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Next stop: Hukilau with Robert Drasnin - Voodoo II !!

About Me

Yes, I'm Alice Berry (aka Miss Formica Dinette) of Houston, Austin, Athens-GA and now Houston again....Past bands with whom I've sung (in reverse order, with city in which I was living at the time): Robert Drasnin Orchestra (H) (next show with Drasnin: Tiki Oasis 2008), Mozart's Requiem at Carnegie Hall and John Rutter's Magnificat Choir at Carnegie Hall (H) (Ok, with a choir, but it COUNTS, dammit!) (H), Clouseaux (H), Redneck GReece Delux (Ath), Don HO-rowitz and the Happy Haolies (Ath), KingSized Elvis Tribute (Ath), Hillbilly Frankenstein (Ath), El Vez (Ath), The Cone Ponies (Ath)(became The Vigilantes of Love), Monte Warden and Alice Berry (Aus)(became the Wagoneers), Dino Lee and the White Trash Revue)(Aus), T. Tex Edwards Out on Parole (Aus), The Trouble Boys (Aus) ...... How do you like the big fat lie about my age? Like it's anybody's business............................Hear me sing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQxyH91RO4&search=hukila u

My Interests

Tiki (I'm Formikahini on Tiki Central), fixing up my great old house here in The Heights, the FOM, thrifting, lounge and exotica (NOT to be confused with erotica), travel travel travel, Bayer the Wonder Dog, B movies, Mexican retablos, Moroccan furnishings,...more to come...

I'd like to meet:

That's WHOM I'd like to meet, silly MySpace. No one, really - just find old friends of whom I've lost track or help old fans find me. I do not put people I do not know in some way on my "Friends" list, so please do not ask. (I've already met most of the grooviest people out there.) And Hi, my students! You won't find anything juicy here - sorry. But YOUR profiles were interesting ;)

Music:

EXOTICA: Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Arthur Lyman, Yma Sumac, Robert Drasnin, Waitiki, LOUNGE: Rat Pack, Donkey, Mr. Fabulous, Richard Cheese, Lushy, SURF: Dick Dale, Penetrators, Man or Astroman? Los Straitjackets, '60's STYLE GARAGE/POP: Sonics, Cramps, Thee Headcoats, Woggles, Forty-Fives, Stems, Ugly Beats, Bomboras, Fleshtones, Kenny Howes, Fortune & Maltese, Deadbolt, LATIN/SPANISH POP: MANA, Shakira, Juanes, Elefante, Los Delinquentes, Oreja de Van Gogh, OLD SCHOOL PUNK: Clash, Gang of Four,Mission of Burma, Television, X, Big Boys, GBV, Rezillos, Hunters & Collectors, Scratch Acid/Jesus Lizard, COUNTRY: George, Tammy, Patsy, Johnny Cash, Hank (I&III), Goober and the Peas,Big Sandy, UNCATEGORIZABLE/ROOTS: Calexico, Arcade Fire, The New Frontiers, Muse, Blasters/Dave Alvin, Southern Culture on the Skids, Bluerunners, Lucinda Williams, HILARIOUS/ROCKIN': The Upper Crust

Movies:

I don’t claim that these are the best movies of all time, but rather the ones that I can (and have) watched over and over, in chronological order for your edification:The Wizard of Oz ’39, It’s a Wonderful Life ’39, Gone With the Wind ’39, Philadelphia Story (“My, she was yar!”) ’40, Now, Voyager (Bette Davis) ’42, On the Town ’49, All About Eve ‘50, Singin’ in the Rain ’52, The Quiet Man (John Wayne not a cowboy!) ’52, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ’53, Guys and Dolls ’55, Giant ’56, South Pacific ’58, West Side Story ’61, High and Low (Kurosawa) ’62, Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! ’65, The Sound of Music ’65, Andrei Rublev (Andre Tarkovsky) ’66, Planet of the Apes ’68, Fiddler on the Roof ’71, The Jerk ’79, Coal Miner’s Daughter ’80, Chariots of Fire '81, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life ’83, Spinal Tap ’84, Adventures in Babysitting ’87, My Cousin Vinny ’92, That Thing You Do ’96, Galaxy Quest ’99, LA Confidential, The Usual Suspects The Big Lebowski

Television:

I'm a Lost junkie. Also Grey's Anatomy and Boston Legal. And I don't have cable - too cheap.

Books:

Blue Like Jazz - Donald Miller, anything by C.S. Lewis or Francis Schaeffer

Heroes:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Joe Kirk (my friend who adopted 4 sisters when he and his wife already had 3 daughters). THAT's heroic.