Cyn Collins
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Author, journalist, Spin with Cyn radio show programmer, event curator |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | Interviews, news, previews and reviews of music and musicians as well as film, and arts and culture locally and nationally. I'm a freelance music, arts and culture journalist, and author of Complicated Fun: Birth of Mpls Punk & Indie Music 1974 - 84 (May, 2017) and West Bank Boogie: 40 Years of Music, Mayhem and Memories. I host KFAI "Spin with Cyn" Mondays 10 - midnight, KFAI.org and 90.3 FM Mpls. |
| Interests | music, film, theater, literature, radio, herbalism, gardening, fiddle, environmental issues, politics |
| Favorite Movies | directors: Almodovar, Kiarostami, Tarkovski, Guillermo del Toro, Robert Rodriguez, Besson, Luis Bunuel, Jean Paul Juenet, Soderbergh, Scorcese, Xhang Yimou, Hal Hartley, Dorcel. Films: The Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth, Once Were Warriors, Motorcycle Diaries, King of Hearts, City of God, Children of Paradise, Gadjo Dijlo, Latcho Drom, Tripletts of Belville.film origins: British Isles, Iran, France, India, Czech, Japan, Cuba, Spain, Australia, Canada, Mexico |
| Favorite Music | Eleganza, The Blind Shake, Birthday Suits, The Suburbs, The Suicide Commandos, The Sex Rays, Flavor Crystals, Magic Castles, Moon Duo, Temples, Roky Erickson, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, Silver Apples, Suicide, Foghorn String Band, Melvin Wine, Hendrix, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, X, the Cramps, Led Zeppelin, Iggy Pop, Flamin' Oh's the Byrds, the Fall, Wanda Jackson, Joy Division, New Order, T-Rex, Arcade Fire, Nouvelle Vague, Captain Beefheart, Gene Clark, the Cure, Marianne Faithfull, Kasey Chambers, Kruddler, the Mammy Nuns, Little Man, Valet, Lucinda Williams, Fort Wilson Riot, Charlie Parr, the Brass Kings, Ol' Yeller, Night Moves, Dillinger Four, Black Eyed Snakes, Grant Johnson, Willie Murphy, Koerner, Ray and Glover, tons more .. . . too many to mention |
| Favorite Books | Goldfinch, A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Master Butcher's Singing Union, The Botany of Desire, What is the What, The Golden Compass Series, Neil Gaiman's works, Oryx and Crake, Bone People, Stranger in a Strange Land, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse, White Teeth |
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