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zac

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About Me

long-time record store geek, holding it down like gravity. i like alot of stuff, and i realise that 'alot' is actually two words-- i just prefer it that way. same goes for realise-- i know it's spelled with a 'z', but it looks better that way... whatever... one time i thought i had mono for a whole year, but it turns out i was just really bored.

My Interests

strange movies, books, obscure music magazines, plants/flowers, cryptozoology (BHM!), christian marclay's art, adrian tomine's comics, seattle (most beautiful city in the world), record collecting like a fiend, coast to coast a.m. with art bell, being married.

Music:

NWW list. kraut/prog, garage/psych/freakbeat, hardcore/punk/post, rocksteady/dub, 60's pop, free/out jazz, noise/power electronics, private press/real people, avant garde composition/free improvisation, latin/brazillian psych/funk/salsa, grindcore/death/doom/black, other scary fringe stuff. favorite labels- ESP-Disk, Impulse!, BYG/Actuel, Stiff, GoldStandardLabs, Factory, Ze, lust/unlust, Independant Projects, Fania, Futura, ecstatic peace, Brain.

Movies:

Texas Chainsaw, Wild Bunch, Bob Dylan's Don't Look Back, Wicker Man, Wages Of Fear, 28 Days Later, Jackass(es), Amores Perros, On the Waterfront, Basquiat, Space is the Place, Downtown 81, All The Real Girls, Night of the Hunter, Eyes Without a Face, Rosemary's Baby, Knife in the Water, Django, Tod Browning's Freaks, Vanishing Point (1971). g.romero zombies . documentaries like Weather Underground, Keep The River On Your Right, Grizzly Man, & How to Draw a Bunny. stan brakhage/ira cohen/richard kern/kenneth anger ART films. criterion stuff.

Television:

snl. lost. south park. kimmel (jimmy the sports guy is really funny).

Books:

Trouser Press, Psychotic Reactions & Carburator Dung, any kafka/anais nin/rilke/ferlighetti, The Stranger, Life Of Pi, dorky music history books & biographies like Krautrocksampler by julian cope, and Freedom Principle: Jazz after 1958. Fucked Up and Photocopied, thurston's Mix Tape book, the Mike Kelley book that kerry got me at the art institute in chicago, Cosmic Price Guide (2nd revised edition) for europrog/krautrock, and The Music Library are good to look at stoned. periodicals- Wax Poetics, The Wire, Vice, Arthur, Cometbus. pre-computer era zines.

Heroes:

lester bangs, rodney bingenheimer, tony wilson-- people that have made careers out of being professional 'fans'. also wayne kramer, sonny sharrock & thurston moore-- people that make guitars sound unlike guitars.

My Blog

interesting developments...

you are a liar and a coward.  you're too busy getting fucked in the ass by your shriveled saddle-bag of a wife's troll-dick to pay attention to your business, what's going on in the world, or you...
Posted by zac on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:02:00 PST

interesting developments...

things that kept me alive- diet pepsi max (twice the caffeine), realising that i can be replaced-- and not really caring, Hostel 2, the 1964 film version of Ernest Hemingway's The Killers, 4th of July...
Posted by zac on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:43:00 PST

interesting developments...

radio birdman.  live.  deniz tek is a total fucking shredder.  nailed the solo on 'aloha steve...". too much.  unanimously agreed upon title for cwmb debut record- 'crotch rot' co...
Posted by zac on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:23:00 PST

interesting developments...

life is fucked.   shout outs: kombucha, pregnant at 15 (starring k.dunst), some weird bollywood cd my kerryanne had, that Vom song 'electrocute your cock', lost (always lost), xmen3 at 12:01, com...
Posted by zac on Sat, 27 May 2006 12:04:00 PST

interesting developments...

sunburned hand of the man are as close to 'a bunch of guys fucking around' as can still be called a rock band.  and it always tastes fucking great. my dear sweet billiam knocked the clock dva rec...
Posted by zac on Wed, 17 May 2006 10:54:00 PST

interesting developments...

we're gonna fight the Others.  it will be glorious. and i don't even care if we get walt back.
Posted by zac on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:22:00 PST

interesting developments...

kerryanne left me home alone again.  if she saw how i lived when she wasn't around, she'd probably change her mind on marrying me.  ordered pizza. smoked alot.  bought/listened to ...
Posted by zac on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:16:00 PST

interesting developments...

after nearly a decade of trying to sell people records that they will never really care about, for substandard pay, the wheels have been put in motion to end my record store career.  yes, i am a ...
Posted by zac on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:44:00 PST

interesting developments...

olympic fever, babies.  kerry left me alone to fend for myself for nearly 48hrs.  what took place: house was cloudy for nearly the entire duration.  i kinda freaked...
Posted by zac on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:35:00 PST

interesting developments...

i remembered a time today when having a 'cameraphone' might have been useful. i was waiting in line to get a soda before class, and i noticed the guy in front of me had no hands.  just stumps.&nb...
Posted by zac on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:31:00 PST