The Underwolf

I'd like to meet:

like minded waifs and strays, cosmic gypsies and anyone with a thirst for seratonin or adrenaline... been busy helping unite the nations for eons.. It's not about who I like to meat thats anyone but rather those who feel that meeting can add to both of our experiences in life.

Music:

Global eclectic meet the new groove at Radio Penumbra... if your music mind is as broad as the planet is round, drop in and listen to live underwolf grooves playing all day with a random selection from my own lounge:

According to iTunes artists include- 4 Hero, 95 North, A certain ratio, A tribe called quest, ABBA, adny, adverts, afro cuban all stars, alan brax, alex reece, alexi delano, alexkid, amparanoia, andreas segovia, angie stone, antonio carlos jobim, aretha franklin, armand van helden, astrud guilberto, augustus pablo, avalanches, azymuth, barbara tucker, barringtone levy, barry white, basement jaxx, beach boys, beastie boys, bebel gilberto, beck, ben watt, bert bacharach, billie holiday, bob marley, bob sinclar, bobby byrd, brand new heavies, brazilian girls, breakestra, brian eno, burning spear, buzzcocks, cabaret voltaire, cat power, chaka khan, charles mingus,charlie parker, cibelle, clash, can, coco rosie, compost records, congos, congotronics, crammed records, crosby, stills and nash, cypress hill, DJ Sneak, DJ spinna, DJ premier, daft punk, danny tenaglia, david morales, de-phazz, dee dee bridgewater, deep dish, depeche mode, devandra banhardt, dimitri from paris, doors, dzihan & kamien, echo & the bunnymen, ella fitzgerald, enrico morricone, eric b and rakim, erica badu, erick morillo, erik satie, everything but the girl. finley quaye, fisherspooner, frankie knuckles, gangstarr, goldfrapp, gotan project, grant nelson, gregory isaacs, guru, hani, hotel costes(albums), ian pooley, isaac heyes, james brown, jazzanova, jill scott, jimmy hendrix, joy division, kenny dope, koop, koyoto jazz massive, kraftwerk, kruder and dorfmeister, lalo schifrin, lemon jelly, los amigos invisibles, lou reed, louie vega, love, madonna, manu chao, marvin gaye, massive attack, masters at work, max sedgeley, miguel migs, miles davies, minus 8, miss kittin, moby, moloko, morrissey, mr scruff, nancy sinatra, neu, NICK DRAKE, nina simone, nouvelle vogue, patti labelle, phillip glass, pil, pink floyd, portishead, prince & npg, prince far i, quantic, quantic soul orchestra, ramones, richard 'groove' holmes, roger sanchez, ry cooder, sarah vaughan, satoshi tomiie, serge gainsbourg, sergio mendez, shirley bassey, sister nancy, smoke city, snowboy, spiritualised, sparks, spooks, st germaine, st germain des pres cafe (albums), stephane pompougnac, steve reich, temptations, thievery corporation, tito puente, todd terry, tom tom club, tony humphreys, tosca, towa tei, ubiquity records, united futures organisation, van morrison, velvet underground, woody guthrie, yasmin levy,

And almost anything the late John Peel would have played on radio 1 as well as Gilles Peterson and Rob da Bank

songs so far featured here from myspace music artists

Sparks - Perfume

Tunng - Woodcat

Konono No 1 - Ungudi Wele Wele

Quantic - I'm thankful spanky

MC Solaar - Caroline

Roy Ayers - Everyone loves the sunshine

Los Amigos Invisibles - Playa Azul

Velvet Underground - Sweet jane

Koop - waltz for koop

Max Sedgley & the Shoots - happy

Movies:

David Lynch every day...and Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi trilogy, Oliver Stone and Ridley Scott when they stop trying to be popular and John Carpenter... period peices American Graffiti, Boogie Nights ... then any thing quirky and weird from europe or small countries that tells a tale and has imagination. .Love continental films.. all the usuall candidates, Almadovar, Fellini, I adore Tuffaut with a passion my favourites being the Man who loved Women and Jules et Jim .. farenheit 544 is ok but its a story that has been best told by others other than that i love Amelie and low budget corny romantic stuff and the bizzare.. Barbarella otherwise it's.. Kubrick ...Tim Burton... Derek Jarman..John Walters.. .Warhol .. sfx stinx keep it real..

greatest actors/esses Tim Roth, Audrey Tatou

Television:

why??? so many nicer visions to admire and share with everyone ...

here is a taster

part of the excellent HD motion graphic channel ident created by psyop for MTV's new HD channel... such beuty is rarely so eloquently captured by digital artists..

Books:

oh Art and architecture histories, love maps when it comes to fiction anything bizarre or hedonistic.. as a dyslexic they never read right anyway compared to the reviews so it might as well be rambling essay ...

love William Burroughs, Kerouac ,Gysin, or any of the beat or cut up writes of the 50's also Steinbeck, DH Lawrence Kafka andthe classics, also De Sade and ..

Aldous Huxley and Hemmingway are über faves and i collect first edition penguin paperbacks should that mean anything outside of the UK

Heroes:

any of the great underdogs from history or culture ..

no 1 "Juana La Loca"

hermetic mental recluse or raging nymphomaniac and beauty.. the histories are divided... check her out
Juana's Biog

Juana - Wikipedia

No 2 "Freya Stark"

misfit woman of class who was the original Indiana Jones in a time women were not allowed to take such liberties Interview with freya in 1999

No 3 "John Peel"

helped me find the switch in my head to get my ears working properly when hearing music. Although popular and successful he was considered the champion of the underdogs of the music industry those with something to say, were determind to say it and not really that fussed at who many heard... not something record companies found appealing

John Peel at Wikipedia

no 4 Pizzaro and the Spanish Conquistadores

.... irresepective of the wrongs of invading a foreign country and destroying it's people.. you ever thought of the logisitics in 1500 of taking a few boats travel to the other end of your known world with no maps no telephones, internet, faxes or phrase books, in expremely hostile conditions far unlike your own country no roads, mounted on horse back and manage to completely over throw and annex half a continent from tierra del fuego to somewhere up in colorado in less than a century... it's taken the americans 3 years to get nowhere in Iraq

Pizarro at Wikipedia

No 4 The Cathars

History is written by the victors... quite true in the case of the Cathars, a "religion" or way of life popular in the 12th century based in the Languedoc area of France but fairly widespread across south west europe. basically they believed the planet was created by a lesser god, who we know as the devil, through shunning material wealth or existence those who were good would die and go to the next world those who failed came back again for another go. They did not accept the old testament which they felt was a book of the devil and followed the gospel of st John, Jesus was a manifestation, and held no value. In the end they viewed the world was created a prison and only those who were pure would escape to heaven.. those who failed came back to try again becoming very popular. it became very popular supported by much of the aristocracy as well as the normal peoples, in 1200 the Catholic church claimed them heratics and initiated a crusade by northern french nobleman who warred for 40 years, many cathars were given the choice of conversion to catholicism or be thrown on fires the last cathar preist was executed in 1320. No written records remain of the cathars or their philosophies, what is known has been in the main recovered from the contemporary texts of the catholic church....hardly a balanced and objective record that will be then

Cathars at Wikipedia

No 5 "Brandy and Coke"

The Welsh Border Collie - true underdogs born on farms and designed for running around after sheep.. these two came from a nearby farm to me where a young bitch had an unexpected pregnancy at a year old and after a day of having the pups abandoned them, the farmer gave them away for fear if he could not get rid of them he would have to have had them put down...... anyway they are with me now, 9 years old and live the life of the country squire rather than freezing to death in a sack in a wet ditch.
No 6 "Lilith"

Another woman getting all the bad press... some claim she was Adams first wife who was banished because she refused to be subserviant during sexual intercourse and lie underneath..A female demon of the night who supposedly flies around searching for newborn children either to kidnap or strangle them. Also, she sleeps with men to seduce them into propagating demon sons. One story is that God created Adam and Lilith as twins joined together at the back. She demanded equality with Adam, failing to achieve it, she left him in anger.Even though the story of Lilith disappeared from the canonical Bible, her daughters the lilim haunted men for over a thousand years.Supposedly they were lusty she-demons who copulated with men in all their dreams, causing nocturnal emissions....oh to meet a daughter of Lilith

Lilith at Wikipedia

Lilith at Encyclopaedia Mythica

No 7 "iPod"

I have noticed an increasing tendency for disaffected folks to lay into Apple because the iPod is so succesful stating such dominence is some kind of evil doing. Apple of course are a computing underdog that each time comes back with better and more useable ideas 2 or 3 years ahead of its wintel counterparts, early adoption of Ethernet,USB, Firewire, DVD writers, Wireless and TFT technologies for standard as well as dropping old stuff like floppy disks well ahead of the field are examples of where they set a trail everyone else follows. The iPods greatest opponent is Microsoft who although are not making any rival hardware are desperate to see global adoption of windows media as an international standard through windows users so they can then get fat on royalty fees from the music companies for licensing as well as in return offering the record industry tools that could disable and make useless songs of unauthorised origin the windows player can identify as having been file shared .. in spite of the large financial resources microsoft is directing through the windows media friendly digital music players to encourage them to lead on the campaign to mis inform increase hostility and disuade prospective ipod owners.. their efforts are failing and more people are moving to and choosing iPod and iTunes to solve their digital music problems

more underdogs to follow again