glitter-graphics.com Travelling,very much like to see the mysterious stones of Easter Island.Like to see Monument Valley,Death Valley and the Grand Canyon, not to mention Shiprock(where NBK was filmed).Archaeology,Geology,Astronomy,unexplained phenomena,the paranormal.Stone circles are another interest of which there are plenty here in the UK.Anyhow, before I sound like a fully fledged hippy, i have many interests, camper vans the weirder and wackier the better,LOL!. Collecting modern antiques from the 1960s and 70s-stuff once regarded as tasteless tat now deliriously collectible.Right now, i'd like to get my mitts on some real 70s Linear Disco Units.UPDATE:- I'm still looking for these lights and it's been a while now.UPDATE:(been a while on this one)I spend waaay, faaaar too much money on Miss Sixty clothes and accessories, stop it Miss Sixty, stop it NOW. And waaay too much money on Lush(not to mention too long in the shop) can't accuse me of not smelling nice.UPDATE: also have a weakness for the Habitat store, that Pompidou inspired vase, and from 1979 too,no no no,stop it Habitat,stop it now!
...a Richey Edwards lookalike(a leopard-print wearing minx in other words)Someone to take me out, take me out tonighhht,because I want to see people and I want to see liiife sang The Smiths.UPDATE:i'm not too bothered about being taken out,just like The Smiths song, but would really,so much like to get a band together, please folks!JOIN MY BAND,i'm begging you.(UPDATE)have a better idea about this now, particularly looking for a female vocalist:influences:-Howling Bells, My Bloody Valentine and Moloko.Two brothers on guitars although you don't necessarily HAVE to be brothers, that's just hippy talk.I must stress though, please NO time-wasters and people who live in a permanent fantasy world, make the fantasy become reality!. Also like to meet glamrockers,hippies, mods,cat lovers and musicians,general artistic types with similar interests.Male & female,any age,from US,UK, Europe anywhere really.UPDATE:anyone from the north east of England area? esp Newcastle,North Tyneside and Northumberland.Also hoping to get a band together, so if anyone sees this and is interested please get in touch.UPDATE:Please only contact me if you are genuinely interested, i will NOT accept people who turn out to be idiots who send inappropriate comments - you will be blocked.I am a serious musician,thank you.DA DOO DOO DOO DA DA DA DAAA(this is silly isn't it) is all I have to say to you(old Police record)UPDATE:When first contacting me please do not expect me to travel miles upon miles to be your friend or see your band, whatever, not only is this rude but downright unreasonable.Would you go out of your way to see me? hmmm
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uh don't get me started on this one otherwise i'll be here all day. I like LOTS of music and also have pretty diverse tastes.At the moment, I like heart-wrenching soul and motown stuff from the 60s and 70s - and Gnarles Barclay(The Odd Couple is a class album) vintage Who,The Beatles White Album(my favourite of theirs).Early Roxy Music,early Human League,LCD soundsystem,Goldfrapp,Moloko - particularly the Forever More track.SFA,Big Star-Sisters,Lovers,Third album,Elliot Smith,PJ Harvey,SLINT,Neil Young,Unwound,My Bloody Valentine,old JAMC,The Nazz,Vanilla Fudge, The Creation,Cooper Temple Clause,HotHotHeat,In Your Honor by the Foo Fighters,all the ASH albums,just about anything by QOTSA,Soundgarden,Karp,SmashingPumpkins - in particular stunning tracks Pug and Soma.BRMC,WhiteStripes,Ramones,The Hives,Veruca Salt(remember them?)Black Angels,Mott the Hoople.I reckon Death From above 1979 should do a cover version of The Knack's My Sharona,actually came out in 1979 too.UPDATE: Death From Above 1979 have split up.UPDATE: just been listening to the new Vines album - pretty darn good actually, back on form with songs in the same league as Autumn Shade.UPDATE:in general i'm pretty much a garage/psyche and alternative rock fan.Not to mention a liking for soul & motown music -Psychedelic Shack by Temptations anyone?UPDATE: one of my favourite new bands at the mo are the Cold War Kids.UPDATE:QOTSA should do a cover version of Duran Duran's *All She Wants Is* HAHAHAHA how quirky cool would that be?!UPDATE:And what would yours truly like to cover? hmmmmm just something totally avant garde man,something on a par with Faith No More covering Spanish Eyes...UPDATE:UPDATE: got it! I would do a cover version of XTC's Making Plans for Nigel, actually, I can just imagine Mike Patton singing it in his unorthodox style.OR I might do a Ramones song, Pinhead I think.UPDATE: Also an absolute sucker for massive, bombastic production on such tracks as RATM's version of Renegades of Funk and Anthrax &Public Enemy's Bring the Noise - early 1990's rap & metal at its BEST!UPDATE:as the 1990s were previously mentioned I did so like many of the grunge & stoner bands at the time(and still do)only I never got to hear a lot of them, many with GREAT names!of course, in the advent of MySpace and YouTube I now can, been seeking as many as i can find on here...so for all those elitists...Recently dug out my old copy of Fast Stories from...Kid Coma by Truly, and I had truly forgotten how good this album was.
Tend to like American road movies at the moment.Saw from Dusk 'till Dawn recently(UPDATE:saw the aforementioned film NOW three years ago) although darkly funny, it has to be one of the most disturbing films i've seen.1970's classics: Vanishing Point and Duel. Natural Born Killers from the 90s(they drive a 70s Dodge Charger, actually i think it might be a Challenger, though).The Straight Story from David Lynch was a'different' kind of road movie but quite a contrast to his saucy Wild at Heart.Different genre now,The Filth and the Fury extremely entertaining film about The Sex Pistols.I also appreciate the strange & bizarre for example Jan Svankmeyer's Alice,but this is nothing compared to an EXREMELY RARE animated film called DUMMIES involving moving mannequins - which must have taken bloody ages to make.Not normally one for violent films but i saw Kill Bill - vol 1 recently and Uma Thurman was just stunning, brilliant, fantastic in it, 2003 is indeed four years ago...UPDATE:some obscure(thanks to Guardian newspaper) road movie from the early 1970s entitled Two-Lane Blacktop, any good?UPDATE:have now seen Two-Lane Blacktop and sometimes films are obscure for a reason, this film, to put it bluntly was a disappointment.RECENTLY SAW The Dukes of Hazzard with Johnny Knoxville(oh how I love that Dodge Challenger!) and this sure made up for the fact that Two-Lane was utter dross.UPDATE:Barbarella(original 1960s) is probably my favourite all time space movie.
A fantastic(fairly new)British comedy called The Mighty Boosh.Update:May'07 enjoyed it at the time. Also enjoyed Life on Mars, British drama about a detective who is involved in a road accident then finds himself in the police world of the 1970s,excellent.UPDATE:April '07 used to like the aforementioned but hated it during the second series cos it was DIRE would have prefered to have watched old Professionals episodes at least Lewis Collins could act!.Russel Brand- comedian & presenter with a sardonic wit, sometimes funny - well, what he said about Bob Geldof was funny anyway,speaking of Brands...where is Jo Brand's razor tongue when we need it most?Update: speaking of vicious, searing wit - Abigail's Party(1977)just love the decor in this too.UPDATE:Alan Carr is funnier than Jimmy Carr.UPDATE: Pimp my Ride - about doing up old bangers.Whatever is on the digibox.Update: The Hairy Bikers are quite good only i think they should wear hairnets when they do cooking,don't you...UPDATE: TransmissionTV is probably about the best music programme, presenter Steve Jones ain't bad(it's the Welsh accent you know).Matthew McNulty in See No Evil.
glitter-graphics.com Too many to mention, you'd believe it if you saw my place.Come back to this later.... Right now i'd like to own The Andy Warhol giant size book 42cmx32cm! consisting of 624 pages, i'm in 60s heaven already...Update:-some books in my collection that i've read more than once, Slowly Downward by Stanley Donwood(Radiohead artist).High Rise by JG Ballard.Courtney Love - The real story by Poppy Z.Brite,Sweet Venom - book on Manic Street Preachers by Martin Clarke.My Face for the World to see by Candy Darling.From A to BIBA by Barbara Hulanicki.Pigeon's Luck by Vladimia Tretchikoff and Anthony Hocking.TO NAME BUT A FEW!UPDATE: Seen a book recently called "Is it just me or is everything sh*t" just got to get this.UPDATE: currently reading M.R.James - Casting The Runes and Other Ghost Stories.Flea Market Style by Emily Chalmers.Update:-Mom has bought me It's Vintage,Darling!how to be a clothes connoisseur by Christa Weil, it's funny, i've always had a thing for old clothes so too has my mother - which is probably where i got it from. Up untill the early/mid-90s wearing second-hand clothes were considered an absolute NO-NO by the masses it truly makes me laugh that fashion snobs are now eating their words...UPDATE:have to say the most looked at book in my collection( not so much read) is Dirty Blonde a memoir of Courtney Love, i do so love the 'antique'OR RATHER 'vintage' look of it, i feel like adding some old , battered picture of me to it.UPDATE:If you see me on the odd occasion I go into Barters books(biggest secondhand bookshop in UK)Alnwick, Northumberland then do please say "Hello, are you Gwen?".The man whose teeth were all exactly alike by Philip K. Dick, yes, I guess you could say i've returned to my old avant-garde self.
Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon,Pete Townshend-seen old footage of these musicians and they were quite remarkable.Cont'd 90s riot grrrls L7, the two guys from Death From Above 1979.Betty Boop, Maureen Tucker,Colm O'Ciosoing(drummer from My Bloody Valentine)Brendon Fraser drummer from Greenhornes and Raconteurs.Vito Roccoforte - The Rature's drummer.Carmine Appice - Vanilla Fudge drummer.Grace Slick,Julie Driscoll,PJ Harvey,Karen Carpenter - as a drummer,Cliff Burton, Johnny Thunders. The BIG MUFF guitar foot pedal(for all you Mudhoney fans out there)D'Arcy from Smashing Pumpkins and the late great Elliot Smith.Diana Dors,Rita Hayworth, and one of her quotes"All i wanted was just what everybody else wants,you know,to be loved"