design, music, street art, mac computers, warmth, humour, jumping around, planting herbs, beauty, wine, single malt whisky, beer, obscure electronica, new art, dogs and cats, kissing, strong winds, eyes, spanking, people that make me laugh, good hearty friends
Music
Bailter Space, Broken Social Scene, Lali Puna, Deathcab for Cutie, Masha Qrella, Sea and Cake, Boom Bip, Squarepusher, Mogwai, Brian Eno, Neil Young, Dangermouse, Jim O'Rourke, Boards of Canada, Merzbow, Hollertronix, Low, Howard Hello, Mëstar, Can, Elliot Smith, The Shins, Manitoba, Four Tet, Clouddead, Galaxie 500, Interpol, Smog, Bonnie Prince Billie, Echo and the Bunnymen, RJD2, Stereolab, Wilco, Beck, The Flaming Lips, Birchville Cat Motel, Yellow Swans, Seht, Black Boned Angel, Cilla Black, Age Pryor, Stereolab, Bailter Space, The Fall, Venetian Snares, Iron and Wine, My Bloody Valentine, The Chills, John White, Blockhead, Department of Eagles, DJ Spooky, Peaches, Sleater Kinney, Deep Puddle Dynamics, The Postal Service, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Anticon, doseone, themselves, odd nosdam, Sage Francis, Dntel, Lee Scratch Perry, King Tubby, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, T Rex, Nick Drake, Serge Gainsbourg, The Bats, Deerhoof, The Reindeer Section, Aesop Rock, Amon Tobin, Autechre, Belle and Sebastian, Darcy Clay, Lady Sovereign, Shystie, Tall Dwarfs, Reindeer Section, Chenard Walcker, Grey Daturas, Will Oldham, Tristeza, Straitjacket Fits, Prince, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Cowsills, Nick Drake, Beans, sun kil moon, red house painters, bright eyes, The Clean, Jessica Bailiff, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, David Pajo, Built to Spill, Antony and the Johnsons, Stars of the Lid, The Dead Texan, Do Make Say Think, Animal Collective, Apostle of Hustle, Chris Knox, M.I.A., Damon & Naomi, Taj Mahal Travellers, The Knife, M.I.A., Brightblack Morning Light, Kings of Convenience, The American Analog Set, Swan Lake, Sunset Rubdown, Destroyer, Lamp of the Universe, The Stumps, Ladyhawk, Leopard Meat, M Ward, Mojave 3, Okkervil River, Gong, Mono, The Unicorns, Illyah Kuryahkin, Young Marble Giants, Six Organs of Admittance, Scritti Politti, Sufjan Stevens, Spokane, Hermeto Pascoal
Movies
Indie films, Docos, Experimental film, Decasia, Grizzly Man, Aguirre Wrath of God, Fellini, Truffaut, Tarkovsky, Contempt, Happiness, Punch Drunk Love, The Saddest Music in the World, Songs from the Second Floor, Aaltra, Cowards Bend the Knee, Any Way the Wind Blows, Late Bloomer, Heater, Lost in Translation, Alphaville, A Page of Madness, Tishe!, Donnie Darko, The Stroll, Little Bits of Light, Through a Glass Darkly, by Brakhage, My Best Fiend, Knife in the Water, The Piano Teacher, Naked, The 400 Blows, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Scanner Darkly, Inland Empire, Tuli, Times and Winds, Control
Television
Black Books. Sopranos. Outrageous Fortunes. But not much else, 'cos mostly TV sucks.
Books
vonnegut. 1984. paul gallico. narnia. dr suess. dave eggers. will self. new writers. enid blyton.
About me: Days spent in solitude. Working. Listening to music. Need to get out more. Oh, that's right... there's the front door. There IS a world outside.
AND THEN THERE'S THIS ONE.
Who I'd like to meet: Interesting freaks. Music fantatics. Film buffs. Art practitioners. Designers. Jokers. Grifters. Life's flotsam and jetsam. My doppelganger. (They say everyone has a double out there somewhere...)
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Good to hear from you, Rose! Let me know when that radio show is sorted, details, etc. Very glad to hear you liked the Leels disc. If you think anyone else in your circle would dig it, just drop me a line. I could send a few out if they'd find some friendly ears.
NZ stuff is always strong in this house. I need that Bachelorette disc. The Leather Apron 10". The Minisnap record. On and on..and on.
The Tourette Offensive (Adam Hungate, Nick Wells, Patrick Hungate) at Holman's in Portland, Oregon, on January 22, 2009. World Premiere. Unplugged. Filmed by Mike Daily. O'Grady's Note: The 5th song would be my favorite. If I had to pick one. If I had to.
Mike Daily's Note: I recently wrote "Gagaku Meat: The Steve Richmond Story," a 19,000-word journalism piece about poet Steve Richmond for Buk Scene #1, a new Charles Bukowski-based magazine edited by Jan Hallers in The Netherlands. I interviewed 25 poets, writers and publishers including Gerald Locklin, FrancEyE (Frances Smith, mother of Bukowski's daughter, Marina), Al Berlinski, John Martin, A.D. Winans, Linda King, Ron Androla, S.A. Griffin, Alan Kaufman, Mat Gleason, Billy Childish, many others. Buk Scene is a 100+ page, 8-1/2" x 11" format, limited edition (200 copies) magazine available by Feb. '09. Mr. Viced Honest (Luke Strahota, Chutz Ponderosa, Adam Hungate, Whitney Woolf, MD) recorded "Mad Poet's Garden" on 10/8/08 in Portland, OR.
MR VICED HONEST: SOUNDCHECK AND BANTER ABOUT SWAMI...
O DEAR ROSE: Mr. Viced Honest (Mike Daily, Luke Strahota, Chutz Ponderosa) get ready to record on December 13, 2008, at The Enginehouse studio in Portland, Oregon. Strahota asks Daily about Duncan Scott Davidson (a.k.a. The Swami), and Swami's forthcoming new zine, Mastodon in a Microwave. Thus far, Davidson says, it's got some Bay Area BMX stuff in it, an interview with the band Qui (w/ David Yow from Jesus Lizard), some random fiction, art, and scribblings, and lots of photos.
