Things that are orange, pithy dialogue, and the truth. What ever that truth may be.
Art: Tim Biskup, Jeff Soto, Banksey, Willam Blake,Shag, Sheppard Fairrey, Kenny Scharff, Warhol, Robert Willams, Movies: Tashlin, Welles, all the regulars.
Music: see below
Comics: Ones that involve good guys beating up bad guys,
Music
Off the top of my head:
ABBA, Adam Ant, Adolphe Wolfe, Alice Cooper, Amon Tobin, Antony and the Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Aretha Franklin, Atmosphere, Bauhaus, Bick Owens, Black Kids, Bo Didley, Bob Willis, Boom Bip, Brian Eno, Broadcast, Carole King, Charles Ives, Clash, Clock DVA, Dålek, David Bowie, David Sylvain, Dizzee Rascal, Dusty Springfield, Einsturzende Neubauten Elmer Bernstein, Elvis Costello Eric Satie, Erin Mckeown, Ernest Tubb, Ethel, Field, Fiest, George Jones, Godflesh, Hüsker Dü, Imogen Heap, Isaac Hayes, Jack Dangers, Jack Nitzsche, Jam, Joanna Newsom, Joe Frank, John Cage, Kanye West, King Tubby, Kinks, Kinski, Lee Hazlewood, Lee Perry, Leonard Cohen, Les Baxter, Liquid Liquid, Lou Reed, M.I.A., Mad professor, Madness,a Main, Martin Denny, Mary J. Blige, Meat Loaf, Minnie Ripperton, Mission of Burma, MU-Ziq, My Bloody Valentine Mystery Jets, New Order, New York Dolls Nick Cave, Nick Lowe, NNB, Nobukazu Takemura, Nurse with Wound, Outkast, Psychic TV, Queen, Roger MIller, Roosevelt Franklin Roots Manuva, Roxy Music, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sigur Rios, Siouxse Sioux, Stan Ridgway, Staple Singers, Super Eagles, The Arcade Fire, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles The Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, The Cure, The Damned, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Fields, The Flaming Lips, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Guillemots, The Jesusandmarychain, The Kronos Quartet, The Last of the Shadow Puppets, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, The Stooges, The Streets, The Style Council, The Sweet, The Talking Heads, The United States of America, The Who, The Zombies, Theivery Corporation, Throbbing Gristle, Tom Lehrer, Tom Waits Tommy Guerrero, T-Rex, Velvet Underground, Vic Mizzy, Warren Zevon, William Shatner, YMO, Yo La Tengo,
this is what I have been listening to on my Itunes, though I am one of those weirdos that still listens to most of my music on a stereo...don't judge
Movies
Beat the Devil, Bell Book and Candle, Bringing Up Baby, Duck Soup, Farwell My Lovely, Goldfinger, His Gal Friday, Live and Let Die, Mr. Buddwing, Oceans Eleven, Rashamon, the Good the Bad and the Ugly, the Man With the Golden Gun, The Muppet Movie, The Third Man, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, -‡ I really like movies, so for the sake of this not looking like the book of lists, this will have to suffice.
Television
The McLaughlin Group, (<--- seriously not here just as some psuedo-intellectual pretext ), Doctor Who, Ernie Kovacks, Torchwood(sigh its a Doctor Who thing)
Books
Absolute Beginners by MacInnes, Birthday by Tanning, Brief history of Time by Hawking, Faust by Marlowe, Macbeth by Shakespeare, Palm of the Hand Stories by Kawabata, Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Mishima, Sidartha by Hesse, the Invisibles by Grant Morrision, the Magnetic Fields by Andre Brenton, the Stranger by Camus, Zen and Counter-culture lectures by Alan Watts, and absolutely anything by: Leslie Charteris, Thorne Smith, Tristan Tzara, Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, James Robinson
Magazine wise: REsearch, the Wire, Mojo, Vanity Fair, Mad, Billboard, Wired,GQ, Esquire, Junxtapose
Heroes
I have a lot of them, at this particular moment they are :Adrian Sherwood, Alan Watts, Andre Brenton, Benjamin Franklin, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Bob Willis, Brian Eno, Buck Owens, Buddy Holly, Carol King, Cary Grant, Chet Atkins, Claude Debussey, Colin Macinnes, Curtis Mayfield, Dashell Hammet, Don Letts, Dorthea Tanning, Dorthy Parker. Eric Satie, Ernie Kovacs, Futura 2000, God, Graydon Carter Groucho Marx, Hal Wilner, Hans-Joachim Roedelius Hector Zassou, James Thurber, Joe Frank, John Cage, John Lydon, Kool Herc, Langston Hughes Lee Perry, Marcel DuChamp, Marshall McLuhan, Max Ernst, Nick &Nora Charles, Paul Newman, Paul Weller, P.T. Barnum,Raymond Chandler, Richard Thiel, Robert Benchley, Sonia, Thomas Jefferson, Thorne Smith. And the biggest of all my wife Mo
University Of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MINNESOTA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: theater, film studies, Performance art, with a special emphasis in popular culture
Clubs: Delta Kappa Epsilion
About me: I hate defining myself, its too constraining. Suffice it to say, I do a bunch of things; I am a producer(music,film,& TV),a writer,a designer,curator and composer. I have been a teacher, and marketing guy. In just about every genre from Noise to Rock-A-Billy to Neo-Classical and Jazz.I also consult for companies about things like: culture, art and technology and its various points of intersection,
If your into weird music chances are pretty good that I worked with a guy you like, or a guy who worked with them.
In the six degrees of separation between John Cage and Judas Priest, I am number three.
That more or less sums me up, beyond that: I consume media, think somewhat abstract thoughts, go to the movies, and fight crime with some snappily dressed teenagers and their talking dog
Who I'd like to meet:
The real the true, and the people who are trying to be. Me I am just looking for the next great adventure.
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This Mon, Sept 21st on St. Cloud channel, 88.1 KVSC PILLA plays LIVE in the studio. We will be playing cuts from our album, Don't Touch Me along with many suprises!! Will Pilla kick over platinumbs bass like he's done before? Will MR. Ronis hit the high notes in " The Queen"? Tune in to find out!!
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I just wanted to stop by to say hello and give you a little update on what Blood Root Mother is up to! We will be recording an EP of new music in August, and we recently finished recording a live DVD. The DVD is currently unreleased and I actually just saw it for the first time yesterday. It features the last two performances with Tony Ellis still alive, and some footage from the tribute show we played on the night of his funeral.
There are some cool covers, as well as some NEW music that will be on our upcoming EP. We're very excited about the new music and we'd like to share a sneak peak with you. Here's a video of a tune called Run Bobby Run:
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