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Tracy

I am here for Friends

About Me

PLEASE NOTE THAT MESSAGES AND FRIEND REQS FROM PEOPLE I DON'T KNOW WILL BE DELETED. MY REAL FRIENDS ARE WAY COOLER THAN YOU. Additionally, if you refer to yourself as a "lover" and/or "dreamer", I reserve the right to publicly mock you. I soooo do not care about your opinion of my policies. And don't even think about putting any damn sparkly crap on my comments.

Check out my photography here. Latest stuff: Blues festival in Lugano.

St. Louis native and underground music scenester 1980--, Boston rock chick/photographer/writer/critic 1982-1999, since gone European.
Often ridiculously shy, and boy have I ever paid for it.
Ich spreche deutsch e parlo Italiano, because I live in Sweeeetzerland, mooooooooo. I live in the little space between the mountain and the river. I'm trying to take a clean slate approach right now.
I'm here to stay in contact with friends. If you're not one of 'em, sod off.

My Interests

•Photography both digital and silver
•short skirts, boots of leather and fur
•punk/underground rock music and the history thereof in St. Louis and Boston
•language
•writing
•Road trips
•MAC OS X
•collecting work by somewhat obscure Eastern European photographers
•creative cursing, current favorite: "Ogni CAZZO di F_CKING mattina!" courtesy of Max, high scoring for plurilingualism.

Sid says I should be writing erotica, so I'm thinking about it.

I'd like to meet:

No one, people suck! Your band sucks, too.
I would like to find Marianne Bennett (St. Louis/New Orleans). Mike Welch from the MFA, too. Suzy Rust turns out to be here: http://www.myspace.com/luckyfindgazette .

Music:

Django Reinhardt
Hank Williams
Bo Diddley
Muddy Waters
John Lee Hooker
The Ink Spots
Junior Walker & The All-Stars
Pops Staples
The Rolling Stones
Iggy Pop, The Stooges
Parliament-Funkadelic, any George Clinton really
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Bowie
Mott The Hoople
T Rex
Aerosmith
New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders
Roxy Music
The Sweet
The Ramones
The Damned
The Dead Boys
The Buzzcocks
The English Beat
The Cramps
The Gun Club
The Lyres
The Misfits
Black Flag
Drunks With Guns
Butthole Surfers
Voivod
Die Kreuzen
Ultraman
Public Enemy
Ice Cube
Tom Waits
Nirvana
Einstürzende Neubauten
Portishead
The Bags
Rammstein
Marianne Faithfull
Max Raabe
Xavier Naidoo & Söhne Mannheims
White Stripes
Nat Freedberg's oeuvre: Flies, Titanics, Satanics, Upper Crust
Mark Sandman's oeuvre: Treat Her Right, Morphine
Steve Albini's oeuvre: Big Black, Flour, Shellac

Movies:

I have a freakin' film degree so of course can only remember the titles of a handful of movies that ever grabbed me:
•M
•Fast Times at Ridgemont High
•Reservoir Dogs
•Performance
•Black Robe
•The Quarrel
•The Rules of the Game
•A Touch of Evil
•Southern Comfort
•Almost Famous
•Good Bye Lenin!
•Kung Fu Hustle

Television:

•CSI
•Monk
•The Daily Show
•South Park
•The Avengers
•Wild Wild West
•Rockford Files
•Absolutely Fabulous
•Blackadder
German stuff:
•TV Total
•Siebenstein (the old ones with Adelheid, not the new chick)
•Löwenzahn

Books:

•The Story of O
•The Song of Songs
•The amazing book Crush by poet Richard Siken
•Jane Austen
•Shakespeare
•George Orwell
•Oscar Wilde
•Ayn Rand (yes, get over it)
•Wittgenstein (bilingual edition of PI currently in the guest bath)
•Shoeless Joe
•OED
•Collins German Dictionary
•Anything re photographer Josef Sudek
•Guns, Germs and Steel
•Naked Economics (Wheelan)
•The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Tufte)
•The Iowa Review
•Road trip novels in general
•Distopian novels in general: We, Brave New World, 1984 etc.
•Das Glück ist Kein Haustier, which I'm very slowly translating into English
•Ralf König's hilarious comic books

and many others... Movers totally hate me because I have so many books. For this latest move, I moved all my books myself and so avoided their stink-eye.

Heroes:

Iggy is God. Elizabeth Tudor. Anita Pallenberg pre-junk. Marianne Faithfull post-junk.
Fictional ones: Emma Peel (Avengers), Patsy Stone (AbFab), Eva Kant (Diabolik fumetti).
My dad, a semi-retired attorney who is the sound man for a rock band, writes computer programs, and says he's still trying to decide what to be when he grows up.

My Blog

propellerhead

Fun stuff to do on a Saturday night: got Apache Server and PHP running on my Mac. Used this article http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Apache/Using-Apache-and-PHP-o n-Mac-OS-X/(somewhat out of date and the...
Posted by Tracy on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:31:00 PST

4 June 07 no beaching

OK so I did spend five days in Italy but it pissed rain pretty much the whole time so there was no going to the beach. The boys went biking/puddle-jumping/bar-hopping one day. P and I got in the habit...
Posted by Tracy on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:53:00 PST

22 May 07 You Look Like Craig

or Rise a Bone, Pt. IIMy son (age 5) yesterday wandered past quietly singing to himself what sounded like "you look like Craig, you look like Craig, you look like Craig, you look like Craig..."...whic...
Posted by Tracy on Tue, 22 May 2007 09:02:00 PST

11 Apr 07. yes i really am that old

Check this. That's me sitting on the stage at the left, Medea Kweskin beside me at right, then Andy (with Fritz Noble behind him), Kelly, and April(?) the skater chick. Black Flag (w/ Saccharine Trust...
Posted by Tracy on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 01:20:00 PST

29 Mar 07 I can't begin to think of a title for this

http://www.ohmibod.com/overview.html
Posted by Tracy on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:14:00 PST

30 Nov 06. Panic in Detroit

I've had the song "Panic in Detroit" running through my head nearly constantly for about the past six days. I have no idea where it came from, since I probably haven't heard it in many years. And I ca...
Posted by Tracy on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:46:00 PST

Have you ever wanted to impress your girl... (adult content)

I've been amused by the latest spate of pharma spam that's come my way, which has now shifted from ads for penis enlargement and Viagra and its cousins to ads with copy like this:Increase your sperm v...
Posted by Tracy on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 04:45:00 PST

Du fehlst mir

I've been over here in Switzerland missing the crap out of my friends in the U.S. lately. It's the sort of thing that appears only periodically, and more or less without warning. But it hits you like ...
Posted by Tracy on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:30:00 PST

Scheisslaune

If you've written to me lately and not gotten an answer, I haven't died or anything, just having a really crap week (or two). And my Swiss taxes are due, so I'm trying to deal with that. There is prob...
Posted by Tracy on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:07:00 PST

Your missing friends

Here I was all excited to finally reach 100 friends, only to find that myspace can't fucking count. I was amusing myself by seeing how these friends break down: bands, actual humans, net-only friends,...
Posted by Tracy on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:18:00 PST