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Old Man Spencer

Make Portland Normal

About Me



I am a reasonable man. I play in a band called Chrome Wings. We sound like Chrome mixed with Paul McCartney and Wings. I like reading just about everything. I write music reviews for a website called Brainwashed . You can read my writing there every Sunday.

My Interests

Civilization

I'd like to meet:

Werner Herzog

Music:

I am in this band called Chrome Wings. We make space jamz.

Perenial Favorites:

the Tasteful Nudes, the Homosexuals, Lee Hazelwood, the Marvelettes, Glen Branca, Nice Nice, the Shangri-Las, Guided by Voices, the Talking Heads, Maurice Ravel, the Crystals, Wolf Eyes, the Yardbirds, Henry Cowell, the Rolling Stones, Growing, Black Dice, Electrelane, Igor Stravinsky, the Animal Collective, Neu!, Zoviet France, This Heat, Chromatics, Aa, the Kinks, Tussle, Gas, Birchville Cat Motel, the Silver Apples, Clinic, Non, Out Hud, Erik Satie, the Velvet Underground, Hildigard von Bingen, Death in June, the Ronnettes, Kraftwerk, the Modern Lovers, Can, Boredoms, Gustav Holst, Tim Hecker, the Buzzcocks, Gang Gang Dance, the Clash, Astral Social Club

Movies:

The Motorcyle Dairies, City of God, Apocolypse Now, Bringing Out the Dead, Orpheus, Grizzly Man, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, 2001: A Space Oddessy, M, Yojimbo, Fitzcarraldo the Great Escape, Rushmore, Nosferatu, Aguire: The Wrath of God, Hell House, Prince of Space, Baraka, the Thin Red Line, the Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, Throne of Blood, Papillon, the Wild Bunch, Chairman of the Board, Surf Ninjas

Television:

If you sincerely hate television, do you think surfing Myspace is a better use of your time?

Globe Trekker, Frontline, MST3K, the X-Files, Meet the Ancestors, Evangelion, In Search Of, Star Trek: TNG, How it's Made, the Great War, the Office, Black Adder, Serial Experiments Lain, Lost in Space

Books:

If someone is trying to prove something to you, ask them how many books they have read last year. If they have read less than five, don't believe anything they say.

the Epic of Gilgamesh; the Bible ;the Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen; Erotism: Sexuality and Death by Georges Bataille; the Wind Up Bird Chronical by Haruki Murakami; the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke; Sexual Personae by Camile Paglia; Illuminations by Aurthur Rimbaud; the Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima; Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama; Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath; the Song of the World by Jean Giono; the Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis; Catch 22 by Joseph Heller; the Complete Stories by Franz Kafka; Big Sur by Jack Kerouac; Beowulf, translation by Seamus Heaney; the Stranger by Albert Camus; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; Collected Stories by Flannery O'Connor; Forests by Robert Pogue Harrison

Heroes:

Cormac McCarthy, Werner Herzog, and Charles Darwin

My Blog

Evicted Again

Yet another house has been sold right from under me, so I need a new place to live. And I have to be out by the 27 of this month, so I don't have a lot of time. If you are anyone you know is looking ...
Posted by Old Man Spencer on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:23:00 PST

Portland in 1908

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Posted by Old Man Spencer on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:20:00 PST

Sucking it Up

Last night's show was an ordeal.If you were not there here is the long and short of it: We were late getting to the venue and hand to go on last. Midway through our set, John's equipment beg...
Posted by Old Man Spencer on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:19:00 PST

The Drowned by Vasily Perov

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Posted by Old Man Spencer on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:57:00 PST

Apparition in the Woods

Apparition in the WoodsRescuing Sibelius from silence.by Alex Ross July 9, 2007Composing music may be the loneliest of artistic pursuits. It is a laborious traversal of an imaginary landscape. Emergin...
Posted by Old Man Spencer on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:27:00 PST

Published Online

My favorite online music magazine, Brainwashed, has just published an review I submitted for them. It's for the new Growing album Vision Swim. You can read the article here: http://brainwashed.co...
Posted by Old Man Spencer on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:32:00 PST

My Cruelty-Free Noise

My Cruelty-Free Noise:or, can the Japanese underground survive shifting ideologies, death, and business-as-usual politics? It's the eve of Whitehouse's most recent performance in Kyoto, February 2004....
Posted by Old Man Spencer on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:11:00 PST

Love Terrorists, Style Terrorists, Noise Terrorists

I rarely enjoy holidays, and it's even rarer when I enjoy holidays created by the greeting card and diamond industries. But yesterday was an exception, but not in normal ways that Valentine's Day...
Posted by Old Man Spencer on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:14:00 PST

Veterans of the Spanish Civil War

Here's a link to some interviews with some of the few surviving British members of the International Brigades (foreigners who fought against General Franco and the Fascists)http://www.guardian.co.uk/g...
Posted by Old Man Spencer on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:24:00 PST

Lava Vents in the Portland Metro Area


Posted by Old Man Spencer on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:15:00 PST