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nick

wearing my heart on my sleeve since 1972

About Me

.. i love animals - so much that i don't eat them. music makes me happy. i probably drink too much. oh.... and i take pictures.

My Interests

pictures, music, cooking and eating food that doesn't contain animal bits, my friends, the ocean, coyotes, primates, bugs

I'd like to meet:

monkeys

Music:

a very very long list. here's the short version - tom waits, ted leo, minutemen, sigur ros, stereolab, black flag, crass, fugazi, rites of spring, the evens, the clash, nick cave and the bad seeds, jesse sykes and the sweet hereafter, sonic youth, pavement, my bloody valentine, rudimentary peni, the jam, bikini kill, nation of ulysses, minor threat, blues explosion, ac/dc, shellac, slug, pussy galore, velvet underground, born aganist, zounds, unwound, pj harvey, siouxsie and the banshees, pixies, black heart procession, jawbreaker, q and not u, gillian welch, elliot smith, black sabbath(the ozzy years), muddy waters, howlin' wolf, robert johnson, hank williams, johnny cash, patsy cline, al green, curtis mayfield, uncle tupelo, wilco, fIREHOSE, cat power, vetiver, flex your head is still one of my favorite records ever, and the list goes on and on and on and on and.....

Movies:

american hardcore, we jam econo, high fidelity, blade runner, all coen brothers, hal hartley, royal tannenbaums, rushmore, 28 days later, delicatessen, rosemary's baby, instrument, war photographer

Television:

the simpsons

Books:

on the road, hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, geek love, my huge book of martin parr photographs, all of the magnum photos collections

Heroes:

tom waits, henri cartier-bresson, robert frank, mary ellen mark, josef koudelka, martin parr, mike watt, crass, john coltrane, fugazi, anyone who's ever been there for me when it really mattered.