Like punk rock itself, Taquila Mockingbird is full of contradictions. The African-American amazon is an operatic vocalist and an unrepentant Anglophile with a deep and abiding love for the poetry of John Keats, but she also worships the scabrous poetry of Johnny Rotten and John Lydon. Mockingbird, a former curator at the Zero One gallery and booker of the New Wave Theatre TV show, is a walking, talking, punk rock museum. It's not so much that she's some fussy archivist or geeky statistician... More »
