Being in love with love, and lousy poetry
People I haven't seen in awhile that happen to be on my space... mostly people i know, or that already know me... or might've met me at one point or another... no more bands please, thank you ! .........
Favorite Album of 2005
The EELS - BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS -
Favorite album of 2006 (so far)
Belle and Sebastian - THE LIFE PURSUIT
CD's that I've been listening to religiously in 2007:
1. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Murder Ballads
2. JENS LEKMAN - Night falls over Kortedala
3. THE ZOMBIES - Oracle & Odyssey
4. M.WARD - Transfiguration of St. Vincent
5. SOLOMON BURKE - If you need me / Rock n'Soul
6. THE TEMPTATIONS - Gold Collection
7. RADIO DEPT - Lesser Matters
8. BIG STAR - Third / Sister's lovers
9. REGINA SPEKTOR - Soviet Kitsch
10. LAVENDER DIAMOND - Imagine our love
My Top 10 of ALL TIME:
1. THE SMASHING PUMPKINS - Mellon Collie & the infinite sadness
2. THE CURE - Disintegration
3. THE CLASH - London Calling
4. TOM WAITS - Closing time
5. THE EELS - Electro shock blues
6. THE REPLACEMENTS - Tim/Let it be
7. SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE - diary
8. NEW ORDER - Power, Corruption and Lies
9. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - 69 Love songs
10. BOB DYLAN - Blood on the tracks
Extremely Honorable Mention:
Beck - Odelay
The Smiths - the queen is dead
Travis - Man who
Rancid - ... and out come the wolves...
Weezer - The Blue album
Cake - Fashion nugget
Minor Threat - complete discography
Pulp - Different Class
The Weakerthans - Left and leaving
Ben Folds Five - whatever and ever amen
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Foo Fighters - Color & the shape
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High Fidelity
Eternal Sunshine
the Wedding singer
Almost Famous
Philadelphia
Shawshank redemption
Walk the Line
Grosse Pointe Blank
Garden State
Blow
Little Miss Sunshine
The Sandlot
My cousin Vinny
Man on the moon
Old School
Anchorman
Empire Records
Uncle Buck
The Goonies
Home Alone
Sideways
Wet hot American Summer
Forrest Gump
Goodfellas
Road Trip
Glory
Breakfast club
City of God
Traffic
The Godfather
Killer Clowns from outer space
Pretty much all oldschool Disney Movies
The Hunger (chris' movie I worked on...)
A Date with the Dead (Chris' newest movie I worked on)
I got to work with these 2 geniuses
The Simpsons, Family guy, The sopranos... Mid nineties SNL... lets not forget Degrassi... Golden girls... Perfect Strangers and other television gems...
-All quiet on the western front
-Fast food nation
-Propaganda & the ethics of persuasion
-Occidentalism - the west in the eyes of it's enemies
-Huntington's "clash of civilizations"
-Nothing feels good: Punk rock, teenagers and emo
-Foucault's history of sexuality
-Dick Hebdidge's "Subcultures"
-The Island of Dr. Moreau
-Bruce Hornby's "Songbook"
-Our Band could be your life - scenes from the American Indie Underground (1981-1991)
I read way too many music mags and course packs... do those count as books ?
Billy Corgan
Robert Smith
Joe Strummer
Rivers Cuomo
Bob Dylan
Morrissey
Mark Everett
Daniel Johnston
other "heroes" include:
Uncle Jessie and the Rippers
Oh, and let's not forget this beautiful man right here:
Basque in his Snarl of Grizzled Love...