-autism
-entomology
-roadtrips
-borders
-cambodia and khmer culture
-japanese culture
-haiti
-photography (ralph eugene meatyard, richard billingham, cindy sherman)
-collage and assemblage
-non-traditional sculpture (tom friedman you fucking genius)
-conceptual art
-the elusive promise of good conceptual art
-thrift junk white elephant flea tag
-asian horror posters
-old medical and anatomical texts
-halloween
-found videotape from the 70's
-found photo albums
-found magazine
-phoOka
-ghost stories
-people telling jokes badly
-acting
-sketch comedy
-roasts
-gross neurological abberation
-marine biology
-chemistry
-people describing their dreams/badly
-observing behavior(s)
-writing and publishing
-swimming, snorkling and scuba diving
-camping
-cooking
-children making art
-making films and video
-attempting dogma 95 in phnom penh
-traveling in asia, africa, and south america
-the russian market
-ollie ollie oxen free
Music
well...a few favs would be neutral milk hotel, dj shadow, the associates, timmy straw, billy mackenzie, the mangler project, einstende neubauten, throbbing gristle, 23 skidoo, old apartment songs, art in manilla, cabaret voltaire, broadcast, aztec camera, morten harket, savoy, pet shop boys, ryuichi sakamoto, heaven 17, human league, philip oakey/giorgio moroder, david sylvian, mick karn, bright eyes, the good life, Japan, elliott smith, the cure, blank and jones, paul mauriat, peaches, paul hardcastle, strange advance, the screming tribesmin, wendy carlos, all a-z, moog synthesizers, Klaus nomi, brian eno!, the animals, eric burdon, argent, colin blunstone, the zombies, devendra banhart, julian cope, teardop explodes, azure ray, the crucial three, alphaville, Pete wylie and mighty wah! ian mcculoch, echo and the bunnymen, aswad, James, Jamiraquai, electronic, durutti colomn, scritti politti, air, the blue nile, mccarthy trenching, Jude cole, China Crisis, combo audio, Marc almond, soft cell, jimmy somerville, bronski beat, the comunards, after the fire, can, Mark Hollis, O-rang, Talk Talk, The The, the thompson twins, John Lennon, Lobo, Classix Nouveaux, x-ray spex, chicks on speed, Kraftwerk, siouxsie and the banshees, Dead or Alive, the art of noise, bryan adams, adam and the ants, bow wow wow, ABC, Mike scott, social distortion, the waterboys, the alarm, depeche mode, placebo, fiona apple, tori amos, p,j, harvey, BJork, Morrisssey, The Smiths, Orchestral maneuvres in the dark, Laurie anderson, suicide, the arcade fire, thomas dolby, british electric foundation, stan ridgway, wall of voodoo, solo boy george, Culture club, the inmates, pat benatar, the b-52's, big country, bananarama, falco, breakfast club, simple minds, bryan ferry, roxy music, gang of four, magazine, telivision personalities, the fall, blur, the bozo dog doo dah band, the boomtown rats, howard jones, Babble, paul brady, kate b., the buzzcocks, Pete shelley solo, dave gahan, martin l. gore, recoil, the beatiful south, paddy mcaloon, Prefab sprout!, the proclaimers, Berlin, solo terri nunn, a flock of seagulls, the fixx, the wonder stuff, public image limited, icehouse, ive davies, icicle works, the psychedelic furs, love spit love, dead kennedy's, jello biafra, lard, early ministry 81-89, cradle of filth, John lennon, Julian lennon, that one Sean Lennon cd too, Blondie, the bangles, erykah badu, graham parker and the rumour, 20/20, great buildings, haircut 100, wire train, the tubes, front 242, fischer-z, wheat, mellow, george michael, wham!, early euruthmics, annie lennox, dave stewart, dave ball, animotion, Joy division, new order, duran duran, the buckighams, happy mondays, the mission, the church, the charlatans, the chameleons, the stranglers, hugh cornwell, jean-jaques burnell, jean-michel jarre, boyzone, take that, robbie williams, Bolshoi, Mrc Bolan, T. rex, tim buckley, Jeff buckley, vince clarke and martyn ware, Yazoo, erasure, alison moyet, marshall crenshaw, the liberstines, captain beefheart and the magic band, 13th floor elevators, the magnetic fields, dire straits, mark knopler, link wray, the sonics, hasil adkins, the Cramps, belnida calisle, the go-go's, Jane wiedlin, the misfits, the godfathers, killing joke, the cars, ric ocasek, romeo void, catatonia, nick cave, nick drake, Clannad, Enya, scandal, patty smyth, the dave clark five, the beau brummels, red rockers, rick springfield, dwight twilley, phil seymour, Blancmange, the monroes, human sexual response, the rentals, george clinton, marianne faithfull, John cale, velevet underground, senor coconut, cockney rebel, cocteau twins, Lloyd cole and the commotions, early elvis costello, crash test dummies, Leonard choen, Cat Stevens, Crowded house, Neil finn, finn brothers, Bros, split enz, Jools holland, Squeeze, Paul carrack, furniture, murray head, ian brown, the stone roses, pinback, terence trent d'arby, strange advance, Devo, mark mothersbough scores, A-z, celebrate the nun, Cetu Javu, the damned, spencer davis group, traffic, steve winwood, deep purple, dexy's midnight runners, syd barrett, michelle shocked, chicks on speed, dion and the belmonts, peter, paul and mary, husker du, bob mould, the Pixies, breeders, frank black records, half japanese, Donovan, poy styrene, ian dury and the blockheads, medium, medium, the replacemints, Johnny hates Jazz, Tears for fears, hot hot heat, soul coughing, elctric light orchestra, Sheena easton, duane eddy, dave edmunds, rockpile, Nick Lowe, EMF, david essex, gilbert o'sullivan, everything but the girl, tracey thorn, ben watt, fiction factory, fra lippo lippi, jaz colemin, youth, the english beat, dave wakling, ranking roger, general public, midnight oil, INXS, men at work, colin hay, Orange Juice, edwyn collins, the notting hillbillies, real life, when in rome, iris, red flag, red box, living in a box, information society, elastica, fine young cannibals, roland gift, king, Queen, frankie goes to hollywood, aniaml nighlife, wide boy awake, sparks, Naked eyes, pete byrne, climie fisher, the Jam, the style council, Paul Weller, mike oldfield, the hooters, glass tiger, lime, yazz, kon kan, sigue sigue sputnik, feargal sharkey, trashcan sinatras, peter gabreil, genesis, bedrock, Kyo, leftfiled, iggy pop, the stooges, ramones, primal scream, prodigy, sleeper, underworld, colour theory, echoing green, camouflage, ultravox, john foxx, Visage, kruder and dorfmeister, dzihan and kamien, hoodoo gurus, kirsty maccoll, the pogues, shane macgowan, hot butter, combo audio, black, loverboy, dusty springfield, shirley bassey, lesley gore, eddy grant, the lords of the new church, the dead boys, the soft boyts, goerge harrison, Nick Keyward, taj mahal, the housemartins, billy idol, it's a beutiful day, World Party, Greg Kihn bands, Jnae's addction, the Jesus and mary chain, dalek i love you, Yello, kingbees, Frazier chorus, reever hovve, dave 'baby' cortez, keane, the left bank, level 42, mark king, the lemonheads, london suede, Wire, the levellers, the call, the lighthouse family, the lightning seeds, love, lulu, cydi lauper, Madness, limahl, Kajagoogoo, the plimsould, peter case, pylon, total coelo, the flirts, manic street preachers, the marcels, Marillion, martha and the muffins, re-flex, Frank Zappa, the mothers of invention, belouis soem, Gary Numan, olivia-newton john, sinead o'connor, mike oldfield, curt smith, roland orzabel, death in vegas, dirty vegas, the waitreses, the producers, edie and the hot rods, eddie and the cruisers, eddie nad the munsters, the alan parsons project, robert palmer records, arcadia, the power station, pavemint, peter and gordon, the pretenders, the pretty things, pulp, suzi quatro, chris rea, the runaways, the rutles, the scorpions, sisterso f mercy, simply red, patti smith, the specials, the selecter, mighty mighty bosstones, rancid, spandau ballet, the stray cats, ricard hell and trhe voidoids, telivision, 10cc, the turtles, rosie and the originals, p.t.p., the undertones, Vangelis, ventures, suzanne vega, Tom Waits, the red elviese, mission of burma, tragic black, die warzau, Wet Wet Wet, XTC, Kim Wilde, johnny and edgar winter, Paul young, zwan, altered images, boards of canada, adult, anggun, vitamin z, Bccara, Bauhaus, Love and rockets, david j, daniel ash, peter murphy, tones on tail, bill nelson, robert fripp, bollock brothers, the cardigans, ebn-ozn, enigma, face to face 80's, the faint, futurheads, fischerspooner, fugazi, it's immaterial, jon brion, junior boys, Jules Shear, ladytron, le tigre, lcd soundsystem, M, Mazzy star, Midge ure, momints of clarity, godspeeed to you you balck emperor, mum, slint, sleater-kinney, mogwai, oingo boingo, all danny elfmin, pantera, plummet, the postal service the rapture, fantomas, blood brothers, secession , sonic youth, stwaberry switchblade, switchblade, the rasberries, tom tom club, gorillaz, talking heads, david byrne, vanessa mae, voodoo and serano, white town, X, john Doe, 324, 45 grave, wumpscut, les hommes, mystery girls, nightmares in wax, graduate, adam west, death from above 1979, ambix, psycosonik, seabound, propaganda, delirium, pop will eat itself, ofra haza, donald buchla, failure, haujobb, vnv nation, noise unit, icon of coil, this mortal coil, peter godwin, apoptygma berzerk, aphex twin, autechre, mick smiley, assemblage 23, covenant, hmb, clear vision, mono chrome, mesh, gridlock, front 242, sick suppy, skinny puppy, mission of burma, banca de gaia, de/vision, nightmares in wax, mystery girls, basic pleasure model, dj acucrack, acumin nation, chemlab, 16 volt, massive attack, dead can dance, lisa gerrard, fluke, the future sound of london, intaferon, forma tadre, dilate, neuroticfish, Neu!, front line assembly, faith assembly, clan of xymox, funker vogt, velvet acid christ, razed in black, dismintled, in strict confidence, imformatik, information society, imperative reaction, stromkern, the birthday massacre, the birthday party, pop group, KMFDM, killing joke, battery cage, backlash, syntheasia, vast, the azoic, project pitchfork, lick the tins, wolfsheim, angels and agony, wumscut, sasha, john digweed, mindfield, voivod, strapping young lad, ebm, elctro, industrial, ambient, breakbeat, trip-hop, boytronic, frank tovey, trans-x, translator, kas product, robert gorl, underworld, freur, data, data bank, die gesunden, the armory show, welle erdball, magazine, psyche, pankow, severed heads, the motels, moev, dubstar, client, click, tlex, erste miko, daf, neon judgmint, adorable, nu shooz, !!!, 80, a prefect circle, a.r.e. wepaons, aesop rock, afel bocoum, the alrm clocks, the amboy dukes, andre williams, antischism, the artesians, artist x, atmosphere, au pairs, the avlanches, azure ray, b witched, b. fleischminn, bedrock, belle and sebastian, be narthur, beta band, betty carter, bikini kill, the blakc keys, bliss, the blood brothers, brave new world, bridgitte bardot, bridgitte fontaine, buddy ric, gene krupa, built to spill, dealership, zwan, catherine wheel, bunker hill, calexico, candyflip, carla whitney, the cassetes, cat power, cave in, the centurians, cex, the chameleons, charlotte hatherley, the church, steve kilbey, the cinema eye, circle jerks, cirrus, the cooters, cornelious, count five, the cox family, dan the utomator, the dandy warhols, dax riders, laylo, beleive, kidneythieves, death cab for cutie, the delfonics, delta 5, the departure, dialogue, dilated peoples, the dismembermint plan, dj dolores, dj rupture, down the drain, the dream academy, dresden dolls, drexciya, dusty trails, dynamite hack, earl bostic, edith piaf, eels, eieley, bolshoi, electric company, the elctric prunes, ellen allien, emmit rhodes, enon, entrance, erlend oye, the express, the fairfield four, finley quaye, the flamingos, the folk implosion, the for canration, frou foru, xiu xiu, qui qui, gavin friday, gilberto gil, the gits, the go-between's, goldfrapp, gomez, gravy train, guitar, happyl supply, wire, wire train, harry mclintock, heatmiser, hell hath no fury, herminn and kleine, the hidden cameras, hint hint, holopaw, icebreaker, the iguanas, ima robot, pursuit of happiness, the itals, james carr, jason lowenstein, jawbreaker, jerome patrick, jessy moss, ed hartcourd, jucifer, k-os, kinski, knifhandchop, komeit, kompressor, late mingeshkar, le tigre, lee hazlewood, leftfield, les goerges, limp, the livley ones, looper, loretta lynn, lou barlow, loudermilk, luna, lush, magas, maria mckee, matmos, matthew dear, maurice ravel, mercury rev, minutmin, miss kittin, modern english, mogwai, mommy and daddy, the mooney suzuki, morcheeba, mouse nad the traps, moving units, ms. dyanmite, ms. john soda, mu, mum, mundy, my bloody valentine, my morning jacket, my nightly laxative (just kidding...if yr actually still reading this yr pretty sick) mylo, mystic, nathan michel, the nazz, neulander, nico, nina simone, non phixion, normon blake, nouvelle vague, nudge, numbers, one inch, otto von scrcicach, pat perra, paul westerberg, pedro the lion, pere ebu, pepe deluxe, hamilton, joe frank and reyonolds, planet funk, poe, populous, portishead, pretty girls make graves, radar bros, the ronmitcs, the rationals, ralph stanley, the rats, wide boy awake, the ready, the red light sting, res, revels, ride, rjd2, rocket from the moon, rosey, rufus wainwright, rye coalition, h.i.m., s.h.e., sage francis, sebadoh, seu jorge, serge gainsbourg, the shore, the shins, slanspheric, silverchair, silvertide, skanfrom, sleeper, sleeping at last, slint, the slits, slowdive, travis, snow, snow patrol, snowden's secret, legendary pink dots, the soft pink truth, solvent, south, spoon, spoons, stacey q, stars as eyes, stellastar, sterolab, sterphonics, stewie, the stills, stina nordenstam, styrofoam, swervediver, ted leo, teenage fanclub, something corporate, thievery corporation, the thrills, tinfed, toni basil, tool too miny dj's, tommy tutone, travis wommack, twlight circus, ulrich scnauss, unlce tupelo, the unicorns, unkle, uprock, urge, the vlevet teen, the verve, ruchard ashcroft, vince guaraldi, the vines, virgin prunes, the walkmin, the wannadies, trio, the weakerthans, ween, wheatus, whirlwind heat, wilco, the willowz, yo la tengo, yves montand, zap mama, zeigenbock kopf, zero 7, alien sex fiend, sex gang children, ausgang, justin sullivan, the autumns, david thomas and two pale boys, kleenex-liliput, current 93, diaminda galas, scratch acid, big black, controlled bleeding, napalm death, carcass, psychic tv, jonthan richmin and the modern lovers, painkiller, naked city, john zorn, msi, cold duck complex, mr. bungle, the O, Uncle outrage, dj shadow, tub ring, lords of acid, Julie ruin, lightenig bolt, puppies, anna oxygen, metric, mount sims, don muti, veronica black morpeheus, kandy-wales, fannypack, Bonnie tyler, melt-banana, Venetian snares, Merz bow, mc tracktiomy, cheer accident, nepo, blam honey, miyavi, Meco,mia, flying lutterbachers, Imogen Heap, dir en grey, malice mizer, schawrz stein, the fitness, electrocute, ayabie, orange range, do as infininity, m.i.l.k, b-dash, lolita no. 18, crispian st .peters, 23v skidoo, a certain ratio, the abcedarians, absolute body control, the armoury show, blitz, blurt, blonde redheaf, the boys next door, bunnrydrums, electrafixion, catholic discipline, chrome, click click, comsat angels, controlled bleeding, crawling chaos, crime and the city solution, crispy ambulance, dance chapter, danielle dax, death in june, deja voodoo, delta 5, deutsch amerikansche freundshchaft, drowning craze, E.S.G., eyeless in gaza, the feelies, felt, fire engines, for against, fuzzbox, the gadgets, warrior, roadstar, the glove, Grauzone, the happy family, holy cow, the homsexuals, in the nursery, in the vogue, the jazz bucher, in camera, into a circle, josef k, Kirilian camera, kitchens of distinction, Kleenex/liliput, Kukl, live skull, Lydia lunch, malaria!, mass, the mekons, swell maps, minimal compact, minny pops, the mob, moev, the monchrome set, musta paratti, my pierrot dolls, the names, Nervous Gender, the oppositon, the past seven days, the passage, the passions, platinum blonde, pink turns blue, poesie noire, pop group, the psychotic tanks, the raincoats, rank and file, redex, red temple spirits, red wedding, rema rema, red wedding, the residents, roland s. howard, the royal family, sad lovers and giants, savage republic, the screamers, severed heads, section 25, the shamin, Siekiera, snowy red, springhouse, southern death cult, the sound, stiff little fingers, spk, the Stockholm monsters, the wild swans, swans, the telivision perdsonalities, the three johns, toyah, tunnel vision, tuxdo moon, Uk decay, the marhc violet,s the virgin prunes, the wake, wasted youth, the wolfgang press, x-mal deutschland, young marble giants, zounds, zero le creche
Movies
-S-21 -there will be blood -the diving bell and the butterfly -the new world -the conformist -an occurance at owl creek bridge -in the realm of the senses -wisconsin death trip (actually, it's not that great) -the 400 blows -night of the hunter -no country for old men -killer of sheep -sid and nancy -superstar: the karen carpenter story -magnolia -black narcissus -the comedians -up the downstairs case -sweetie -the piano -i walked with a zombie -haxan -m -stalker (actually any tarkovsky if you've got nine hours) -ran -persona -the exterminating angel -los olividados -tokyo story -the phoenix city story (the main character was my grandmother's first cousin...the movie is awful, and maybe not in a good way either, but hey...it's a family affair) -pather panchali -blue velvet (especially when the blood oozes out the yellow man's mouth...see, i like it when the r-e-d w-a-t-e-r comes out) -the elephant man -l'age d'or -all about my mother -amores perros -angels and insects -mifune -breaking the waves -l'enigma de caspar hauser -inland empite -the lobotomist -nosferatu (herzog's, murnau's, pat boone's) -carnival of souls -rear window -andy warhol's heat (it's got a certain...something) -vernon florida ("i got me a four-track brain") -gates of heaven -titticut follies -grey gardens -supersize me -salesman -the clowns -freaks -the brothers quay -jan svankmajer -the brood -woman in dunes -wild strawberries -the kill bills -la belle et la bete -bonnie and clyde -the cabinet of dr. caligari -a trip to bountiful -ran -28 days later -kung-fu hustle -eternal sunshine of the spotless mind -zombie -the crazies -nanook of the north -sherman's march -hiroshima mon amour -contempt -grindhouse -a man escaped -the umbrellas of cherbourg -belle de jour -repulsion -el bruto -land without bread -aquirre: wrath of god -the five obstructions -no end in sight
-the louisiana story -kwaidan -y tu mama tambien -proof (the one with hugo weaving) -beyond the valley of the dolls -picnic at hanging rock (bad pan flute) -walkabout -beau travail -the double life of veronique -the triplets of belleville -badlands -after hours -amacord
Television
cinema, when it functions as art, depends upon the precise articulations made between different frames, and between different areas of light within the frame. video, by effacing the differences upon which cinema depends, renders the rich complexity of a film masterwork as an inarticulate haze. a film realizes itself in the gaps between frames, and in the contrasts between light and dark, one color and another, foreground and background, movement and stillness, that it mobilizes towards its expressive ends. in video, those gaps are blurred and bridged, producing an ever-vibrating, ever-alive continuum
About me: i grew up on the largest reform school in the state of alabama: my dad was the warden & the warden's family (my mom and sister, the occasional odd relative who came to stay during "transitional" periods, and me) lived in a big ramshackle house on the reform school campus. thinking back, i suppose it was kind of unusual growing up surrounded by hundreds of young criminals. but it didn't feel strange then. they just seemed like other kids to me, although, technically, some of them had been charged with manslaughter, or kidnapping, or possession with intent to distribute. during summers, my sister and i ate lunch with these kids in the cafeteria practically every day. it was almost like any other middle-school cafeteria, except more kids got stabbed in the neck with forks, or hit in the face with lunch trays. after lunch we'd go swimming with the juvenile delinquents in the spring-fed swimming pool, or play an impromptu game of softball on the overgrown field next to the old water tower. my sister's first crush was tony "grand theft auto". he was small for thirteen, but his social worker told us he was absolutely teeny-tiny when, at age eleven, he'd hot-wired a pontiac lemans, and taken-off for nashville with johnny cash blasting out of the 8-track. my favorite of all these incarcerated kids, an italian-american kid named eddie, ended up killing himself one cold december night. it was a few days before christmas when eddie learned that neither of his parents, who had recently split-up, wanted to take him over the holiday break. so that night, after everyone had gone to sleep, eddie tied his pajamas together to fashion a noose, and hung himself from the transom over the large dormitory doors. i think as a result of growing up at a junior prison, my mind just naturally tends toward the rebellious and subversive. or maybe i was just always that way. at any rate, i don't have many nightmares anymore. i usually work through most of the night anyway, creating paintings, collages and assemblages; and planning site-specific installations. the site-specific projects have taken me to india, pakistan, cambodia, northern ireland, haiti, poland, ground zero in new york city, and to small towns in my home state of alabama. i'm represented by ghost and bread in san francisco, and checkered house in chicago. i've had over a hundred exhibitions, including a mini-retrospective in 2009 at the corcoran in washington dc. my work is in thousands of collections worldwide including the private ones of wyclif jean, patti smith, will oldham, mike mogis, julianne moore, andy lemaster, and morgan spurlock. i do cd art and music videos for saddle creek records; and my works (stories, poems, illustrations and/or reviews) have appeared in hundreds of magazines (and on websites too) including artforum, artpapers, rolling stone, spin, paste, fader, manhattan poetry review, and online at juxapoz.com and ninjamagazine.com
Who I'd like to meet: frank o'hara's lower east side cocktail party circa 1963, walt whitman's 29th birthday party, isadora duncan's post-funeral party, john merrick after-performance party west end theater guild circa 1888, tainted kool-aid affairs, allen ginsberg tripping with my grandfather pittsburg circa 1968, 1st day of independance/india/1950
Monkee Platez next offering is the 'Fulltilt EP' from Glasgow outfit Mr Hajika. Streetdate 14th November 4 slabs of groove driven tech house...
Fulltilt original is a chugging, bass heavy track with a subtle musicality that develops throughout. Dr. Bergers remix is a stripped down deeper edit, with an infectious flow that maintains the essence of the original. Similarly to Dr. Berger, Alex Fiction strips back the layers to uncover an electronic soul which builds into an intelligently emotive interpretation, if slightly twisted. Completing the package is 'Nitemoves' which shares the big sound of Fulltilt, but with a more progressive, melodic vibe."
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