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Chatman

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

You

Music:

CURRENT CRAVINGS: Fujiya & Miyagi, Ghostland Observatory, the View, the Valentinos, Van She, Voxtrot, Suburband Kids With Biblical Names, the Octopus Project, Silent Years, Harlem Shakes, Menomena, Cloud Cult, Born Ruffians, the Whitest Boy Alive, Patrick Wolf, Pop Levi, Brightblack Morning Light, Death Ships, Softlightes, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, !!!, the Decemberists, Dr. Dog, Kunek, Tokyo Police Club, the Fratellis, the Head Set, Under Byen, the Good the Bad the Queen, Brothers Kite, Cracklin' Moth, Bound Stems, the Ark, Earl Greyhound, Silversun Pickups, Islands, Lovely Feathers, Gnarls Barkley, Office, Raconteurs, Josh Ritter, Wolfmother, Art Brut, the National, Lucero, Black Keys, Architects, the Silents, Boris, Nouvelle Vague, Long Winters, the Elected, Okkervil River...

STEADY DIET: the Beatles, AC/DC, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ramones, Smoking Popes, the Smiths, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr., Hold Steady, Bash n Pop, Nick Drake, Led Zeppelin, Alkaline Trio, Jawbreaker, Fugazi, Built To Spill, the Shins, Cheap Trick, Guns N Roses, Van Halen, the Black Keys, Buzzcocks, Pavement, Pixies, Police, the Cure, Prince, the Exploding Hearts, Superchunk....

JUNK FOOD: Def Leppard, Neil Diamond, Donovan, ELO, Wildhearts, Poison, Counting Crows, OMD, Pet Shop Boys, Devo....


Movies:

"NICE WEB MR. CRACK SPIDER"

INDIAN SUPERMAN

Television:

Too f'in much. Damn you, TiVo!!! I want my life back.


Books:

CURRENTLY: 'World War Z' by Max Brooks; 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; 'The Know It All' by AJ Jacobs; Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs' by Irvine Welsh

RECENTLY: 'The Night Gardener' by George Pelecanos; 'Haunted' by Chuck Palahniuk; 'The Sweet Hereafter' by George Pelecanos; 'The Ruins' by Scott Smith; 'The Stolen Child' by Keith Donahue; 'Black Hole' by Charles Burns; 'Under the Banner of Heaven' by John Krakaeur (dem Mormon's is wacky)

REPEATEDLY: George Pelecanos, James Ellroy, Chuck Klosterman, Hunter S. Thompson, J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris

Heroes:

My Blog

R.I.P. IPOTTO Chatman. Late 2004?-March 6th, 2007.

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am f...
Posted by Chatman on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:13:00 PST

THE 2006

Two days in a row. To what do you owe the pleasure? Perhaps it's some sort of New Years Resolution to try to write more (Lord knows I've given up on all my other resolutions. The one to not drink f...
Posted by Chatman on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:45:00 PST

FINALLY, Chatman's Top Eleven of 2006, The End.

Wow. How do I suck? Let me count the ways... How long does it take me to post a Best Of list? Apparently a month and some change. Now I've got to try to remember why I liked all this stuff whil...
Posted by Chatman on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:20:00 PST

UPDATE!!! Top ELEVEN of 06 part 2

Note: I glaringly omitted one of my absolute favorites of the year and instead of taking away ranking status from one of these 'lesser albums, I have opted to make my Top Ten a Top Eleven. It will n...
Posted by Chatman on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:25:00 PST

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I'm not very good at the whole Top Ten list, Best Of-thing. It's January 11th, 2007 and I'm just now getting around to my first annually-promised Best of Ought Whatever List. Friends always ask me, "...
Posted by Chatman on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:09:00 PST