IANVA member, Chief Editor of Mondo Culto : portal on Italian Cult movies, B-movies and weird-o-rama.
RetroPop Culture, True Crime (esp. Italian), Cults and New Religions, Camp Culture, Disco Days Culture - Apocalypse Writer for :Ritual:, Classix!, DVD.it Magazine, Psycho! (RIP), and Diablo! above all (I miss my little creature!)
I'd like to meet:
Gabriele D'Annunzio, Carmelo Bene, Vlad Tepes, Jacques Brel, Anna Magnani, Milly, Marc Almond, Subcomandante Marcos, il Maestro Pino Mauro, Gian Maria Volontè, Michele Giuttari, Tom Of Finland, Artemisia Gentileschi, Giulio Cesare, Mina, Claudio Cassinelli, Kenneth Anger, Marco Tagliaferri, Salvo Montalbano (and Catarella, of course....), Ettore Muti, Alberto Sordi, Peter Sellers, Franco Gasparri, Jolanda Gigliotti, Lux and Poison, Lando Buzzanca, Mr. Scott Engel, Franca Valeri, The Iguana, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jordan (SEX Shop Assistant, Punk Pioneer), Lou Reed (esp. in 1973, during his "Berlin" era), Serge Gainsbourg, a true voodoo houngan or mambo, Rino "Ringhio" Gattuso, Mr. Stuart Leslie Goddard, Totò e Peppino, James Ellroy, Monica Vitti, Homer Simpson, Gian Galeazzo Ciano Conte Di Cortellazzo, The Doctor, Luca Zingaretti, Georges Descrières as Arsenio Lupin, Roger Moore as Lord Brett Sinclair and Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde, Pam Grier as Foxy Brown, John Thaw as Jack Regan...
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Music:
Jacques Brel, Scott Walker, Milly, Marc Almond, Barbara, Fabrizio De Andrè, Beatles, Who, IANVA, Lucio Battisti, Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, Mina, Dalida, Enrico Ruggeri, The Cramps, Massimo Ranieri, Paolo Conte, Franco Battiato, Patty Pravo, Franco Califano, Nico, Loredana Bertè, Pino Mauro, Marianne Faithfull, Marcella, Barbra Streisand, Piero Ciampi, Giuni Russo, The Rolling Stones (1963/1978), Yma Sumac, Mia Martini, Johnny Dorelli, Dusty Springfield, All things GLAM (Bowie/Ziggy Era, Bolan, Slade, Jobriath, Sweet, Dorian, Metro, Suzi Quatro, Ronson, Mud, Sparks, Gary Glitter, Cockney Rebel...), Serge Gainsbourg, Charles Aznavour, Georges Brassens, Nino Ferrer, Jacques Dutronc, Air, The Fuzztones, Roxy Music, The Yardbirds, Lee and Nancy, The Stranglers (1977/1990), Willy "Mink" De Ville, Iggy and The Stooges, The New York Dolls, MC 5, The Sex Pistols, Loretta Goggi, Rosa Balistreri, Muzzi Loffredo, Pietra Montecorvino, Diamanda Galà s, Nina Hagen, All things Biker/Dark Sound (Black Sabbath, Coven, Comus, Fresh Maggots, Black Widow, Archaia, Diabolus, Warhorse, Salem Mass, Anthem, Audience, High Tide, Atomic Rooster, Writing On The Wall, Still Life, CWT, Titus Groan...), Italian Maestros Of Soundtracks (Armando Trovajoli, Guido & Maurizio De Angelis, Bruno Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani, Goblin, Franco Micalizzi, Ennio Morricone...), Early Italian Punk & Wave (Faust'o, Krisma, Decibel, Rosemary’s Baby, Moda, Not Moving, Underground Life, Neon, Pankow), Charles Manson & His Merry Family, Gianni Bella (1974/1980), Disco! (Amanda "The Queen" Lear, Boney M, Thelma Houston, Chakachas, Trammps, Bee Gees, Leroy Gomez & Santa Esmeralda, Cerrone, Village People, Boys Town Gang, Asha Puthli, Queen Samantha, Roberta Kelly, Silver Convention, Barry White & Love Unlimited Orchestra, Jennifer...), Umberto Tozzi (1976/1981), Blaxploitation Soundtracks Godfathers (Don Julian, Willie Hutch, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, JJ Johnson,Gene Page...), The Spell, Abba, Adam & The Ants, Ultravox/John Foxx, Magazine, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Bauhaus, Boyd Rice, Sottofasciasemplice, Patti Smith, Harry Toledo, Wayne/Jayne County, Mrs. Miller, PJ Proby, Johnny Cash, Maltominimarco, Robbie Williams, Alice Cooper, Bollywood Soundtracks, Motorhead, Danzig, Grand Funk Railroad, Steppenwolf, Babylon Whores, Type O Negative, Psychick TV, Pierrot Lunaire, Alluminogeni, The Trip, Museo Rosembach, Delirium, Popol Vuh, Il Balletto Di Bronzo, Equipe 84...
Movies:
Cruising, The Phantom Of The Paradise, Il Portiere Di Notte, Velvet Goldmine, The Magic Christian, Angeli Bianchi... Angeli Neri, Mondo Cane, Still Crazy, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jubilee, Salon Kitty, The Wizard Of Oz, Cabaret, A Star Is Born (all versions), Sunset Boulevard, Wuthering Heights, Scorpio Rising, Tutti I Colori Del Buio, Profondo Rosso, La Casa Dalle Finestre Che Ridono, Up The Junction, Quadrophenia, The Devils, Tommy, Satan's Sadists, Mask, Basta Guardarla, Napoli Violenta, Squadra Antitruffa, Saturday Night Fever, Squadra Antifurto, Barbarella, L'Anticristo, Morte Sospetta Di Una Minorenne, Splendori E Miserie Di Madame Royale, La Ragazza Con La Pistola, Hollywood Party, L'Imbalsamatore, Santa Sangre, La Guerra Degli Antò, Freaks, Trastevere, Accattone, Permissive, Brutti, Sporchi E Cattivi, The Optimists of Nine Elms, Cosa Avete Fatto A Solange?, Ed Wood, Barbarella, The Filth And The Fury, Summer Of Sam, Dracula AD 1972, Midnight Cowboy, Fellini Stayricon, Il Camorrista, El Dia De La Bestia, Hardcore, Inghilterra Nuda, Rosemary's Baby, Boogie Nights, 007: Live And Let Die, M Il Mostro Di Düsseldorf, Scarface (De Palma version), VIP Mio Fratello Superuomo, The Fantomas Saga (with De Funès and Jean Marais), Gimme Shelter, Christiana F- Noi I Ragazzi Dello Zoo Di Berlino, The Elephant Man, Bollywood Classics (Coolie, Qurbani, etc...), The Serpent And The Rainbow, WIP movies, Le Rouge Aux Lèvres, L'Abominevole Dr. Phibes, 8 MM. , Poor Devil, Blaxploitation Classics (Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, Blacula, Black Gestapo, Dolemite. Shaft, Abby, Coffy, Black Caesar, Black Mama/White Mama...), Crooklyn, Westworld, Travolti Da Un Insolito Destino, all Mojica-Marins/Ze Do Caixao movies, Il Commissario Pepe, Best, Ich: Eine Groupie, Detroit Rock City, Angel Heart, all movies by Les Charlots, all movies by Bruce Lee...
Television:
Il Segno Del Comando, Arsenio Lupin (the TV show, NOT the cartoon...), The Sweeney, Il Tesoro Del Castello Senza Nome/Les Galapiats, L'Amaro Caso Della Baronessa Di Carini, Gamma, Un Uomo In Casa, Ritratto Di Donna Velata, Thriller, Starsky & Hutch, Billy Il Bugiardo, Dark Shadows, Sapphire & Steel, Doctor Who, Spazio 1999, UFO, Stryx, Discoring 1976/1982, The Persuaders, Piccolo Slam, Odeon Tutto Quanto Fa Spettacolo (the REAL one), Noi... No, Tante Scuse, Sat Sat, Josie & The Pussycats, The Muppet Show, Soul Train, The Benny Hill Show, Chi L'Ha Visto?, Mister Fantasy, Il Poeta E Il Contadino, Third Rock From The Sun, Malombra, Belphagor Il Fantasma Del Louvre, Charlie's Angels, all Montalbano Serie, Wild West, Canzonissima, Senza Rete, The Simpsons, Blunotte, Il Festival di Sanremo, Millennium, Art Attack!, gli Infallibili Tre, Scooby Doo...
Books:
K. J. Huysmans - Là -Bas, Adam Parfrey - Apocalypse Culture (and all the rest!), Frank Baum - Wizard Of Oz, James Ellroy stuff, Petronio - Satyricon, Dante - La Divina Commedia, Vamba - Il Giornalino Di Giamburrasca, Gabriele D'Annunzio – Notturno, John Savage - England's Dreaming, all Montalbano/Camilleri, Jim Goad - Answer Me! (and all the rest), Gino Armuzzi - Centomila Atomiche Su Liverpool, Philip Norman - Shout!, Ryersson and Yaccarino - Infinite Variety, Marc Almond - Tainted Life, John Gilmore - Severed, Christopher Isherwood - The Berlin Stories, Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby, Luciano Lutring - Una Storia Da Dimenticare, Feral House stuff, Creation Books stuff, old italian adult comix (Jacula, Zora, Hessa, Vartà n, I Sanguinari, Oltretomba, Terror, Wallestein, Belzeeba, Isabella, Lucrezia, Jolanda, Cimiteria, Bonnie, etc...), Cronaca Vera, Giovanni Bianconi stuff...
Heroes:
Artemisia Gentileschi, Anna Magnani, Ipazia di Alessandria, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Norma Desmond, Gabriele D'Annunzio and his Young Arditi at Fiume, Mina, Greek/Roman Priestesses (esp. l'Ultima Vestale), Brigantesse, John Lydon, Ann Bonney and Mary Read, Voodoo Mambos, tough cops in italian poliziotteschi movies, O' Prufessore, Pino Mauro, Carmelo Bene, my RE.
