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Stella

stellamozgawa

About Me


I play the drums and other things. I enjoy editing short films. Stylistically they have been likened to cinematic gems Chicken Park and Rocky IV.

My Interests

Hitting synthetic things with bits of things while other people do nice things to their whatsies.

I'd like to meet:

I play and am endorsed by Pearl Drums. Good for me!

Music:

Zappa, Bjork, Nazz, Stars, Islands, Modern Lovers, The Kinks, Serge Gainsbourg, Fiona Apple, Captain Beefheart, Neu!, ABBA, Silver Apples, Sun Ra, Television, Clipse & Clipse, Van Dyke Parks, The Mint Chicks, Yo La Tengo, Captain Beyond, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, ELO, Michael Jackson, Tom Waits, Ginny Arnell, Odetta, X-Ray Spex Kraftwerk, Robert Wyatt, The Soft Machine, Stereolab, Daniel Johnston, Rod Stewart's "Young Turks", PJ Harvey, Beach Boys, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush, Iggy, Prince, Roky Erickson and the Aliens, Flaming Lips, The Band, Joni, Bob Dylan, Ornette Coleman, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, CAN, The Beatles, Nico, John Cale, Paul Simon, Velvets, Lou, Sleater Kinney, Cash, ENO, Devo, Bowie, Neil Young, Talking Heads and more more more more!

Movies:

Allen, Kieslowski, Polanski, Fellini, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, Coppola (both beasts), Anderson, Zwigoff, Bergman, Godard, Lynch, Bunuel, Zappa, Kubrick, Guest, Truffaut, Gilliam, Almodovar

Television:

The Mighty Boosh, Six Feet Under, Shaun Micallef P(r)ogramme, Python, Office, Seinfeld, Twin Peaks.

Books:

Anything with a wild and crazy dystopian theme.

Heroes:

Lynch, Zappa, Sofia, Bjork, Nico, Levon Helm, Keiiith Moon

I have been incredibly fortunate to play with the following legendary and good looking folks in the past 350 months or so:MINK, Earl Gray, Tony Buchen, Jump 2 Lightspeed, BLOX, Holidays On Ice, Regurgitator, Laura Imbruglia, Abby Dobson, Fergus Brown, Moot Point, Mr Wilson, Cameron Bruce, Nick Maybury Band, Soma for Kinder, Hyske, The Blush Foundation, Tokenview, Damien Robison, Andy Clockwise, Agnes, Beau Young, Brigitte Handley and the Dark Shadows, Cameron Mackellar. Wonderful!

My Blog

Flea and Modern Drummer

Should've posted this a few months ago, excuse the mild irrelevance...It's a bitty journal I wrote for Modern Drummer here.Fantastic. Two nights ago I had the UNTHINKABLE honour of playing with some o...
Posted by Stella on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:26:00 PST

Bill Maher

Monday, 24th September 20079:36pmSpokane, WashingtonJust got into Spokane from a performance at MSN offices in Washington. Strange to be in the epicentre on the cusp of the Halo III launch at midnight...
Posted by Stella on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:52:00 PST

Weird!

Hey kiddles!The stunning team at Drumhead Magazine in NY have been kind enough to stick my mug in their July/August 2007 issue. I'm not sure if you can get it in Australia just yet but I will start a ...
Posted by Stella on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:45:00 PST

Warm Feet..

If I told you, you probably wouldn't believe me.. but I'm going to tell you anyway cause it's rather miraculous methinks.We just drove 28 hours straight from Boston, MA to Tulsa, OK. Ok? If you will, ...
Posted by Stella on Tue, 22 May 2007 03:37:00 PST

The Next 50 years

Two days ago, after a delightful stroll towards a hill's peak past 2 sets of barbed wire and a rock exclaiming "STOP!" Neal and I found ourselves at the Mercantile Hall in Weed --- I found two very c...
Posted by Stella on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:12:00 PST

Cave

Ah yes.. I be off once again. This Friday I'm setting course for Weed, California. Weed is a very remote city constantly living in the shadows of its sinister and unmentionable past. Sorry.. I was mea...
Posted by Stella on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:14:00 PST