Rimbaud, Iggy, Verlaine, Burroughs, Bowie, Leadbelly, my grandmother. The origins of punk, blues, beat, Dada, alternative or underground culture, buggery...
I hooked up with this website primarily to meet people who might be a help in furthering the infamy of my band The Flesh Happening .....
Bleed / Hitler & Jesus by The Flesh Happening
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My 2003 book DEPRAVIKAZI
The Velvet Underground, Stooges, Can, David Bowie, John Coltrane, Pixies, Joy Division, Leadbelly, Hank Williams, Carole King, Buzzcocks, Duke Ellington, Kate Bush, Woody Guthrie, Le Tigre, Television, Harry Partch, Miles Davis, Virgin Prunes, The Ronnettes, Bessie Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Suicide, Little Richard, Ramones, Jacques Brel, The Cramps, Chuck Berry, Captain Beefheart, Dolly Parton, Cab Calloway, Jane's Addiction, Leonard Cohen, The Clash, Johnny Cash, Grandmaster Flash, Sonic Youth, The Orb, Nina Hagen, The Doors, P J Harvey, Billie Holiday, Nine Inch Nails, X-ray Spex, Tom Waits, The Fall, Lydia Lunch, Antony and the Johnsons, Public Enemy, The Carpenters, GG Allin, Bob Dylan, The Pogues, Bauhaus, The Shangri-Las, Tricky, Libertines, New York Dolls, Gram Parsons, Richard Hell, Edith Piaf, Nirvana, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Ray Charles, The Cardiacs, Neil Young, Noel Coward, Jimi Hendrix, Diamanda Galas, Sex Pistols, White Noise, Pulp, Pink Floyd, Flying Medallions, Jeff Buckley, Bonzo Dog Band, Charlie Parker, Joni Mitchell, Bjork, Bad Brains, Verdi, Aphex Twin etc... Guess I should Put in my band The Flesh Happening , as we make the kind of music I would like to hear if I wasn't the one making it...
Darren Aronofsky, Spike Jonze, Paolo Pasolini, Harmony Korine, John Waters, David Lynch ...
Anything that is informative, stimulating or just good mind-wank.
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Story of the Eye, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Our Lady of the Flowers, Fox in Socks, The 120 Days of Sodom, guess I should put in Depravikazi because I wrote it.....
These aren’t necessarily all heroes but I felt they should get a mention; Rimbaud (of course), Verlaine, Iggy, Burroughs, Bowie, Ginsberg, Leigh Bowery, Hubert Selby Jr, Henry Miller, Quentin Crisp, Lindsay Kemp, Hunter S. Thompson, Jean Genet, Dylan Thomas, Baudelaire, Poe, Plato, Warhol, Coleridge, Crowley, Huxley, Basquiat, Spike Milligan, William Blake, Chris Morris, Edward Lear, Aubrey Beardsley, R. Crumb, Hieronymus Bosch, Marcel Duchamp, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, my grandmother...