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Genaro

Mind Manure Cry Baby

About Me

Aspiring to obsess!Kindling a cunning@Culturing sophisication..Hothouse for Sprouting ideas---Love Kindergarten^Training to be tough**The Making of a Living Classic¤Dream 161%Miss this one and another one will come your way, stick around if you are artistic or bohemian clean;)

My Interests

Bumpernuts, boobs, movies, short men, music videos, lacrymosal reactions to art, editing, cameras, lighting, serious music, opera, the smell of old books, botanical porn, euculturality, new york accents, 3's, sexuality, queer, dandy, fashionality, oh! and the opposite of love, afrocentrism the only true oppositional movement extant, neo-neopolitan sixths, material redemption, wine soaked madelaines, boy make-up...ask me more?

I'd like to meet:

Creatives only need apply, and those who are desperately not famous but willing to do what it takes to resist going into the hamster wheel. Artists, crafters, composers, actors, painters, fashion, gender benders, cosmonauts, goths who do not flush, music, etc, etc... General great people and beautiful types may hang out too.my favourite movie scene: he's got ass!

Music:

http://www.projectplaylist.com/playlist/additem/78748 Impressionistic, modern art music, loads of stuff...Phillip Glass, John Cage, does anyone have any info on Victor Hussar, I got some of his sheet music second hand and it is very naïve.For the piano, Beethoven sonatas are my staple diet, Villa Lobos, Mompou (I really enjoy), Lizst Rhapsodies, Schubert, Satie, Debussy (of course), Carlos Seixas, Rameau, Widor, Scarlatti, anything I can get my hands on to sight read basically.On the popular modern side, Deep Dish, Nelly Furtado, Nick Cave, Maria Bêthania, The Articulate Hymens, Dead can Dance, m a d o n n a (anytime, anywhere, just cannot get enough of the glamour), 80's crap!, Nina Hagen, eurotrash, Kraftwerk, Nina Simone, Pet Shop Boys,Dead can Dance! Evita, Cabaret, Elton John, Café del Mar, Kwaito (from South Africa), Madredeus, Fado...dance music with humourous lyrics, Favourite song: The song to which I am making love XO

Movies:

Directors: John Greyson, Jack Lewis, Fosse, Almodovar, Greenaway, Godard, French New Wave, Fassbinder, Wenders, Lynch, von Trier, van Sant, Scorsese, Malick, Minnelli, and so on and so on... Experimental, new genres...Examples (older): Rosa, Pillow Book, "The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover", Lost Highway, Dune, Muholland Drive, American in Paris, Cabaret, Meet Me in St. Louis, "New York, New York", Goodfellas, Casino, Blair Witch Project (very impressed), Velvet Goldmine, Lillies, Proteus, Pricilla, Ed Wood, Goonies, The Cat from Outer Space, My Stepmother's an Alien, Dancer in the Dark, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mala Educacion, Willow, The Piano, Gilda, Stand by Me, Adaptation, Viagem O Principio do Mundo, The Craft, Interview with a Vampire, Metropolis, Princess Mononoké, Blue Angle, Querelle, Boys in the Band, El Crime del Padre Amaro, Caligula, Top Gun, Serial Mom, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, The Phantom of the Paradise, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Boogie Nights, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Koyaanisqatsi, Y Tu Mama Tambiem, Kings of the Road, Bande a Part!!!!, Weekend, Alphaville, Mean Streets, Bamboozled,(newer): The King, New World, Renaissance, Totsi (very proud), Manderlay, Last Days, Brokeback Mountain (see my blog), Capote, Foon, De Battre Mon Coeur S'Arreté, Darshan,From Cannes: Electroma (Daft Punk 74min Music Video--lots of fun!), Short Bus (very comfortable to watch), Marie Antoinette (see Blog), Fast Food Nation, and Summer Palace.

Television:

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Books:

Russian Classic, Autobiography, Criminal Pathology and...should read a lot more non-fiction - respect - At the Moment (circa June 2006) David Sedaris, Paul Verlaine, and, the grand master, Brett Easton Ellis (mind blowing) African Cinema

Heroes:

Family, Ghandi, Beethoven, Simon Silber (who never really existed), nurses, aid workers, soldiers (when they are just), Mozart (now since 27/03/04 - see Blog), some of the great teachers I have known like Bunny (don't laugh) from the Drakenberg Boys' Choir, immigrants, refugees, Gluck, Mandela (wow), Renaissance Men, Warhol (well, he does not really belong here), Gay activists there is a lot to be won.Anti-heroes: Britney Spears (Tit-knee), President Bush, Paris Hilton (well, sometimes she is just too much!), Snobbish people with silly jobs, French film directors who make commercial films (what a waste!), Romantic comedy directors (unless i like them, ;)), Action movie directors (most of them!), Dan Brown (I shall surely lurch), Most Comedy directors, that guy who wrote "The Power of One" because nothing bad every happens in that book?, Spammers, One Night Stands (I say "Amen"),..

My Blog

Opera tickets and translating Artaud poetry

fuck the poets of the past, my friends. there are no beautiful suicidesjust cold corpses with shit in their pants& the end of the gifts. Dear Friends, I really had to send these lines from an unknown...
Posted by Genaro on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:48:00 PST

The Auto-Consumption of Japanese Kabuki Exported

Dear Flotsam,   I thought I would quickly blog because absence makes the heart grow fonder really. ..   Anyway what is happening is really a non-event& I have tried in vain to sit my ope...
Posted by Genaro on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:48:00 PST

Paris Je T'aime (finalement)

Doyle: Porte De Choisy    Chers Lecteurs,   Cette semaine jessayerai d'écrire mes blogs en français. Le plus en plus je trouve que toutes mes amis partent aux états unis, en chine, Maro...
Posted by Genaro on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:02:00 PST

The winter of summer

Off Topic Post Apocalyptic Paris So, everyone in the "city of lights" goes on holiday during August. Well, some of us are left behind and usually quite content provided that at the very least we are g...
Posted by Genaro on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:13:00 PST

Theatre and African Cinema in Tsotsi

Tsotsi Theatre It is funny how the verisimilitude of film has almost tarnished its power when compared to the ritualistic impact of theatre. Film is codified and usually in such a way so as not to d...
Posted by Genaro on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:07:00 PST

The Audience's State of Mind

Receptivity: The Brain and it's Shock Absorbers   What is the experience of watching a film? Why does it touch us so when we become involved? Why is it so hard to become involved in most movies n...
Posted by Genaro on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 04:06:00 PST

The Music in my Mind

The Far Side of the Music Video By nature narcissistic, the non-narrative music video reduces to the point of highest concentration the solopsitic thinking space found in film. Dance! the dance allows...
Posted by Genaro on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:33:00 PST

The Missing Link of Queer Cinema

Where have all the (Gay) Cowboys gone? There must be something good on television! There, simply, has to be. I have been on such a frenetic schedule that I have not had the opportunity to see a movie ...
Posted by Genaro on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:06:00 PST

Berlin Ohne Cinema

The fans, the fever, the actionIn Germany: a strange land. Industrial overdrive everywhere. Doing lots of filming myself but not much movie going and as for the music...Should be seeing the illustriou...
Posted by Genaro on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:33:00 PST

Marie Antoinette, Film Politics, and the Filmic Corpus

Sophia Ford Coppola's Eyepatch Now, finally, I am ready to discuss one of the films I saw at Cannes this year. Probably, one of the most interesting because my opinion of exactly what Sophia Ford Copp...
Posted by Genaro on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 04:52:00 PST