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Ben

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About Me

"When the clock strikes me people will gather to deconstruct the myths and fables that conspired against them and every new song will be an anti virus for an old belief"-sw

My Interests

ink. old paper. fortune cookies, on account of the fortune AND the cookie. attempting to run with one leg sound asleep. fucked up polaroids and the pictures they produce. music ignored by most. diners. dichotomies of all kinds. analogue baby dig it. vinyl. crap like that.

I'd like to meet:

Whomever would like to meet me i guess. No freaky shit though.

Music:

Music I have in constant rotation includes but is not limited to...Aceyalone, Budos Band, Aesop Rock, Fugazi, Cibo Mato, Prefuse 73, Daedalus, RJD2, the controls, Company Flow, Propanghandi, Offwhyte, Qwel, Nacrobats, Qwazaar, Op Ivy, Interpol, 12 ft 6, the grups, caffiene, the meat sisters, haymarket, mad professor, king tubby, ladysmith, buju banton, mr. dibbs, madlib, mf doom, yesterday's new quintet, jel, anacron, controller 7, Mahler, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Jimmy Scott, Etta James, Bjork, Sigur Ros, radiohead, boards of canada, blonde redhead, johnny cash, withdrawal, breakbeats, house, two step, DJMISSJOY, Audio Bullys, Aphex Twin, Crimpshrine, Los Crudos, Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Black Flag, Seven Seconds, mr. lif, tom waits, the mars volta, at the drive in, crass (but i lost all my tapes), 90 day men(older), RANCID, walter carlos, morton subotnick, kathleen battle, Breakestra, the jb's, the meter's, sugarman 3, billie holliday, nina simone, irma thomas, neil young, gal costa, Little Green Apples, DJ Basic, Peanut Butter Wolf, Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Illogic, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Mike 2600, ESPI and ORIGAMI sucka!, and on and on and on....Music keeps me alive.

Movies:

Gummo, City of Lost Children, Mirrormask, triplets of belleville, royal tennenbaums, waiting for guffman, best in show, Jesus' Son (jack black before he was big and famous and the dude from the new tim burton movie), the professional, tampopo, bladerunner, fifth element, better off dead, happiness, blood, ghost in the shell, akira kurisawa's ran & dreams, ghost dog, seven, breakfast club, goonies, vernon florida, deliverence (hill folk, gotta love em), the shining, the omen, the exorcist - the staircase scene wtf?, apocolypse now, clockwork orange, marat sade, dark crystal, wild style, style wars, beat street, the freshest kids, dolemite the human tornado, i'm gonna get you sucka, willie wonka (we are the music makers and the dreamers of dreams), the big lebowski, the battle of algiers, crouching tiger hidden dragon, iron monkey, trainspotting, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, the limey, the croupier, pi, anchorman, napoleon dynamite, etc.

Television:

(this is my inner dialogue)

Books:

She, the Seventh Octave, Hagakure, Said the Shotgun to the Head, Among the Thugs, the jabberwocky

Heroes:

Noam Chomsky, Saul Williams, Egon Schiele, my friends, my pops

My Blog

boredom

It would seem that there is no cure for my boredom on this day. I'd wanted to conjure some grand story of my week, but nothing springs directly to mind. I'm sure i've told most of you about my friend ...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:58:00 PST

TONS of new pictures

Sooo basically i went a little nutter with the photos. If you want to pass some time, take a look. I added a bunch of stuff - Vegas, Nova Scotia (yeah more), and some photography stuff. Enjoy.
Posted by Ben on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:34:00 PST

Hope springs eternal

all is not lost my friends. ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:22:00 PST

SOLO SHOW posted online

Sooooo its over. To everybody who came - thank you. I went a little crazy trying to get everything finished, as usual, so if i was out of sorts last month i apologize. So now that its over - if i'm ou...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 04:17:00 PST

sarcophagus. hip hop is dead.

can somebody please tell what happened to hip hop. Where did stuff like this go? make it rain. my ass. here's to what once was.~...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:43:00 PST

Purge - FUCK the oz

Sunday night I ended up at the OZ - lured out by old friends and a complete lack of judgement. I think its safe to say i'd brave hell or high water for friends, but my lord...sweet shimmering Yemaya w...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:38:00 PST

rethink

rethink ...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:50:00 PST

watch me too

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Posted by Ben on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:07:00 PST

you should watch this

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Posted by Ben on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 01:55:00 PST

Red Curry Thai Spicy 1

Red Curry Thai Spicy 1 -A modest conquest by some standards, however i prefer not to set my goals to icarian levels. And so went my Friday evening. Ever since i'd heard that there were several levels ...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:52:00 PST