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rock 'n' roll, music in general, going to see bands, listening to records, deejaying, film, art, photography, and stuff
I'd like to meet:
OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANNA ROCK!!!
Music:
Mission Of Burma, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Birthday Party, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, David Bowie, The Kinks, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Yardbirds, The Byrds, The Fall, Wire, Gang Of Four, The Raincoats, The Stooges, MC5, Blue Cheer, Nation Of Ulysses, Toots & The Maytals, Drive Like Jehu, Husker Du, The Replacements, The Jam, The Saints, Stiff Little Fingers, Circle Jerks, The Clash, The Ramones, Sonic Youth, John Cage, Christian Marclay, Godz, Bonzo Dog Band, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Charles Mingus, Pharoah Sanders, Pere Ubu, The Vaselines, Beat Happening, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Desmond Dekker, Sam Cooke, Sweep The Leg Johnny, Low, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Eric Dolphy, Silver Apples, Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can, Red Allen, Country Gentlemen, Flaming Groovies, Liliput, Craw, Rolan Alphonso, The Skatalites, John Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Negativland, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Mothers Of Invention, Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Cecil Taylor, Edgard Varese, Milton Babbit, George Crumb, Arnold Schoenberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sly & Robbie, King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Laurel Aitken, Ernest Ranglin, Derek Morgan, Jackie Mittoo, Ugly Duckling, Run-DMC, Erik B. & Rakim, Temptations, Four Seasons, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Slayer, Iron Maidon, Bolt Thrower, Venom, Voivod, Etta James, X, The Ex, Monroe Brothers, The Mekons, Go-Betweens, Half Japanese, Daniel Johnson, Wesley Willis, The Avengers, The Adolescents, Cherry Valence, The Pagans, Ike Turner, Dillinger Escape Plan, Melt Banana, Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock, Fugazi, Embrace, Lungfish, Proletarian Art Threat, Biblical Proof Of UFO's, The Conservatives, Lives Of The Saints, Keelhaul, Neurosis, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Swans, John Zorn, DNA, Diamanda Galas, Pixies, Reigning Sound, The Oblivians, New Bomb Turks, The Dirtbombs, Swell Maps, Bad Brains, Devo, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jesus Lizard, Television Personalities, Suicide, Big Black, Minutemen, Firehose, Wedding Present, Naked Raygun, Pylon, The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Dils, The Weirdos, The Randoms, Crass, Aus Rotten, Yo La Tengo, They Might Be Giants, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Waller, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins. World Saxophine Quartet, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Roscoe Mitchell, Art Tatum, Eddie Cochran, Bill Haley & The Comets, Wanda Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Shuggie Otis, Johnny Otis, New York Dolls, Brian Eno, The Dictators, T. Rex, Destroy All Monsters, Pussy Galore, The Monkees, Electric Eels, Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group, Dave Clark Five, The Zombies, Link Wray, ? & The Mysterians, Faust, The Seeds, The Pretty Things, Them, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Superchunk, Meat Puppets, Steve Reich, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lightning Hopkins, The Animals, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Mama Thornton, Soul Stirrers, Josephine Baker, Memphis Slim, Converge, Black Eyed Snakes, The Seconds, Bjork, High On Fire, Rogers Sisters, Rye Coalition, Tight Bros From Way Back When, Karp, Shesus, Tight Whips, Genetically Yours, Them Wranch, Tough & Lovely, Silencio, Dead Boys, Building On Fire, Songs:Ohia, Palace, Andre Williams, Federation X, Nebula, Fu Manchu, The Randoms, AC/DC, King Missle, Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Of Today, The Business, Jawbox, Jawbreaker
Movies:
ny film by Alfred Hitchcock especially The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dial M For Murder, Rear Window!!!, Psycho, Vertigo, North By Northwest; any film by Billy Wilder especially Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Sabrina, and Some Like It Hot; any film by David Lynch especially Fire Walk With Me, Wild At Heart, and Mullholland Drive; any film by Ingmar Bergman especially Persona, The Silence (Tystnaden), Cries And Whispers (Viskningar och rop), Fanny And Alexander (Fanny och Alexander), and Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället); any film by Jean Renoir especially Rules Of The Game (La Règle du jeu), Grand Illusion (La Grande illusion), Boudu Saved From Drowning (Boudu sauvé des eaux), and Human Beast (La Bête humaine); any film by Mel Brooks especially Young Frankenstein, Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, and History Of The World Part I; any film by Stanley Kubrick especially 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Dr. Stangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bomb, and Clockwork Orange; any film by Woody Allen (there all so good!!!); any film starring Humphrey Bogart especially Angels With Dirty Faces, Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have And To Have Not, The Big Sleep, Desperate Hours, In A Lonely Place; any film by the Coen Brothers especially Hudsucker Proxy, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, and Oh Brother Where Art Thou?; absolutely anything by Georges Melies; 8 ½, 8 ½ Women, The 3rd Man, 400 Blows (Les Quatre cents coups), 8 Women (8 femmes), A Christmas Story, Airplane, Amelie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain), Apocalypse Now, Army Of Darkness (and Evil Dead I and II), Arsenic And Old Lace, Ballet Mecanique, Beauty And The Beast (La Belle et la bête), Beetlejuice, Best In Show, Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette), Blade Runner, Blood Of A Poet (Le Sang d'un poète), Brazil, Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari), Charade, Children Of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis), Chinatown, Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso), Citizen Kane, City Of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus), Cleo From 5 To 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7), Cloack And Dagger, Dark Crystal, Delicatessen, Donnie Darko, Down With Love, Elling, Eyes Without A Face (Les Yeux sans visage), Fifth Element, French Connection, Frida, Ghostbusters, Gilda, Goonies, Gremlins, Happiness, The Haunting (the 1963 original), Hiroshima Mon Amour, His Girl Friday, I Married A Strange Person, In The Realms Of The Unreal, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Labrynth, The Legend, Lilja 4-Ever, Lost In Translation, M, Meet John Doe, Meshes In The Afternoon, Metropolis, Midnight Cowboy, Modern Times, Momento, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Murder He Says, My Life To Live (Vivre sa vie), Night Of The Living Dead, Nightmare Before Christmas, Nosferatu, One Hour Photo, One Who Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Others, The Pianist, Princess Bride, Psycho Beach Party, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Requiem For A Dream, Roman Holiday, Rosemary's Baby, Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt), Scrooged, Secret Of Nimh, Stand By Me, Strange Loves Of Matha Ivers, This Is Spinal Tap, To Kill A Mockingbird, Touch Of Evil, Twelve Angry Men, Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg), Un Chien Andalou, Virgin Suicides, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Television:
Mystery Science Theater 3000, Dark Shadows, Get Smart, Green Acres, Wonder Years, The Awful Truth, Taxi Cab Confession, Reel Wild Cinema, Real Sex, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon, Captain N, Family Guy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Are You Being Served, The Red Green Show, Sledgehammer, Robyn Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, X-Files, Seinfeld, Lancelot Link, the Batman cartoon, Space Ghost (the original cartoon and Coast To Coast), Blue Falcon And Wonder Dog, Scooby Doo, The Real Ghostbusters cartoon, Are You Afraid Of The Dark, Tales From The Crypt, Cartoon Express, The Gummi Bears, Wacky Races, Jabberjaw, Shirt Tales, The Daily Show, The Monkees, Hong Kong Phooey
Books:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Dracula by Bram Stoker, anything by H.P. Lovecraft (epecially Rats In The Walls and Beyond The Mountains Of Madness), The Slave and The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka / LeRoi Jones, anything by Luigi Pirandello (especially Six Characters In Search Of An Author, Henry IV, and So It Is If You Say So), anything by Samuel Beckett, Old Times and No Man's Land by Harold Pinter, anything by Franz Kafka (especially The Penal Colony, The Metamorphosis, and The Judgement), anything by Ernest Hemingway (especially The Snows Of Mount Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber), anything by Nathaniel Hawthorne (especially The Minister's Black Veil, The Birthmark, Young Goodman Brown, and The Celestial Railroad), anything by Henrik Ibsen (especially Pillar's Of Society, An Enemy Of The People, The Wild Duck, and Hedda Gabler), The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, City Of Glass by Paul Auster, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, Maus: A Survivor's Tale books I (My Father Bleeds History) & II (And Here My Troubles Began) by Art Spiegelman, The Toughest Indian In The World by Sherman Alexie (especially the short story The Lotus Eaters), The Day Of The Locuts and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathaniel West, Soul On Ice by Eldridge Cleaver, Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed, My Antonia by Willa Cather, The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, The Investigation by Peter Weiss, True West by Sam Shepard, The Babysitter by Robert Coover, Clouds by Aristophanes, On Dumpster Diving by Lars Eighner, The Marlboro Man by Sandra Cisneros, anything by Anton Checkov (especially The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard), Book Of The Subgenius: The Sacred Teachings Of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs by The Subgenius Foundation, Death Of A Salesman and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, anything by Edgar Allen Poe (especially The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Masque Of The Red Death, The Murders In The Rue Morgue, The Oval Portrait, The Pit And The Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Raven), And The Ass Saw The Angel and King Ink by Nick Cave, anything by Samuel Beckett (especially Krapp's Last Tape, Film, Not I, and Footfalls), Nightwood by Djuna Barnes, The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman, The Island Of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells, Foghorn by Hanay Geigoman, The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein, Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez, Yankee Dawg You Die by Philip Kan Gotanda, Uncle Tom's Cabin by George L. Aiken, Angels In America: Millenium Approaches and Angels In America: Perestroika by Tony Kushner, The Search For Signs Of intelligent Life In The Universe by Jane Wagner, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, Vox by Nicholson Baker, Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Secret Of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien, anything by Tennessee Williams (especially Glass Managerie, Night Of The Iguana, Sweet Bird Of Youth, and The Rose Tattoo) The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O' Neill, Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, anything by Graham Greene (especially The Quiet American, Brighton Rock, The Third Man, and The Destructors), anything by Bertolt Brecht (especially The Good Woman Of Setzuan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage And Her Children,and The Three Penny Opera), Inheret The Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee, Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, anything by Henry James (especially The Aspern Papers, The Altar Of The Dead, and The Turn Of The Screw), Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, The Autobiography Of Malcom X, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Here I Stand by Paul Robeson, House Made Of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday, Cane by Jean Toomer, Lolita by Vladimir Nadokov, The Stranger and The Plague by Albert Camus, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Istanbul Boy by Aziz Nesin, Berji Kristin: Tales From The Garbage Hills by Latife Tekin, The Lynchers by John Edgar Wideman, Revolutionary Suicide: The Way Of Liberation by Melvin Newton, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing The Flack Cathers by Tom Wolfe, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, Records Of Salem Witchcraft Copied From The Original Documents, Hope For Flowers by Trina Paulus, The Imporatance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, the screenplays of Ingmar Bergaman (especially screenplays for the films Sawdust And Tinsel, Smiles Of A Summer Night, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Silence, Persona, Cries And Whispers, and Fanny And Alexander), A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Story Of O by Pauline Reage, Red Badge Of Courage by Stephen Crane, Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block, Three Lives by Gertrud Stein, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradburypoetry:
"We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks; "Songs Of Innocence And Experience" by William Blake; "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above The Tintern Abbey", "I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud", "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge September 3rd 1802", "London 1802", "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth; "Christabel", "The Eolian Harp", "The Lime Tree Bower My Prison", "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner", and "Kubla Kahn" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; "Childe Harold's Pilgramage" by George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Ozymandias", " Indian Girl's Song", "Ode To The West Wind", "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, "On Seeing The Elgin Marbles", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad", "Ode To A Nightingale", "Ode On A Grecian Urn", "Ode On Melancholy", "Ode To Psyche", and "Ode On Innocence" by John Keats, "Sonnets From The Portuguese" numbers 21, 22, 32, and especially 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; "The Lady Of Shalott", "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; "The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam" by Edward Fitzgerald; "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning, the poems in We A BaddDDD People by Sonia Sanchez; the poems in Re:Creation and Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgement by Nikki Giovanni, "End Of The World" by Jakob van Hoddis; "The God Of The City" by Georg Heym; "Morning" by Alfred Lichtenstein; "Tongues Untied" by Marlon Riggs, all of the poems in I Orhan Veli by Orhan Veli Kanik; "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Proofrock" by T.S. Elliot; "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas; "Dulce Et Decorum Est", "Anthem For Doomed Youth", "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo", "Miners", "Strange Meeting", "Futility", and "Disbaled" by Wilfred Owen; Where The Sidewalk Ends, A Light In The Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein; The New Kid On The Block by James Stevenson; "Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater" by Thomas De Quincey; "Jaberwocky", "The White Knight's Song", "The Walrus And The Carpenter", "The Hunting Of The Snark", and "The Baker's Tale" by Lewis Carrolbooks about music:
The Life & Music Of Nick Cave: An Illustrated Biography by Maximillian Dax and Johannes Beck; Hank Williams: Snapshots From The Lost Highway by Colin Escott and Kira Florita; Bad Seed: The Biography Of Nick Cave by Ian Johnston; Jazz: The First 100 Years by Henry Martin and Keith Waters; Blues From Robert Johnson To Robert Cray by Tom Russellbooks about movies:
any of the film guides published by the British Film Institute (BFI), Birth Of The Motion Picture by Emmanuelle Toulet, Republic Of Images: A History Of French Filmmaking by Alan Williams, Joel & Ethan Coen: Blood Siblings edited by Paul A. Woods, The Apocalypse Now Book by Peter Cowie, The French New Wave: An Artistic School by Michel Marie, French Cinema Since 1950: Personal Histories by Emma Wilson, The Rough Guide To Cult Movies: The Good, The Bad, And The Very Weird Indeed edited by Paul Simpson, Audrey Hepburn: An Elegant Spirit by Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Dictionary Of Film Quotations by Melinda Corey and George Ochoa, Natural Born Killers by Quentin Terantinobooks about art: books about art:
*note* any books published by Phaidon Books or Taschen Press are all pretty amazing
Salvidor Dali edited by Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neiret (published by Taschen), New York Girls by Richard Kern (published by Taschen), Portraits: Helmut Newton (published by Pantheon), Man Ray (published by Taschen, part of the Icons series), Century (published by Phaidon Press), Requiem: By The Photographers Who Died In Vietnam & Indochina edited by Horst Faas (published by Random House), The 20th Century Art Book (published by Phaidon), The Photo Book (published by Phaidon), The Poster Art Of Tomi Ungerer edited by Jack Rennert, American Poster Rennaissance: The Great Age Of Poster Design 1890-1900 by Victor Margolin, Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal (published by Deutsche Guggenheim), Contemporary Masterworks edited by Colin Naylor, Art Now edited by Burkhara Riemscneider and Utta Grosenick (published byTaschen), Frida Kahlo by Frank Milner, The Essential Man Ray by Ingrid Schaffer, The Essential Cindy Sherman by Catherine Morris, Helmut Newton: Autobiography by Helmut Newton, Frida Kahlo And Diego Rivera by Isabel Alcantara and Sandra Egnolff, Masterpieces From The Peggy Guggenheim Collection (published by the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation), Bjork edited by M/M (amazing book of nothing but photographs of Bjork, published by Bloomsbury), Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills (published by the Museum Of Modern Art), Weegee's World edited by Miles Barth, Art At The Turn Of The Millenium (published by Taschen), Art Of The 20th Century (published by Taschen), 20th Century Art (published by Taschen)
Heroes:
Rodney Dangerfield (R.I.P.)
