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Benjamin

My favorite historical period is post-apocalyptic.

About Me

SPIRIT ANIMALS ARE FIGHTING
Product of loving but struggling post 60's counter-culture couple; mutated by Art School, Reaganomics, 80's Sci-Fi and the Golden Age of the Video Game. As child, escaped for whole days into gorgeous wooded environments now gone by way of suburban sprawl. Currently trying to increase the experience/knowledge/adventure quotient in my life, while maintaining a sense of humility.

My Interests


Thunderstorms!, dead technologies, independent music - comix - film, outsiders, cindy sherman, dystopic futures, RTmark.com, the Yes Men, the IAA, documentaries, sound, zines, books, art-activism, touching, smiles, unique style, outer space, video games (new & old skool), decorating, design, politics and world affairs, human rights, quirky history, mental deprogramming excercises, animation, couchsurfing, nature, beauty, autonomy, the unknown...

I'd like to meet:


My ultimate destiny.

Music:

13th Floor Elevators, Monks, Zombies, psyche, afrikan/baile funk, tropicalia, hawaiian slackkey, ELO, Motorhead, Sleep, the Knife, Plastic Little, Apparat Organ Quartet, Ennio Morricone, Flaming Lips, Polyphonic Spree, Robert Johnson, Godspeed You Black Emperor, B. Fleischmann, Brian Eno, Solvent, Wendy (walter) Carlos, the Automator, dance jams, Joanna Newsom, Herb Alpert, nintedo/classic video game sounds, Raymond Scott, Rachel's, Nick Drake, Beck, Aphex Twin, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, The Tape Beatles, old folk - jazz - classical, found sound...

Movies:

Tideland, Sherry Baby, Crude Awakening, Children of Men, Over the Edge, Nobody Knows, Debbie Does Dallas, John Carpenter's The Thing & The Fog, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Corporation, Manufacturing Consent, Gummo, Sans Soleil, Seventh Seal, THX-1138, WAR GAMES, Real Genius, 1984, The Terminator, Alien/s, A Clockwork Orange, Brazil, Time Bandits, LOTR, Rushmore, Grave Of The Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, 2001, Full Metal Jacket, Orlando, Logan's Run, Raiders of the Lost Ark/Last Crusade, Dead Man, so many...

Television:

Life On Mars, Lost, Space Adventure COBRA, Tom Baker Dr. Who, Freaks and Geeks, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, Rome, The Wire, Max Headroom, Carnivale, Future Boy Conan, The Prisoner, Democracy Now!, Frontline, Twilight Zone, Cowboy Bebop, Enterprise, Battlestar Galactica (2003), MST3k, Mr. Show, Kids in The Hall, Aquateen Hunger Force, Hindi Music Videos!

Books:

Girlfriend in a Coma, The Geography of Nowhere, The New Media Reader, WE3, Planet Hulk - stuff by: Stanislav Lem, Philip Pullman, David Foster Wallace, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, Hakim Bey, William Gibson, J.G. Ballard, Pynchon, Haruki Murakami, Robert Anton Wilson, Rudyard Kipling, Phillip K Dick, Martin Amis, Orwell, Bradbury, D. Clowes, C. Ware, Charles Burns, Alan Moore, Conan comics, Grant Morrison, Joe Sacco, Adbusters, The Imp, Found...anything you say is amazing

Heroes:

Robert Anton Wilson
Edward R. Murrow
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Amy Goodman
The guys who made this...

My Blog

Sugar Mountain Birthday BBQ

Hosted By: Benjamin WarfieldWhen: Saturday May 26, 2007 at 5:00 PMWhere: Libertylands913-961 North 3rd StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19123United StatesDescription:Benjamin Warfield Click Here To View Even...
Posted by Benjamin on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:46:00 PST

The key to happiness is community.

Here's the meaning of true community. You can make it happen or seek it out, people! * Inclusivity, commitment and consensus: Members accept and embrace each other, celebrating their individuality ...
Posted by Benjamin on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:22:00 PST

Read My Lips

Just Let Go...
Posted by Benjamin on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:01:00 PST

Bicycle, bicycle - where have you been?

It's done. I am now the proud daily user of an olive green vintage ladies Schwinn Breeze bicycle. It's completely adorable. So, iIf you haven't ridden a bike in awhile I urge you to get out and do so....
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So far so good!

Keep it coming 2005... you totally rule so far. P.S. I just KNOW this is the year that I'll get to turn into a Red Dragon and live in my big gorgeous mountain cave (resplendent with velveteen pill...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Friends, I love you

Seriously, I do. I don't tell you all that enough. Just in case something happens to all of us... meteor, nuclear war, freak weather-related catastrophe... I want you all to know that you are loved a...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thank you, The Arcade Fire

Thank you for uplifting me and playing one of the best shows I've seen in years. It was a true gathering of the light side, the white lodge of the Philly music scene. By praising us and our ...
Posted by Benjamin on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST