Reality and the current.
Anybody who wants to take me and my kids on vacation or for life--out of the US preferably w/ a nanny in tow--to India? Vancouver? Ireland? Well that's a tall order, but we're a good bunch:)
Anita O'Day, Chico Farrell, Eno, Slits, Mogwai, Early Man, African, Carl Perkins, Classical Indian Music, Skatalites, Toots and The Maytals, PETER, BUNNY, AND BOB=WAILERS; RAMONES, OS MUTANTES, Baden Powell, THELONIUS MONK; JOHNNY CASH, carter family, LOVE, Dave Van Ronk, lou reed Townes Van Zandt, T-Rex; JAPW; Q65; SPECIALS; Minutemen, The Outsiders; The Seeds; Alex Chilton; Big Star; 13th Floor Elevators; X; SUGAR HILL LABEL; ENJOY! Boogie Down Productions,Count Five, Roky Ericson, Big Brother and The Holding Company (first version); The CRAMPS; Doug Sahm and Sir Douglas Quintet; flying burrito brothers; Bob Dylan; Aretha Franklin; RONETTES; Dhar Braxton; Barbara Mason; Gwen Guthrie; ESG; Material; POLYROCK; PARLIAMENT; ELLIE GREENWICH; Blondie; Troggs;Them; Kinks; THE MONKS, Who; Womack and Womack; The Modettes, Au Pairs, Calexico, Wha!-The Art Of Nah Poo; Eno; APB;UNDERTONES; STRANGLERS; REVILLOS; Siouxsie and The Banshees; JESUS AND MARY CHAIN; NY Dolls; Boston Scene 79-82; the Crystals; Laura Nyro; Gainsbourg; Jacques Dutronc; LES RITAS MITSOUKOS; LSC, Busy Signals, Peer Gynt; Woody Guthrie; Hank Williams; Spoonie Gee; Fugazi; Grace Jones; KRAFTWERK; Jimmy Castor Bunch; Silver Convention; Odetta; ALL NUGGETS; Nino Rota; Bowie; Led Zeppelin; the WHO; Iggy and the Stooges; Ono; Lennon;The Congos; THE WAILERS (NW) LOUIS ARMSTRONG; Billie Holliday; THE MAHARAJAS; LYRES; CRAZY PAGES; THE CHARMS; Soul Asassins; MC5; PATTI SMITH; olde metallica; The Warlocks; DINAH WASHINGTON; IRMA THOMAS; Coco Robicheaux; Beasties w/ KATE; STRAFE'S "SET IT OFF"; The Mexican; PLANET PATROL; Mozart's WIND SERENADE; DEAD CAN DANCE; Kronos Quartet; Astor Piazzola; FELA; Surfaris; Dick Dale; motown; girl groups; doowop; the wizard of oz: test dep't neubaten; all bands i've worked with; the who sell out--scary monsters/hunky dory-- electric warrior/the slider--white light white heat...who has a copy of this? NAH POO: THE ART OF BLUFF 12" LP - 1981 Eternal, CLASSIC 1tracks: 1. The Wind Up 2. Otherboys 3. Why D'You Imitate the Cutout? 4. Mission Impossible 5. Somesay 6. The Seven Thousand Names of Wah! 7. Sleepp 8. Seven Minutes To Midnight 9. The Death of Wah! please send it to me on CD?
I appear in "Bailjumper" with Ezther Balint, "My Life's In Turnaround" (dir: Eric Schaeffer) and "End Of The Night" (dir: Keith McNally) in which I make out with Dominic Chianese Jr. Recently, I liked what I saw: Sicko, GRACIE, 300, STONED: the brian jones story, rock n roll circus, BABEL, Volver, The Queen, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, Scoop, Strangers With Candy, WASSUP ROCKERS, MATCH POINT, TRUDELL, MOTORCYCLE DIARIES; alot of 60's brit flix like Bunny Lake Is Missing, Saturday Night Sunday Morning; chaplin--moderntimes; the great dictator, black orpheus, godard truffaut fellini, breathless with belmondo/seberg, filth and the fury; quadrophenia; Five Easy Pieces; da pennebaker; maysles esp grey gardens; badlands; all cassavettes; scorcese; 80 blocks from tiffany's; MAYOR OF THE SUNSET STRIP; RUSS MEYER; KEN RUSSELL; dogtown; mixed blood, capote; decline of western civilization....Woodstock; JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY, ROCKERS, THE HARDER THEY COME, THE MISFITS; NIC ROEG, OLIVER! Hair; PUTNEY SWOPE, BORN TO BOOGIE...I used to work in a video store on Upper West (105th St.) seen a lot of movies...and american and russian avante garde too MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, STRIKE! I love: LE BALLET MECHANIQUE, MICHAEL SNOW; BRUCE BAILEY; WILLIAM KLINE; O KINE GODS/O JONAS MEKASTONY OURSLERS INSTALLATIONS NAM JUNE PAIK
TELEVISED CHILDBIRTH STILL BANNED--BUT WHY? WHAT IS EVERYBODY SO AFRAID OF? WHY IS BLOOD OF VIOLENCE ALLOWED BUT NOT BLOOD OF LIFE? IS BIRTH REALLY TOO SEXY FOR THE AMERICAN MIND? ok tv: POSH NOSH is funny...
Tao Te Ching, Live or Die, The Immoralist, Song of Hiawatha, Brecht on Theater, The Dehumanization of Art... and some of my favorite writers are: Beats like Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Courso, Diane Di Prima, et al, Michel Odent, Ina May Gaskin, LeBoyer, Nathalie Angier, Anne Sexton, Emerson, Yeats; Blake; Auden; Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner; Langston Hughes; Georges Sand; Don Delillo; Ian McKewan; Denis Johnson; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Jayne Anne Phillips; Dante, louise landes levi, bukowski, Sylvia Plath (Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams); Joan Didion; Raymond Carver, Nicanor Parra (poet); Neruda; Borges; Nabokov; Terry Southern; Tenessee Williams; Eugene O'Neill; Sam Shepard; Shakespeare to name a few--independent bookstores were or are oracles more books: WRITERS AT WORK series. A PUERTO RICAN IN NEW YORK; HE'S A REBEL (PHIL SPECTOR BIO)Roger Steffens' DEFINITIVE DISCOGRAPHY: BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS etc...
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