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Leon Kowalski

It's funny how attractive indifference can be.

About Me

I wish I could live free.

For now I tread a straight and narrow way.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I already did.

Music:



Faust, Can, Public Image Ltd., Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Interpol, Television, Afghan Whigs, The Smiths, The Libertines, The Strokes, Jah Wobble, Augustus Pablo, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Velvet Underground, The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite, Massive Attack, NWA, Public Enemy, Suicide, Kraftwerk, David Bowie, NEU!, Fugazi, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wire, Martin Rev, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Alan Vega, The Stooges, The Good the Bad & the Queen, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Nick Cave, Bernard Herrman, Ennio Morricone, Radiohead, Blur, Barry White, Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Sex Pistols, New Order, Air, Jimi Hendrix, The Jam, Paul Weller, The Style Council, King Tubby, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lee Perry, Pere Ubu, The Ramones, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, Syd Barrett, Beck, The Slits, Scientist, Steely Dan, Pavement, The Heptones, Roots Radics, Thin Lizzy, Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine, The Zombies, Blonde Redhead, Deerhoof, TV On the Radio, Fela Kuti, Frank Zappa, Blood Sweat & Tears, Marvin Gaye, The Streets, Tubeway Army, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the French Kicks, Turing Machine, Gary Numan, Nick Drake, British Sea Power, Albert Hammond Jr., Gnarls Barkley, Keith Hudson, KRS-One, Vangelis, Curtis Mayfield, Giorgio Moroder, Idris Muhammed, Parliament, James Brown, The Birthday Party, The Walkmen, New York Dolls, The Heartbreakers, 13th Floor Elevators, The Doors, Zapp & Roger, Cecil Taylor, Return To Forever, The Temptations, Eric Dolphy, The Mothers of Invention, Prince Jammy, Professor, The Damned, Echo and the Bunnymen, John Coltrane, Billy Cobham, Richard Wagner, John Williams, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Michael Jackson, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Josef Zawinul, Portishead, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Pat Metheny, Mission of Burma, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, The Cars, Tangerine Dream, Super Furry Animals, Toots and the Maytals, The Who, The Avalanches, Kings of Leon, ? and the Mysterians, T. Rex, Stevie Wonder, Chick Corea, Dead Kennedys, Horace Andy, Flaming Lips, Babyshambles, Dirty Pretty Things, Dizzy Gillespie, Einsturzende Neubauten, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Max Roach, Sonic Youth, ILL Mitch, My Bloody Valentine, Cat Power, The Rapture, Bauhaus, Kitchens of Distinction, Serge Gainsbourg, Darkel, Magazine, Chromeo, The Pop Group, Ricky Martin, Gino Vannelli, Bob Dylan, The Chameleons, Hot Chip, Death From Above 1979, The Sonics, Cluster, Harmonia, Popol Vuh, Roxy Music, Patti Smith, Sebastien Grainger, Idol Eyes, Mars, Liars, Beach Boys, R. Kelly, Deerhunter, DNA

Movies:

Taxi Driver
Apocalypse Now
A Fistful of Dollars
High Plains Drifter
Gun Shy
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Wall
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Blade Runner
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Magnum Force
Metropolis
The Big Lebowski
A Clockwork Orange
Children of Men
City of God
Fronterz
Woyzeck
Rushmore
My Best Fiend
Mad Max
Hot Rod
Rescue Dawn
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

Television:

Not anymore.

This is my father. Buy his poetry. Or not.

Books:

1984, Animal Farm, The Penal Colony, Homage to Catalonia, Miles: The Autobiography, Brave New World, The Communist Manifesto, Heart of Darkness, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Sound and the Fury, the works of Kurt Vonnegut

My Blog

My dreams are double features.

I've experienced the same two every night for the past week or so. The first one: I have a pet lion, instead of Rusty. He's much bigger than a lion should be. The two of us have a good time together....
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:13:00 PST

The scientist writes a letter.

Dear Julia, Unless chance finds us face to face again, this is the last you'll hear from me. I spent this Sunday, a long afternoon, freezing at my friend's house by the sea. We men of science... you k...
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:55:00 PST

Tentative list of the equipment I need at some point

Fender Hot Rod DeVille script logo MXR Phase 90 MXR Micro Amp Fender Jazzmaster Eastwood EEB-1 ARP Solina String Ensemble Epiphone Nick Valensi Riviera Boss DD-5 or 6 Roland CR-78 Gibson Les Paul (dou...
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:05:00 PST

Plagiarism.

Roger Waters was actually right for once: In interviews promoting Amused to Death, Waters asserted that Andrew Lloyd Webber had plagiarized themes from "Echoes" for sections of the musical The Phantom...
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:50:00 PST

People will get angry because I talk about immigration

This is something that's pissed me off for a long time. I'm no racist, but I don't like it when people sneak into this country and think it's an outrage when they're deported. What's so hard about obe...
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:21:00 PST

Music for Cooking

You're a Woman, I'm a Machine - Death From Above 1979 Blade Runner - Vangelis Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann First Album - Suicide What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Get Up With It - Miles Davis Live - Kra...
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:31:00 PST

The top five albums of 2007 (so far) (according to me)

1. Our Love To Admire - Interpol 2. 23 - Blonde Redhead 3. The Good, the Bad, & the Queen - The Good, the Bad, & the Queen 4. Pocket Symphony - Air 5. Yours to Keep - Albert Hammond, Jr....
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:34:00 PST

Deep.

Life's too bleak to make real thoughts.
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:23:00 PST

We need help.

My dog needs help. He looks like he's been on some hard drugs. He looks older than he is. It all started last week. I encouraged him to get more rest, but that didn't seem to improve his condition. He...
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:28:00 PST

Future days, seite 1

Beginning: I watched Woyzeck and My Best Fiend today. They're so good. Excellent. I almost cried during Woyzeck, though. It was easy to imagine myself in that position. I haven't left my house all day...
Posted by Leon Kowalski on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:00:00 PST