Record Fiend

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RECORD FIEND

About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Record Collector
Location	Chicagoland Area, Land of Lincoln, United States
Introduction	Ask, and ye shall perceive.
Interests	Collecting various pre-MP3 recorded forms of music (e.g. LPs 45s CDs cassettes)
Favorite Movies	Angel Heart, Memento, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Der Untergang (Downfall), Touch of Evil, Ghost World, Why We Fight, This Is Spinal Tap, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Crumb, The Wild Bunch, A Mighty Wind, Apocalypse Now, The Saragossa Manuscript, The Wicker Man, The Night of the Hunter, Festival!, Once Upon a Time in the West, Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), Sugar, American Splendor, The Last King of Scotland, It's a Wonderful Life, Adventureland, City of God, The Limey, Louie Bluie, F for Fake, A Face in the Crowd, Barry Lyndon
Favorite Music	1960s-1970s Psych, 1960s-1970s Acid Rock, 1960s-1970s Folk Rock, 1950s-1970s Rock & Roll, 1920s-1960s Blues, 1920s-1960s Jazz, 1960s-1970s Funk, Middle Eastern/Belly Dance, Soundtracks, British Isles Folk & Folk Rock, 1920s-1960s Country & Western, 1920s-1950s Calypso, Rock Steady & Early Reggae, 1920s-1960s Gospel, Incredibly Strange Music, 1960s-1970s Southern Soul
Favorite Books	Visions of Cody by Jack Kerouac, I'd Rather be the Devil: Skip James & the Blues by Stephen Calt, Balkan Ghosts by Robert Kaplan, King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Stephen Calt and Gayle Dean Wardlow, Burmese Days by George Orwell, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven, Ulysses by James Joyce, The Ends of the Earth by Robert Kaplan, The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, Freak Show by Robert Bogdan, The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood, The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, Chasin' That Devil Music by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Eastward to Tartary by Robert Kaplan, The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric, Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd, The Fall of Berlin by Antony Beevor, Fields of Battle by John Keegan, War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk, Guns Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg, Julian by Gore Vidal, Why Things Bite Back by Edward Tenner