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vodka ed's Interests
General
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?
I like the lady being saved to the beat, and the cross eyed rasputin playing the accordian, I CAN'T WAIT TILL SEPTEMBER! hey when ya gonna put pics up of Manchester?
omg you were so close - I'm dying of envy. I love the new GA CD too. anyway, I completely forgot about the ReGeneration tour, thanks for the reminder... maybe I can still get tix. PETE BURNS!!! Yeah, we went to Yaz literally at the last minute. We were driving by the Paramount and realized it was the night of the show and bought tix from a scalper for half price like 3 minutes before the show. Very cool!
Hey EV, how have you been? I just saw the Human League and ABC are coming to the Convalescent Home for Retired New Wavers ---er, Red Devil Lounge... give me a buzz if you wanna go together. I want to hear about your trip anyway. Was Girls Aloud amazing or just awesome?
hahhahaaa, I logged on to write you about Manchester, and you read my mind! Think I would have a overload of joy in Manchester, like when we went to the DM concert and David sang to me. Oh HOLY FUCK ME IN MY ARSE...I WISH I WAS THERE.I no longer believe unrequited love is the best , got more stories, broke another one, he he!!!OKAY, we have to get together when you get back, have fun and do anything, and everything I would do...except stay away from the dark rooms....what shows have you been to?
hi there! thanks for finding + adding us! we glad you like our music! all the best from berlin! Viele Gruesse aus Berlin! Susan and the boys from Trikot.
ok if only RJ borrowed John's platforms we might have had something special! I spy crazy aunt pats cat walking through. And is that Paul Ruebens in a glitter devils outfit
Stuart Jones is my hero and unrequited love is the best! Damn straight Bobby and I have been bad fish all week! Woot,Woot! Ray's coming out this way next month so come with!!!!!!!!!!! I need a vodka collins ...Service!!!! Sure Wayne, i'll have another shot..... is that Caligula playing,he,he OMFG i put in blonde highlights and got my fake nails on,hahahaha!
HEY ED!!!! SOOO ANOTHER BDAY DINNER!! THIS SATURDAY BENIHANA in JAPAN TOWN!! AND KARAOKE AFTER!! I KNOW HOW MUCH YOU LIKE YOUR KARAOKE!! ITS DD's BDAY THIS TIME!!! SO LET ME KNOW IF YOU FEEL LIKE HANGING... YOU MORE THEN WELCOME TOSTAY THE NIGHT IF YOU NEED TO!!!HOPE ALL IS WELL!!! xoxoxo
