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Shimmercore

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About Me

PH "There's things about me you don't know, Dottie. Things you wouldn't understand. Things you couldn't understand. Things you shouldn't understand."
Dottie "I don't understand."
PH "You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel."

My Interests

writing/recording/playing music, scooters, motorcycles, boxing, my cat, the female form, staying up late, sleeping in, watching the day go by.

I'd like to meet:

you

Music:

I listen to these genres: shoegaze, turntablist hip hop, power pop, gypsy swing, 60s soul, deep funk, mod revival, northern soul, 60s garage rock, all eras of rock n roll, 70s/80s punk, post-punk, Britpop, mod, rockabilly, 60s ska/reggae, avant garde, outsider, classic 120 minutes, WOXY, Freezone 88.7FM, jazz, weird underground electronic shit, sitar pop, psychedelia, down tempo, break beats, trip hop, and satanic accordions!

Movies:

The Holy Mountain, I Love You Alice B Toklas, Scratch, Brainfreeze, Born to Boogie, DIG!, City of God, Scarface, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Quadrophenia, Wild in the Streets, Lost in Translation, Valley Girl, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Live and Let Die, CQ: Codename Dragonfly, Dolemite, Sweet Sweetback's Badasss Song, Foxy Brown, Superfly, Napoleon Dynamite, A Clockwork Orange, Office Space, Troma Films, Russ Meyer films, Blow Up, To Sir With Love, Pulp Fiction, Cannonball Run, Logan's Run, Fantastic Planet, Gimmie Shelter.

Television:

YouTube.com

Books:

Merriam/Webster Dictionary, Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Heroes:

Travis Bickle, Roky Erickson, Mark E. Smith, Johnny Marr, Curtis Mayfield, Arthur Lee, Marc Bolan, Johnny Thunders, Paul Westerberg, Kevin Shields, James Jamerson, Anton Newcombe.

My Blog

French Women Want Your Sex

French women 'are the sexual predators now' By Henry Samuel in Parishttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/20 08/03/07/wfrance107.xmlFrench women are becoming increasingly assertive in th...
Posted by Shimmercore on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:56:00 PST

My Top 10 Music Artists of the Week - March 6th, 2008

According to Last.fm, my current top 10 artists are:1 13th Floor Elevators 2 Ride 3 The Fall 4 The Brian Jonestown Massacre 5 Guided by Voices 6 The Replacements 7 Ramones 8 The Telescopes 9 The Kinks...
Posted by Shimmercore on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:19:00 PST

God Loves Drugs

Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher Mar 4 07:07 AM US/Easternhttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=0803041207 10.ad7gm7i6&show_article=1High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs whe...
Posted by Shimmercore on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:13:00 PST

Watching Lawrence Welk on Acid

...would sound like this: ...
Posted by Shimmercore on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:06:00 PST

A Place To Bury Strangers @ Local’s Only

A Place To Bury Strangers owned Local's Only last night. I arrived just before they hit the stage and there was a nice sizable crowd of Indy hipsters in attendence. The threesome hit the stage and I r...
Posted by Shimmercore on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:37:00 PST

Supertramp

So I was just working and driving around the great cultural city of Indianapolis and I had my radio dialed to the Dennis Miller Show and in between his segments he kept playing small clippets of Super...
Posted by Shimmercore on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:55:00 PST

New Song Uploaded on my Music Page

After a few days of holiday relaxation, I came up with this little song called "Casio Christmas". I started off just messing around with my casio keyboard and after 15 minutes of jamming, I realized I...
Posted by Shimmercore on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:04:00 PST

I was robbed at gun point

Over the weekend, I was robbed at gun point. I wasn't driving a taxi. I was coming back from a DJ gig in my buddy Ringo's ride when he gets a flat tire. We pull off the main road around 25th and Keyst...
Posted by Shimmercore on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:05:00 PST

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club & A Place to Bury Strangers @ Vogue

So, after a great night of rockin out at the Alley Cat to a packed house with Red Light Driver, I managed to wake up early on Sunday to work a few hours and earn extra money to go see the BRMC show at...
Posted by Shimmercore on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:34:00 PST

Deerhunter @ Southgate House

So, I've been anticipating going to this show for over a month since I stumbled on this band doing a search on Last.fm. I've been hooked to their brand of "ambient punk" ever since and had to check ou...
Posted by Shimmercore on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:26:00 PST