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Holden

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About Me

"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds. I've no fear of atomic energy cos' none of them can stop the time", a famous weed smoker said.

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Iggy Stardust

Music:

Some jazz (Davis,Parker, Coltrane...)- The Beatles - The Beach Boys - The Kinks - The Small Faces - The Rolling Stones -The Who - Gainsbourg - Dutronc - Bob Dylan-The Band- -Leonard Cohen- Johnny Cash- The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed - David Bowie - The Stooges - Iggy Pop - The Clash - The Buzzcocks - The Jam - The Undertones - Joy Division -Blondie - Television - Gang of Four - The Smiths - The Pixies - Sonic Youth - The Stone Roses -Oasis (first two albums)- Nick Cave -Jeff Buckley- Pavement - Pulp - Modest Mouse - Elliott Smith - Interpol - The Libertines - The Strokes- The White Stripes- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Franz Ferdinand- Belle And Sebastian- PJ Harvey - Biolay-Bashung-Art Brut- The Spinto Band- Neutral Milk Hotel- Clap your Hands Say Yeah- The Rapture-LCD Soundsystem -TV On The Radio - The Rakes- Nelson

Movies:

El, La Vie criminelle d'Archibald de la Cruz, Los Olvidados (Bunuel) - Baby Doll (Kazan) - Marnie (Hitchcock) - Jules et Jim, Tirez sur le pianiste (Truffaut)-Pierrot le Fou (Godard) -Fury (Lang) - Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) - No Direction Home,Taxi Driver (Scorsese) - Bad Lieutenant (Ferrara) -Conte d'été (Rohmer) - Ghost Dog (Jarmush) Body Double (De Palma) - The Big Lebowski (Coen) - Sacré Graal (Monthy Python) - Limelight (Chaplin) - Scarface (Hawks) - Casanova (Fellini) - Once Upon A Time In America (Leone) - Duck Soup (Marx Brothers) - La Grande Illusion, Le Fleuve (Renoir) - Parle avec elle (Almodovar) - Mystic River (Eastwood) - -Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan (Woody Allen), Edward Scissorhands (Burton) -A History Of Violence (Cronenberg)-Shara (Naomi Kawase)... and certainly not "Lord of the Rings"

Television:

Youtube

Books:

Artaud, Baudelaire, Houellebecq, Poe, Lautréamont, Aragon, Capote, Blake, Flaubert, Kureishi, Céline, Faulkner, Hemingway...

My Blog

Top 10 singles 2007

In alphabetical order :31 Knots - Savage BoutiqueArcade Fire - InterventionBenjamin Biolay - La Merco BenzDizzee Rascal - SirensLCD Soundsytem - North American ScumModest Mouse - DashboardSpoon - The ...
Posted by Holden on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:50:00 PST

Top 10 movies 2007

As usual, my end of the year list. As usual, I've not seen many films, about 20 (some being really bad, like 300) so picking 10 was both easy and hard.1- Eastern Promises (Cronenberg)2- Boarding Gate ...
Posted by Holden on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:47:00 PST

You’ve got to...

...go and see "We own the night" (out in France this Wednesday). I've not seen it yet but it looks real bloody good (to convince you, I just have to add it's by James Gray, the guy who directed "Littl...
Posted by Holden on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:56:00 PST

Top discs of the week

-Bonnie Prince Billy, The Letting Go-Sons and Daughters, Repulsion Box-Adam Green, Friends of mine
Posted by Holden on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:50:00 PST

Youve got mail

I heard a mental/scary story today on the BBC. In the States, an 18 year-old girl named Jesse, described as "blonde, tall and attractive", started chatting on the Internet with a twenty-two year old h...
Posted by Holden on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:08:00 PST

Latecomer

Except when I get free promotional discs from people I know who work in the music industry, I usually listen to new releases 6 months to 1 year after they're officially out, which kind of sucks! Anywa...
Posted by Holden on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:59:00 PST

Quote of the day

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Posted by Holden on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:16:00 PST

Fox-trot

"We're plain people, just country people, getting along the same as everybody else. We had some good times at our house. I taught Dick the fox-trot. Dancing, I was crazy about it, it was my whole life...
Posted by Holden on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:56:00 PST

My cultural week-end (that nobody cares about anyway)

What I've been... reading :  François Truffaut's biography by Antoine de Baecque and Serge Toubiana. Pretty interesting. watching : "Shining" (rewatching), I wanted to watch "Bourne Identity" as ...
Posted by Holden on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:55:00 PST

Top 5 movies 2006

I've not seen many films in 2006 but, if I remember well, the best ones were : 1) The Departed (Scorsese) 2) The Queen (Frears) 3) Volver (Almodovar) 4) Black Book (Verhoeven) 5) La Science des rêves...
Posted by Holden on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:52:00 PST