Michael Ambrose
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | South Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States |
| Interests | Large format photography, Print design, Dadaism, Beat poets, big band, swing, traditional ska, 2-tone, skinhead reggae, proto-punk, music that was called "punk" but is in no way punk, rocksteady, rockabilly, surf rock, lounge, ultra-lounge, exotica, hard bop jazz, be-bop, afro-cuban jazz, mod, tiki, kitsch, pin-ups, cadillac, fiat, lambretta, scooters, photography, beat poetry, greek tragedy, vintage musical equipment, saxophones, Mosrite, Hagstrom, Teisco Del Rey, Gretsch, United States History Pre-War of 1812, United States History Post-WWI, combo organs, HTML design, minimalism, anti-art, chrome, b-movies, bowling, whiskey |
| Favorite movies | House of Wax, Them!, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Manos: Hands of Fate, Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Atomic Brain, Forbidden Planet, Forbidden Zone, This Island Earth, Panic at Ground Zero, Jaws, The Postman, Six-String Samaurai, Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome, Singin' In the Rain, Guys and Dolls, Twelve Angry Men, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Clerks, The Cable Guy, MST3K, Maximum Overdrive, They Live!, Crybaby, Psycho Beach Party, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead. Return of the Living Dead, House by the Cemetary, Quadrophenia, Easy Rider, A Rebel Without a Cause, Planet of the Apes |
| Favorite music | Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, Thelonius Monk, Cannonball and Nat Adderly, Diana Krall, John Pizzarelli, Frank Sinatra, Louis Prima, Ingrid Lucia and the Flying Neutrinos, Cab Calloway, Tiny Bradshaw, Bullmoose Jackson, Louis Jordan, Benny Goodman, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Vic and his Little Blue Pills, Link Wray, The Brimstones, The Balboas, The Centurions, The Sonics, The 5-6-7-8s, Demented Are Go!, Los Straightjackets, Man or Astroman?, Laika and the Cosmonauts, Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet, The Red Elvises, The Kings of Nuthin', The Ventures, The Fabs, Martin Derry, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Robocop Kraus, Johnny Thunder, Moxy Fruvous, Harry Belafonte, Trojan Records, Studio One, Norton Records, Sundazed Records, Immediate Records, The Skatalites, Alton Ellis, Lord Kitchner, Bad Manners, Madness, King Django, Dr Ring Ding, The Jammyland All-Stars, The Aggrolites, Hub City Stompers, Bigger Thomas, Cat Power, Ryan Adams, Theivery Corperation, Stereolab, Belle &; Sebastian, Pas/Cal, The Small Faces, Count Five, Standels, Stiff Little Fingers, Black Flag, Spizz, X, Television, The Jam, The Ergs, The Gallows, The Hunchback |
| Favorite books | 'The Winter of Our Discontent' - John Steinbeck, 'The Master and Margarita' - Mikhail Bulgakov, 'Life With Father' - Clarence Day, 'Complete Writings on the Spanish Civil War' - Ernest Hemingway, 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' - Ernest Hemingway, 'The Bridge of San Louis Rey' - Thornton Wilder, 'The Importance of Being Ernest' - Oscar Wilde, 'On the Beach' - Nevil Shute, 'A Near Coney Island of the Mind' - Lawrence Ferlinghetti |

