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E. Padilla

Out to Lunch.

About Me

slow metabolism.

My Interests

The only good motion is a dead motion. Nothing wrong with bad motion though.

I'd like to meet:

"Nobody swings higher than the Duke"-- Richard Nixon, talking about Duke Ellington during Ellington's birthday party at the White House. Dick played "happy birthday" for him on the piano.

Music:

John Fahey. Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band. Conlon Nancarrow. U.S. Maple. Mississipi John Hurt. The Dead C. Deerhoof. Leadbelly. Skip James. the Velvet Underground. Son House. Bartok. Ornette Coleman. Animal Collective. Black Dice. The Fall. Penderecki. Peter Brotzmann. Pansonic. Eric Dolphy. Derek Bailey. Big Black. Thelonious Monk. The Monks. Jackie O Motherfucker. Aphex Twin. Autechre. Eno. the Birthday Party. Electrelane. Slint. Smog. Robert Johnson. Xenakis. Sonic Youth. Albert Ayler. Throbbing Gristle. Wolf Eyes. Duke Ellington. The No Neck Blues Band. Pierre Schaeffer. Can. Neu!. Boredoms. Pussy Galore. Jonathan Coward. This Heat. Satie. Cecil Taylor. Vedette. Charlie Patton. Stockhausen. Shostakovich. Suicide. Papa M. The Residents. Bach. John Zorn. AMM. Wire. Gang of Four. Olivier Messiaen. Syd Barrett. John Cage. Ed Lawes. Pere Ubu. Techno Animal. Ogurusu Norihide. Pierre Henry. Alejandro Morse. Zeena Parkins. Keith Fullerton Whitman. Greg Davis. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. Susumu Yokota. Master Musicians of Joujouka. Alvin Lucier. Traditional Japanese Music. Gamelan music. Excepter. Faust. Ex-Models. Fennesz. Coltrane. Dirty Three. Cagey House. Lee "Scratch" Perry. King Tubby. Harry Partch. Johnny Cash. Bo Diddley. Jayrope (whichever proyect or alias).

Movies:

Lynch. Takashi Miike. Buster Keaton. Marx Brothers. Jan Svankmajer. Herzog. Tsukamoto. Cronenberg. Jarmusch. H. G. Cluzot. Kubrick. Chris Marker. Brothers Quay. Jean Vigo. Buñuel. Errol Morris. Jacques Tati. Terry Gilliam. Coen Brothers. Fellini. Ozu. Kaurismaki. Guy Maddin. Kurosawa. Tod Browning.

Television:

PA UBU. Burger me, it's bad.DOGPILE. Bleah, it's horrible.MA UBU. Nagnancies, what do you want?PA UBU (striking his forehead). Got it!. Hang On. I won't be long.(Exit).

Books:

H.P. Lovecraft. William S. Burroughs. J.G Ballard. Samuel Beckett. Alfred Jarry. William Blake. Lautréamont. Borges. Philip K. Dick. Gombrowicz. Céline. Kafka. Gerardo Deniz. Angel Ortuño. Camus. Poe. Swift. Daniel Clowes. Junji Ito. Gary Larson. César Vallejo. Cioran. Rimbaud. Lewis Carroll. Bruno Schulz. Baudelaire. Roberto Bolaño. Pessoa. Raymond Roussell. Maiakovski. Bukowski. Huidobro. Huysmans. Artaud. Bataille. Tristan Corbière. Dostoyevski. Nietzsche. Deleuze. Chekhov. Saki. e.e. cummings. Rilke. Jacques Vaché. Haroldo de Campos. Tristan Tzara.

Heroes:

Jacques Rigaut

My Blog

AFX. Hangable Auto Bulb (español)

AFX. HANGABLE AUTO BULB por Eduardo Padilla Hablando de trabajos seminales, más o menos fue a la altura de Hangable Auto Bulb (1995) de AFX por donde se echó a andar el baile cerebral-peristáltico....
Posted by E. Padilla on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:03:00 PST

Vedette's Ambleside or Ambleside's Vedette

Introductory Note:   Vedette is the name of the band, a two man band as I understand it. Ambleside is the name of one of their compositions. Not really my favourite one, and it's not the name of ...
Posted by E. Padilla on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:59:00 PST

Jonathan Coward (english version)

Jonathan Coward     Beyond certain experiments proposed by Marcel Duchamp, projected on paper but never executed, or the famous conceptual art-joke written by John Cage for piano, titled 4'3...
Posted by E. Padilla on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:30:00 PST

Jim Mason and the dreaded bubbles (English version)

Jim Mason and the dreaded bubbles   A Concept album in the key of prank (seriously, is there a better way to tackle this sort of enterprise?), Jim Mason and the dreaded bubbles is good, fun musi...
Posted by E. Padilla on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:16:00 PST

Vidas Ejemplares (estampilla inédita)

Vidas Ejemplares (estampilla inédita)       Dios quiera darnos la mayor oportunidad al bate de todas, el contrario de la muerte accidental: la muerte por proceso mejor aún: la muert...
Posted by E. Padilla on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:03:00 PST

Notas sobre la comedia anárquica

Violencia centrífuga: el comediante es un trompo girando sobre su propio eje a la velocidad de un insecto. El comediante es un agente de la entropía, un generador de caos. Al igual que Pa Ubu y su com...
Posted by E. Padilla on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 09:14:00 PST