The Subway Sun, Brilliantine, Edison Woods, The Swedes, Under Nation and RangFor bookings and all other inquiries, contact me via email at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] or by phone at 646-325-8719

The Whitest Kids You Know: one of their promos I’m in...

My Interests

rock n' roll, being a super AEA/SAG/AFTRA starna of stage, tv and film: (my exquisitely simple f'ing actor page) , baseball, magnificently beautiful n' cute girls, johnny walker, mashed potatos, good beer, ping pong, boxing, the beach, russian vodka, green grass and high tides forever, drawing, sculpture and photo, rum, existant thrift stores, spicy stuff, political ideals, grit, space, black rhinos and black humor, genuine people, rowing, sailing, screaming, welding, belgian beer, the beach, flavor crystals, songwriting, espresso, almond croissants, removing our present government, righting wrongs and wronging the right...

I'd like to meet:

the ultimate collection

Music:

my band Permission, which you can find @ myspace.com/permissionyc , brian eno, magazine, the stones, eddie cochran, harry nielson, pinback, serena-maneesh, love, ace, the undertones, x, dead meadow, charlie rich, eminem, the stranglers, bloc party, fraus dots, dream syndicate, the delfonics, the troggs, polvo, spoon, calexico, the byrds, seals & crofts, the flamin' groovies, gang of four, big star, sugar minot, m83, the pixies, t-rex, xtc, devo, the buzzcocks, isolation years, sonic youth, the kinks, the flying burrito bros., aesop rock, the mc5, the who, hall & oates, bauhaus, the kills, interpol, the beach boys, swervedriver, david essex, johnny cash, roxy music, biggy, iggy, the jam, the wipers, the clash, kris kristopherson, marvin & tammy, stereolab, lee hazlewood, ana d, home, outkast, elvis, peter rowan, joy division, new order, wilco, shuggie otis, blonde redhead, jonathan fireeater, the bevis frond, lcd soundsystem, ccr, jsbx, the doors, bread, cream, the james gang, the stray cats, bow wow wow, adam ant, sebadoh, gvsb, johnny burnette & the rock n' roll trio, built to spill, blue cheer...

Movies:

MNY GUESTS - CHIKO

Anne of Greengables (a rough "flashback sequence" clip from the soon-to-be finished Super 8 Movie Extravaganza... BUSTER!)

Click here to go to the BUSTER website

Faces meets Donnie Darko Coming Apart, Five Easy Pieces of Airplane Seconds, Two Lane Blacktop Narcissus, My New Gun Crazy, The Warriors Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia Dead Man X-Men Simple Men, The Wild Bunch of 7th Seal during their Last Tango In Paris Solaris, Miami Blues Babel, Z 1900, Kissed Badlands, Buffalo 66 American Friend, Night Of The Hunter in Ghost World, Le Circle Rouge Network, Last Picture Show Girls Can't Help It, Stroszek Rumble Fisher King, Chinatown Down By Law...

Television:

ali g, conan, 6 ft. under (b4 it was over), that's my bush, the big valley, i claudius, flight of the concords, spongebob, sanford & son, green acres, curb your enthusiasm, lucan, cspan, sctv, seinfeld, king of the hill, holmes and yoyo, when things were rotten, my three sons, sports center, extras, gigantor, zoom, the daily show, sopranos, extras, land of the lost, the president bush impeachment hearings...

Books:

so you want to be a rock and roll star, stuff by dostoyevski, nabakov, shakespeare, kundera and saul bellow, confessions of a cineplex heckler, love germ, laid bare: memoir of wrecked lives & the hollywood death trip, eat the document, a canticle for leibowitz, a fan's notes, platform, too lazy to work too nervous to steal, black like me, the hot sands of hell, hartspring blows his mind, understanding media, making out in japanese, truly tasteless jokes, lotsa plays/screenplays and books of matches...

Heroes:

and villains, carlton fisk, robert mitchum, bobby kennedy, johnny cash, iggy, biggy, george harrison, nathaniel taylor, ricky nelson, paul simenon, sandy koufax, george mcgovern, billy zoom, dave davies, montgomery clift, gerard depardieu, stanley kubrick, george foreman, picasso, willie stargell, warren oates, dennis wilson, egon schiele, bazooka joe, milan kundera, willy shakespeare, lee majors, miles davis, ian curtis, nabokov, henry miller, brian jones, eddie cochran, lee marvin, lenny bruce, john cale, thurman munson...

My Blog

Mediocre New York

http://www.mediocrenewyork.com What does that mean? Beat's us, but we're having a blast doing it, and want to share, have a lil' show n' tell if you will. Feel free to browse, befriend, look, listen, ...
Posted by androck on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:10:00 PST

back @ 666 friends again, and btw... my blog (linked to this myspace blog) has changed

as for the 666 friends - well I had to delete those annoying spam comment makers (posing as women)... as for my blog - new look, writing more (lots to complain about I guess... or something). Please ...
Posted by androck on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:39:00 PST

So, for a fleeting moment I had 666 myspace

does that mean anything? Can someone please bulletin that the fucking world is coming to an end or something then? Or, b/c my last band's myspace page has close to 3000 "friends" (almost as much peeps...
Posted by androck on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:30:00 PST

I started spewing in my Blog again, for real

go to the link above, as I will not be pasting each new entry here. I think you'll dig the rants, or I hope so... I dunno. I'm putting pictures up now too (woo woo). For all of you who have ...
Posted by androck on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:07:00 PST

screening announcement (1st usage of this blog space in ages, though have had many other opps)

Happy... er...(brrr) mid January. I'm writing to invite you to a screening of TOGETHER (a romantic comedy feature in which I play the lead male role guy),on Wednesday, January 24th, @ 7pm.&n...
Posted by androck on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:09:00 PST

R.I.P. Luis Jimenez

a great American artist and a wonderful guy
Posted by androck on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:39:00 PST

Liver Sports report and other snort...

Johnny Damon is a phony turn-coat, trader Benedict Arnold "self proclaimed idiot" prick who's no longer Samson but De Liar. Yeah, the Bosox are an utter mess right now, lacking 3 key field positions (...
Posted by androck on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:46:00 PST

new songs on my new band PERMISSION's myspace page

... if you haven't already, please add ushttp://www.myspace.com/permissionyc & check out the new tunes on there that we just recorded with scientifically proven knob master Ray Ketchem (Elk City,...
Posted by androck on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 05:57:00 PST

Check out this event: PERMISSION... before the Holidays

Hosted By: AndrockWhen: Saturday Dec 10, 2005 at 9:00 PMWhere: LIT93 2nd AvenueNY, NY 10003USDescription:Androck Click Here To View Event...
Posted by androck on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:43:00 PST

Check out this event: PERMISSION's 2nd gig...

Hosted By: androckWhen: Thursday Nov 10, 2005 at 10:30 PMWhere: Mo Pitkins House of Satisfaction34 Avenue ANYC, NY 10003USDescription:my new band PERMISSION's 2nd gigClick Here To View Event...
Posted by androck on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:33:00 PST