Michael
My blogs
- The Pornography of Semiotics
- Land of a Thousand Dances
- Inside Mancini•Duffy
- The Masterpiece Next Door
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | New York City, NY, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | "Centuries from now, when historians look back on New York, they will say Rome was power, Greece was glory, but New York was home." Robert A. Caro |
| Interests | animals, architecture, art, birds, books, change, cities, clothes, collecting, color, consciousness, cooking, criticism, dancing, democracy, dolls, dreams, drinking, español, flowers, flânerie, food, friends, fucking, furniture, games, God, government, happiness, home, internet, landmarks, laughter, legos, life, light, lists, loafing, love, maps, men, mind, money, movies, museums, music, new york city, numbers, parks, people, philosophy, photography, place, plants, pop, religion, retro, science, sounds, stars, streets, time, urbanism, virtue, water, weather, words, world, writing |
| Favorite Music | 1971 Milton Nascimento "San Vicente", 1972 Johnny Nash "I Can See Clearly Now", 1973 Charlemagne Palestine "One + Two + Three Fifths in the Rhythm Three Against Two for Bösendorfer Piano (Part 1), "1974 Stevie Wonder "Living for the City", 1975 Pere Ubu "Heart of Darkness", 1976 Maxine Nightingale "Right Back Where We Started From", 1977 Jorge Ben "Taj Mahal (*Tropical* version)", 1978 David Behrman "On the Other Ocean", 1979 Chic "Good Times", 1980 The Whispers "And The Beat Goes On", 1981 Laurie Anderson "O Superman", 1982 ABC "The Look of Love", 1983 The SOS Band "Just Be Good to Me", 1984 Franco & TP OK Jazz "Limbisa Ngai", 1985 Madonna "Into the Groove", 1986 Prince and The Revolution "Kiss", 1987 New Order "Temptation (*Substance* version)", 1988 Guy "Teddy's Jam", 1989 Lil' Louis "French Kiss", 1990 The 49ers "Touch Me", 1991 PM Dawn "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss", 1992 Sebadoh "Brand New Love (*Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock* version), 1993 Underworld "Rez", 1994 Massive Attack "Protection", 1995 Smashing Pumpkins "1979", 1996 Nearly God "Tattoo", 1997 Gant "Sound Bwoy Burial (187 Lockdown's Dancehall Mix), "1998 Aaliyah "Are You That Somebody?", 1999 The Magnetic Fields "The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing", 2000 The New Pornographers "Letter From an Occupant", 2001 The Avalanches "Live on Radio One at Ibiza 4/8/01", 2002 Archigram "Carnaval", 2003 R. Kelly "Ignition", 2004 Kenny Chesney "There Goes My Life", 2005 The Mountain Goats "Dilaudid", 2006 Amerie "That's What U R", 2007 Parts & Labor "The Gold We're Digging", 2008 Neon Neon "Dream Girls" |
| Favorite Books | AIA Guide to New York City, The Arcades Project, The Bible, Boring Postcards USA, Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, The Complete Peanuts, Contingency Irony and Solidarity, Critique of Pure Reason, The Crying of Lot 49, The Culture of Narcissism, Hollywood Babylon, The Ice Age, I Lost it at the Movies, In Search of Lost Time, The Interpretation of Dreams, In the Fascist Bathroom, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, The Journey to the West, Lost New York, Madame Bovary, New York 1960, The Oedipus Cycle, The Origins of Totalitarianism, A Pattern Language, Philosophical Investigations, Ulysses, The Ultimate Alphabet, White Noise |