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Ross

me, I disconnect from you

About Me

Made of Monsanto products. Skeptic.I was in Beautiful Skin . Now I am Fans of Collision .

My Interests

The big sky, the big here and the long now , (listening and making)music /sound, art, science, fixing old music gear, talking, dime-store-philosophy, daydreaming, animals, evolutionary biology, subcultures, Puma sneakers, etc. Cuteoverload.com !!!!

I'd like to meet:

Mature level headed types. I'm not kidding. I like intelligent, genuine, nice folks. Individuals.

Music:

Barry Adamson Feels like REAL leather......70's German Progressive, Post-Punk, 20th century avant-guarde/electronic, Dirge/Sludge-Metal, Brit-Pop, experimental, proto-industrial, minimalist and dense, off-center (ex: Shaggs), early American Punk/New Wave, Zappa, and melodic Pop such as ABBA etc.

Movies:

Freaks and The Fisher King might be my all time favorites. But I also like: Withnail and I,The Incident,Idiocracy, Zeitgeist, Nashville, The Science of Sleep, Rat Fink A Boo Boo, American Astronaut, American Splendor, Network, Watermelon Man, Breaking Away, Rock and Roll High School, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Corporation, The Turkish Wizard of Oz (or any foreign ripoff movie), 24 Hour Party People, Giants and Toys, Planet of the Apes, Phantom of the Paradise, The Ninth Configuration, City of Lost Children, Triplets of Bellevile, Liquid Sky, all Herzog, Papillon, The Fountainhead, Midnight Cowboy, Cool hand Luke, Face in the Crowd, Blade Runner , Alien, Kubrik, Kurosawa, some Hitchcock, Heavy Metal, Road Warrior, Elling, Mishima, Koyaanisqatsi, Metropolis, Marx Brothers, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Albert Brooks, The Little Prince, Groove Tube, Ray Harryhausen and any other decent movie with stop motion animation..

Television:

BBC Horizon, PBS, TEDtalks, Yacht Rock, YouTube, Battlestar Galactica, Venture Brothers, Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, Cosmos, Frontline, old SNL, SCTV, Night Flight, Newton's Apple, Nova, Odd Couple, Twilight Zone, Bugs Bunny, Benny Hill, Oliver at Large,

Books:

The World Without Us, The Tipping Point, The Fountainhead, Steppenwolf, Siddartha, Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, We, Ape and Essence, Martian Chronicles, Please Kill Me, Breakfast of Champions, tons of music bios such as the 33 1/3 series, and tons of other books about technical audio, electronic music history, musical instruments, some history, and science.

Heroes:

Hero is a heavy concept, but here are some people I admire for their vision :The Plasmatics, Ron Paul, Obama, Richard Dawkins, Chris Cutler ,Raul Seixas, Hunter S. Thompson, Mark Perry, Laibach, Jesus (I know, probably a fictional character, but the sermon on the mount stuff is pretty inspiring) Bryan Ferry, Snakefinger, Plastic People of the Universe (Czech band), MLK, Malcom X, Noam Chomsky, Ray Harryhausen, Klaus Dinger, Klaus Nomi, Wendy Carlos, Philip Glass, Raymond Scott, Don Buchla, Robert Moog, Carl Sagan, HR Giger, Ianis Xenakis, Daevid Allen, Werner Herzog, Frank Zappa, Devo, Residents, Nam Jun Paik, Eno, Throbbing Gristle, Kraftwerk, Daniel Miller, Tony Wilson, Martin Hannet, faust, Herman Hesse, Ayn Rand, William Shatner, and my brother Alex!.. width="425" height="350">.. ....>..

My Blog

Constipation and Placebo’s cover of ’Running up that Hill’

I've just had the chance to listen to Placebo's cover of Kate Bush's 'Running up that Hill' . I've been really constipated lately, but after hearing their cover I feel my bowels loosening up a bit.
Posted by Ross on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:26:00 PST

Diablo Cody

I can't believe Diablo Cody only has a 52.76% rating on www.amiannoying.com !!! Here's an article on juno:http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/57 -juno/
Posted by Ross on Thu, 08 May 2008 07:39:00 PST

RIP Phil Dodds

here's a blog of a blog. I was visiting http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/ today and was deeply saddened to find out Phil Dodds had passed away. I was blow away by the classic Close Encounters scene Phi...
Posted by Ross on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:14:00 PST

makes sense to me

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Posted by Ross on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:54:00 PST

chocolate rain and Nomi

I think Klaus Nomi would rock 'chocolate rain' .
Posted by Ross on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:56:00 PST

Have a Restless Day :)

Restless Day by CoilEach time I wake up Each time I say The shifting slow beginning Another restless day Down damned indecision Push me on my way The shifting slow beginning Another restless day Super...
Posted by Ross on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:04:00 PST

Laurie Anderson PSA's c.1990

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Posted by Ross on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:48:00 PST

Hawkwind's 'Urban Guerilla' lyrics

I'm an urban guerrillaI make bombs in my cellarI'm a derelict dwellerI'm a potential killerI'm a street fighting dancerI'm a revolutionary romancerMy rising sign is CancerI'm a two-tone pantherSo let'...
Posted by Ross on Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:45:00 PST

Negativland on CDs and the record industry

SHINY, ALUMINUM, PLASTIC, AND DIGITAL .. NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="[email protected]"> SHINY, ALUMINUM, PLASTIC,AND DIGITALby NegativlandReproduction of this essay is strongly encouraged.So, why i...
Posted by Ross on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:59:00 PST

Todd lyric : I went to the mirror

In a voice soaked with euphoria:I went to the mirror this morningI looked in the mirror insteadThe first thing to come into focusWas a face wrapped all around my headThere's something sticking out of ...
Posted by Ross on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:56:00 PST