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About Me

I play guitar in the State. That is the REAL State, from Ann Arbor Michigan. And if you don't know who they are, the hell with ya! (Ummm...not really.) BTW...any other "State"s need to fuck off and die.Sometimes I have riffs the State can't use, the wankers! So I make overdubbed 8 track recordings, using bass, guitar, drums, harmonica, and my own fabulous vocals.

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My Interests

Amps that go up to 11! Regime change! Chicks too cool to talk to me! History made, history in the making. Tudor England. Chi Gung. The Kennedy assasination (w/out the idiot stuff). The State, The State, and nothing but The State!

I'd like to meet:

Everyone in a dark alley.

Music:

Classical, esp.w/strings, esp. the famous guys...hardcore punk...often the UN-famous, but hey if you're famous I won't hold it against you (do you read me John?)...the Wall of Sound...The Beatles...Robert Johnson...Brian Wilson, "weird" and otherwise...Woody Guthrie....Misissippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, shit like that...Chuck Berry, Stones, Motorhead, MC5, shit like THAT. Rock Steady! Joe Higgs. The New York Dolls. Groovy Ann Arbor area underground groups like THE STOOGES, Cult Heroes, Powertrane, Pussy Pirates, M.O.M., the Boxcars, the Potions, Invader, H.D.B., Suns Over Saturn. 13 Step Group from Grand Rapids. Detroit punks like D.I.C., Rat Finks, Pirate Law...shit gotta stop somewhere, I aint no music ho'.

Movies:

Almost everything by Stanley Kubrick. Motel Hell. Peformance. Anne of A Thousand Days.(Genevieve Bujold, where are you?) Spinal Tap!

Television:

Got no time for TV.

Books:

Anything by George Orwell. Mark Twain...esp. Letters From The Earth and Huckleberry Finn. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway short stories. Dostoevsky, esp. Crime and Punishment, Notes From Underground, and The Double. Leo Tolstoy, especially War And Peace and Family Happiness. Gogol's Diary Of A Madman (Silence!) The Autobiography of Henry The VIII by Margaret George. Ringo Starr's poetry. (Yeah Yeah Yeah!) Oh, all kinds of stuff...Profiles In Courage. Does that make me a bad American?

Heroes:

You! And I aint lyin'.

My Blog

FLYER RIPPER STALKS ANN ARBOR! Terrified residents bored at home!

Ann Arbor, Sept. 17--- Residents of this Michigan town remain barricaded in their homes with no idea where to go after a wave of "flyer ripping" by crazed telep...
Posted by Arthur on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:03:00 PST

In a Few Hours Of Madness...aural mayhem in Albany NY!

Okay...Arthur's ears are still ringing happily after the State joined in with other noisy subversives to play the recent "In a Few Hours of Madness" punk extravaganza in Albany New York. I...
Posted by Arthur on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:31:00 PST

How it feels to be 99...

How does it feel to be 99? A little bit better than being 100, I'll bet. And BTW...anyone with notions that this recent so-called "birthday" of mine requires any altera...
Posted by Arthur on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:56:00 PST

The Cult Heroes kick Arthur's ass!

I don't know about you, but I realized all over again July 14 how much I love Ann Arbor's best kept secret threat to rock and roll complacency, the fabulous Cult Heroes. This Bastille Day blowout at t...
Posted by Arthur on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:57:00 PST

Who said that?

Fantastic news! The Arthur page will now be offering, for the interested reader, sources for the unbelievably pithy quotes I use in my headlines. And today's is.... "Th...
Posted by Arthur on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:26:00 PST

A Leadbelly moment: Like Lightning Striking!

Leadbelly appeared live on a nationally broadcast radio show from New York City about sixty years ago, when I was a mere lad. Recently I heard it on NPR's "America...
Posted by Arthur on Sat, 05 May 2007 05:21:00 PST

A quote from Woody Guthrie

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose...too old or too young or too fat or too thin or too this or too that...I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is yo...
Posted by Arthur on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:52:00 PST