El Gusano

about me
I was a sell-out counselor for The Man, but the secret witness protection program couldn't hold me - I just had to find more "woulda shoulda coulda been" hits!!

I love all music that has true emotion - no matter how extreme. Not everybody can be on the radio so...

favorite bands
'80s New Wave, Punk, Post-Punk, '60s Garage, Alternative, Synthpop, New Romantics, Electro, '70s Soul, Funk, girl groups, classic country, Glam, French pop and chanson, Krautrock, Industrial, Ambient House, rockabilly. DIGGING THE NEW SCENE: Arctic Monkeys, The Ark, The Blood Arm, British Sea Power, Clearlake, Colder, Crimea, Crossover, Dears, The Delays, Editors, FPU, Kaiser Chiefs, Killers, The Knife, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Long Blondes, Metric, Richard Morel, Others, Ponys, Rakes, the Raveonettes, Ezra Reich, Saints + Lovers, Scissor Sisters, Stereo-Total, Unisex Salon, Valeze, Weird War, YYYs. HONORING THE OLD GUARD: ABBA, ABC, Marc Almond, Associates, Burt Bacharach, Bad Brains, Bauhaus, Beach Boys, Big Boys, Big Star, Jane Birkin, Bjork, Black Box Recorder, Black Flag, Blondie, Phillip Boa, Bongwater, Bowie, Briefs, Claudia Brucken, Kate Bush, Buzzcocks, Cardigans, Carrie Nations, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Chic, Gene Clark, Clash, Leonard Cohen, Cramps, Creation, Etienne Daho, Damned, Depeche, Jackie DeShannon, Devo, Echo and The Bunnymen, Effigies, Eno, The Fall, Mylene Farmer, Bryan Ferry, Finn Bros, John Foxx, Serge Gainsbourg, Gang of Four, Bobbie Gentry, Go-Betweens, Goldfrapp, Gun Club, Lee Hazlewood, H17, Human League, Indochine, Jam, Japan, Grace Jones, Joy Division, Kinks, Kraftwerk, Labelle, Love, Billy Mackenzie, Madness, Magazine, Manic Street Preachers, Billie Ray Martin, Misfits, Giorgio Moroder, Muffs, Naked Raygun, New Order, New York Dolls, Orange Juice, OMD, Peaches, Pet Shop Boys, Gene Pitney, Pixies, Prefab Sprout, Prince, Propaganda, Pulp, Queen, Ramones, Redd Kross, Marty Robbins, Diana Ross, Roxy Music, Runaways, Saint Etienne, Scritti Politti, Sex Pistols, Shocking Blue, Simple Minds, Nancy Sinatra, Siouxsie, Smiths, Sonics, The Sound, Sparks, Specials, Dusty Springfield, Stooges, Stranglers, Suede, Donna Summer, David Sylvian, Talking Heads, Thin Lizzy, T-Rex, T.S.O.L., Undertones, Townes Van Zandt, Velvet Underground, Holly Beth Vincent, Viva la Fete, Scott Walker, X, Zombies. LABELS: Factory, Mute, 4AD, Ze, Two Tone, Intl Deejay Gigolos, Rough Trade, etc.

favorite movies
Tender Mercies ~ Badlands ~ Beyond The Valley of the Dolls ~ Mulholland Drive ~ The Conformist ~ The Good The Bad and The Ugly ~ The Lady Eve ~ Scorpio Rising ~ Onibaba ~ Cabaret ~ Double Indemnity ~ Aimee and Jaguar ~ Au Revoir Les Enfants ~ Liquid Sky ~ Night and the City ~ The Wild Bunch ~ Sunset Boulevard ~ The Wanderers ~ Blow Up ~ Aguirre, The Wrath of God ~ Donnie Darko ~ Daughters of Darkness ~ Carnival of Souls ~ Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!. And, in general, the works of Hitchcock ~ Kurosawa ~ Lynch ~ Sturges ~ Lubitsch ~ DePalma ~ Samuel Fuller ~ Sam Peckinpah ~ Almodovar ~ Truffaut ~ Welles ~ Rohmer ~ Malick ~ Hammer Films ~ Coppola ~ Fassbinder ~ Kieslowski ~ Powell and Pressburger ~ Herzog ~ Wilder ~ Antonioni ~ Fellini ~ Monte Hellman ~ Haynes ~ Waters ~ Cukor ~ Visconti ~ Leone ~ Moodysson ~ Polanski ~ Egoyan ~ Woody Allen ~ Peter Jackson ~ Techine ~ Assayas ~ Shrader ~ Malick ~ Weir ~ Dassin ~ Demy ~ Russ Meyer.