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Quitty

Your Friendly Neighborhood Soulcialist

About Me

I share my birthday with Sandie Shaw, Johnny Cash, and the publishing of the Communist Manifesto.

My Interests

NORM the Soul Dog. Vintage Scooters, Vintage Slingerland Drums, Nice Hair. Soul Music. Jane Wiedlin, Winona Ryder. Sci Fi. Vinyl. Astro Burger. Esperanto. Finding my missing Vespa Rally. Soulie/TwoTone/Suedehead/Mod/Renee. Card carrying Socialist Party member. Update: since I've not found my Rally, we have a new scooter in the works!! Another Rally, indeed, and we've named her Louise.

I'd like to meet:

soulies, sorts, mods + renees, + the people who love them..

Music:

NORTHERN SOUL. Reggae, rocksteady, clever indie pop bands, jangle rock, 60s garage, punk. All things Billy Childish, Holly Golightly, Barbara Lewis, Taxi Girl, Aislers Set, Dusty Springfield, SUBURBAN LAWNS!, John Holt, Stereolab, Boomtown Rats, St Etienne, Belle + Sebastian, Love, Aki Aleong, John Holt, Francoiz Breut, Phyllis Dillon, Ruth Brown, MBV, Bartlebees, Miss Mary, The Housemartins, The Would-Be-Goods, Lush, the Rascals, United States of America, Denise James... The Great Leap Forward.

Movies:

The Wicker Man, 301/302, Salt of the Earth, Planet of the Apes, Cooley High, Good-Bye Lenin, la Repetition, the Tenant, Repulsion... psychological thrillers, sci-fi, foreign, documentaries... Polanski, Hitchcock, Lynch, Bergman, Godard.

Television:

Sadly, the reception is quite poor in my apartment so I don't watch it often, but sometimes I catch a fuzzy/snowy episode of King of Queens.

Books:

Ludwig L Zamenhof (the Esperanto guy), Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Michael Harrington, Angela Y Davis, Howard Zinn, Pierre Bouelle, and many, many cookbooks.

Heroes:

Billy Childish, Karen Carpenter

My Blog

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Posted by Quitty on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 07:01:00 PST

Happy Birthday, Communist Manifesto ! ...
Posted by Quitty on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:44:00 PST

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Meet the Ass Bagel:
Posted by Quitty on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:23:00 PST

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If Jake were a puppy... He'd be a Welsh Corgi Pembroke....
Posted by Quitty on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:01:00 PST

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Dear Mr Gnome,Please find a crackin' price for my birthday. Your loyal patron, Quitty
Posted by Quitty on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 05:48:00 PST

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CA5CV****"THANK YOU FOR YOUR INQUIRY CONCERNING THE CITATION (S) LISTED BELOW.WE HAVE REVIEWED YOU CLAIM, AND FOUND IT TO BE VALID. THEREFORE, YOUR CITATION (S) IS/ARE BEING PERMANENTLY DISMISSED. N...
Posted by Quitty on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

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Bye Moose... but 16 years is quite a long time, indeed!
Posted by Quitty on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:34:00 PST

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Last night, I got a $65 ticket outside of Amoeba, after I spent $65 on music! . There's a sign that says '1 Hour Parking', another that says 'No Parking ___ 8am -10am Street Sweeping', and yet anoth...
Posted by Quitty on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

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Looks as if we've made friends with the gay neighbors' cat.  This morning he brought us a dead bird and placed it on our steps.  It was completely disgusting... but charming at the same time.  ...
Posted by Quitty on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST