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johnny b. goode

this is much easier than it looks

About Me

I'm basically throwing it in the face of every douche bag who ever asked me, "What do you do with a degree in English?" Click here when you're bored. I update it more regularly than the MySpace blog.Oh, and here's my Amazon wishlist , in case you want to buy me shit. ..

My Interests

writing, acting, art, reading for fun, photography, music, movies, skiing, juggling, sex, causing trouble, travel, coffee, rum, whiskey, good beer, shitty beer, food, being a social whore

I'd like to meet:

OK, I will only friend you if you are a PERSON I KNOW IN REAL LIFE, or a FRIEND OF SOMEONE I KNOW IN REAL LIFE. I'll make an exception if you're a member of an organization I admire or a band that I like. Otherwise, fuck off.

Music:

Joy Division, New Order, The Velvet Underground, Mission of Burma, The Sisters of Mercy, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Pixies, Concrete Blonde, Peter Murphy, New York Dolls, The Damned, Ramones, Ministry, Front Line Assembly, Flogging Molly, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Jawbreaker, Minutemen, Tool, The Misfits, Bauhaus, Agent Orange, 45 Grave, Descendants, Bad Religion, Christian Death, Current 93, Dead Can Dance, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Sex Pistols, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Sage Francis, Saul Williams, Public Enemy, The Refused, T. Rex, Lacuna Coil, Motorhead, Gang of Four, Interpol, The Faint, Television, The Replacements, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, This Mortal Coil, godspeed you! black emperor, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Tapping the Vein, Massive Attack, Slowdive, Portishead, VNV Nation, The Beatles. I also harbor a festering hatred for Nine Inch Nails, Green Day, Blink-182 (and all of Blink-182's retarded clone bands), The Eagles, and The Smiths. Yeah that's right, I hate Morrisey. Get over it.

Movies:

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Television:

TV is lame.

Books:

The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Einstein's Dreams, Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, Slaughterhouse-5, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Good Omens, Lord of the Flies, A Clockwork Orange, 1984 (can you tell I like dystopias?), Life of Pi, Candide, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, IT, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Dark Tower, Ray Bradbury's short stories, myths, fairy tales, folk tales, comics like The Sandman, Watchmen, The Maxx, Bone, Maus, etc.

Heroes:

I have the most trouble shutting up about Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, Leonard Cohen, Ian Curtis, Tom Waits, and my grandparents.

My Blog

my recap of the last debate

Well, I was either misinformed, or I misread the email, but the food wasn't exactly free (unless by free you mean expensive.) Still, Erin and Vlad and I had a good time.Just a few observations:1) McC...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:00:00 PST

station to station

Had a bangin' time at the free Cure show on Saturday. Erin and her visiting friend got there early so they could catch John Legend's set, but I showed up just as Bob and Simon and the boys were takin...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:24:00 PST

manifesto

I hate to admit this, but I seriously slacked off on requesting my absentee ballot. I got my application through in the nick of time, thanks to a fax from Philadelphia courtesy of the all-knowing Ms....
Posted by johnny b. goode on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:29:00 PST

Control

Between Control and I'm Not There, 2007 was a good year for rock star biopics.  We should probably thank Oliver Stone for showing us how not to pull this off.ControlThere are basically two kinds ...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:02:00 PST

poem

PetitionThey told us there was a warranty on youthBut the factory burned down in '82Those of us with forged receiptsSpent years on the hotlineBefore we realized thatTime was a Fibonacci SequenceAnd ev...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:46:00 PST

brings me words that are not the strength of strings

These days I'm extremely picky about the Goth that I'll listen to.  There'll always be a place in my heart for Bauhaus and (early) Christian Death, but I certainly don't have the time for cheesy ...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:58:00 PST

close encounters of the serpentine kind

T and I went for a hike at Turkey Point on Saturday.  Turkey Point is a corner of Elk Neck State Park that contains a woodsy walkway that stretches for about a mile along the cliff side.  At...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:14:00 PST

Youre a star-bellied sneetch, you suck like a leech, you want everyone to act like you.

I read in Newsweek that Michael Savage recently played a Dead Kennedys song on his show to mock Ted's brain tumor.  Nice, huh?  For those of you not in the know, Michael Savage is a conserva...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:53:00 PST

"We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."

I just read a speech that Kurt Vonnegut had prepared for Cloves Hall in his home state of Indianapolis.  Unfortunately he never had the chance to give it, but it was delivered by his son Mark two...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:33:00 PST

Good Evening! Im Pundit McJackass, and this is Fair and Balanced Reporting!

I just finished reading Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media?, thus adding more fuel to the tension that grows whenever my dad and I live in the same house.  Despite being dry, long-winded, and not...
Posted by johnny b. goode on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:18:00 PST