Are you interested in my intrigues and peccadilloes?
Here. Ask me no questions. Just watch these videos. BIRDS AND SWEDES!
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I'd like to meet somebody? On MySpace? Well, I suppose anything's possible.
Who I'd NOT like to meet:
See "Villains" over to the left.
Immediately:
white noise, echos of lost innocence, self-congratulatory clinking of glasses, hypercritical cacophony of thought, bitter silence
Recently:
The Decemberists, The Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, Imogen Heap, Jose Gonzalez, The American Analog Set, Kate Bush, Wilco, Cracker, Matthew Sweet, The Flaming Lips, Eric's Trip, Sigur Rs, The Postal Service, The Faint, Beck, The Polyphonic Spree, Doves, The Stills, Paul Giovanni's Soundtrack for The Wicker Man, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Camper Van Beethoven, Blonde Redhead, Yo La Tengo, The New Pornographers, Elliott Smith.
Regularly:
James, Tom Waits, Frank Black, Pixies, Catherine Wheel, Radiohead, The Breeders, The Amps, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Red House Painters (pretty much the whole 4AD catalogue), Interpol, Belle & Sebastian, Air, The Cure, Badly Drawn Boy, Joy Division, New Order, OMD, Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Wallflowers, Mike Oldfield, The Dandy Warhols, Weezer, Mercury Rev, Eels, The Lightning Seeds, Frazier Chorus, The Wonder Stuff, The Housemartins, The Trashcan Sinatras, The Hothouse Flowers, Live, Peter Gabriel, R.E.M., Boingo, nin, The Devlins, Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, The Talking Heads, Devo, Laurie Anderson, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Echo and the Bunnymen, Talk Talk, The The, Crowded House, The Split Enz, Fingerprintz, The Silencers, The Connells, Green Day, U2, Natalie Merchant, 10,000 Maniacs, Yes, 10cc, David Gray, Dave Matthews, Boards of Canada, Tiesto, Philip Glass, Harold Budd, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Amon Tobin, Delerium, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, Tones on Tail, Bowie, Tripping Daisy, Throwing Muses, The Pogues, Gary Numan, Elvis Costello, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Chicane, Dido, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Lou Reed +/- The Velvet Underground, The Mars Volta, The Darling Buds, Massive Attack, Lemon Jelly, Ben Folds & William Shatner, The Shoes, The Spoons, Queen, Ennio Morricone, Billie Holiday, Billy Bragg, Mozart, Erik Satie, Beethoven, Chopin, Arvo Prt, Gyrgy Ligeti, Henryk Grecki, Michael Nyman, Delibes, Vaughan Williams, smatterings of (blues & reggae & Zydeco & bluegrass & jazz), Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, The Psychedelic Furs, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Lovesliescrushing, The Damned, The Smiths, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine
Canadian:
The Arcade Fire, Spirit of the West, The New Pornographers, Strange Advance, Odds, Sloan, The Dears, The Weakerthans, The Hip, Headstones, The Grapes of Wrath, Ginger, Eric's Trip, Moxy Fruvous, Cowboy Junkies, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mount Zion
Lynch , Cronenberg , Coens , Kubrick , Gilliam, Scorsese, Tarantino, P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, Soderbergh, Mann, Jeunet, Hitchcock, Truffaut, Welles, Bergman, De Sica, Miyazaki, Kurasawa, Egoyan, Boyle, Russell, Leigh, Lean, Ford Coppola.
The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Real Time with Bill Maher
People who care
People who don't give a shit
Villains
Hypocrites
Religious zealots
Self-righteous pricks
Anti-science ignoramuses
Selfish, greedy scumbags
Self-aggrandizing blowhards
Blind ideologues
Mystics
Conmen
Busybodies
Smooth talkers
Bullies
Politicians
Fascists
Dullards
Idiots
Craven toadies
The easily amused
People who fight change
People who don't give a shit
High in Calcium
Spinach
Broccoli
Yogurt
Swiss cheese