flamencoprof
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Sweet as!
Auckland / New Zealand
member since 18.07.2003
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Newsflash: - Duffy, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings; the D-K also back current fave Amy Winehouse!
Four things I like are books, music, music & music.. Have an expensive sound card and some good software which I don't use much. Like music ahead of Styles. I played the guitar for 30 years but stopped when I heard Flamenco.
Some music interests over time:- Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, John Lee Hooker, Freddie King, Junior Wells, Bowie, Split eNZ, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, XTC, Cocteau Twins, New Order, Flamenco (Manolo Caracol, Paco de Lucia, Nino Ricardo, El Chocolate, La Fernanda.), Lucinda Williams, Iris Dement, Alison Krauss, Bjork, Lisa Ekdahl, Eva Cassidy, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim Regina Spektor. Bits of Indonesian, African, Asian. Before my time: - Billie Holiday, Guitar Slim, Django Reinhardt, Hank Williams, Robert Johnson, Clifton Chenier. There's a lot more that fell between the cracks of this list.
Books I have read include Sci-Fi/Fantasy (A A Attanasio, John Crowley, Gene Wolfe), random novels, Anaïs Nin, Evolution, Brain/consciousness, anything on the nature or reality of existence. We are all stardust, but how is it arranged?
Some movies: - Lawrence of Arabia, B&W B-movies, Invasion of the Body-snatchers, The Brain That Wouldn't Die, Dead Man, Lost In Translation, Girl With a Pearl Earring, Ghost World, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Aliens, Dune, Blade Runner, Orlando, Tango, American Beauty, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Far From Home, The Hours, Memento, Brokeback Mountain, LOTR, Jules et Jim, Almodovar, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Woody Allen.
This site is in danger of being superceded by MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/flamencoprof) but I like the more direct interest in books/music/movies here.
"Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject."
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."
George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2 |
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