My interest include though not limited to the Visual Arts, Robots, and Politics. I'm influenced by Capoeira, Secular Humanism, and consuming copious amounts of Coffee. Aztlan, Tonantzin, and teaching Koko the gorilla to sign bad words, help to keep my interest.
The folks from the Publishers Clearing House or Angelina Jolie's lips. If I don't reply to your messages, don't be offended. It just means that I don't like you or thought you were dull.
Adult, Bruce Haack, Code Breaker, Console, Dahlia, Electrocute, Erasure, Falco, Fischerspooner, Franz Ferdinand, Freezepop, Front 242, Giorgio Moroder, Goldfrapp, Green Velvet, Human League, Ima Robot, Isao Tomita, Kaiser Chiefs, Klaus Nomi, Kraftwerk, Laurie Anderson, Miss Kitten, Negativland, Nico, Polysics, The Postal Service, Serge Gainsbourg, Sr.Coconut, Temper Temper, Toktok Vs. Soffy O, Veato Lui, VHS or Beta, Vitalic , Vive La Fete, Yma Sumac, YMO. I tend to be drawn to the music via the video, embeddable HTML video players killed the video star.
8½, 2001 Space Odyssey, Amadeus, Bad Habits, Le Beau Serge, Blade Runner, Blow Up, Brazil, City of the Lost Children, A Clockwork Orange, CQ, The Cremaster Cycle, Delicatessen, Fight Club, La Douce Vita, Le Sang d'un Poète, The Forbiden Zone, Metropolis, pi, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, The Sadest Music in the World, Satyricon, Secretary, Soy Cuba, Tetsuo (the iron man), Trainspotting, Un Chien Andalou, Velvet Goldmine, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Zoot Suit
Growing up as a latchkey child within a single parent household left a void in my upbringing; but, television eagerly replaced my father figure. Who needs moral values when I have Ward Cleaver, why go out and play games when I can stay in and play Atari, why sit down and write when I can sit down and watch?
Books for, by, and about Art, Artist, and Art Movements.I, Robot and The Foundation Series (Isaac Asimov), Lies My Teacher Told Me (James Loewen), Long Time Gone (William Lee Brent), Drink Cultura "Chicanismo" (Josè Antonio Burciaga), Goddess of the Americas "Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe" (Edited by Ana Castillo), Microserfs (Douglas Coupland), The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), Infinitas·Gracias (Alfredo Vilchis Roque), Cyberia and Media Virus (Douglas Rushkoff), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde). Magazines: Art fourm, Bitch, Flaunt, Metro.pop, Modern Painters, Neo2, ReadyMade, Res Magazines, *Surface , TenByTen, Wallpaper
Fidel Castro, Lord Byron, Marquis de Sade, & of course my manservant Jorge and my friends/entourage: All above images are ©ArmandoGallegos2007