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Empoke

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

About Me


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Roll the Dice
by Charles Bukowski
if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.
if you’re going to try, go all the
way. this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or
4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the
worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.
if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the
gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.
do it, do it, do it.
do it.
all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter,
it’s the only good fight
there is.
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'What we must lose is this insidious, corrosive knowingness, this need to collect and contain. We must open our brains that have been stopped and plugged with random information, and once again must our limbs carve in air the patterns of their desire- not the calibrated measures and slick syncopation of jazz-funk but a carnal music of total release. We must make of joy once more a crime against the state.'

My Interests

If we had to say sorry for every time life bites you in the arse then we'd never say anything else and who likes cheap words?.

I'd like to meet:


Someone else, in a frozen moment in time, suspended, entwined, forever doomed to be never.

A lot of dead authors, legendary deadbeats, notorious alcoholics and lowlife fiends

Music:



I like a little of almost everything. I don't like Prog and pretty much anything you hear at a bar in Soho i.e Muzak parading under tags like Funky House or Lounge Jazz. It's all horseshit to me. I should probably be more critical. If anything Myspace is a glaring example of there being too much crappy music in the world.

Recently-

Movies:



Good ones recently- There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Paranoid Park

Television:

I pretend i don't like TV but i like these- Malcolm In The Middle, OZ, Dexter, Heroes, The Wire, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Arrested Development, Deadwood, Never Mind The Buzzcocks on a good night umm...Wildlife docs, some food programmes and music docs as long as Bono or some dick from T4 isnt on it.

Animation too- Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, Sealab 2021, Metalocalypse, Venture Bros, Harvey Birdman Attorney At Law, Robot Chicken, The Boondocks, South Park.

Books:

I read to drown out the asinine banter of the masses

Music criticism and history texts, Various Graphic novels, Some fiction and existential texts.

Heroes:

My heros are of dust and dirt and i should not aspire to join them until i have done what i came to do.

My Blog

BEST OF 2007- Part 2

Films1) The Darjeeling Limited2) Control3) Tell No One (Ne le dis à personne)4) The Lives Of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)5) Superbad6) Zodiac7) I'm Not There8) The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher)9) Gr...
Posted by Empoke on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:22:00 PST

BEST OF 2007- Part 1

TOP 20 ALBUMS1) Burial- Untrue2) Panda Bear- Person Pitch3) James Blackshaw- The Cloud Of Unknowing4) Battles- Mirrored5) Phosphorescent- Pride6) Shocking Pinks- S/T7) Efterklang- Parades8) Sir Richar...
Posted by Empoke on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:47:00 PST

A week and a half until...

4 hours of Aphex Twin late night raving.Portishead.GZA playing Liquid Swords.Boris, Earth and Sunn0))) playing in that order in one night.Oren Ambarchi, Glenn Branca, Jerry Sadowitz and Chrome Hoof.Su...
Posted by Empoke on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:55:00 PST

EDIT

So they added two more MBV dates. Pretty much sold out. If any of you reading this want tickets then go to the roundhouse website (NOW!!)...they have tickets for the 21st still.....for about the next ...
Posted by Empoke on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:05:00 PST

OMGZZZ

My Bloody Valentine tickets sold out in -3 minutes. Seriously that's my first blog in a while. I'm bitter.... i really hope no one i like has tickets. I just don't think i could handle the smug. And i...
Posted by Empoke on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:09:00 PST

Everybody knows a cock like fuckface...

Adverts have the ability rub me the wrong way which i've made clear at least twice on here. So i'm glad to see Charlie Brooker shares my unmediated hatred. To be fair a lot of this list doesnt piss me...
Posted by Empoke on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:32:00 PST

What year is it?

New tickets on sale on Seetickets.com...Vanilla Ice and MC HammerHeaven 17Gloria EstefanPJ and DuncanBillieJohnny Cash (?!?!)Rick JamesYazzCleopatraChris ReaDead legends, forgotten 90s one hit wonders...
Posted by Empoke on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:04:00 PST

More advert dissent

Am I alone in finding the Cadbury's/ Gorilla/ Phil Collins advert annoying, contrived in its bizarreness, overlong and fucking stupid?
Posted by Empoke on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:52:00 PST

Just caught this moment of dumbassery on TV

Chris Evans interviewing George Michael and talking about the Nelson Mandela benefit concert in 1988.Chris Evans: So was Nelson Mandela there?G.Michael: Well he was in prison wasnt he.George Michael l...
Posted by Empoke on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:05:00 PST

Probably my favourite home movies scene

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Posted by Empoke on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:10:00 PST