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Luke

I Lost my band and All I got was 10 Crummy T-shirts we couldn't Sell to Begin With

About Me

I'm a boy living out in LA. I moved out here when I was 19 to become an actor. Then I realized that actors are neurotic and divas to boot. I decided to concentrate on music...particularly singing I grew up outside of DC in a suburb called Falls Church. After graduating high school I went to the University of Tennessee for a year where I studied theatre (cuz there's a good buck in that racket!!). After finishing my freshmen year and realizing I hated doing no work and still getting good grades. I decided to move to California...land of perpetual sun and really good looking shallow women. Currently I'm the lead singer in an Alt/Punk band called Hanging on Halos...check us out! Well I guess that about does her...or it...or maybe it does her....hmmmmm

My Interests

Music!!!, Singing, Movies ,Reading, Going to shows, books particularly comic books, parties, and munging!

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is energetic fun and a scoundrel. Musicians!!!, Punks, Pretty Girls, Rockers, Anyone that's wild, promiscuous, restless and tired of this celophane 21st century lifestyle

Myspace Contact Tables..

Music:

AFI, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Blink 182, Incubus, Panic at the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, +44, The Used, 30 seconds to mars, Bayside, Saosin, The Strokes, Iggy and the Stooges, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Nirvana, Greenday, Soundgarden, The Pixies, Pearljam, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Beatles, Guns N Roses, The Doors, David Bowie (mostly 70's Bowie), Rage Against the Machine, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Sublime, Tom Waits, Bush (Razorblade Suitcase), I really love the Queen of the Damned Soundtrack (shitty movie but great music), and lots of other stuff that I'm forgetting at the moment....

Movies:

Platoon is probably my favorite, Indiana Jones, The lord of the rings, Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry inch, Igby goes Down, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, War of the Buttons, Payback, 40 Year Old Virgin, Zoolander, American Psycho, Lucky Number Slevin, Brick, Windy City Heat, The Departed, Batman Begins, The Neverending Story, Conan The Barbarian...I like old Kurosawa films, and just old movies in general...back then the good guy didn't always win and I like not knowing how it's going to turn out you know? The Xmen and Spiderman movies, MI3, Da Vinci Code, Superman Returns, Grandma's Boy

Television:

Six Feet Under (greatest show ever made), Deadwood, Rome, Lost, Family guy, South Park, Aqua Teen, Metalocalypse, XMEN the Cartoon Show! THE MAXX!, Aeon FLux

Books:


I read a lot of music bios...Please Kill Me is probably the book I've read the most times... Rotten: No Irish No Dogs No Blacks, Heavier than Heaven, Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing, Lobotomy, Choke, Catch-22, The Chronicles of Conan, The Lions Game, Starship Troopers, Feet of Clay, Interesting Times, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell and many others

My Blog

On My Own

well My band broke up last week...which sucks because I loved the music but it also is great because we were dead in the water.  I've learned that If you want to have a career in music you can't ...
Posted by Luke on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:19:00 PST

The Good, The Bad, and my girlfriends GIANT jugs

A general update on the life of Luke Rivers for all five of you who are interested... THE GOOD: I just got the best job ever!  I'm a parking attendant!!! My job consists of maybe 45 minutes ...
Posted by Luke on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:34:00 PST

My Date With Iggy Pop

Last night (monday) Sounds Like Disaster played the Lava Lounge in hollywood for a punk rock night.  We were pretty fuct because we're a five piece and if you havent been to the LAVA it's got a s...
Posted by Luke on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:39:00 PST

The Bestest Weekend Ever!

So this has been a great weekend...last week I met this girl...oooooook this woman...and it's been the most relaxing crazy weekend ever...10 bottles of red wine in 2 and a half days...and a pretty fac...
Posted by Luke on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:10:00 PST

Adventures in Texas

So yesterday at noon Ben (my drummer) and I rented a minivan and drove nonstop from Los Angeles to Dallas...which is a 25 hour drive in case you're wondering...no sleep...lots of cigarettes and even m...
Posted by Luke on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:13:00 PST

Demonic Possession

Yesterday (weds)  I took shrooms with Dylan and some friends and went to the beach...as we got out of the jeep I felt one of my fainting spells coming on (I have a nerve condition which can cause...
Posted by Luke on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:43:00 PST

OFFICIALLY A BAND!!!

So yeah we gots us a drummer also named ben so now we have the bens ben1 plays bass ben2 plays drums we gots us a lockout (rehearsal studio for u squares)...gearing up for our first gig prolly in late...
Posted by Luke on Sat, 27 May 2006 02:21:00 PST

Casual Friday

So I landed this temp job doing data entry on the 29th floor of a highrise in downtown LA...day 1 I got chastised for dressing too casual...Dylan and I got to talking...and really what's the point of ...
Posted by Luke on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:05:00 PST

Endless Nameless

Well I've got a band now (well most of one) we still need drums and bass.  But the early stages are looking promising.  Lots of rehearsals and trouble making.  STill no band web page es...
Posted by Luke on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:32:00 PST

Bouncing Around like a crazy man

So...this is a post huh? Ok...well i dont have anything to say so there lets just leave it at that....
Posted by Luke on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:22:00 PST