still listen to Germs, Fall ,Birthday Party . Like the Pop Group too...Teenage Head, Negative Trend , . Not into : The Pogues, Fugazi,John Spencer, Social Distortion or Jack and Meg .
Best live gigs : Discharge,Tales of Terror, Black Flag w/ Dez, Beat Happening, The Verlaines,Capt. Sensible, Xiu Xiu,The Slits, Blast!, Paul Westerberg ,MBV w/SM3, Big Dipper,Grant McLennan & Robert Forster,Fall, Cheetah Chrome Mutherfuckers , Ariel Pink, Pharaoh Saunders, TVPs , AC/DC w/ B.Scott , Damned,Thin Lizzy,Cameo, Dog Faced Hermanns,Kozelek, DelFonics, The Times,Smiths, The Stranglers,Blue Magic, Field Mice , Epic Soundtracks, The Clash,Jacobites, Bacharach, Beach Boys ....ad infinitum.
I love most early LA, SF and German ,Finnish, English punk.60s girl pop too.
I really dug the Wolfhounds, The Close Lobsters, The Laughing Apple, and of course The Boy Hairdressers out of all that C86 era .
Now I'm very much into performing improv theater and dada-prayer song wig - twiggery . To that I'd also add RIBZY and all the East Side Story comps plus a weird Beach Boys Today studio outtakes disc that Nikki turned me onto. Apparently this was once part of Epic's amazing collection ....
Movies
The Devils ,Driver 23 ,Boulevard Nights, Die Feuerrote Blume, Lords of Flatbush,Blackboard Jungle, The Longest Day,The Other,Mann Gegen Panzer,The Red Balloon, Born to Boggie, A Bucket of Blood,Duel, The Screaming Skull, The Killers, The Long Goodbye.
Television
Haven't had one for a decade or two ...<
Books
All the R. Kent stuff ,Mishima, Charles Burchfield- his journals : A Poetry of Place, Melville too.
Hamsun, Calvino... it's too much to get into here .
Heroes
'' And the people went there and admired the high mountains, the wide wastes of the sea and the mighty downward rushing streams , and the ocean , and the course of the stars, and forgot themselves.''......
About me: Artist (The Shitty Listener) living in Berlin. I illustrate, sing ( Child Readers, Knit Separates, Social Unrest, Teenage Panzerkorps, The Chord Fort, The Shitty Listener), run 3 Acre Floor Records(www.3acrefloor.com), draw and paint and ( Pisces)perform somewhat regularly .
I'm well into Rockwell kent, Charles Burchfield, Sherwood Anderson, John Bauer, Darby ,Robinson Jeffers, Rowland Howard, Kenneth Patchin, e.e.Cummings,Frank Stanford, William Carlos Williams and an endless stream of illustrators , writers and painters, bands and beings . Loose interest in folkier music and a definit interest in sung psong(s) improv in nature .
I love Birch and Beech forests and beaches patroled by sharks and am dying to get to Greenland, Iceland, Labrador, Tierre del Fuego and Resurrection Bay Alaska.
Baltic coast would also be cool.
New favorite book : A Storytellers Story.
Other book favorites : Pan . Mystery, High Rise,In the American Grain, Wilderness: A tale of quiet a
Adventure in Alaska, Voyaging , Blood Meridian,Shibboleth, Black Elk speaks , To a God Unknown, Calvino's short stories
Film ?
The Lords of Flatbush , The Wicker Man, Die Feuerrote Blume, Moby Dick w/ Peck , the original Breathless, Born to Boogie, The Haunting( the original), The Screaming Skull, Blue Water White Death, Die Brücke
Who I'd like to meet: I'd love to talk to anyone into those names and their work.
I Love to play music and do shows, especially improv !!
Drawing and painting safaris, museums, good shows
"Jetzt Kommt Kakawaka" Just part of over 4 hours of film material, including all the acts, not yet sorted or edited (who will do it..?) at Wallywoods in Weissensee during the International Noise Festival 2009 organised by DIENSTbar on April 14 (Clip by Leonard)
