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Tastygristle

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About Me

Old School Punk / weirdo - all grown up with diverse tastes in all areas of life who's child like curiosity drives my eternal search for new and exciting crap to entertain, enrich and amaze myself with.

That's all !

My Interests


Surfing, Snowboarding, CD/record collecting, Seeing Bands, Mountain Biking, Keeping Lists and Documenting Stuff, Collecting Crap, Photography, The frigging internet, ebay, Pop Culture, Reading, Libraries, Art / Museums, The Left Hand Path, Skepticism, weird shit, life outside the box, My awesome Friends, Bowling, Camping, Paintball, Cheese!, Fudge Covered Oreos, Green Tea and Soy, Baseball, F.A. Premier League & World Cup Football (Soccer), Chelsea FC
S.M.I.I.L.E

I'd like to meet:

Old long lost friends and acquaintances, Ex San Fran. or Bay Area peeps to join our "ex-San Fran LA posse", music geeks, Bret from KXLU (Tuesdays 10Am-2pm), Old school punks, weirdos & freaks from back in the day who aren't total fuck ups, Fellow Coil / TG /PTV/CTI/C93 admirers, other nerdy record /CD collector geeks, David Bowie, Brian Wilson, Brian Eno, Jonesy, Jon Stewart, George Carlin, Sleazy

Music:

Where do I start......, Punk, Metal, Post Punk, Hardcore, Industrial, Experimental, Noise, Difficult music, Electronic, New Wave, Goth, Death Rock, Doom Rock, Stoner Rock, Prog Rock, Space Rock, Kraut rock, Dub, Reggae, Dancehall, Jazz, Rap & Hip hop, 60's & Northern soul, Mod, 60's Garage & Psych, Glitter, Glam, Shoegazer, Brit pop, Ambient, drone, Classic Country & even.... Techno (so fuck you).

Sorta Current stuff that's been spinning a lot lately:

Battles, Patrick Wolf, Scott Walker, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Spacemen 3, Autolux,
My Morning Jacket, Jesu,
Tammy Wynette, The Go Team!,
Rodrigo y Gabriella, B.R.M.C., Dinosaur Jr., Jarvis Cocker, Sufjan Stevens, QOTSA, Turbonegro, Eno, Nick Cave, COH, Fennesz, Current 93, Jandek, Fela Kuti, Jack Johnson, Antony and the Johnsons, Dylan, Beach Boys,
Aphex Twin, Zoviet France, The Briefs, Deathtoll,
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Accussed, Mars Volta, Yardbirds, The Creation, Slade,
King Crimson, Entombed, Augustus Pablo, DJ Spooky, Doves, Dead Can Dance,
Black Keys, Hawkwind, Can, Eek A Mouse, Blitz, Hank Williams III , The Magic Numbers,Lindsey Buckingham,Karen Dalton, Tommy Guerero,Midnight Movies, TV on the radio, Suicide,

Podcasts : Brainwashed, Harmony in my head, R.U. Serius

Latest guity pleasures: Mickey Avalon,Andre Nickatina, Mac Dre,

Syd Barret (RIP)
R.L. Burnside (RIP)
Martin Denny (RIP)
Jhon Balance AKA Geff Rushton (RIP)

All else follows Sabbath & Coil

Movies:

Metal By Numbers
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I like a little of everything but am mostly into Documentaries, Weird, Cult, underground, cheesy - far-out -groovey Beat generation , 60's Mod , Trashy exploitation, midnight movies, Horror, Sci-fi , The classics, Bond 007, foreign, Music ones, naked ones,

Jodorowsky, Greenaway, Waters, Romero, Tarantino, Jack Hill, Lynch, Brakhage, Corman, Todd Solondz, Larry Clark

Latest Faves :
The Devil and Daniel Johnston, and "Who Cares- The Duane Peters Story", Jandek on Corwood, Live Forever (The 90's Brit pop movie), Fearless Freaks - The Flaming Lips story, The Corporation, The Weather Underground, Mathew Barney's - Drawing Restrait & Cremaster series.

Television:

Weeds, Entourage, Extras, Lost, Scrubs, Ali G, The Office, Daily show, Penn n Teller's Bullshit!, 30 Days, All the good HBO ones everybody watches, Insomniac, Frontline, 60 minutes, Globe Trekker, CSI (Vegas),

Fuel channel, Speed Channel, Soccer Channel, & Various freaks and nutjobs on Public Access.

Books:

Currently: Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Born to Rock by Todd Taylor, The 924 Gilman book,

Curently on the coffee table : Beautiful Losers, The Melvins Neither here nor there, and The Daily show's America the Book

and not so curently ... Robert Anton Wilson, Michael Moore, Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, T. Leary, Hakim Bey, Terence McKenna, Bukowski, William Gibson, Taschen, Ferral House, Disinfo, RE/search, Punk books, Adbusters , Utne, Mother Jones, Wired, MOJO, Q

Heroes:

Tim Yohannan, Ian Mackaye, Hakim Bey, Chomsky, Dr. T. Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, John Lilly, W.S. Burroughs, William Gibson, D.Grohl, Albini, Hannibal Lecter, Marquis de Sade, A.S. LaVey, George Carlin, Jon Stewart, Crass, Howard Zinn, Barry W. Lynn, and Duane Peters.

My Blog

2007 Show List (So far)

I'm slowing down in my old age but here what I've got so far: 1/13/07 Neurosis w/ Red Sparowes, Grails @ The El Rey Theater1/26/07 Of Montreal, Ariel Pink (A really shitty opening band and shitty MC &...
Posted by Tastygristle on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:38:00 PST

2006 Show List

2006Jan1 /17/06 (Angel City Outcasts Who I missed), The Diffs, (Blue Collar Special  Who I think I missed), Primadonna, Franki's Broken Toys @ The Knitting Factory1/14/06 The Briefs, Clit 45, Dead t...
Posted by Tastygristle on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:56:00 PST

2005 Show List

2005 2/18/05 The Briefs, The Briggs ( missed Radio one & Left Alone) @ Troubadour **frigging Morrisey was at this show*** 2/25/05 Carter Tutti (aka Chris and Cosey/CTI), Chessmachine (Ivan Pavlov ...
Posted by Tastygristle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

2003 show list

2003 was also a very slow year for shows. I must be getting old. 2/3/03 Johnny Marr and the Healers, Mellowdrone @ Troubadour 2/14/03 Supergrass , Palo Alto @ Troubadour 2/19/03 Interpol, The Warl...
Posted by Tastygristle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

2004 show list (a slow year)

It was a real slow year for shows but here it is .20041/16/04 The Stitches, Toys that Kill, The Orphans @ The Smell 1/30/04 The Art of Safe Cracking, The Actual, Werewolf with Robot Hands @ The Alter ...
Posted by Tastygristle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Movie List

If I had to narrow it down....I'd say these are my all time faves. Alien Aliens Altered States Amélie ( Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le) Angel Heart Blade Runner Blue Velvet A Bronx Ta...
Posted by Tastygristle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST