Europe +++ Berlin +++ Amsterdam +++ Paris +++ Réunion +++ 19th Century +++ art +++ Odilon Redon +++ Alfred Kubin +++ political caricature +++ the art of Jim Flora +++ music +++ francophile +++ all things medieval +++ folklore and ethnology +++ everyday revolutions +++ photography +++ design +++ books +++ newspapers +++ my crazy friends +++ my crazy family (most of the time...) +++ creating postcards +++ cooking +++ eating +++ anything outdoors +++ not everything indoors +++ and last but not least my invaluable better half and my sort of special small one
I don't have a preference except for exceptionality.
Awful: Cindy & Bert slate Black Sabbaths "Paranoid":
X play "Beyond & Back":
Spizz lost Captain Kirk:
B-52's on an interstellar mission:
Ohmygodness - I saw the Monks on Monday, 23th of October performing in Berlin! This one happened in 1966:
Castaways' Liar Liar:
ABC +++ Archive +++ Art Brut +++ Arthur H. +++ Bauhaus +++ Bif Naked +++ Bikini Machine +++ Blondie (definitive my first love, my other classmates had ABBA posters on the wall...) +++ Bohren & der Club of Gore +++ B-52's +++ Françoiz Breut +++ Buzzcocks +++ big C's in Biz (Johnny Cash, Chrome, Cobra Killer,
Cramps, Cure) +++ DAF +++ Dandy Warhols +++ Dead Kennedys +++ DEVO +++ Dutronc +++ Siobhan Fahey +++ Nino Ferrer
+++ Die Früchtchen (aus Frücht bei Bad Ems) +++ Fuzztones +++ Gainsbourg +++ Andy Giorbino +++ Philip Glass +++ Gun Club +++ Nina Hagen +++ Andrew Hill +++ Hives +++ Hüsker Dü +++ Human League +++ Joy Division +++ Udo Jürgens (die sozialkritische Phase, you know) +++ Magazine +++ Maximo Park +++ Jackie McLean +++ Monks +++ Noir Désir +++ Klaus Nomi +++ Peaches +++ Lee "Scratch" Perry +++ PJ Harvey +++ Peter And The Test Tube Babies +++ Plasticines +++ Michel Polnareff +++ Iggy Pop
+++ Os Mutantes +++ Portishead +++ Ramones +++ Roxy Music +++ Ruts +++ Satie (of course) +++ Jimmy Smith +++ Smiths +++ Sonics +++ Stooges +++ Stranglers +++ Sun Ra +++ Third Bardo +++ Throbbing Gristle +++ Tindersticks +++ TRIO +++ Tubes +++ Undertones +++ Velvet Underground +++ Violent Femmes +++ The Who +++ Link Wray +++ Ziskakan
Late 50's / early 60's jazz and trash'n'rock; inbetween: french chansons; 70's punk & 80's wave; 00's retro-indie-electro-noise-gedöns.
I'm sure I forgot the important ones...
The 90's?! Do they exist? Don't bother me.
I like nightmarish, German expressionistic films like "Caligari" or "Nosferatu" +++ surrealistic films in a notedly wider sense, the trashier the better: Bunuel, David Lynch, Russ Meyer +++ Stanley Kubrick +++ Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski +++ Ben Hopkins' "Nine Lives of Tomas Katz"
Seller's "The Party" +++ Belvaux'/Bonzels/Poelvoordes "Man bites dog" ("Mann beißt Hund", almost ten times at "Luckys Luke"/Trier)
+++ "Die Tagesschau von vor 25 Jahren"
+++ "Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo" from William Klein
+++ series in German television from 1970 to 1985: Pan Tau, Lolek & Bolek,
Die Grashüpferinsel +++ French films that spread dull ambience like Eastern Bloc ones (e.g. "Schach dem Roboter" ("Les robots pensants" / "Le collectionneur des cerveaux").
Sometimes romantic ones.
Sorry, no stomach-churning splatter. But I love the monster ones...
I have one but paying the television licence fee would be a pure waste.
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I wrote an essay about myself and a Stooges song:
One Evening When I Was Still Living. In: Jörg Hiecke (ed.): Various Artists by Various Artists. Ich. Liebe. Musik. Radebeul: Verlag Notschriften, 1999. ISBN 3-933753-08-2
Anyone interested in Saar-Lor-Lux or the World to do also?
Published articles about 19th century french caricatures & the dark side of today German adult education...
Passive:
Of course I read: any genre, any time. At the moment:
I adore encyclopaedias. My favorite one is "Handwörterbuch des Deutschen Aberglaubens" by Hans Bächtold-Stäubli ("Concise Dictionary of German Superstition").
Alraune. By Hanns Heinz Ewers.
The Mischievous Art of Jim Flora. By Irwin Chusid.
PUNK. By Stephen Colegrave (ed.).
Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones.
Jean Anselme Brillat-Savarin: The Physiology of Taste. Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy.
Frank McCourt: Teacher Man - A Memoir
Ni dieu, ni maître. Ni slogan.