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Doug

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About Me

Battle-hardened, dreadlocked punk rock lifer heading into his 35th year on this planet. Born 1/12/73 in Ridgewood New Jersey, grew up in Kentucky and currently living the life in Minneapolis after ten years in Ohio. Coming off of a rough 2007 and more than ready for what the new year has in store. Columnist and record reviewer for Profane Existence Magazine, as well as contributor for other sundry punk mags floating around here and there. Also known for smartassed and cynical spoken word performances. Can be spotted shuffling records around at Extreme Noise on Monday afternoons and talking about the most brutal, skull-smashing, ball-busting, like-a-nailbomb-went-off-in-your-fucking-pants crust attack bands and then sneaking off to listen to Elliott Smith when no one else is paying attention. Get MySpace Layouts from nUCLEArcENTURy .COM OR create your own using MySpace profile editor !!!
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My Interests

Bicycle racing/maintenance, vegan cooking, shitty 80s metal, crust/anarcho punk, killing Uptown posers, writing, and homebrew....lots of homebrew. Oh yeah, and kicking Widget's ass for fucking with my page.

I'd like to meet:

People in the Minneapolis area that play music but aren't shithouse drunk 24/7 along with Widgets sister

Music:

Skitsystem, Wolfpack, Dezerter, Asta Kask, Riistetyt, Bastards, Terveet Kadet, Detestation, The Mentors, Extinction of Mankind, Doom, Effigy, Axegrinder, Hellshock, Bumbklaat, Provoked, Sedition, Oi Polloi, Wham!, World Burns to Death, Valvantakomissio, No Security, Svart Parad, Kuro, Extreme Noise Terror, Wretched, Indigesti, Bastard, The Bronski Beat, Imperial Leather, Discharge, Anti-Cimex, The Total End, EU's Arse, Gauze, Apocalypse, Endless Nightmare, Living Hell, Man the Conveyors, Disrespect, Phobia, Destroy!, To What End?, Hellbastard, Deviated Instinct/Spine Wrench/Bait, Mass Grave, old Metallica, Hellkrusher, Celtic Frost, Behind Enemy Lines, Bastard Sons of Apocalypse, Confuse, Gai, Outo, Gloom, Framtid, Dropdead, Misery, the Accused, Amebix, Flux of Pink Indians, Bolt Thrower, Iron Maiden, High on Fire, Kylesa, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Orange Goblin Johnny Cash, etc. Basically lots of crust/stenchcore/punk as well as old metal and stoner rock. No sketchy or dodgy bullshit. GUILTY PLEASURES: Pixies, Liz Phair, Husker Du, Black Crowes, Joy Division, Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, AC/DC, Willie Nelson, ABBA, Prince & the Revolution, Clarence Carter (I do a mean version of "Strokin'" after a couple of beers), Elliott Smith, Jawbreaker, Manowar.

Movies:

River's Edge, Spun, Barfly, Suburbia (the old one), The Warriors, Mad Max, Harold and Maude, The Lord of the Rings (all), SLC Punk, Glitter, Star Wars (the old ones), High Fidelity, The Breakfast Club, Brokeback Mountain, Apocalypse Now, and any Star Trek (esp. Next Generation- "First Contact" and "Insurrection").

Television:

I hate TV but love Metalocalypse, Jackass, and Cheaters.

Books:

Building Community (bell hooks), The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), Cash (Johnny Cash), Everybody Poops, Diet for a New America (John Robbins), Soy Not Oi! (Hippycore Collective), Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser), Women (Charles Bukowski), Last Exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby, Jr.).

Heroes:

Anybody who lives their life the way the way they want to without being a creep, name-dropper, or hanger-on.

My Blog

You fucks don’t know how good you have it!

  I wanted to use this space to voice my frustrations to all the passive aggressive motherfuckers I know in Minneapolis, or more specifically, the people I know who specialize in doing nothing bu...
Posted by Doug on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:23:00 PST

Who keeps stealing my spoke cards?

Is there some tradition here in Minneapolis of stealing other peoples' spoke cards?  I have to know!  In three months, I have had no less than five spoke cards stolen off the rear rim of my ...
Posted by Doug on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:00:00 PST

reflections after a month in the TC

   So I've been up here for just over a month, getting into a routine of sorts and preparing to get my stuff out of storage after living bare bones for about five months.  I get asked a...
Posted by Doug on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:41:00 PST

reflections after a week in the T.C.

So I've been up here living in Minneapolis for a little over a week; nestled comfortably in my little hidey-hole at the old Profane Existence headquarters.  Aside from the occasional awkwardness ...
Posted by Doug on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:49:00 PST

More stuff from "Work-" mature audiences only!!!

   Hey-as per the requests of some folks, here is some more stuff from my chapbook called "Work."  Read and (hopefully) enjoy.  This is for Nathan Kissel, for helpin a brotha out.....
Posted by Doug on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:56:00 PST

excerpt from "Work"

*This is an excerpt from a chapbook I'm working on called "Work," which is a collection of stories about various fucked up jobs I've had: "The Spoken Word Artist (and why I would rather be dragged thr...
Posted by Doug on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:46:00 PST

Spreading the sentiment (for Russ!!)

   Out here on the East End of Cincinnati (where I've been staying and getting ramped up to split this town), I feel like I'm learning a lot about life.  I'm not talking about what it's...
Posted by Doug on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:18:00 PST

Deep thoughts...with Doug Handey

  Did you ever notice that any word becomes funny as hell if you put the prefix "man" in front of it?  Like, "manpants," "manhug," or "manhose?" ...
Posted by Doug on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:07:00 PST

Things I forgot

In ruminating over life in general, as well as the mess that my prospective move to Minnesota turned out to be, I realized that I forgot to send cheers out to the following places and individuals: &nb...
Posted by Doug on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:17:00 PST

A bike jock is still a jock

   I am posting this to tell the world that I have officially had enough of being looked down upon by the hordes of snobby-assed, spandex-clad bike poseurs that seem to patrol the streets of...
Posted by Doug on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:34:00 PST