Michael Layne Heath
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"Why can't I be different and original, like everyone else?"
Male
49 years old
SAN FRANCISCO, California
United States
Last Login:
7/6/2008
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creative
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Michael Layne Heath's Interests
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| Music | too numerous to mention and ever changing - will try for specifics in time | | Movies | Billy Liar, The Graduate, Dont Look Back, Absolute Beginners, Privilege, Waking Life, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Bedazzled, Duck Soup, Hard Core Logo, Sideways, Amarcord, Slam Nation, Dark Star, Brewster McCloud, Cinema Paradiso, Metropolitan, I'm Not There, Masculin Feminin, The TAMI Show, O! Lucky Man, Eat The Document, American Splendor, Blue In The Face, Clerks, Velvet Goldmine, The Blank Generation (both Poe/Kral and Lommel), RNR High School, Dogs In Space, 24 Hour Party People, Haiku Tunnel, Jackie Brown, Ramones: End of The Century, The Punk Rock Movie, Lovedolls Superstar, I Shot Andy Warhol, Slaughterhouse Five, Chasing Amy, Performance, Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, Nico:Icon, Shoot The Piano Player, Kings Of The Road, C.S. Blues, anything by the National Film Board of Canada | | Books | The Beats and post-Beats, Terry Southern, George Pelecanos, Philip Larkin, Ivor Cutler, Tad Williams, John Shirley, Frank O' Hara, Richard Brautigan, Wammo, Harvey Pekar, Bob Kaufman, Billy Childish, Richard Hell, Jim Knipfel, Jake Arnott, Taylor Mali, Philip K. Dick, Don Van Vliet, Spike Milligan, Quentin Crisp, John Fante, John Cooper Clarke, Lewis Shiner, Chuck Palahniuk, Derek Taylor, Rudy Rucker, Nick Kent, Lester Bangs, Wanda Coleman, William Taylor Jr., Nik Cohn, Bruce Sterling, Bob Stanley, Julie Burchill, Bucky Sinister, Mick Farren, John Giorno, Spalding Gray, the Mersey Beat Poets (Roger McGough/Adrian Henri/Brian Patten), Kris Needs, Charles Shaar Murray, Clinton Heylin, Jon Savage, Kevin Pearce, John Carney, Dave White, George Parsons, Joe Pachinko, Mark E. Smith, Richey James, Lou Reed |
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Michael Layne Heath's Details
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Hometown: | Silver Spring/Burtonsville, Md. | | Body type: | 0' 0" | | Zodiac Sign: | Libra | | Children: | I don't want kids | | Education: | Some college | | Occupation: | writer/poet/musician |
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Michael Layne Heath's Schools
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Paint Branch High
Burtonsville, MD
Graduated: 1976
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Perspective drama group, Mainstream school paper.
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About me:
Veteran inspired amateur culture journalist, writer, poet and musician.
Founder of VINTAGE VIOLENCE, Washington DC's first fanzine devoted to Punk/New Wave, 1977-78 (as documented in Anderson and Jenkins' history of the DC alternative music community, DANCE OF DAYS).
Writer for other DC zines thru the 80's - anyone recall THE INFILTRATOR, CAPITOL CRISIS or TRULY NEEDY?
Moved to San Francisco 1992 - contributed to everything from MAXIMUM ROCK N ROLL to XLR8R, wrote about local color for SUPERSTAR (Germany), and record reviews for SHREDDING PAPER out of Berkeley.
Once familiar with Cyberspace, MLH wasted no time in knocking out essays about music and the City for PERFECT SOUND FOREVER, the recently late, lamented TANGENTS U.K, and the newly reconvened PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE.
Frequent liner note contributor to Bay Area reissue label Water Recordings/Four Men with Beards/DBK Works - done notes for vinyl reissues of both MARQUEE MOON and ADVENTURE by Television, and the soundtrack to Kubrick's LOLITA. Also CD reissues of Afrika Bambaataa's PLANET ROCK and BEWARE THE FUNK IS EVERYWHERE, Bob Neuwirth's first solo lp, and brand new CD reissues of both lp's by the Sugar Hill Gang.
MLH is also a published poet, having self-published two chapbooks of his prose - PUT IT THIS WAY and COUNT TO FIVE AND TELL THE TRUTH - which have been hailed by Thurston Moore in ARTHUR Magazine as "choice meat and potatoes punk 'n' roll...firing on some right-on cylinders", and by Daniel (Lemony Snicket) Handler as "growly and tender". Both are available thru Feudal Gesture Press c/o this website. A third chapbook, SACRED GROUNDS, was published in December '07 by Texas/Scotland poetry imprint Kendra Steiner Editions, with a followup KSE chap due out in autumn '08.
In January '08, MLH began a semiregular blog column, THE GROOVER'S GROTTO, at the official website of noted epic fantasy novelist Tad Williams (www.tadwilliams.com).
And if all that weren't enough, MLH is also guitarist for the PANTHER MODERNS, a Bay Area band fronted by writer and pioneer of both the Cyberpunk lit genre and the Portland (OR.) Punk Rock scene, John Shirley.
MLH is also available at reasonable rates for freelance writing, liner noteage and journalist assignments, also via this page. He is looking forward to being the next big Twenty-Year Overnight Sensation.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Dreamers, failures, explorers. Someone to teach me how to dance the Peanut Duck. Walt Curtis, bard of Oregon and author of the source material for Van Sant's MALA NOCHE. Ultimately, myself at various stages of my life, to tell him to hang in there and that everything gets better with time and age - mostly.
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