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Tugboat Captain

Full of win and epic.

About Me

I've liked Spider-Man since I was little, but he doesn't like me.

I'm a sensitive bore. I like little green plastic army men. And chocolate sugar-free instant pudding. I enjoy The Monkees, William Shatner, and Bob Ross uniroically. I frequently wear shirts.

My Interests


Experimental cinema/animation, old electronics, patent instruments from the 1930s, the art of Joseph Cornell, home recording, record collecting, quoting Mark E. Smith, bad HTML coding, enjoying glitches and errors, biology, archeology, physics, learning in general, coffee and cigarettes, making art (usually for/about friends) when I'm in the mood, junk stores and thrift shops, insomnia, making cheap food taste good, making the best out of cheap musical gear, cleaning up after my cats. I also spend too much time playing video games because I'm a dork and my living space has a lot of room taken up by Star Wars and other toys, not to mention anything I see on the street that I think is interesting. Overall, a semi-agoraphobic pack-rat urban hermit.

I'd like to meet:


People who also frequently wear shirts.
And these guys:

Even though one of them is dead...
So far I've managed to see one of them on stage. Now I just have to wait for Kevin Ayers and Eno to come to America.

Music:


Joy Division, Subhumans, Soft Machine, XTC, Guided By Voices, The Fall, Brian Eno, Amon Duul II, Sufjan Stevens, Frog Eyes, Pere Ubu, Magazine, Buzzcocks, Gong, Kinks, Syd Barrett, The Ex, Stranglers, Tower Recordings, Cassiber, This Heat, Yo La Tengo, Aphex Twin, Ghost, Red Krayola, Modern Lovers, Animal Collective, The Zombies, Unrest, Galaxie 500, Funkadelic, Sly & The Family Stone, Dock Boggs, MF Doom, Love, Albert Ayler, Iron & Wine, Sun City Girls, Nina Nastasia, John Cage, Bongwater, Comus, Nick Drake, T-Rex/Tyrannosaurus Rex, Terry Riley, Chelsea, Gram Parsons, Angus MacLise, Pernice Brothers, Ornette Coleman, The Damned, Pit er Pat, Charalambides, Six Organs Of Admittance, The Sixth Great Lake, Nanang Tatang, Au Pairs, Otomo Yoshihide, The Dils, Tony Conrad, Unicorns, No Neck Blues Band, Silver Apples, Themselves, Peter Brotzman, Specials, Dead Meadow, Wire, Dear Nora, Jandek, Caravan, Magma, Blonde Redhead, cLOUDDEAD, Gang Of Four, Circle Jerks, Stars Of Lid, Siouxie And The Banshees, Citizen Fish, Culture Shock, Residents, Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Incredible String Band, Catholic Discipilne, Henry Cow, Bob Calvert, News From Babel, Stooges, Broadcast, Sun Kil Moon, Kevin Ayers, New Order, Damon & Naomi, Silkworm, Autechre, Pink Floyd, Beat Happening, Test Department, Laurie Anderson, Throbbing Gristle, The Ruts/The Ruts (DC), Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Flux Of Pink Indians, Pretty Things, Sonics, Palace Brothers/Palace Music, The Bags, Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy, Chrome, Robin Hitchcock, Wall Of Voodoo/Stan Ridgway, Kahimi Karie, Blitz, Polysics, The (English) Beat, Roxy Music, Klaus Nomi, Cecil Taylor, Dream Syndicate, Bauhaus, Madlib, Guv'ner, Wolf Eyes, Bob Dylan, Opeth, The Fugs, Electric Prunes, Microphones, Crass, Germs, Coil, Legendary Pink Dots, Squarepusher, Judy Henske, Out Hud, The Clean, Josef K, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Echo And The Bunnymen, Why?, Beatles, Shockabilly, Moby Grape, Cure, Suicide, Creation, Monkees, Theoretical Girls, KMD, Skip Spence, Arthur Brown, Mars, Notwist, Olivia Tremor Control, T.S.O.L., Velvet Underground, NoMeansNo, Kool Keith, Lullaby for the Working Class, Serge Gainsbourg, Motorhead, The Raincoats, 8 Eyed Spy, Can, Seeds, Dirty Three, Acid Mother Temple, Subarachnoid Space, Emmylou Harris, Folk Implosion, Grandaddy, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Billy Bragg, Neurosis, Scanner, Amps For Christ, Rank & File, Blackbird, Tim Buckley, Sole, Big Black, Circulatory System, Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, Talking Heads, Mayhem, Ramones, White Stripes, Dead Boys, Lords Of The New Church, Southern Death Cult, Adam & The Ants, Flaming Lips, Ikue Mori, PJ Harvey, The Who, Bongwater, 801, Slowdive, Dump, X-Ray Spex, Mission Of Burma, Replacements, Jeff Buckley, Black Flag, Red House Painters, Sparklehorse, Nico, Sweet Cobra, Barry Adamson, United States Of America, Cornelius, Adverts, Tubeway Army, Christian Marclay, Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Califone, Sonic Youth, John Prine, Pixies, Airport 5, Dead Kennedys, Safe As Houses, Bathory, Microstoria, William Shatner, Tom House, John Fahey, Kronos Quartet, LaMonte Young, Ida, Radiohead, In Flames, Massive Attack, Soft Boys, Swords Project, Black Randy & The Metro Squad, Slayer, Handsome Family, K., Electric Wizard, Black Sabbath, Mono, Spacemen 3, 13th Floor Elevators, Low, Art Bears, Frank Zappa, Gil Scott-Heron, Wilco, The Band, Isis, Devo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill, Sun Ra, Stiff Little Fingers, Oval, Peter Gabriel, Richard Youngs, Softies, Faust, Daniel johnston, Mastodon, The Shaggs, Scott Walker, Magnetic Fields, DNA, Arto Lindsay, Xui Xui, Roky Erickson, Wee Wilie Shantz
Am I cool yet?

Movies:


Brakhage, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Lynch, Herzog, Svankmajer, Brothers Quay, Miike, Tarkovsky, Marker, Anderson, Jarmush, Jarman, Cohen Brothers, Argento, Jodorowsky, the three films of Coleman Francis, Ratchatcher, True Stories, M, Alphaville, Forbidden Planet, George A. Romero's Living Dead Trilogy, The Wicker Man, "Manos" The Hands Of Fate, Onibaba, The Haunting, Fantastic Planet, Phantasm, Brazil, The Great Escape, Invaders From Mars, Shaun Of The Dead, Sex & Fury, Shogun Assassin, Road House, Death Race 2000, Battle Royale, Troll 2, 1930s erotica. In general, my tastes run the gamut from thought provoking, highbrow art house to cheapie drive-in fodder and flat-out exploitation.

Television:


I don't follow a lot. I usually just download random episodes of things I'd like to see (and so I can watch it on my computer while I'm studying something worthwhile) and purchase an occasional DVD set of something I liked that was cancelled... PBS almost exclusively when the TV is on, The Office (BBC), Mr. Show, MST3K, On The Air, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, Svengoolie, Fishing With John, Battlestar Galactica, Spaced (which was brilliant, but we'll never see it officially in America)

Lately, it's been a lot of Deadwood, for reasons that should be obvious:

Books:


Instruction manuals for Casios from the 80s, The Tin Drum, Leaves Of Grass, The Old Weird America, Assassination Vacation, Wireless Imagination, Immortality, Zoo: or Letters Not About Love, every word Kafka and Camus ever wrote, the collected poems of Lorca, Labyrinths by Borges, old Japanese literature, Chick Tracts. I also love me some Lovecraft and Philip K. Dick

Heroes:


Lee Smith, Lee Crosby, Robert Wyatt, John Brown, Jim Henson, Sisyphus
I cried when Mr. Rogers died.

My Blog

Three New Podcasts!

Yep, thats right. Three.There's not a whole lot to do around here, in case it wasn't obvious...To be honest, two of the podcasts are actually together, a collection of cover songs and their original c...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:55:00 PST

Because You Didnt Ask For It

Podcast 3(right-click to download)Alrighty, I've whipped up yet another podcast of some more obscure psychedelic goodness. It's almost entirely from the west coast this time with a couple of New Engla...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:13:00 PST

Podcast Numero Dos: The Country One

Okay, it's finally here...The Country Podcast: Side 1The Country Podcast: Side 2BONUS SONGS!!! WOO-HOO!!!Right-click (or Control-click for all of us Mac users) to download them, if you're so inclined....
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 04:45:00 PST

New Podcast Tomorrow...

So for both of you who listened to my last one, I'll be posting a brand new podcast Tuesday. Sorry there's been such a delay, but the past two months have been a bit eventful, what with moving halfway...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:47:00 PST

Podcast Numero Uno

Alright, here goes my first attempt at a podcast...The First Podcast(right-click to download)Orange Bicycle - Amy PeateFairfield Parlour - In My BoxForever Amber - The Dreamer Flies BackThe Third Eye ...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:10:00 PST

Yee Ha

I haven't slept, I'm drinking coffee, I just took a shower and I still smell funny, and I'm listening to a bunch of Tom Waits and various Velvet Underground/Nico (sadly, not together).So far it's turn...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:08:00 PST

nothing terribly interesting this time, either

So on Tuesday it looks like I'm going to be seeing a performance of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians at DePaul. It's being done by a student ensemble, and apparently they're going to try to be as ...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Fri, 25 May 2007 11:43:00 PST

I don't want to have a "subject"

Jesus Christ, I just got it! I finally got the joke of Uncle Traveling Matt from Fraggle Rock. Jeez, and I even went to film school. How could I have not caught that before? Traveling Matt. Heh.Oh, th...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Sat, 19 May 2007 10:53:00 PST

More Pathetic Geek Crap...

I just found out that the new season of Battlestar Galactica won't be airing for almost a year. There's supposed to be a two-hour movie in the winter, but Jeebus, that's a long damn wait, especially a...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:25:00 PST

A new endeavor...

So after deciding that World Of Warcraft is a boring waste of time, I've decided to play the clarinet instead.During the whole Thanksgiving holiday festivities I found my mother's old b flat clarinet ...
Posted by Tugboat Captain on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:44:00 PST