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STAMFORD HILL GUN CLUB

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About Me

SHGC are proud perveyors of tweed, taxidermy and crackly old vinyl collections. We play a high voltage selection of dirty old blues-based music with touches of the unexpected, the bizaare and the surreal. Androids step back. We like: wiley, red verbs exchanged in boozy passing, animals (in general), miniscule of sound (now there's an idea) cats (see animals), complicated women, noble rapscallions and scallywags of all descriptions, ships, sirens, pirates, coconuts, jellybeans, goosebumps, soft, wet, panting kisses, the sweat on the small of a womans back, ferral strangers, aligators, lady-ators, ladybirds, being bitten, cherries, screamin' jay hawkins, voodoo, xylophones, 45" static, stars, chocolate, mambo (yes Kev, mambo), rainbows, listening to the movement of the spheres, the smell of dew in the morning (before you've been to bed), silly romantic sentiments disguised within flipant, cynical remarks, booze (oh, the wizdom of the grain), booze, Spike Milligan, booze, wizards (yep), lizards, memories, booze, memories, the soft reverb of well-heeled vixens echoing in the dancehalls of Xanadu, the everyday idiocy of people, sweets and mangos (not to be confused with mambo-see above). Cha cha cha. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music, taxidermy and voodoo

Music:

r'n'b and rock'n'roll from the 40's 50's and 60's, voodoo blues, jive, dixieland, swing, calypso, ska, exotica, northern soul, garage rock, punk, cuban beebop and primitive jazz. Blimey! Favourite artists includde Little Richard, Screaming J. Hawkins, Big Joe Turner, Benny Goodman, Ray Charles, James Brown, Prince Buster, Louis Prima, Etta James, Phil Spector, The Violent Femmes, Willmouth Houdini, Count Basie, Peggy Sue and the Pirates, Howlin Wolf, Jimi Hendrix, Yma Sumac, Gal Costa, The Fabulous Penetrators, Iggy Pop, Nora Dean, Lee Perry, Little Willie John, Lightnin' Hopkins, Wynonie Harris, The Slits, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Molly, Miles Davis, Dizzie Gillespie, Top Cats, Cab Calloway, The Lord Invader

Movies:

Buffalo 66, Measures of the Afternoon/Rituals in Transfugured Time (Mira Deren), Wizard of Oz, Wings of Desire, She's Gotta Have It, You, Me and Everyone We Know, The Player, Shortcuts, Stranger Than Paradise, Down by Law, Citizen Kane

Television:

Television sucks, but Sir Richard Attenborough is cool, and Jon Snow is our idol. Keep telling it straight, Johnny Boy!

Books:

Moragavine by Blaise Cendrars, Black Spring by Henry Miller, The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, To The Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf, Journey to the End of the Night by Celine, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Herzog by Saul Bellow, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Klay by Michael Chambon

Heroes:

Howlin Wolf, Spiderman, our mums, and John Snow, of course. Also, Adam Gardener; once a friend, who drifted away.

My Blog

Celebrity: firing on all cylinders - a short review of the z-list biography

We live in strange times. Once we worshipped martyrs and those of virtue. Now we have killed the gods of old and replaced them with suspiciously bronzed neurotics whose shameless flaunting of extreme ...
Posted by STAMFORD HILL GUN CLUB on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:45:00 PST