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Dago Red

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About Me

I like old things...and Elevenses.

My Interests

The McLaughlin Group. Comical propaganda. film. ancient history. WWII. conservation. global political dynamics. great espresso. dark bars. guns. trees. maps. the city beneath New York City. boating and other leisure activities.

I'd like to meet:

Stevie Nicks obviously... i'd prefer if the dood stayed home.

Music:

THE ASSOCIATION. B-52'S. BEE GEES. BILLIE HOLIDAY. BLONDIE. BLUE CHEER. BRIAN ENO.THE BRIANJONESTOWNMASSACRE.CAN.THE CARS.CCR.CLINIC.COCO ROSIE.THE CURE.DAVID BOWIE.DECIBULLY. DEF HARMONIC. DEPECHE MODE. DEVO. DIGABLE PLANETS. THE DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY. DOOMSDAY CAULDRON. THE ELECTRIC PRUNES. ELTON JOHN. ENNIO MORRICONE. EZT. THE FALL. FLEETWOOD MAC. FLIN FLON. FLOCK OF SEAGULLS. GARY NUMAN. GUIDED BY VOICES. HALL AND OATES. JIM AND THE LORDS. THE JIVE BOMBERS. JORGE BEN. JOY DIVISION. KENNY ROGERS AND THE FIRST EDITION. KING CRIMSON. THE KINKS. LED ZEPPELIN. LEONARD COHEN. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS. MEN AT WORK. MICHAEL JACKSON. THE MISTREATERS. MY BLOODY VALENTINE. MZB. NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL. NILSSON. N.W.A. OTIS REDDING. PALACE BROTHERS. PAVEMENT. PAUL MCCARTNEY. PIXIES. THE POLICE. THE POPPY FAMILY. THE PRIDS. Q LAZZARUS. THE RACE. ROXY MUSIC. SEBADOH. SERGE GAINSBOURG. SILVER JEWS. SIMPLY SAUCER. SONIC YOUTH. THE SMITHS. SMOG. STEREO TOTAL. STEVIE WONDER. SYD BARRET. SWELL MAPS. THE MAMA'S AND THE PAPA'S THE TALKING HEADS. THINKING FELLERS. TONE-LOC. TUBEWAY ARMY. TV ON THE RADIO. UNREST. THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. VIOLENT FEMMES. WILD YAKS. WILLE NELSON. THE ZOMBIES.

Movies:

French. Italian, and Japanese cinema get me off. But even more: Sydney Pollack. George Roy Hill. Mel Brooks. and John Schlesinger are the shit. Zemeckis. Zucker. Van Sant. Stone. Spielberg. Ridley Scott. Mike Nichols. David Lynch. Lucas. Cohens. Kubrick.

Television:

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Books:

100 Years of Solitude. Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. Cryptonomicon. The Hobbit. The Iliad. Dungeon Masters guide. my WWII almanac... JD Salinger. William Gibson. Raymond Carver. Ernest Hemingway. Jack Kerouac. Italo Calvino. Philip K Dick. Denis Johnson. Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Vladimir Nabokov...

Heroes:

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My Blog

nothing more to see here.

The Forlorn...
Posted by Dago Red on Tue, 06 May 2008 01:46:00 PST

Eisenhower, man of the hour

President, Republican, and a warning not heeded. ...
Posted by Dago Red on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:55:00 PST

My God, the bees

Though the most powerful nation on earth, and heavily criticized for abusing nature, we still rely on Honeybees to pollinate crops.  More than $14 billion worth according to current sources. ...
Posted by Dago Red on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:01:00 PST

The whole world is a sarcophagus of famous men

The barrage of commissions, studies, and semantic word games has subsided and left the country running in place with the same tired look on it's collective face.  While we send aid and provide a...
Posted by Dago Red on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:02:00 PST

Christmas Day, 1914

It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugoutsyet I could not sleep myself before writing to you of the wonderful events of Christmas Eve. In truth, what happened seems alm...
Posted by Dago Red on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:16:00 PST

Saddam Hussein Is Sentenced to Death

He serves no purpose any longer, no bin laden boogey man status for this chumpposted 5 minutes ago by THE ASSOCIATED PRESSArticle:New York Times...
Posted by Dago Red on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 01:21:00 PST

they live

We don't make time anymore for creatures that once lurked in our shadows, roamed the deep forests, and fed on the weak at night....but they are still there, ever further into the cracks.  Or so i...
Posted by Dago Red on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:21:00 PST

Face of tomorrow

FacesI highly recommend blasting some Phillip Glass and looking at this in some detail......
Posted by Dago Red on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:03:00 PST

man arrested for saying what he thinks to Dick Cheney

« According to the lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Denver, Howards and his son walked to about two-to-three feet from where Cheney was standing, and said to the vice president, "I think your p...
Posted by Dago Red on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:05:00 PST

Hey Monsanto

ENGINEER THIS, and GO FUCK YOURSELFfuture of food...
Posted by Dago Red on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:18:00 PST