Music:
Member Since: 4/23/2007
Band Members: Slug Nipple/Vagabondage/Heinous Anus/Arrjay Scrotumbag/The Artist Formerly Known As Ball-Sack.
Influences:
Frenzal Rhomb, Self Righteous Brothers (Aus.), No Idea, Choking Victim, Leftover Crack, Star Fucking Hipsterz, Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains, Gogol Bordello, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Hasil Adkins, Misfits (Danzig era), Television, X, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Lars Frederiksen & The Bastards, NOFX, All, Descendents, U.S Bombs, No Idea, Robert Johnson, Ned Devines, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, The Real McKenzies, The Tossers, The Pogues, Shane McGowan & The Popes, Blood Or Whiskey, County Hell, Johnny Cash, Bad Religion, H-Block 101, The Ramones, Horrorpops, Tiger Army, Green Day, The Network, Rage Against The Machine, Subhumans, Citizen Fish, The Damned, MC5, Sex Pistols, Reagan Youth, Adicts, Bad Brains, Limp Wrist, Poe, The Coup, Dead Prez, Public Enemy, Danger Mouse, MF Doom, Eyedea And Abilites, Sage Francis, Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Prodigy, Transplants, Tool, Pink Floyd, 311, Bob Marley, Sublime, Cafe Tacuba, Molotov, Pizzicato 5, The Aggrolites, Primus, The Specials, The Vandals, Grinspoon (well, their first record ...all their other shit sucks), Husker Du, Adolescents, The Cramps, Suicide Machines, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Iggy Pop And The Stooges, Rolling Stones, Velvet Underground, Smashing Pumpkins (despite hating Billy Corgan), The Dead Milkmen, Nirvana, Marilyn Manson, The Decemberists, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Jebediah, The Walkmen, The Flaming Lips, The Killers, The White Stripes, The Shadows, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Spinal Tap, Avail, Hot Water Music, Fischerspooner, Bjork, The Sugarcubes, Ani Difranco, Coheed And Cambria, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, The Special Goodness, The Mountain Goats, The Weakerthans, The Clash, The Queers, Fifteen, Screeching Weasel, The Riverdales, The Methadones, T.S.O.L, The Buzzcocks, Propagandhi, The Exploited, The Alaskan Pirate And His Salty Seamen, The Jolly Rogers, Minor Threat, Satyricon, Randomorder, Switchblade Cheetah, Sepultura, Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Anal Cunt, Mastodon and a whole bunch of other random shite.
Sounds Like: Yer mum.
Interests:
Music. Art. Tattoos. Books. Comic-books. Partying. Eating. Cooking. Nonsense. Bumper stickers. Board games. Video games. Feeding the hungry. Road trips. Aussie rules football. International/Gaelic football. Soccer. Buddhism. Reading gravestones. Science fiction stories. Fantasy stories. Norse, Gaelic, Greek & Egyptian mythology. Sociology. Feminism. Animal rights. Environmentalism. Paganism. Multiculturalism. Veganism. Hats. Nautical paraphenalia. Animals. Cycling. Driving. Though I must admit that outside of these things I want as little to do with human beings and our societies as possible. No offense. It's a hermit thing.
Movies:
If you're at all interested in living the hermit life and you haven't seen 'Alone In The Wilderness' then you should check it out. It's the documentry of Richard Proenneke who built his own cabin in the wilderness near Twin Lakes, in what is now Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
If you're interested in freight-train hopping and living the hobo life then you should check out the film 'Who is Bozo Texino?' by Bill Daniel who shot the film on freight trips across the western US over a period of 16 years. It is an experimental documentary film about the old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. Truly brilliant stuff.
And if you like Subhumans, as I do, you ought to watch this:
And if you have an ounce of compassion you ought to watch this:
Who I'd like to meet:
Nobody. Except Grug. And hermits who live out in the woods. And mutants. And maybe Bender, Thor and Hellboy. That about does it.
Nothing Nice To Say by Mitch Clem.
"If you're not vegan, you're not vegetarian." -V.L. Allineare.
"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." -Neal Barnard, M.D.
"My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk." -Rynn Berry.
"I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism." -Peter Burwash, champion tennis player in his book, "A Vegetarian Primer."
"Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving." -Mike Connolly.
"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men." -Leonardo DaVinci.
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." -Thomas Edison.
"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." -Albert Einstein.
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." -Albert Einstein.
"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants." -Mahatma Gandhi.
"It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage." -Mahatma Gandhi.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Mahatma Gandhi.
"It is strange to hear people talk of Humanitarianism, who are members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite." -Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish.
"A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food!" -J. H. Kellog.
"Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take." -Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.
"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons." -C. S. Lewis.
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian." -Paul McCartney.
"Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal." -Ingrid Newkirk, National Director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
"I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me." -Alex Poulos.
"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." -Pythagoras.
"Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass." Pythagoras.
"Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends." -George Bernard Shaw
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?" -George Bernard Shaw.
"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens." -Isaac Bashevis Singer.
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times." -Isaac Bashevis Singer.
"Various philosophers and religious leaders tried to convince their disciples and followers that animals are nothing more than machines without a soul, without feelings. However, anyone who has ever lived with an animal--be it a dog, a bird, or even a mouse--knows that this theory is a brazen lie, invented to justify cruelty." -Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own." -Robert Louis Stevenson.
"I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals." -Henry David Thoreau.
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite." -Leo Tolstoy.
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." -Leo Tolstoy.
"In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig... I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse." -H. G. Wells' vision of the future in 'A Modern Utopia'.
Books:
Most of 'em.
Details:
Status: Married.
Here for: Friends.
Orientation: Straight.
Smoke/Drink: No/Yes.
Children: No thanks.
Occupation: Nympho Pedestrian.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned
