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special r

watching records spin for 3 decades

About Me

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My Interests

guitar, indie, 45's, 7" records, vinyl, cats, art

I'd like to meet:

Actually no one in reality. Yet, virtually, through myspace......people that collect records, respect animals and women as equal. Like real music, not the junk on clear/government/christian channel, like art, think cable television, or for that matter, tv is evil, like to have fun, die their freakin hair, and watch clothes move in the washer.

Music:

Sleater-Kinney, The Spits, The Dismemberment Plan, Iron & Wine, Dianogah, Film School, Elliott Smith, Le Tigre, Tom Waits, Songs:Ohia, The Gossip , Neko Case, Mika Miko, Beastie Boys, Lightning Bolt, The Pixies, This Moment in Black History, Lou Barlow, Dead Kennedys, Enon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Six Finger Satellite, The Big Boys, Built to Spill, Measels Mumps Rubella, Sarandon, Cibo Matto, L7, Eleni Mandell, Holly Golightly, Santo & Johnny, Calexico, Stereolab, Friends of Dean Martinez, The Bangs, Mogwai, The Minutemen , Sonic Youth, Badly Drawn Boy, The Black Keys, Bright Eyes, Mirah, The Husbands, June of 44, Sean Na Na, Roue, Oxbow, The Gits, Fugazi, Godspeed, Sea & Cake, The Six Parts Seven, Cursive, Modest Mouse (old shit), Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Against Me!, Ugly Casanova, Superwolf, The Make-Up, Bratmobile, Cat Power, The Fall, Aloha, The Hookers, Don Cabellero, Murder City Devils, That Dog, Sebadoh, Belle & Sebastian, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Magnolia Electric Company, Quasi, The Liars, Thinking Fellers Union Local 182, Richard Hell, Red House Painters, Bikini Kill, Hovercraft, Make Believe, 90 day men, The good life, Epoxies, Les Savy Fav, 764-hero, Minor Threat, R.L. Burnside, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Hot Snakes, Red Aunts, Heatmiser, Juno, Slint.

Movies:

American Splendor, Suburbia, Amelie, Taxi Driver, Thumbsucker, Down By Law, Breakfast Club

Television:

TV is crap!

Heroes:

Beth Ditto, Mom, Martin Luther King JR., Dan, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Black Beans, Richard Simmons, Simi

My Blog

Top Five Songs for the Month of September 2008

1) Mogwai - "Kids will be skeletons" 2) Calexico - "El Gatillo (Trigger Revisited)" 3) Elliott Smith - "Twlight" 4) The Spits - "Wendy" 5) Tom Waits - "Broken Bicycles -Make me smile...
Posted by special r on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:39:00 PST

Top Five Songs for August 2008

1) Calexico - "Service and repair" 2) Wooden Ships - "Loose Lips" 3) Tom Waits - "Long way home" 4) The Triggers - "No Bullshit" 5) The Spits - "Shitty World" - Bar Cento was great even the forty doll...
Posted by special r on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:43:00 PST

Top Five Songs of the Month for July 2008

1) Sleater-Kinney - "Jumpers" 2) Tom Waits - "Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis" 3) Ella Fitzgerald - "My Happiness" 4) Beck - "Volcano" 5) Mogwai - "Friend of the night" -Thanks for the mot...
Posted by special r on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:43:00 PST

Top Five Songs for the Month of April 2008

1) Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Strange Form of Life" 2) Black Keys - "Psychotic Girl" 3) Tom Waits - "Wrong side of the road" 4) Tom Waits - "San Diego Serenade" 5) Le Tigre - "Deceptacon" - I like walks...
Posted by special r on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:03:00 PST

Top Five Songs of the Month for March 2008

1) Cat Power - "Don’t Explain" 2) Cat Power - "Metal Heart" (2008 rendition) 3) Sarandon - "Make Fun" 4) Bon Iver - "Skinny Love" 5) Tom Waits......everything programmed into the IPOD -Fake punc...
Posted by special r on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:23:00 PST

Top five songs for the Month of February 2008

1) The Gossip - "Gone Tomorrow" 2) Mirah - "Don't Go" 3) Quasi - "Only success can fail me now" 4) Aloha - "Body Buzz" 5) Sarandon -"Through the humour" -I think it would be interesting to have been b...
Posted by special r on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:53:00 PST

Top Five Songs of the Month for January 2008

1) Oxbow - "Geometry of Business" 2) Superwolf - "Only someone running" 3) Bratmobile - "Gimmie Brains" 4) Feist - "I feel it all" 5) Murder City Devils - "Johnny Thunders" -Kept down and wanting to d...
Posted by special r on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:19:00 PST

Top Five Songs of the Month for December 2007

1) Tom Waits - "Green Grass" 2) Film School - "Lectric" 3) Elliott Smith - "Going Nowhere" 4) Built to Spill - "Else" 5) Aloha - "Equinox" -Its been a grand hell of a year.  Thanks and wishes to...
Posted by special r on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:17:00 PST

Top Five Songs of the Month for November 2007

1) The Gossip - "Spare me the mold" 2) Sebadoh - "Weed against speed" 3) Six Parts Seven - "Stolen Moments" 4) Sonic Youth - "Pattern Recognition" 5) Tom Waits - "Dead" -All the top of their heads are...
Posted by special r on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:03:00 PST

Top Five Songs of the Month for October 2007

1) Fugazi - "Burning" 2) Le Tigre - "TKO" 3) Fiest - "Intuition" 4) Man or Astroman? - Of sex and demise" 5) The Liars - "Sailing to Byzantium" -Feeling better, pizza, candy, and beer....
Posted by special r on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:21:00 PST