Katrina Alliasan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Virtual girl. Dilettante. Writes about music sporadically.
(Which would be relevant, but for the fact that most of her musical tastes are very, very obscure.)
Loves: 'zines, starting new blogs every week, coffee, ranting from soapboxes, getting to hold all the snark left over from more politically correct personae, dissing Camille Paglia, and irrelevant trivia.
Hates: geography, linear time, the Diderot effect, the consolidation of media, zero-sum games.
In her other writing guises, she writes poetry, natters on about gardening, and muses on the nature of magick and power exchange. She holds the rather dubious distinction of knowing every word to most albums ever released on Paisley Park records.

My Interests

Music. More music. A bit more music. Coffee.

Music:

Artists I've obsessed about: arc angels, autolux, bettye lavette, cibo matto, coil, crash worship, current 93, david sylvian, dj food, doyle bramhall ii, elliott smith, funkadelic, girl bros., gorillaz, handsome boys modeling school, jill jones, john coltrane, jonatha brooke, joni mitchell, jude, k. d. lang, le tigre, lina, madhouse, mary gautier, material, meshell ndegeocello, michael nyman, miles davis, mingus, mitchell froom, neil finn, nurse with wound, pacifico, parliament, p c munoz, prince, psychic tv, rodney crowell, ryuichi sakamoto, seal, sheryl crow, susannah melvoin, tchad blake, the family, the like, the time, tori amos, victoria williams, wendy and lisa, W.O.M.B.
Producers you'll find in my collection repetitively: tchad blake, mitchell froom, bill laswell, wendy melvoin.
Labels that rarely steer me wrong: 4ad, anti, axiom, blue note, cleopatra, paisley park, projekt, verve.

Movies:

Watch Before the Music Dies. Just do. And see if you don't swoon over the goodness that is Doyle.

Television:

Heroes are my heroes.

Books:

My book pile is a complete mess at the moment, filled with books on power exchange and gardening. I am slowly, slowly, working my way through Leonard Shlain's Sex, Time and Power. It's hard to believe I used to get through six books that size in a week back when I was in school . . . !

Heroes:

Claude Hooper Bukowski (who hides in the movies and pretends that he's groovy, pretends he's Fellini and Antonioni and also his countryman Roman Polanski, all rolled into one!)

My Blog

Alternate Myspaces, or - I'm in ur MySpace, friending ur classicists

Do you realize that the blogs here don't even have a category for "Literature"? They have "Writing and Poetry," but I suspect that's for emo personal writings. I find myself amused lately by odd...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:46:00 PST

And lest it seem like I'm all Paisley Park, all the time . . .

I would just like to say how very, very cool it is to be in a universe in which both Michael Nyman and Peter Greenaway have official Myspace pages. (Take that, y'darn teenagers!) That is all. ...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:36:00 PST

Jaime Starr's a Freak (or, Seriously Though)

Seriously, though, all of this amusement over The Family got me thinking. I was actually thinking about how The Family (in its 1985 incarnation) was fluff pop, Duran Duran lite, but its grace is that...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:47:00 PST

All I hear in my head, echoing like a volcano baby . . . !

Oh. My. Goodness. Speaking of completely obscure 80s bands, The Family (the original version -- and best -- of "Nothing Compares to U" is theirs) has decided to reunite. No, I am not kidding. A...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:26:00 PST

While my guitar (not so) gently weeps, a small rant on pride and arrogance

Prince is just not a team player. He never has been, he's never going to be. He doesn't collaborate. He leads (most of the time) or follows (looking very much like he's going to lick Miles Davis' boot...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:28:00 PST

Love broke my Beatles albums

Uh oh. I had the very bad feeling that might happen. So, I've been listening to The Beatles' new Love recently. If you haven't heard of it yet, it's basically an official mashup of the full Beatles c...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:14:00 PST

Love

It's amazing, isn't it? The way it's both very familiar and also feels completely fresh and new? I'm talking about Love of course. No, not that - the Beatles album, silly. I'm just captivated by it l...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:50:00 PST

Shankar: in which Katrina has a very good ear

So, I've been interested in Shankar (sometimes listed Shenkar) again since Wendy & Lisa started scoring "Heroes" and pulled him along for the ride. I say again, because Shankar is of course one of...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:57:00 PST

Of Grubs and Canines

Been spending more time on good ol' Myspace lately. Some of that is to keep up with the friends I've got going here . . . But who am I kidding? It's mostly about the music, eh? I've been spending lo...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:44:00 PST

David Galas

Several months ago, I was complaining that unlike his former Lycia colleagues, David Galas was lacking a MySpace presence. That's been fixed now, and I've been remiss in noting it. For those who don'...
Posted by Katrina Alliasan on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:15:00 PST