Iron Duke Ha

currently breaking A-strings

sex & violence, guitars & drums, dangerous ideas, the ever-accelerating decline of American culture, rebellion & subversion however they're manifested in spite of every effort to stamp them out

Journey to the End of Night, Ask the Dust, Tristessa, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Light in August, The Wild Palms, The Subterraneans, Notes from Underground, In Our Time, Dispatches, The Golden Bough, Man and Technics, Madame Bovary, A Season in Hell, Humboldt's Gift, Son of the Morning Star, Desolation Angels, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Leaves of Grass, Testaments Betrayed, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Farewell Waltz, The Executioner's Song, Something To Be Desired, Catullus, Paglia, Bukowksi, Keats, Byron's letters, etc.

In no particular order: The Decalog, Solaris (the Russian original), Paths of Glory, 8 1/2, Fellini Roma, The Devils (best British film ever made), Fellini Satyricon, On the Waterfront, Night &; The City (the original with Richard Widmark), Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, The Green Ray, Seven Chances, The Deer Hunter, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Une Femme Est Une Femme, A Bout de Souffle, The Bride Wore Black, A Woman Under the Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Vertigo, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, O Lucky Man, DOA (documentary about punk rock's initial explosion that gets better with each passing year). More recently, I've been impressed by Elephant, the Swiss-French co-production Time Out, and Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen, which may be my favorite movie of the decade so far.

In no particular order: Federation X, Die Princess Die, Unwound, Sonic Youth, Arcwelder, Girls Against Boys, Festival of Dead Deer, T-Tauri, Navies, Distortion Felix, Iron Cross, the Monorchid, Lightning Bolt, Heavens to Betsy, Fugazi, Kills, Hammerhead, The Pope, Mission of Burma, Cockney Rejects, Atari Teenage Riot, Replacements, Sleater-Kinney, My Bloody Valentine, Clouddead, Dirty Three, Flying Saucer Attack, Big Black, Lync, Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Bedhead, Drive Like Jehu, Melt Banana, Mogwai, Dead Boys, Stooges, Really Red, Negative Approach, Buddy Holly, the Avengers, KARP, Pavement, Japanther, the Sleepers, Wire, Giant Drag, Helmet, Pelican, Hero of a Hundred Fights, Frank Sinatra, Fatal Flying Guillotines, Chopin's Nocturnes, a lot of Dischord stuff, much much more.

DESTROY!!! EXPLODE!!! KILL!!!!!!!

Capricorn

I rarely check in with Friendster these days. You can find me at: http://myspace.com/bannedbook

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from
existence the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously!
Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your
ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers
and be yourselves! Be robbers and conquerers as
long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you
seekers of knowledge. -- Nietzsche