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Amrk

I used to be a citizen, but I never felt the pressure.

About Me


I've recently finished my degree (Film Production and Music Technology) and thus am in the post-University lull of not knowing what to do next with my life. I will likely be moving to London once I find some direction. Til then I will likely be travelling about on trains (for free, mostly) visiting people and places, scribbling in notepads, reading a lot of books and hopefully making some music if/when I find some inspiration.

If I believe in anything, it's dancing like this:
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My Interests

Reading, Language, Film, Music, Conversation, Culture, Meditation, Coffee, Zelda.

I'd like to meet:


Music geeks, film geeks, and the kinds of people who'd rather stay in with a bottle of wine and good records.

Dorothy Vallens'.

Music:

Punk, Prog, Jazz, Classical, Noise, some Hip Hop, Black Metal, occasional Pop... or whatever, any interesting forms of music.

I am a record nerd . I also have last.fm again, for some reason:

Movies:

Ingmar Bergman, Woody Allen, Wong Kar-Wai, Federico Fellini, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Cronenberg, Béla Tarr, Peter Greenaway, Wes Anderson, Bill Murray, Lukas Moodysson, Marx Brothers comedies, Werner Herzog, Krystof Kieslowski, Sven Nyqvist, Guillermo Arriaga.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Chris Morris, Channel 4 News, Question Time, Culture Show, Newsnight Review, Monty Python, Frasier, Countdown, South Park, Prime Suspect, Nature/Wildlife, David Attenborough, Kitschy old Sci-fi like the Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, etc.

Books:

Virginia Woolf, William S. Burroughs, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Faulkner, George Orwell, Carlos Castaneda, Stephen Fry, Will Self, among others. Stream of consciousness type stuff. Aspects of magick and the occult. Lots really...

Heroes:

Subversives, poets, satirists, cynics. Anyone who takes a stand against mediocrity.

My Blog

Book trails...

I started using BookMooch last summer, which was spent in Stafford (where I went to Uni) without working, and thus with very little money. It's a site where people swap their old books, and there's a ...
Posted by Amrk on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:09:00 PST

Letters to Slash magazine...

From the Decline of Watern Civilization, circa 1980:To Slash Magazine,Dissolve and die.Lie through your teeth.Accepting the fact that this mass of the perpetually borgeouisnever leave their happy home...
Posted by Amrk on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:17:00 PST

Impudent Old Man...

  I walk out of my door this morning, and see that it's raining, hard. I have no money for the bus, so I start to get my stomp on. I walk out of my garden, and without even being within a metre, ...
Posted by Amrk on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:40:00 PST

Baby wants to fuuuuuuck...

It's 4:51am. I am lying on a double bed that has no sheets, and I am listening to David Lynch's album after a failed attempt to watch Mulholland Drive. Playstation's are not DVD players, regardless of...
Posted by Amrk on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:16:00 PST

By the Sea...

This summer, I have one small, niggling regret at the back of my mind. I tend not to over-romanticise things so much nowadays, but I guess that that is the nature of regret. There was someone that I k...
Posted by Amrk on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:47:00 PST

The Girl in the Bell Jar...

Trip to Birmingham yesterday, I went to see Untitled play at the Flapper and Firkin, which must be the very definition of a toilet circuit venue. They were good despite bad sound, Andy's tonsilitus an...
Posted by Amrk on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:45:00 PST

And yet, and yet...

I woke up on the sofa this morning at about 9, after about 4 hours sleep when the postman came - and there was an elegant little pink envelope stuck in the letterbox. I was surprised when I saw it was...
Posted by Amrk on Wed, 30 May 2007 10:36:00 PST

Ils prennent nos boulots...!

So I got back to Stafford last night from Southampton, stinking of beer and fags and something else I couldn't quite put my finger on (and that I fear it might be crass to speculate on). Alas, it had ...
Posted by Amrk on Fri, 18 May 2007 08:12:00 PST

ATP (short)...

Lets face it, you're not gonna read the full version. Yep.The Only Ones - mehDirty Three - incredible.Psarantonis - weird, greek, beautiful.Josh Pearson - fuzzy, pretty, good.Magnolia Electric Co. - r...
Posted by Amrk on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:51:00 PST

All Tomorrows Parties - Dirty Three, 27-29th April...

It's too typical of me to have booked up for a festival on the weekend before my dissertation/FYP is due in. Though I planned to have finished before hand so I could go away and generally cut loose, I...
Posted by Amrk on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:40:00 PST