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South Albion

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About Me


Taedium vitae.

My Interests

Heights. Modernism. Western Civilization. Rationalism. Capitalism. Individualism. Architecture. Politics. Photography. Twentieth century American and European history. Israeli history and politics. Satire.

I'd like to meet:



IS THERE LIFE ON MARS?

Music:

English indie/pop. 80s electronic/New Romantic. 70s top forty radio crap, classic rock. Early punk. Disco. Showtunes, torch songs, chanson, swing. Cinema dub and soundtracks. Glam, junkie rock.

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Movies:


42nd St., All About Eve, All That Jazz, American Psycho, Angry Red Planet, Auntie Mame (Rosalind Russell), Baby Doll, The Bad Lieutenant, The Bank Dick, Big Bad Momma, The Big Sleep, Billy Jack, Blade Runner, The Blue Dahlia, Blue Velvet, Butterfield 8, Cabaret, Car Wash, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Clockwork Orange, Coffy, Cooley High, Crash (Cronenberg, 1996), Cruising, Dance With a Stranger, Dead End, Death Wish(s), Deconstructing Harry, Diabolique, Dinner at Eight, Diva, D.O.A., Dressed to Kill, Eat the Rich, A Face In the Crowd, Fame, Female Trouble, The Filth and the Fury, Fort Apache the Bronx, The Fountainhead, Freeway, Godspell, Godzilla vs. Mothra (50s), GoldDiggers of 1933, Goodfellas, Grand Hotel, Grey Gardens, Hebrew Hammer, Heavy Traffic, Horse Feathers, Improper Conduct, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Jules et Jim, Key Largo, The Kids Are Alright, The King of Comedy, Koyaanisqatsi, The Krays, La Dolce Vita, Lipstick, Little Caesar, Lolita, Lost Highway, The Lost Weekend, MacBeth (Orson Welles), Mean Streets, Midnight Cowboy, Mulholland Drive, Murder By Television, Abel Gance's Napoleon, Natural Born Killers, Opening Night, Panic In Needle Park, Paris Is Burning, Performance, The Public Enemy, Quadrophenia, Rain, The Razor's Edge, Saturday Night Fever, Shaft, Sin City, The Song Remains the Same, Star 80, Streetwise, Sunset Boulevard, Summer of Sam, Superfly, Sweet Bird of Youth, Sweet Smell of Success, The Swimmer, Taxi Driver, This is Spinal Tap, Times Square, The Third Man, Trash, Touch of Evil, Trainspotting, Twin Town, Wings of Desire, White Heat, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wild At Heart, Withnail and I, The Women

Television:

All news, all the time. Metalocalypse. Frisky Dingo. Venture Bros.

Books:

CLICK ON THE GUY WITH THE GUN FOR HENRY BAUM'S LATEST BOOK

Antonin Artaud
Henry Baum
William Blake-songs of Innocence and Experience
Paul Bowles
W.S. Burroughs
Bret Easton Ellis
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Philip Larkin
Mary McCarthy
Joseph Mitchell
Walter Pater
Delmore Schwartz
Evelyn Waugh
Irvine Welsh
Tom Wolfe
Historical Biography
Anything about war, politics, or twentieth century history.
Anything in the canon of western civilization.

Evelyn Waugh, my favorite satirist

Phillip Larkin, great poet of Hull

Heroes:



My Blog

Jackie Curtis & Peter Allen Best cabaret song ever

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Posted by South Albion on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:49:00 PST

Depeche Mode atop the World Trade Center

Enjoy the Silence ...
Posted by South Albion on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:28:00 PST

New York in the 1970s

Florrie Panic In Needle Park Midnight Cowboy Cruising Trash Dog Day Afternoon Death Wish Taxi Driver Annie Hall Shaft ...
Posted by South Albion on Thu, 15 May 2008 06:31:00 PST

Mickey Avalon & Dirt Nasty

Dirt Nasty Palatial Regalia ...
Posted by South Albion on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 02:43:00 PST

Pete Doherty, Kate Moss, Philip Glass, etc

ALBION Fuck Forever I Get Along Philip Glass Concerto ...
Posted by South Albion on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:10:00 PST

Klaus Nomi

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Posted by South Albion on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST

Sexy Serge Gainsbourg Videos

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Posted by South Albion on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 05:31:00 PST