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Zan is the Handclaps

If I had big ol' hands I could play you a heartbreaking tune.

About Me

Click the link below to see my albums on Flickr:

¡Sacafotos!

Or read my blog:

Neon Angels On The Road To Ruin
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Every Friday at Nowhere Bar in ye olde East Village I bring you the best in new wave nerdcore, funk for punks, double-d disco, girl groups gone wild, ESL rock, homo friendly hip-hop and DIY dance divas from the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and today!

My idea of Heaven is a karaoke bar with a songbook that mimics my iTunes library where the beer is free flowing and the reverb impeccable.

My Interests

I am totally going to marry this man if it kills me...

karaoke showboating, bands with two drummers, south sudanese women, biker gangs from the 50's, surfer fashion of the 70's and early 80's, the young jordan knight, summer crushes, fall and winter boyfriends, prismacolor anything.

I'd like to meet:


ronnie spector.
people who dance.
someone to sing songs to.

Music:


handclaps, banjos and hey-la hey-las.

Movies:

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Television:

Weeds and Battlestar Galactica.

Heroes:

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My Blog

listen up! vol. 3

this is the shit that's blowin' my mind right now.nobody knows what's going on in my mind but me - the chiffonsfrom one kiss can lead to another: girl group sounds lost and found. the "diary" include...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:51:00 PST

listen up! vol. 2

here are some more jams occupying my headspace at the moment...off you - the breedersfrom title tk. if kim deal were to release a whole album of stoned free association lullabies such as this one i w...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 12:43:00 PST

listen up!

here are some songs i can't get enough of right now.  love is like a butterfly - dolly parton from ultimate dolly parton.  such is the warmth and benevolence of her spirit that dolly is abl...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Tue, 23 May 2006 12:55:00 PST

*amor california*

below are pictures from my sojourn in the southland of california.  peep my beautiful friends, new and old; revel in the karaoke madness and gape in awe at coco lopez's magnetically magnificent b...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:22:00 PST

flawless!

so, i always want to but never actually do fill out those bulletin surveys where everyone shares their top ten favorite whatever.  i guess i feel confined by the format.  i don't want to jus...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:31:00 PST

even gorgeous youths get the blues...

seriously, i don't know how gus van sant does it. i don't know how it is that he puts out these movies that are nothing but bad acting, awkward homoeroticism and endless silence in between. if it...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:13:00 PST

romance is a ticket to paradise...crushes are the publisher's clearing house sweepstakes.

a long time ago, back in the livejournal days, i wrote myself a list of rules for life.  i don't remember what they were now.  only two stick out in my head now...one was "cut your own hair"...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:17:00 PST

coney island? cool!

<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y34/misterzan/marisnob lesteed.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"> la bella marisa riding her noble steed. <img src="http://i2.photobucket.co...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

open letter to fans of overexposed former junkie club kid convicts.

michael alig is not cool, kids. macauley culkin may have made him look pretty adorable for the first half of that awful stinkbomb of a film made about him but he is not cool. did anyone see the en...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

happiness is a blondie reissue.

i was really hardcore into the waitresses for a while there. i wore out my "wasn't tomorrow wonderful?" tape and had to buy the record on ebay. i came thiiiiiiis close to buying their third album "b...
Posted by Zan is the Handclaps on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST