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"Punctuated with interruptions, sometimes collisions"
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99 years old
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States
Last Login: 9/5/2008
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| General | Pretty much art, film and cooking.
I read World of Interiors every month.
Ok then, art. Here is an on going off the top of my head list of art and artists I admire:
Early Rennaisance painting around Sienna
The whole of the Baroque era
Eastern Art
Islamic Art
Kuniyoshi
Yoshitoshi
Lucian Freud
Adolf Wolfli
Gehard Richter
Martin Puryear
Anselm Kiefer
Bruce Nauman
Odd Nerdrum
Marc Quinn
Vincent Desiderio
John Virtue
Sebastiao Selgado
Thomas Grünfeld
William Morris
Koloman Moser
Anthony Goicolea
Robert Park Harrison
Nancy Burson
Leon Golub
Richard Serra
Loretta Lux
The Starn Twins
The Brothers Quay
Kahn and Selesnick
Jenny Saville
Theirry De Cordier
Oscar Kokoshka
Cy Twombly
Ribera
Titan
Vaughn Oliver
Joel-Peter Witkin
Gerome
Sigmar Polke
Tim Hawkinson
Charlie White
Gregory Crewdson
J.M.W.Turner
Judith Schaechter
John Singer Sargent
James McNeill Whistler
Edward Burtinsky
Henry Darger
Toshikatsu Endo
Zurburan
Christina Bothwell
Cathy De Monchaux
Kiki Smith
the Wiemar Werkstatte
Irwin (for the NSK)
Masami Teraoka
David Bierk
Walton Ford
Christian Marclay
Christian Boltanski
Amy Cutler
James Casbere
Bernd and Hilla Becker
Hans Bellmer
Ed Kienholz
Aya Kato
Franciszek Starowieyski
Wiktor Sadowski
Wieslaw Walkuski
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Botticelli
Ernst Haeckel
Giacometti
Karl Blossfeldt
Suehiro Mauro
Toshio Saeki
and the list will continue. | | Music | Music:
Aside from the bands I work with. . .
Aphex Twin (& a good number of his other projects)
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors
Anodyne
Antigama
Antaeus
Arkhon Infaustus
Louie Armstrong
Aube
Bad Brains
Baroness
Battle of Mice
Bear in Heaven
Beirut
Bergraven
Big Black
Biosphere
Black Cobra
The Blinding Light
Bohren & Der Club of Gore
Bolt Thrower
Botch
Glenn Branca
Caspar Brotzmann Massaker
Pierre Boulez
Burnt By The Sun
Johnny Cash
Nick Cave
Celtic Frost
Corrupted
Craw
Crowpath
Dangermouse
Deadguy
DAZZLING KILLMEN
Blossom Dearie
Deathspell Omega
Destructo Swambots
Iancu Dumitrescu
Efterklang
Einstürzende Neubauten
Elecktronova
The End
Enemymine
Engine Kid
Everthing Is Fine
Explosions In The Sky
B. Fleischmann
Floor
Flying Saucer Attack
Gaza
God
GSYBE
Henryk Gorecki
Gospel
Halo
Head of David
His Hero Is Gone
Ice
Immortal
Ion Dissonance
Lech Jankowski
JESU
Johnboy
Kaada
Kiss It Goodbye
Thomas Koner
Laddio Bolocko
La Gritona
Loop
Low
Main
Mare
Massive Attack
Merzbow
Charles Mingus
The Minor Times
Mono
Motherhead Bug
Laura L. Minor
Juana Molina
Napalm Death
Nyia
Arvo Pärt
Pelican
Krzysztof Penderecki
Planes Mistaken for Stars
Playing Enemy
Jack Rose
Rubberroom
She Wants Revenge
Sigur Ros
Silver Apples
Sixteen Horsepower
Songs Ohia
Spacemen 3
Stars of the Lid
Sufjan Stevens
Suicide
Yma Sumac
Swans
1349
This Heat
Amon Tobin
Tragedy
Tricky
TV on the Radio
Versoma
Watain
Weakling
William Elliot Whitmore
Woven Hand
Yakuza
Susumu Yokota
Yellow 6
Zeni Geva
Even though they are already mentioned, Dälek, especially live. | | Movies | I geek out about directors and will see all that I can from each one,so here are highlights:
Kieslowski: Three Colors, Double Life of Veronique
Hal Hartley: ALL
Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure, Charisma
Alejandro Jodorowsky: ALL (even the bad ones)
Shinya Tsukamoto: Tetsuo, Tokyo Fist, Gemini, Bullet Ballet
Emir Kustarica: Underground, Black Cat White Cat
Alex de la Iglesia: Day of the Beast, Dying of Laughter, Commonwealth
Wisit Sasanatieng: Tears of the Black Tiger, Citizen Dog
Hitchcock
Ming Liang Tsai: What Time Is It There?, The Hole
Kim Ki-Duk: ALL - Badguy is a must see
Nicolas Refn: Pusher, Bleeder, Fear X
Chan-Wook Park: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Takeshi Kitano: Sonatine, Fireworks, Kikujiro
Guy Maddin: ALL
. . .enough with the directors. . .
The Devils, Wings of Desire, Leolo, The Relfecting Skin, Harold and Maude, My Life as a Dog, Afterlife, Kolya, Tito and Me, Ponette, Pauline et Paulette, Tom Yum Goong (aka The Protector), The Match Factory Girl, King of Hearts, In the Mood for Love, Cinema Paridiso, City of Lost Children, American Astronaut, Arsenic and Old Lace (pretty much anything with Carey Grant), Dellamorte, Dellamore, Grey Gardens, Style Wars, Home Movie, Shadow Magic, Being There. . .oh and: the Ginger Snaps Series, Dog Soldiers, Dumb and Dumber, Anchorman, Napoleon Dynamite, Waterboy, Bad Santa, the Pink Panthers with Peter Sellers and so on. | | Television | National Geographic Channel, things on Discovery, Dirty Jobs, Strangers with Candy, the Venture Brothers | | Books | Confederacy of Dunces (Toole), The Knife Thrower (Millhauser), Geek Love (Dunn), A Choir of Ill Children (Piccirilli), Perfume (Suskind), Written on the Body (Winterson), Rene's Flesh (Pinera), Burning Your Boats (Carter), Wiseblood (O'Connor), The Elements of Typographic Style (Bringhurst), lots of art history, science, theory and a whole bunch more to amass an arsenal of useless knowledge. |
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Thoughts Of Ionesco (Detroit), Blood Mountain
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Body type: | 3' 5" / Body builder | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Occupation: | Artist/Designer |
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About me:
My name is Paul Romano. I create artwork and design for the music industry. I have made album packaging and merchandise for bands such as: The Acacia Strain, Across Tundras, A Life Once Lost, Animosity, A Perfect Murder, At All Cost, Chiodos, Dälek, Dead to Fall, Earth, Ed Gein, Embrace the End, Godflesh, Hate Eternal, Himsa, Jedi Mind Tricks, Laddio Bolocko, Look What I Did, Mastodon, Nasum, None More Black, Rambo, The Red Chord, Starkweather, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Trivium, Turmoil, Withered and a whole bunch more.
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