Joe Z - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Middle Aged old school Masque era Hollywood Punk
I have been the synth noise unit with the following: Zoo Station, Broken Allure, Joe Z & the Pussycats, Voxpop, Ella & the Blacks, High Heel Tit Wig and Nervous Gender.
In true punk DIY fashion, I have built my own business dealing in vintage erotica, which has allowed me to travel the world and pay the mortgage. I have a chapter devoted to myself as a dealer and a collector in the new Geoff Nicholson non fiction book "The Sex Collectors". One step closer to counter culture icon?
Currently working with Michael Ochoa and Edward Stapleton on the newly revived leaner meaner Nervous Gender project, preparing a series of of live perfomances covering 1979 - 1990 and "Nervous Gender: Music From Hell - a 30 year retrospective". NG is also in the studio reworking old material and creating new.
Nervous Gender played their first live show in 16 years on July 21, 2007 at The Cocaine - Los Angeles.
Nervous Gender web site: nervousgender.com
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My Interests

Noise & pitchwheels
stuff...I got lots and lots of stuff.

1920s - 50s fetish erotica

I'd like to meet:

I've already met William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, so Brian Eno.

Music:

ABC, Avengers, Babyland, Bahaus, Blackbird, The Bags, Black Randy, Bjork, Bowie, Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, Captain Beefheart, Captain Sensible, Caravan, Catholic Discipline, Castration Squad, Cambridge Apostiles, Coil, Chris & Cosey, Christian Death, Consumers, Crass, The Creatures, The Crowd, DAF, Daft Punk, Damned, Deadbeats, Delta 5, Deparment S, Depeche Mode, DAF, Devo, Dils, Dickies, Ella and the Blacks, Eno, Ethyl Meatplow, Fad Gadget / Frank Tovey, Flyboys, Faust, Flyboys, Robert Fripp, Front 242, 45 Grave, Gang of Four, Garbage, Gary Numan, Germs, Geza X & The Mommymen, Goldfrapp, Gun Club, Gong, John Cale, Joy Division, Peter Hammill, P.J. harvey, Hawkwind, High Heel Tit Wig, Heaven 17, Henry Cow w/ Dagmar, Human Hands, Industrial Metal Supply, Kraftwerk, KMFDM, King Crimson, Love, Love & Rockets, Madonna, Marc Morland, Magazine, Marianne Faithfull, Material, Matching Mole, Middle Class, Ministry, Monitor, Nervous Gender, Neu, New Collapse, New Order, Gary Numam and the Tubeway Army, NON, Orbital, PIL, Phillip Glass, Pink Floyd (Until The Wall), Ramones, Lou Reed (Metal Machine Music), Roxy Music, Savage Republic, Screamers, Sex Pistols, Sleepers, SPK, Soft Machine, Souixie & the Banshees, Stranglers, Stooges, The The, Throbbing Gristle, Tangerine Dream, Theatre of Hate, Twisted Roots, Van Der Graff Generator, UXA, Velvet Underground, Voxpop, X, Wall of Voodoo, Weirdos, Robert Wyatt, Young Marble Giants etc...

Movies:

All Russ Meyers, Horror and scifi, Blade Runner and Chinatown (Best 2 films about Los Angeles) Clockwork Orange, 2001, Deep Red, Susperia, El Topo, Jesus Christ Superstar, The decline of Western Civilization (part 1)

Television:

I canceled the cable and put the television in storage. It was sucking my soul dry. There is a reason it is refered to as the "idiot box"! But, recently I watched all 7 seasons of Buffy in a whirlwind marathon.

Books:

William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged) Naked Lunch, the Third Mind, Story of the Eye, Story of O, Varley's Titan trilogy, Neuromancer, Dian Hanson's The history of Men's Magazines (6 volumes) My Secret Life, Sarte - Nausea.

Heroes:

My cat Willie who lived 22 years!