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Unreal Ditch

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About Me

I lived in Massachusetts for the first twenty four years of my life and then moved to Los Angeles after I finished school. After living in L.A. for less than a year I moved to Orange County where I now live with my wife, Angie. In school I majored in English and minored in Political Science. I've been involved in the punk/hardcore scene since I was thirteen years old and that is a big part of my identity. I work with children with autism as a behavioral interventionist.

My Interests

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Punk/hardcore/straight edge, countercultures in general, Muppets, soda in glass bottles, vegan restaurants, arguing (but not playing the devil's advocate), burritos, gorillas, radical political theories, writing, ghosts and parapsychology

I'd like to meet:

People around Orange County or Los Angeles who go to hardcore/punk shows, as well as people in the area who are into vegan/vegetarian eating, political activism, or ghost hunting.

Music:

Ramones, Minor Threat, Adolescents, Misfits, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Negative Approach, BL'AST, Slapshot, Pearl Jam, TSOL,7 Seconds, the Damned, Gorilla Biscuits,Murphy's Law, Sex Pistols, the Trouble, Cock Sparrer, SOA, Poison Idea, Samhain, the Undertones, the Who, Avengers, Fear, Circle Jerks, Middle Class, Shattered Faith, Psychedelic Furs, 4 Skins, Agent Orange, Warzone, the Smiths, Thin Lizzy, SS Decontrol, M.I.A., Corrosion of Conformity (their 80's records), DRI, Teen Idles, Dag Nasty, Pinkerton Thugs, Embrace, Joy Division, Replacements, Sonic Youth, the Jam, the Crowd, Crucifix, Reagan Youth, Discharge, Angelic Upstarts, Sham 69, Rolling Stones, Alone In a Crowd, Urban Waste, JFA, the Prowl, the Freeze, Jerry's Kids, Modern Life Is War, Generation X, Blondie, Go- Go's, the Specials, Judge, Cat Stevens, Inside Out/RATM, Madness, Bad Manners, Symarip, Blitz, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Barry Macguire, Dick Dale, Violent Femmes, Channel 3, X, Raw Power, Circle One, Ill Repute, What Happens Next?, Chain Of Strength, Mouthpiece, Verbal Assault, Social Distortion, Government Issue, Scream, Agnostic Front, Dead Boys, Bruisers, Zero Boys, Uniform Choice/Unity, No For an Answer,CroMags Justice League, Insted

current hardcore/punk:
Fucked Up, Criminal Damage, Broken Needle, Tipper's Gore, Bad Reaction, Concrete Facelift, Cat Party, Crucial Cause, Have Heart, Annihilation Time, Bayonettes, Marvelous Darlings, Fake Boys

Movies:

Star Wars trilogy, Gleaming the Cube, Crouching Tiger, Outsiders, High Fidelity, the Great Muppet Caper, This Is England, Ghostbusters, Rock N Roll High School

Television:

Twilight Zone, Muppet Show, Wonder Years, Ghost Hunters, the Daily Show, various select eras of SNL

Books:

Catcher In the Rye, Siddhartha, Howl (Ginsberg), White Noise (DeLillo), Dharma Punx, Orpheus Emerged (Kerouac), Fugitive Days (Bill Ayers), V for Vendetta

Heroes:


Thomas Paine, Thoreau, Allen Ginsberg, Gonzo, Joey Ramone, Robin Hood, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mario Savio, Thomas Jefferson, Woody Guthrie, Jim Henson, Harvey Milk, Emma Goldman

My Blog

on Ditch and skinheads

Fairly often I get questions about where I stand with the skinhead "cult" (subculture) and what I claim or don't claim. The short answer is that I don't claim skinhead. I haven't for several years. I ...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:18:00 PST

idle hands do the devil's dirty work

depression can be a bitch of a cycle. bored and lonely and having nothing to do but too unmotivated and anti social to go out and kill boredom or see friends. the past two weekends have gotten the bes...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:23:00 PST

the thing is

in November I met this young lady......sometimes we fightsometimes we hurt each other sometimes we get scaredsometimes i get insecure and act like a basketcasebut in the end I am always in love....
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:40:00 PST

American Hardcore DVD

Since I saw AHC in the theatres the one thing  on my mind was the potential for special features. In my ideal world this would be a two DVD set with the second disc being all unedited interviews ...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:53:00 PST

Are we taking a break from politics as usual here in the US?

Probably not but today's non binding resolution declaring dissaproval of the president's decision to send more troops to the Middle East is at least a symbolic move towards a more compassionate govern...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:48:00 PST

i must be losing my mind again

today i spent a good chunk of my morning and afternoon downloading atom and his package songs. who does that in 2006?in other news i'm pretty happy because i just came home from a pretty amazing TSOL ...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:28:00 PST

growing up, the next step

Lately I've been noticing a lot of people have made some really positive changes in their lives. A few years ago we were all hanging out and as much as we looked out for each other we were miserable a...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:08:00 PST

American Hardcore Review

Overall the movie was pretty good. It was fun to watch and helped to sum up the significance of hardcore in the early 80's. It focused primarily on Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, Teen Idles/Minor Threa...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:20:00 PST

killifornia

So tonight will mark the end of my first week living in Los Angeles. So far things have been great. I already quit the shitty phone job that I took before coming out and today I have an interview with...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:26:00 PST

the punks back home are screwed

Cuntree Club will have no more shows. Regen will have no more shows. No more shows at Kenmore practice space. I believe that teh Lily Pad has cancelled all shows. New Direction shut down a year ago. ...
Posted by Unreal Ditch on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:23:00 PST