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vincent

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About Me

I am from Croydon. I draw things and write stuff. www.theAOC.co.uk____________________________________________ ___________www.supercroydon.com_____________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________http://www.facebook.com/p/Vincent_Lacovara/69841 5162

My Interests

Croydon, China, the rest of the world, buildings, pictures, aeroplanes, pork dumplings, colours, shapes, lines, lasagne, stories, people, journeys, lemon sorbet, lasagne, long drives, ideas, laughing, Croydon flyover, www.theaoc.co.uk

I'd like to meet:

My great, great, great, great grandad

Music:

Zoot Woman, Simon Bookish, Chris Isaak, Django Reinhardt, the Bees, Susumu Yokata, the Staple Singers, Jimmy Smith, Wes Montgomery, Kraftwerk, Slyboots, Beck, Neil Young, Jaga Jazzist, Grandaddy, Stephen Malkmus, Sonic Youth, Nik Kershaw, Genesis, Pearl Jam, Isao Tomita, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Soundgarden, Tortoise, Mark Lanegan, Bert Jansch, Queens of the Stoneage, the Mars Volta, Espers, the Zutons, John Mayall, Pavement, Ten Benson, Magazine, the Ramones, Teenage Fanclub, Les Rythmns Digitales, blah

Movies:

Alphaville, Hero, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sleeper, Manhattan, Brazil, Lord of the Rings (animated version from 1978), Metropolis, Onibaba (the hole), Amadeus, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Lawrence of Arabia, Top Secret, Footloose, Things to Come, the Mission, Citizen Kane, Singin' in the Rain, Swiss Family Robinson

Television:

the Antiques Roadshow, Newsnight, Brasseye, the Day Today, Wildlife on One, Look Around You, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Mr Ben, Battle of the Planets, Reeves and Mortimer, blah

Books:

Gulliver's Travels, the New York Trilogy, Candide, An Artist of the Floating World, The Music of Chance, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Towards a New Architecture, Blow up and other stories, the Trial, Fictions, a Clockwork Orange, SMLXL, The Master and Margarita, Empire of the Sun, Cosmicomics, On the Road, The Red Badge of Courage, Catch 22, Slaughterhouse 5, Therese Raquin, Waterland, The First Man, Woody Allen Complete Prose, The Path to the Spider's Nest, blah

Heroes:

He-man, Superman, Batman, Condoreman, Danger Mouse, Hercules, Han Solo, William Wallace, Garibaldi, Jesus Christ, Spike Milligan, Tony Benn

My Blog

A message from SuperCroydon no. 3

A message from SuperCroydon.  no.3 Surrey Street and the fruity market Triangle Leaving his Fiat Cinquecento in the Ikea car park, our guide takes his friends on a tram to central Croydon....
Posted by vincent on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:43:00 PST

Lift New Parliament animation

Everyone have a look at this lovely animation by Peepshow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6E-d-F6MHs  
Posted by vincent on Sat, 26 May 2007 02:00:00 PST

Croydon - the Super Suburb

www.supercroydon.com Croydon is a Super Suburb. A C20th idea-city transposed onto a medieval market town, in the middle of semi-detached suburbia. A rudely beautiful product of civic ambition, popular...
Posted by vincent on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:29:00 PST

Hunt for my Egg

April. The cruelest month? Not any more. In my bid to make April the kindest month of all - for one of you at least - I bring you the Great London Architectural Egg Hunt.In the spirit of the season, I...
Posted by vincent on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

A message from SuperCroydon . 2

"Visiting IKEA Croydon is very similar to the experience of visiting Tate Modern", our guide said as he indicated left to turn the Fiat Cinquecento on to the Purley Way. "Throngs of public circulati...
Posted by vincent on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:34:00 PST

A message from SuperCroydon . 1

Croydon: he is obsessed with it. One of the best expressions of his obsession is the 'Croydon tour' that he periodically take friends on. A tour which he is sure should convince anyone who shares an...
Posted by vincent on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:32:00 PST