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vikram

social moth

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Music:

Acoustic Ladyland, All About Eve Babitz, Andrew Thompson, Apartment, Applicants, Arcade Fire, Art Brut, Au Revoir Simone, Auf der Maur, Björk, Bonde Do Role, Bon Jovi, Bono Must Die, Brian Eno, Camera Obscura, Caural, Christina Aguellera, CirKus, CocoRosie, Cold War Kids, Comanechi, Crystal Castles, CSS, Dandi Wind, Das Wanderlust, David Bowie, De La Soul, Dead Pixels, Deerhoof, Devotchka, DFA 1979, Duran Duran, Electrelane, Elefant, Elliott Smith, Fela Kuti, Florence & The Machine, Foals, Frank Sinatra, Fugazi, Funki Porcini, Goldfrapp, Goldie, Goldielocks, Good Books, Goodfinger, Guns ‘N Roses, Hadouken!, Hole, Hot Snakes, Interpol, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Jarvis Cocker, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, Justice, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Kate Nash, Klaxons, Kristin Hersh, Lady Sovereign, Lamb, Lavendar Diamond, Led Zeppelin, Les Georges Leningrad, Lightspeed Champion, Little Death, Lost Penguin, Lucky Soul, Man Like Me, Mercury Rev, Metric, Metronomy, Midlake, Miles Davis, Mogwai, Monsters Are Waiting, Namalee, Nelly Furtardo, Neneh Cherry, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, Nirvana, NWA, Outkast, Paige Wood, Patrick Wolf, Paula Abdul, Peggy Sue & The Pirates, Phil Collins, Philip Glass, Pierre Lapointe, Pink Grease, Portishead, Posh, Pravda, Prince, Princess Superstar, Pulp, Rage Against the Machine, Ray Charles, Revl9n, Robyn, Rolo Tomassi, Saint Etienne, Scanners, Scroobius Pip, Sebastien Tellier, Serge Gainsbourg, Sergei Prokofiev, Silver Mount Zion, Silversun Pickups, Siobhan Donaghy, Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop Dogg, Soft Cell, Sohodolls, Sonic Youth, Strange Idols, Supergrass, Talib Kweli, Talking Heads, Telepopmusik, Tetine, The Afghan Whigs, The Carpenters, The Cure, The Go! Team, The Hot Puppies, The Kills, The Knife, The Like, The Lovebirds, The Magnetic Fields, The Makeup, The Mamas & The Papas, The Mars Volta, The Mystic Underground, The Organ, The Pixies, The Raveonettes, The Research, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, The Sounds, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Velvet Underground, The White Stripes, The XX, Theoretical Girl, Tilly and the Wall, Tim Ten Yen, Tits of Death, Tom Vek, Tupac, TV On The Radio, Twilight Singers, Twisted Charm, Uffie, Victorian English Gentleman's Club, Wrong Animal, Xiu Xiu, Yes

Television:

Skins, Larry Sanders, The Shield, The OC, Nip/Tuck, Big Brother, Everybody Hates Chris, Entourage, Nathan Barley, Fresh Prince, 24, Freaks and Geeks, Will & Grace, Spooks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sex in the City, Thundercats, Grand Designs, Project Runway, The Apprentice, Spiral, Homicide: Life on the Street, My So-Called Life, Unreported World, Family Guy, Big Love, Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Chappelle Show

Books:

Chuck Palahniuk, Sarah Dunant, Philip Roth, John Updike, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Zoë Heller, Douglas Coupland, Paul Auster, JT Leroy, William Boyd (Any Human Heart is beautifully poignant), Charles Buckowski, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemmingway, Charles Dickens, Marguerite Duras, Haruki Murakami, Underworld by Don DeLillo, Albert Camus, Stasiland by Anna Funder, Norman Mailer, Kenzaburo Oe, The Diary of a Young Girl (aleha hashalom, little Anne Frank), Philip Gourevitch, Hwee Hwee Tan, Rachel DeWoskin's Foreign Babes In Beijing, John le Carr (A Perfect Spy is my favourite novel), David Eggars, Mil Millington, Kazuo Ishiguro, Christopher J. Koch, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Brett Easton Ellis, Joe McIntyre, Siddharta by Hermann Hesse, Kahil Gilbran, Naomi Wolf, Tracey Emin's memoir Strangeland, Esther Freud, Mark Tully, Martin Amis (but only Money, Other People and London Fields), The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart, Elfriede Jelinek, Jeffrey Eugenides, Wang Shuo, Lucy Moore, Günter Grass, Orhan Pamuk, Augusten Burroughs.
TravelHave spent quite a bit of my adult life drunk in foreign climes, mostly Asia and the Pacific. Too much time in fact. Kinda hollowed me out. Ah well, memories. Here are a few photos I took:

Heroes:

Karen St. Croix Popeil Walker

My Blog

more of the same

...Luc Super Super invited me to the JC/DC exhibition at Two See Life in Covent Garden. Leslie and her friend Deborah came along - Deborah's late grandfather was old friends with Jean Charles de Castl...
Posted by vikram on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:37:00 PST

Tales of a Social Moth

Lots of parties and general hedonism the last couple of months. I've been a little bit crazy and angst-ridden and mid way through ran home to my Mum's for some much needed salvation. Feel really shit ...
Posted by vikram on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:56:00 PST

Green and pleasant land

Mandy came to visit a couple of weeks back. She's a friend from travels - her, me and her then boyfriend drove around the South Island of New Zealand for a bit. This was like three years ago I think. ...
Posted by vikram on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:05:00 PST

Partying like it's 1995

Totally screwing up life, the little of it I haven't given up on yet. Ha ha I so emo. I'm a bit unstable, feeling quite paranoid and persecuted, really need a counsellor or something. Instead I have t...
Posted by vikram on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:33:00 PST

drinking / laughter / music / dancing

Been a fun couple of weeks. Seeing the consultant today about my hand - hopefully it's all good though I haven't been very careful and am a bit concerned I've undone the mending. We'll see! Here are a...
Posted by vikram on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:11:00 PST

Kate Nash Single Launch Party

Thursday @ Hoxton Bar & Kitchen. Launch party for Kate Nash's debut single, Caroline is a Victim. Spoken word and acoustic musicians performed and a glorious atmosphere, and there was a real feeli...
Posted by vikram on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:36:00 PST

Broken :-(

Fractured my hand last Saturday morning. I might write about what happened at some point. Anyway, on Friday the consultant told me it'll be six weeks before I'm fully healed. Right now, this past week...
Posted by vikram on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:15:00 PST

London Boat Show

Joe got complimentary tickets to the London Boat Show 2007. Tamasin came too. Was so much fun! And great getting the DLR out East - lonely dereliction and flashy new alienating developments - must go ...
Posted by vikram on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:46:00 PST

Good Shoes, bad booze

In-store performance by Good Shoes at Puregroove Records in Archway. Went with my friend Sarah. She was writing a little article about them. They were okay I guess, musically quite good though I didn'...
Posted by vikram on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:24:00 PST

Super Super Magazine Xmas Party

Was so much fun. We drank ourselves senseless!Veronica and LeslieLizzieAlax Tapedeck (right)BishiMe and RachelMore and better photos, courtesy of Marina Williams:...
Posted by vikram on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:08:00 PST