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Al Paradise

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About Me

I'm planning to become THE expert in the cheesecakes field, but you knew that already. MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Design and fashion from 1960s, children of the 1980s, indie music of 2000s

I'd like to meet:


COMMON PEOPLE... LIKE THEM

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Music:

IndieRockNewraveTweePopBritpopElectroclashDiscoPunk... anything that gets me dancing!!!

Sample from my iPod most played songs :LAST YEAR:

We Don’t Play Guitar – Chicks On Speed
Crystal – New Order
C’mon C’mon – Von Bondies (it’s so good, but so short!)
Ever Fallen In Love – Buzzcocks
Riot Grrrl – Le Tigre
Unconditional – The Bravery
Sleep the clock around – Belle & Sebastian
Like Eating Glass – Bloc Party
First of The Gang to Die – Morrissey
Jerk It Out – The Caesars
Some Velvet Morning – Primal Scream
Saturday – Soulwax
Dead Disco – Metric
Gold Lion – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Heart In A Cage – The Strokes
Love Is A Number – The White Rose Movement
Babies – Pulp
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rebellion – Arcade Fire
Young Folks – Peter, Bjorn & John
Wasted Little DJs – The View
Fake Tales of San Francisco – Arctic Monkeys
Atomic – Blondie
We Are Your Friends – Justice vs Simian
Gravity’s Rainbow – Klaxons

Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, Blow Up, Breakfast At Tiffany's, C.R.A.Z.Y, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Breakfast On Pluto, Thelma & Louise, Shooting Fish, Brassed Off, Quadrophonia, and Woody Allen, Hitchcock, Wong Kar Wai...

Television:

Anyone with a spare tv, please get in touch ;-) I used to watch Sex and The City, The Office, Six Feet Under, Gilmore Girls, Shameless, tones of indie music videos...
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Books:

Favourite ones: On The Road (Jack Kerouac); Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac again); Big Sur (and again); Catcher In the Rye (JD Salinger)

Heroes:

TWIGGY

My Blog

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"All of us were and are lost, and know it, and we simply try to settle into our lost-ness as comfortably as we can." Markus Muntean & Adi Rosenblum
Posted by Al Paradise on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:11:00 PST

hilarious

Thou shalt not steal if there is direct victim.Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets.Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim ...
Posted by Al Paradise on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:45:00 PST

Hmmm...

  Lord give me grace and dancing feetAnd the power to impressLord give me grace and dancing feetLet me outshine the moon Standing on the packed dance floorOur bodies thrown in timeSilent on the ...
Posted by Al Paradise on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:09:00 PST

Such Great Heights

"I am thinking it's a sign that the frecklesIn our eyes are mirror images and whenWe kiss they're perfectly alignedAnd I have to speculate that God himselfDid make us into corresponding shapes likePuz...
Posted by Al Paradise on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:16:00 PST