music is a BIG part of my life. i can define my whole life by the music i was listening to at the time. disco baby, new wave brat, gothic teenager, raving college kid, gay punker, britpopping scenester, fag house club popper.... nowadays, i resist any of those tags and just basically like what the fuck i want to like. a good friend friend of mine once said that i was probably the only person in the world who could listen to pop princess kylie minogue one moment then listen to sonic experimentalist ryoji ikeda the next. most of my activities are musically related. i go to A LOT of concerts and can even deal with bad music bands as long as there's vodka flowing.
Music
the latest - union of knives, goose, hearts of black science, the mary onettes, justice, digitalism, chromatics, working for a nuclear free city, junior boys
indie new wave - editors, the departure, the rakes, apartment, kaiser chiefs, maximo park, the killers, interpol, franz ferdinand, the bravery, longcut, she wants revenge, the lovemakers, the chalets, death from above 1979
the 80's - soft cell, marc almond, depeche mode, the smiths, siouxsie & the banshees, the cure, japan, david sylvian, the human league, ABC, pet shop boys, new order, stacey q, ssq, duran duran, kajagoogoo, erasure, bronski beat, clan of xymox
britpop - saint etienne, blur, pulp, placebo, the cardigans, dubstar, zoot woman
synthpop - cetu javu, camouflage, red flag, seven red seven, cosmicity, echo image, cause & effect, beborn beton, lowe, celluloide, b! machine, joy electric, sea of sin
the darkest - the vss, the vanishing, throbbing gristle, psychic tv, coil, skinny puppy, virgin prunes, bauhaus, wolf eyes
ultimate pop - kylie minogue, dannii minogue, spice girls, geri halliwell, emma bunton, victoria beckham, melanie c, madonna, bodies without organs
the glamour - visage, leigh bowery/minty, klaus nomi, army of lovers, hawnay troof, princess tinymeat, glass candy and the shattered theatre, fischerspooner, missing persons, dead or alive, marilyn manson, tiny tim
abstract - pan sonic, ryoji ikeda, aphex twin, stock hausen & walkman, bjork, boyd rice/non, nurse with wound, somatic responses
synthpunk - adult., the faint, red light sting, a luna red, mediengruppe telekommander, chicks on speed, milemarker, crack: we are rock, xbxrx, test icicles, pr1m3s,
electronic - black strobe, les rythmes digitales, baby ford, client, ladytron, richie hawtin/plastikman, tiga, dk7, trentemøller
coldwave - crash course in science, kas product, grauzone, liaisons dangereuses, DAF, fad gadget, cabaret voltaire, robert rental
Movies
mostly horror, sci-fi, cultish underground, teenage romantic comedies and documentaries on music.
shivers, rabid, the brood, scanners, videodrome, crash, liquid sky, valley of the dolls, beyond the valley of the dolls, breakfast at tiffany's, breaking glass, sixteen candles, breakfast club, better off dead, clueless, doom generation, pink flamingos, house of yes, rosemary's baby, velvet goldmine, super 8 1/2, the wild wild world of jayne mansfield, the legend of leigh bowery, the nomi song, delicatessen, city of lost children, the dark crystal, flash gordon, the lord of the rings trilogy
directors: david cronenberg, roman polanski, todd haynes, bruce la bruce, tim burton, john waters, john hughes
actors/actresses: john cusack, parker posey, molly ringwald, audrey hepburn
Television
the o.c., america's next top model, american idol, the young ones, absolutely fabulous, powerpuff girls, dangermouse, six feet under, the tick (both animated and live action series), friday the 13th:the series
Books
my top three books: brave new world by aldous huxley, the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde and maldoror by lautremont. these are three books that have shaped my ideas of the world and life in general. honorable mention goes to: valley of the dolls by jacqueline susann for showing me that being trashy can also be a lot of fun!
Heroes
MARC ALMOND is my god. the songwriter who exposed me to the excitement, sleaze, joy and evil of decadence and underground culture.
About me: music, music, music. it's my passion and obsession. my mom said, when i was a small little baby i even had a word for a record, "plak!" (short for plaka which is record in tagalog). i would hold my hands out and and yell "plak! plak!" and she would give me a 7" and i'd just crack it in half. i'm a lot more careful now-a-days since i'm a full-on collector. i've got tons of music. boxes and boxes of CDs, cassettes, LPs, 12"s, 7"s... i make weekly trips to my local record stores and come out with a nice little stack. i would take home these musical jewels and listen to them intently and read all the liner notes and memorize band members, producers, record labels... memorize everything for my next mode of attack when i again encounter the racks and racks of music at the stores. with any new band, i would look at their discography and actively seek out everything i could buy from them. within a few weeks, i'd have everything. what i love buying most are singles. this is where you find b-sides. some people say these are the tracks that were left off the album because they weren't good enough or were hastily put together to fill the other side of a single but they can be something more. these are tracks that were created in free thought. there was no motivation to make it catchy enough to sell a million copies or polished enough to round out an album. they were tracks in the rough or as siouxsie sioux recently put it, tracks with "the initial spark and energy of the idea". don't get me wrong, i still love my poppy catchy a-sides but these gems on the flip side are songs with a bigger sense of freedom of expression and isn't that what great art should be?
LOVEY!!! its been so long.. I went to BFD.. I know it wasnt the best. to say the least. but i encountered a free ticket, and I was the ride.. I did get your message about NWC dancing :( For reals.. lets get together sooon.. real soon. miss you xo
Yes, Pushing Daisies is back. Heard from Bobby he drunk dialed you looking for me.... oopsy. I did go to Vegas on a whim but now I'm back. Where are you? Have you started your journey yet?
OH! Those shoes are mine biotch. Hahahahaha! That song is catchy and by the way I was looking to buy a new pair of shoes. you know for spring, right. lol!
'This immense moment - like uncontrolled laughter, infinitely happy, unmasking what outlasts it (by revealing the inevitable decline) - substituted water with alcohol, the apparent proximity of the sky with an absence of death, a void without end. ' (Bataille 1962: 25)
OMG! Is that Momma cass with a red rat on her head. hahahahahaha, watching that video i had flashbacks from the last 1984......erase, erase. Oh and I told my Gma that you made adobo for me and she flipped. So now i need the recipe for her. Guess Gma loves adobo.
It's the video for our new single, "BRIGITTE BARDOT".
It's from our new album "LOLA DUTRONIC IN BERLIN", and it's available exclusively from iTunes and CDBaby.com The single is starting to get airplay all over the place including Rodney Bingenheimer's show on KROQ-FM in L.A. , and it just showed up on the NME's website!
You can download both the single and the album today by clicking here:
Hahahaha I know dats right! I'm gonna call ya tonight, we'll figure it out
from there. Shoot i might stay a week, lol! WOOT WOOT ARE THE GAY BARS READY?!
sorry I haven't come by yet, I have been visiting with family. Does it matter if I come out during the week, or weekend? Gay bar?! Cinch!? STUD?! NEW WAVE?!
ALIAS EMPIRE UPDATE!
www. aliasempire. com has recently gone live and on sign up members can download 'AEmix', a 6 track remixes EP, for free. This includes remixes of our own tracks as well as tracks by Messiah J and the Expert and Cars in Walls. Half of the remixes are by us while the rest have been handled by Philth and Seki, Nina Hynes, and Klass of '83. Each track has its own unique artwork included in the download. Hope to see you on there soon.
Hi Obamatrons / Dittoheads of America, We just thought we'd let you know we wrote and recorded a brand new song over Christmas. It's called "Guilty Hands" - and if you want to know what it's about, try googling "desire and the black masseur"... We're giving the song away FREE in conjunction with Artrocker - click here to download the track (no obligation, no mailing list sign-up, just free music).
ok i just saw the official coachella lineup and i totally want to go. it ends the day before bloc party so i'm not sure i want to make plans to go to BP anymore. but I definitely will go to COYH and black kids. I think black kids might sell out so should we go ahead and get tix now? btw here is the coachella lineup: http://stereogum. com/archives/coachella-2009-lineup_049271. html
ok i know you might be too busy wrapping up life in CA that week, but there are a couple shows coming up in April I thought I'd check to see if you're interested in - Block Party @ the Fox Theatre (yes in Oakland!!) 4/20 Black Kids @ The Independent 4/21 let me know if you're up for it.
Hey Uncle Vodka Ed, It's your nephew in Michigan. It sounds weird since were the same age but anyhow just wondering how life is. I haven't been on here in awhile and currently trying to change my profile and thought I should see how things are. I would love to one day come out and see the sites and visit that if you are open to the idea. Well hope to hear from ya Happy New Year. Rich
of course not, only we two do debauchery justice, ;). Okay so I got a new j o b, looks like i'm stickin' around. So come on out and let's hit the fruit loop!!! I can taste the vodka collins, smell the go go boys, and see us shadow dancin' baby, hahahaha! ok that last part would be me solo, but it's murder on the dance floor. I miss our knowing glances on the hunt. Serious come to Vegas!!!!
check it out! I love it. this is from the GA Party show I was telling you about. unfortunately I can't find a torrent of the whole show, but most of it seems to be on youtube. enjoy!
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