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Hlias

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About Me

Research scientist, furious DJ (KZSU 90.1 FM), and co-founder and now retired member of the Fucking Ocean. Educated in the public schools of Athens, Greece, amidst school take-overs and student protesting I managed to escape recruitment by the Greek Communist Youth party. After taking brief asylum at a Jesuit university in Boston, MA, I sold out to chasing the academic carrot. Check me out at a university near you!!!

My Interests

Philosophy, surrealism, politics, garage-punk, art films, abstract expressionism, cell biology

I'd like to meet:

garage-punk bands that can't play their instruments... people with a passion to create... leaders; not followers

Music:

Dr Furious on KZSU
and for my music with
The Fucking Ocean
check out LA MAIN ROUGE

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ON HEAVY ROTATION THIS WEEK:
WIRE, MESSTHETICS, ELECTRELANE, THE MALL, THE FALL, GANG GANG DANCE

NEXT IN THE "TO BUY/CHECK OUT" LIST:
The Now, The United States of America, Left Bank, Blurt, This Heat, Rhys Chatham, Neu!, The Octopus Project, Slumber Party, Necropolis, Dog Faced Hermans, Kletka Red, Messthetics Greatest Hits: The Sounds of DIY: 1977-1980, From the Closet to the Charts: Queer Noises 1961-1978, GirlMonster, ROCKIN' BONES: '50s Punk & Rockabilly (kick ass box-set on Rhino Records), Porest, The Legendary Pink Dots

For Donations to My Obsessive Record Collection Habit Fund PLEASE CLICK HERE

Movies:

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Heroes:

J temperance and Popeye the Sailorman

My Blog

fuck-fuck-fucking me... dancing with anxiety

Long time, no blog. I was in Europe. SF to London, then Zurich, then Ascona, then Milan, then Athens, then Thessaloniki, then Athens, then London and back to SF.Great time, albeit in wrong time as I a...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:26:00 PST

************** suck on that emotion

Here's the thing. Career bullshit comes and goes. But life is about the people you love and the meaning they give to it. And I am about to embark into some emotional roller coaster. Off to Europe on F...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Wed, 02 May 2007 01:11:00 PST

TOP 4-8 -------->>>>> NEW BAND PICKS

I have decided that from now on positions 4 to 8 in my Top 20 friends will periodically feature 4 bands that i have recently discovered and I really like... The concept kicks off with Hornet Leg from ...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:49:00 PST

************ vacant music to a defined esthetic...

Gosh, big thanks to Chloe for reminding me of Ian Svenonius... he will be reading his book at Adobe books and dj-ing at the Hemlock in a week from Tuesday. On my way out to work this morning, I grabbe...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:25:00 PST

*********** i had two cans of diet coke

i had two cans of diet coke and i am feeling jittery... i woke up thinking how I wanted to write a blog about combing my hair sideways to cover my balding skull... I also wanted to say how I hope I ge...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:00:00 PST

********** what is wrong with us???

...400 billion dollars, over 2,000 casualties and an election after... how can this president come out on 60 minutes and say that he will do as he pleases by sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq without...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:32:00 PST

********* I keep the one I love in the freezer

You know here's the thing. Everybody dances around this relationship bullshit subject like horny teenagers at a high school dance. Awkwardly that is and without ever taking the bull by the horns. The ...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:59:00 PST

********* Best New Music of 2006

(it's only after the Top 10 position that things get hairy...)   1. Mika Miko: C.Y.S.L.A.B.F. 2. The Mall:  Emergency at the Everyday 3. Love is All: Nine Times that Same Song 4. Dread Astai...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:30:00 PST

******** Best Reissued Music of 2006

--> -->...dig it! (and feel free to comment on other gems that I missed and I might have liked)1. V/A: Queer Noises 1961-1978 (From the Closet to the Charts)2. V/A: Rockin Bones (50s Punk and Rockabi...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:07:00 PST

******* fuck the New Year's Eve scoundrel

Dr Furious' pissed off today. Dude... it pisses me off. You know? Holidays are a big rip off. Everybody tries to make money off you in any way they can. Take for example New Year's Eve. Everybody has ...
Posted by Hlias=*Pirate Chemist and Brewer on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:17:00 PST