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Ramon LP4

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About Me


I am a member of: .
I also write a weekly music column for:
I am also writing a monthly Local Music Column for..

NAP also has a weekly Podcast:

My new job blocks Myspace, so I don't hang around here as much now.

My Interests

Music, Literature, Film.

Music:

Here is what I'm listening to when I'm at home and not playing LPs:



Off the cuff? OK, How about:

The Replacements, Black Flag, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Black Sabbath, John Cage, Marion Brown, AC/DC, Abunai, David Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Butthole Surfers, Party Owls, Captain Beefheart, Can, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, The Clash, Circle Jerks, Ornette Coleman, Big Black, Miles Davis, Dick Dale, Deathcab For Cutie, Rilo Kiley, Steve Earle, DEVO, Dinosaur Jr., Dog Faced Hermans, Bob Dylan, The Ex, John Lennon, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Echo and the Bunnymen, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, King Crimson, The Feelies, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Otis Redding, Gang of Four, Goblin, Joy Division, The Shaggs, Jimi Hendrix, Willie Nelson, The Flatlanders, Phillip Glass, Hugo Largo, REM, Screaming J Hawkins, Joy Division, Jesus Lizard, Lightning Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys, Bevis Frond, Leo Kottke, Kraftwerk, Leadbelly, Curtis Mayfield, Funkadelic, Parliment, Barry White, The Meters, Live Skull, PIL, Sebadoh, Shellac, New Order, Metallica (early), The Stooges, The Smiths, Sterolab, Pavement, Pere Ubu, Theloneous Monk, Johnathan Richman, Mudhoney, Jim O'Rourke, The Slits, Tsunami, Sleater Kinney, DNA, Mydolls, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Lou Reed, Abdullah Ibrahim, Ani Difranco, Dinosaur Jr., Azure Ray, Drop Trio, American Vodka, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Rusted Shut, Fantasy's Core, Barry White, Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Camper Van Beethoven, Galaxie 500, Bevis Frond, Hawkwind, Built To Spill, Catpower, Pavement, Coldplay, Dan Zanes, Daniel Johnson, Leo Kottke, silkworm, Die Like a Dog, Elliot Smith, Faust, Fela, the Gits, Guided By Voices, The Pixes, The Reigning Sound, Slint, James Kochalka, Jesus Lizard, Jimmy Smith, Joe McPhee, The Lothars, John Coletrane, John Fahey, Le Tigre, Linus Pauling Quartet, Mike Gunn, Louis Jordan, Mark Ribot, Marvin Gaye, Mats Gustaffsson, Metal Urbain, Modest Mouse, Neko Case, Nick Cave, Death Cab For Cutie, The Birthday Party, Nick Drake, The Ohio Players, Phillip Glass, 50 Foot Wave, Popul Vuh, Primordial Undermind, Charalmbides, ST37, Rocky Erikson, 13th Floor Elevators, Roy Smeck, Rush, Shrimp Boat, Spacemen 3, Sun Ra, Tom Cora, Tom Waits, Willaim Parker, Hamid Drake, Neil Young, The Jonx, Sharks and Sailors, Dizzy Pilot, The Little Ones, The Dimes, Georgia's Horse, Belvile, Powers of Light and Darkness, Drop Trio, ST37, Red and the White, Satin Hooks, 50 Foot Wave, My Education, The Paper South, Kinski, New Town Drunks, Churchbus, Bring Back the Guns, The Kimonos, Whorehound, Golden Axe, Jana Hunter,The Rhinestone Life, Somethign Fierce, Bright Men of Learning, Gay Marriage...
Oh fuck It I could be here all day...

Movies:

Films: Jean De Flourette/Manon of the Spring, Orpheus (1949 Cocteau), 7th Samurai, Chocolat (1989 Denis), Aguirre The Wrath of God, Princess Mononoke, 8 1/2, Missing Allen (2001 Christian Bauer), Zorro the Gay Blade, Houseparty, Ghost Dog, You Can Count of Me (2000 Kenneth Lonergan), Naked (1993 Mike Leigh), Broadcast News, The Shining, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926 Lotte Reiniger), Shao Lin san shi liu fang (aka Master Killer, 1978 Chia-Liang Liu), Mean Streets, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves,
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Claire Denis, Jean Cocteau, Hayao Miyazaki, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, Joel and Ethan Coen, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen (before he started sucking) Alfonso Cuarón, James Whale, John Lassater, Mike Leigh, Jim Jarmusch, Terry Giliam, Lars Von Tier, Shaw Brothers marshal arts films,

Television:

C-Span, The Daily Show, The Office (BBC), Dinner For Five (Hosted by John Favreau on IFC), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Aqua Teen Hunger Force (if only for the Christmans Danzig Episode),Futurama, Let's face it most TV sucks.
No longer in production but brilliant: Freaks and Geeks, Shatner era Star Trek
Best "Worst Show" of all time: Cop Rock
Two Words:
BOB SAGET

Books:

Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Umberto Eco, Voltaire, Carson McCullers, George Orwell, James Marshall, Stanislaw Lem, Phillip K. Dick, Dante, Homer, Lynda Barry, Art Spiegelman, HP Lovecraft, James Kochalka, Jessica Abel, Lone Wolf and Cub, Scott McCloud, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Twain, EM Forester, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Richard Dawkins, Steven J Gould, John McPhee, Voltaire, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia, Plath, Charles Bukowski, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jack Kerouac, William S Burroughs, Anias Nin, Michael Chabon, Granta, New York Review of Books...

Heroes:

Bill Hicks