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Glenn's Interests
General
Writing, traveling, my friends, films
Music
Luxuriamusic.com, RadioGhoulSchool.com, early punk, Siouxsie, the Smiths, Morrissey, jazz, Ennio Morricone, Canto-pop, Goblin, Daniel Johnston, vintage country and western, Johnny Cash, Johnny Lydon, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Elvis Presley, Vietnamese street music, Mongolian throat singing, Gregorian chants, Bollywood, Dollywood, Throbbing Gristle, Marc Almond, opera, silence
Me and Door Bitch Thomas Onorato (photo: Torkil Gudnason)
Movies
Directors: Tsai-Ming Liang, Dario Argento, Wong Kar-Wai, Fellini, Fassbinder, Godard, Mira Nair, Bruce LaBruce, Paul Morrissey, John Waters, Bollywood films especially ones starring Hrithik Roshan, "I am Cuba", "Memories of Underdevelopment", "Clockwork Orange", "Fahrenheit 451", "Borat", "Female on the Beach", "The Misfits", "Nashville", "Coal Miner's Daughter", "Auntie Mame", "Cleopatra", "Puzzle of a Downfall Child", "Persona","Citizen Kane", "Boom", "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains", "Desperate Living", "24 Hour Party People", "Infamous", "Walk the Line", "Krrish", "Mission Kashmir" "Vertical Rays of the Sun", "Fanaa", "Dil Se","Rope"
Television
Ugly Betty, Family Guy, American Dad, Hard Gay.
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Books
"Havana Red" Leonardo Padura, "People Are Crazy Here" Rex Reed, "Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of The Marchesa Casati", "D.V." by Diana Vreeland, "Disco Bloodbath", "The Beautiful Fall", "Around the World with Auntie Mame" Patrick Dennis, Camille Paglia, Bruce Benderson, Mark Simpson (especially "Saint Morrissey")"The Reluctant Pornographer" Bruce LaBruce, books on China, Vietnam...."Vietnam Now"....Mao's Little Red Book, "The Club" Stephen Gaines, "Nashville Babylon"
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Heroes
Diana Vreeland, Patrick Dennis, Jackie Susann, Karl Lagerfeld
About me: Author of CONFESSIONS FROM THE VELVET ROPES: THE GLAMOROUS, GRUELING LIFE OF THOMAS ONORATO, NY'S TOP CLUB DOORMAN from St. Martin's Press.
"Glenn Belverio has a devastatingly urban eye. An ultra-hip arbiter of style, he commands the fine line between fashion and flash. He is a superb guide to the underworld of earthly delights." --Bestselling author and culture critic Camille Paglia
"Confessions from the Velvet Ropes is like a surreal mash-up of Party Girl and Apocalypse Now, or maybe Please Kill Me and Night of the Living Dead. It's packed with absurdly juicy war stories from the velvet goldmine of New York clubland, down and dirty yet screamingly funny tales from the door-bitch jungle, full of crazed revelers, wasted starlets, fashion pimps, and sex behind the ice machine. Brilliant stuff." -- Rob Sheffield, writer for Rolling Stone magazine.
Who I'd like to meet: Other writers, hillbilly crooners, Bollywood superstars, old rock stars, fashion and film icons, sexy Italian/Latino/Spanish/Asian/Indian/Arabic guys, rich old ladies, nightclubbers, YUMmies (Young urban Marxists), dandies, New Yorker subscribers, vixens, ultra vixens, Roger Ebert, witty Southern alcoholics.
Following My Heart, a memoir, chronicles a life-journey of self-discovery that encompasses sex, spirituality, psychedelics, political activism and literature. It is an unconventional story of love and hope in difficult times.
The City, my seventh novel, spans nearly fifty years in the lives of Theo Demetrios, his sister ArtD, their parents, lovers and friends from beat era San Francisco to the twenty-first century. The title also alludes to the ancestral home of the Demetrios family.
Both books, published by Persona Press, are now available in bookstores.
I tried to get into your birthday party but Thomas Onorato would not let me past the rope. You better put me on the list next time bitch, or see what happens!
