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Actress Michelle Forbes has a cult following thanks to a wide variety of scene stealing roles in popular TV shows like “Star Trek:The Next Generation,” “True Blood”, and “Battlestar Galactica”. Her Guest DJ set has a punk edge with a focus on her youth, as part of the so-called Blank Generation, as well as her guilty pleasure: french pop. Michelle is currently starring in The Killing on AMC.
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1. L'Anamour - Serge Gainsbourg
2. Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X
3. Some Kinda Love(Closet Mix) - The Velvet Underground
4. Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
5. Our Love Will Still Be There - Dean & Britta
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Actress Michelle Forbes has a cult following thanks to a wide variety of scene stealing roles in popular TV shows like “Star Trek:The Next Generation,” “True Blood”, and “Battlestar Galactica”. Her Guest DJ set has a punk edge with a focus on her youth, as part of the so-called Blank Generation, as well as her guilty pleasure: french pop. Michelle is currently starring in The Killing on AMC.
Tracks
1. L'Anamour - Serge Gainsbourg
2. Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X
3. Some Kinda Love(Closet Mix) - The Velvet Underground
4. Blank Generation - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
5. Our Love Will Still Be There - Dean & Britta
Transcript
Eric J. Lawrence: Hi, I’m Eric J Lawrence and I’m here with actress Michelle Forbes, who currently stars in the AMC series “The Killing”. She also has quite a cult following thanks to previous roles in shows such as “Star Trek:The Next Generation,” “In Treatment”, “Battlestar Galactica”, and most recently as Maryann on “True Blood.” Today we’re going to play some excerpts of songs that she selected that have inspired her over the years as part of KCRW’s Guest D.J. Project. Michelle thanks for coming down!
Michelle Forbes: Well thanks so much for having me.
EL: What’s the first track you got for us?
MF: I decided to go with Serge Gainsbourg, “L'anamour”. Anyone who knows me knows that I’m an enormous lover of French music or anything that’s French pop, bad French rock ‘n’ roll I happen to be a big fan of…and it’s just… it’s one of my little secrets.
This kind of music, it just makes...
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Host: Eric J. Lawrence
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