I'd like to meet:
Any of my favorite songwriters, artists, writers, actors...etc...I'd love to discuss what THEIR interpretation of their own work is and what their intention was
I really enjoy meeting new people. I love talking with people who have the same interests as me...i especially enjoy discussing music with people, exchanging opinions, whatever...everyone has their own tastes in music, so I don't expect people to necessarily like what I like ^_~
I'd also love to be able to go back to various times and places in our world's history as an observer...see WTF really happened, lol...fascinating!
Take Action
Green Day has joined forces with The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) – the nation’s most effective environmental action group…Check out their website at greendaynrdc.com and become actively involved in saving our environment!!
R.I.P.
Just wanted to mark the passing of a true legend and innovator in blues and rock - Bo Diddley, who died 06/02/08. The man was completely one of a kind; he will be greatly missed.
Music and videos to check out
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Add it Up - The Violent Femmes
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To Anybody – The Influents
(I ♥ every song by The Influents I’ve heard…can’t say that about many bands. Found them thru band member Jason White’s association with Green Day, but am lovin’ them for their own sound. Check out their myspace for more great music, especially “Taking Time†and “Tears Not Suicideâ€â€¦or better yet, check out their website where u can d/l their mp3s…really wish they were putting out new music, but guess I’ll have to be happy with what I have, lol…â€its all about the musicâ€)
Everybody Out! - Jack the Lad
This is one of my favorite songs to come out recently, can't get enough of it...and the video is just too fucking funny!
Gogol Bordello - American Wedding
Gogol Bordello "American Wedding"
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Flogging Molly - Seven Deadly Sins
See more of my fave vids at YouTube
And if you're incredibly bored, I'm in the process of cataloging my music collection at RYM ^_~ I will say one thing, looking at the collections (mine and other people's) using the "visualize" option certainly reminds me how cool album art can be!
Links
radioIRFT.com or myspace.com/irft
Music:
Everybody Out!, Green Day, Gogol Bordello, The Pogues, Dead Pets, Flogging Molly, Led Zeppelin/Robert Plant/Jimmy Page, Nick Lowe, Violent Femmes, The Clash, Queen, Dropkick Murphys, The MooN, World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Influents, The Ramones, Beatles (group and solo), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Living End, The Pink Spiders, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Jethro Tull, Tiger Army, Buzzcocks, Stray Cats (group and solo), The Replacements, Bo Diddley, Zombie Met Girl, Social Distortion, Velvet Revolver, The Cure, The Adicts, AC/DC, Reverend Horton Heat, Cheap Trick, Nazareth, Alice Cooper, Blaggards, David Bowie, The Radiators From Space, The GO Set, The Real McKenzies, The Doors, Foo Fighters, Rev Peyton's Big Damn Band, Levellers, Madness, The Fratellis, REM, The Raconteurs, White Stripes, The Displacements, The Network, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Rancid, Tim Armstrong, Kings of Leon, The Cramps, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Hives, Loreena McKennitt, T-Rex, DeVotchKa, Van Halen, Blondie, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Pinhead Gunpowder, Stevie Ray Vaughan, New York Dolls, The Mahones, Wild Colonial Bhoys, Jet, Joan Jett, Grateful Dead, Dire Straits, Finn's Fury, Boomtown Rats, Bob Geldof, Avenged Sevenfold, Papa Roach, The Marys, The Sleepers, Generation X/Billy Idol, Stiff Little Fingers, Cock Sparrer, The Who, Soul Asylum, Big Country, Against Me!, Filthy Nelly, Sons of Albion, Franz Ferdinand, Larrikin Love, Love as Laughter, OK Go, Eric Clapton, GnR, Ozzy, Rolling Stones, Built 4 Speed, The Proclaimers, Enter the Haggis, Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, Modest Mouse, Tied For Last, BÖC, NIN, Zydepunks, Pike, Bedouin Soundclash, Finnegan's Lads, Billy Bragg, Street Dogs, Robert Johnson, INXS (with Michael Hutchence), Flatfoot 56, Bob Marley, Ryan Adams, Elvis, CCR, Adam & the Ants, The Electrics, Tom Petty, Exile Parade, Peter Noone/Herman's Hermits, Trendy, Nekromantix, Gimme Danger, Pink Floyd, Captain Tractor, Sick Puppies, The Frustrators, The Tossers, B.B. King, Sweet, Fiddler's Green, Steve Earle, Dr. John, Wednesday 13, Black Sabbath, Muddy Waters, Leon Redbone...too many more to list...I like punk/hard rock/metal/classic rock/garage/alternative/indie/blues/folk/reggae/ska/psychobi
lly/rockabilly...Celtic music...Celtic rock & punk...Gypsy...Gypsy Punk (thank you Gogol Bordello!)...almost everything - depends on my mood...
Movies:
Dogma ...almost any Monty Python (especially Monty Python and the Holy Grail & And Now for Something Completely Different), Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean series, the Harry Potter series, Grosse Point Blank, Labyrinth, Shrek series, The Commitments, Indiana Jones series, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pulp Fiction, This is Spinal Tap, Rock N' Roll High School, My Cousin Vinny, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Blues Bros, The Sixth Sense, Pump Up the Volume
My favorite all-time movie characters?
Capt. Jack Sparrow (POTC)- Johnny Depp
Silent Bob (Dogma) - Kevin Smith
Metatron (Dogma) - Alan Rickman
Prof. Snape (Harry Potter) - Alan Rickman
Hans Solo (Star Wars IV-VI) - Harrison Ford
I love these characters as created and interpreted by the actors...don't think anyone else could have played these parts anywhere near as well...
Books:
Terry Pratchett , Tom Holt, JK Rowling/Harry Potter series, Anne Rice, Piers Anthony/Xanth, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Janet Evanovich, Carl Hiaasen, Kim Newman, Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" series...
Favorite Book: "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
From Good Omens:
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
Actually I read almost anything...Salinger, Hemingway, Orwell...biographical, factual, historical...comic books/graphic novels, cereal boxes, graffiti...whatever. Currently I just prefer to read for escapism :) too much shit going on
My Current Obsessions!
Everybody Out! - "Teenage Kicks" at New World Brewery, Tampa, FL 5-25-08
(includes bday shout out to me at the end...and yeah, that's my head bopping around there like i'm having a damn seizure ^_~)
Foxboro Hot Tubs recently released an EP with 6 highly addictive songs. I absolutely LOVE these songs, especially “Mother Maryâ€...well, actually all of them are excellent, not sure I actually have a fave anymore. Definitely a strong 60s/Beatles/Kinks vibe to these songs. OK, yeah, this is evidently a Green Day side project (shhhhh, don't tell anyone, guess it's supposed to be secret like The Network was - yeah, right - lol). And yeah, I'm obviously a Green Day fan...but I actually love this music for its own sound. In fact, it would be better for me if they weren't some side project...there would be the possibility of future releases...ah well, guess I'll just have to enjoy the 6 songs we've been gifted with ^_~
UPDATE: Foxboro Hot Tubs are releasing a 13 song LP soon. Click the above link to check out their music!
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Gogol Bordello's new CD is out now, check it out!! The songs are freakin' awesome. Visit their myspace to hear some of the music, it's completely addictive ^_~
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The Fratellis - Vince the Loveable Stoner
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Ran across one of the most awesome collections of graphics the other day at ..Bells Box . You'll find some of their graphics and blinkies scattered around my page. The Gogol Bordello and Green Day blinkies in my music section above were custom made by Beck (Bells Box)for me!!
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