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About Me

Borderline-autistic ex d-list rockst*r, currently professional geek - therefore now experiencing a form of mild dualist sea-sickness which grows more acute with each pendulum swing. My life is as confused as that metaphor.

I am the worlds first avant-guardian angel.

My Interests

Stolichnaya and Bison.

I'd like to meet:

The terminally fucking hip.

Music:

Liz Durrett, Dirty Three, all that middle aged coffee table makeout bollocks. Task Force, El-P, all that hiphop egoist psuedo-poetry shit. Limewax, Tech Itch, all that gabba gabba dubba dubba satanic dog sacrificing crap. Claw, Plastician, all that boring subby stoner dubstep wankoff. I also like Swans but you can get fucked if you think I'm going to mock them.

Books:

Joseph Conrad, Salman Rushdie, Raymond Chandler, Milan Kundera, Thomas Harris, Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Henry Miller, Tom Wolfe, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Roald Dahl, Joseph Heller, Kafka, Michel Houllebec, AA Milne, Bret Easton Ellis, John Wyndham, Tolkien, Anais Nin, Chuck Palahniuk, Donna Tartt, Murakami, Jeanette Winterson, Jean Rhys, Iris Murdoch, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Jack Kerouac, Peter Carey, James Ellroy, Phillip Roth, J.G. Ballard, Irvine Welsh.

Heroes:

"You'll be glad to hear that he's not a good lover."

"Why not?"

"He's not selfish enough. Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the woman's pleasure so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves. You look as if you might understand that."

"I'm trying not to."

My Blog

WHY WILL OLDHAM WINS AT LIFE

Well, you're my friend [that's what you told me]And can you see [what's inside of me]Many times we've been out drinkingAnd many times we've shared our thoughtsBut did you ever notice, the kind of...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:04:00 PST

...one great big festering neon distraction...

All my homies move to LA. Or SF. Or Bris Vegas. Or Bologna. Shit, even South London is a schlep. Makes me wonder, is life so bad over here? Or do my homies just not see ...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:01:00 PST

SLUT ON A BUS

So this morning I was on my way into work on the 149 from Stoke Newington and I happened to sit in one of the seats which face backwards. It's annoying to travel backwards to work ANYWAY, but&nb...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:36:00 PST

BASTARDS

Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Thu, 24 May 2007 12:45:00 PST

How Does It Feel To Be Tolerated?

I can be a prick at times but god sometimes it feels so good. Vindication. Taste that? The iron, salty taste of blood isn't it? It's the sensation of every school bully smackin...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:10:00 PST

The Last Question - Issac Asimov

The Last QuestionBy Isaac AsimovThis is by far my favorite story of all those I have written.After all, I undertook to tell several trillion years of human history in the space of a short story and I ...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:55:00 PST

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It's a cold place you leave when you begin to shave slivers of time from your dreams. And I'd rather not spend time with sleep mosaics which distract from the tangible, but if this is ...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:18:00 PST

My Soul Aches

What an ugly, drunken, insensitive, stupid, violent way of seeing in the New Year. I was drinking champagne one minute and restraining a skinny chav in a cheap suit the next. Totally ...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:01:00 PST

Best Myspace Exchange EVAR

So this is my Saturday:----------------- Original Message ----------------- From: Winston Date: Dec 24 2006 12:14 AM U R STUPID FAG ----------------- Original Message...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

I REQUIRE PROMPT AND VIOLENT BLUDGEONING

This weekend was made up of 5am Radiohead blasts, obnoxious dnb, free gin, hot ladies, MDMA, and visits to my parents, in that order. As you can probably imagine, I'm not currently at my chirpi...
Posted by Hot Cross Ben on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 07:40:00 PST