Warhol's Factory, The Golden Age of Hollywood, '80s New Wave and Post Punk, travel, biographies, writing, vintage pin-up girls, pulp art, Film Noir, keeping fit, meditation and mindfulness, activities in Central Park, Tex-Mex food, strawberry shortcake, cult film, foreign film, shifting governmental power away from religious zealots. Human intimacy in all its myriad forms. Developing my male id while staying in touch with the inner child.
Music
IN GENERAL: Punk, New Wave, Post-Punk, '60s Garage, Alternative, Synthpop (especially analogue), New Romantics, Electro, '70s Soul, Funk, Disco, girl groups, Cold Wave, classic country, Glam, goth, French pop and chanson, Krautrock, Industrial, Acid House, Ambient House, rockabilly.
DIGGING THE NEW SCENE: Bang Lime, Carbon/Silicon, Colder, Crossover, Delays, Duels, Escort, Glasvegas, Klaxons, The Knife, Long Blondes, Lorraine, Melody Club, Opiates, Ponys, Riff Randells, Rumble Strips, Sound Team, Teenagers, These New Puritans, Troubadours, Tom Vek, Yelle.
HONORING THE OLD GUARD: ABBA, Marc Almond, The Ark, Associates, Au Pairs, Burt Bacharach, Bad Brains, Bauhaus, Beach Boys, B-52s, Big Boys, Big Star, Jane Birkin, Black Box Recorder, Black Devil Disco Club, Black Flag, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, Phillip Boa, Bongwater, Bowie, British Sea Power, Claudia Brucken, Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Byrds, Cardigans, Carrie Nations, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Chic, Gene Clark, Clash, Leonard Cohen, The Coral, Cramps, Creation, Etienne Daho, Damned, Depeche Mode, Jackie DeShannon, Devo, Echo and The Bunnymen, Effigies, Eno, The Fall, Mylene Farmer, Bryan Ferry, FYC, Finn Bros, John Foxx, Serge Gainsbourg, Gang of Four, Bobbie Gentry, Go-Betweens, Goldfrapp, Gun Club, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, H17, Human League, IAMX, Indochine, Wanda Jackson, The Jam, Japan, Grace Jones, Joy Division, The Kane Gang, KAS Product, Killing Joke, Kinks, Kraftwerk, Labelle, LCD Soundsystem, Love, Billy Mackenzie, Madness, Magazine, Manic Street Preachers, Billie Ray Martin, Metric, Misfits, Morel, Giorgio Moroder, The Move, Muffs, Roison Murphy, Naked Raygun, Ricky Nelson, New Order, New Pornographers, New York Dolls, Orange Juice, Roy Orbison, OMD, Peaches, Pet Shop Boys, Gene Pitney, Pixies, Prefab Sprout, Prince, Propaganda, Psychedelic Furs, Pulp, Queen, Ramones, Redd Kross, Rilo Kiley, Marty Robbins, Diana Ross, Roxy Music, Runaways, Saint Etienne, Scars, Scissor Sisters, Scritti Politti, Section 25, Sex Pistols, Shangri-Las, Shocking Blue, Simian Mobile Disco, Simple Minds, Nancy Sinatra, Siouxsie, Slits, Patti Smith Group, Smiths, Sonics, Sonic Youth, The Sound, Sparks, Specials, Dusty Springfield, Stooges, Stranglers, Suede, Donna Summer, Swans Way, David Sylvian, Talking Heads, Taxi Girl, Thin Lizzy, T-Rex, T.S.O.L., Ultravox!, Undertones, Townes Van Zandt, Velvet Underground, Holly Beth Vincent, Viva la Fete, Scott Walker, X, YYYs, Yello, Faron Young, Zombies. LABELS: Factory, Mute, 4AD, Ze, Two Tone, Creation, Intl Deejay Gigolos, Rough Trade, etc.
Movies
Tender Mercies ~ Badlands ~ Beyond The Valley of the Dolls ~ Mulholland Drive ~ The Conformist ~ The Good The Bad and The Ugly ~ The Lady Eve ~ Scorpio Rising ~ Onibaba ~ Cabaret ~ Double Indemnity ~ Aimee and Jaguar ~ Au Revoir Les Enfants ~ Liquid Sky ~ Night and the City ~ The Wild Bunch ~ Sunset Boulevard ~ The Wanderers ~ Blow Up ~ Aguirre, The Wrath of God ~ Donnie Darko ~ Daughters of Darkness ~ Carnival of Souls ~ Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!. And, in general, the works of Hitchcock ~ Kurosawa ~ Lynch ~ Sturges ~ Lubitsch ~ DePalma ~ Samuel Fuller ~ Sam Peckinpah ~ Almodovar ~ Truffaut ~ Welles ~ Rohmer ~ Malick ~ Hammer Films ~ Coppola ~ Fassbinder ~ Kieslowski ~ Powell and Pressburger ~ Herzog ~ Wilder ~ Antonioni ~ Fellini ~ Monte Hellman ~ Haynes ~ Waters ~ Cukor ~ Visconti ~ Leone ~ Moodysson ~ Polanski ~ Egoyan ~ Woody Allen ~ Peter Jackson ~ Techine ~ Assayas ~ Shrader ~ Malick ~ Weir ~ Dassin ~ Demy ~ Russ Meyer.
Television
Lost, Heroes, Rome, The Avengers, The Prisoner, Entourage, Deadwood, Reno 911, Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, Kolchak (the original), Freaks & Geeks, Undeclared, vintage SNL, X-Files, Twin Peaks, James at 16. And when I finally get around to watching "Heroes," I'm sure I'll like that as well.
Books
Edie: The Wreck of a Warhol Superstar, A Fistful of Gitanes: Biography of Serge Gainsbourg, Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise of Swinging London, High On Rebellion, The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood, Cult Movie Stars, The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored History of the Porn Film Industry, England's Dreaming, Please Kill Me, We've Got The Neutron Bomb, The Great Movie Stars, Blank Generation Revisited, Laid Bare, Turn Off Your Mind, Factory Made, Tainted Life by Marc Almond, Neon Angel by Cherie Currie
Heroes
"Just for one day." Bugs Bunny, Stan Lee, Warren Oates, Andy Warhol, Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, Christopher Lee, Werner Herzog, Dave Davies, Marlene Dietrich, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Harlow, Sam Peckinpah, Serge Gainsbourg, Pam Grier, Russ Meyer, Gerald Grant, Marvel and DC, John Waters, MLK, Abe Lincoln, my ma and pa
Fun loving, passionate, unpretentious. I'm a people person who doesn't mind solitude. I like to travel (especially Europe). I've lived in Los Angeles and Austin, and I've been in Manhattan for 14 years. I'm originally from Texas but I don't have a Southern accent and I certainly didn't vote for either Bush. I love absurdity and dark humor. Halloween is my favorite holiday. Meeting and getting to know new people is important. Don't be intimidated by my long lists of music and film favorites. While it's true that I'm obsessed by my passions, I'm never a snob about it. I'm more about sharing the knowledge and turning people on to new things. While it's true I'm a gentleman, I realize that different situations call for different approaches ...
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Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
i'm always a little disappointed that you don't write back, but it's okay cause i know that you're busy and that you are not that often on myspace as you are on facebook ;-)
so, i don't know: did i send you the latest phillip boa release, "diamonds fall"? we just finished the tour where we played with a second drummer (jaki liebezeit from krautrock legend CAN!) was a lotta fun...
hope you're doing fine, best from old europe, maiki
La Folie are back in town again and we playing at the O2 Academy on Friday 11th of Septmeber! It's £4 a ticket and you get in to Transmission afterwards for free! Entry to that is usually £5 so it makes blatent sense to come see us first and you save a quid as well! get in touch if you fancy coming down
Hello R Heres looking at you my friend. I'm trying to catch up with everyone. (Ok..thats silly..but I'm sorry..it doesnt get any better)..anyway Here is where I say
and I hope to hear from you either here or on my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/AbbaFanSouth So until we 'meet' again You Take Care...Bill
Hello. Thank you for your continued support. We hope to see you at our NO COVER show in NYC Wednesday
July 29th 8pm at the Sidewalk Cafe: 94 Avenue A
And stay tuned for the release of a new single in the fall.
Bright stars to you!
Ahmond
