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Handsome Mike

Never bring a knife to a gunfight, unless you also have a gun hidden in your boot.

About Me

I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm.

My Interests

Music (listening and playing), filming people trying to act or not, motorbikes, books, kung fu, il cinema, collecting things, building furniture, art: contemporary, odd magic/conjuring, fighter planes, pretty cars, The Ambassade Française.

I'd like to meet:

Filmmakers, musicians, Electroclash pixie models, Flamenco and ballet dancers, foreigners, investors, inventors, people who owe me money.

Music:

Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Cash, The Kinks, Buzzcocks, T-Rex, Deerhoof, Belle and Sebastian, Velvet Underground, Ennio Morricone, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Hank Williams Sr., Jimmy Rogers, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Circle Jerks, Lee Hazlewood, Black Flag, Iggy/Stooges, Van Halen, Dvorak, Rolling Stones, Herb Alpert, Prokofiev, Jerry Reed, Electroclash, 60s Italian/French soundtracks and Euro Big Beat, Mod-garage, Psych, Northern Soul, Big Band, Salsa, barbershop quartets, old metal, 70s/80s punk, delta blues, Italian opera

Movies:

Julien Donkey-Boy, Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Cinema Paradiso, Danger: Diabolik, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Graduate, Fitzcaraldo, Cockfighter, The Man Who Would Be King, The Kid Stays in the Picture, the Godfather, GoodFellas, the Long Good Friday, the Limey, Get Carter (original), Rushmore, El Topo, Paper Moon, A Clockwork Orange, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Bubble

Television:

infomercials

Books:

The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, The Perfume, On the Road, Don Quixote, Ana Karenina, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Lake Wobegon Days, From Beruit to Jerusalem, The Sound and the Fury, Crime and Punishment, The Russians and the Germans, Hermann Hesse, Chuck Palahniuk, Sarte, Existentialism, Hustler magazine

Heroes:

Werner Herzog, Thor Heyerdahl, Guy Ritchie, Hunter S. Thompson, Monte Hellman, James Carville, Anthony Bourdain, Warren Oates, Michael Caine, Chester A. Arthur, Alexander the Great, Eddie Van Halen, various Ceasars and Czars, Billy Jack, Joel Loya