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Lucas

Crappy Bands Inspire You Not to Suck

About Me

I make bands sound good. I also have been known to tour with ze rock bands. Contact me for touring work.

I take pictures


My Interests

Music. ipods and itunes. Making sure the genres are correct on itunes. Bit Torrent. The British Isles. Matadortravel.com Skateboarding Going to shows. Putting on shows. Making mix cds. DJ'ing. Drums. flickr.com reverb & compression Pirates. The New Yorker. Reading(esp. history books). coffee & coffeeshops. Telling bedtime stories. Berlin. Iceland. Web Boggle. Scrabble. Infocom & text adventure games. Late nights. Scandanavia and it's citizens. Paste magazine. Fish Tacos. Photography. Atlases. Reference. Kayaking. Ice Tea. Colorado. Truck Stops. Free lunch at work. Writing my novel. Wasting time outdoors. The Muppets. World Event. Current Events. Spending money on food. Cooking. Food Network. Lo tech Hi tech

I'd like to meet:

Professional pastry chefs. Travelers. Bakers. Good people. Mole People. Someone to give me a haircut.
MySpace Tracker

Music:

Aceyalone, Adam Richman, Afghan Whigs, Air, Amadou & Miriam, Antony & The Johnsons, Appleseed Cast, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, Band of Horses, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds, Beta Band, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bottom of the Hudson, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Bruce Springsteen, Calexico, Camera Obscura,Casiontone for the Painfully Alone, The Clash, Coco Rosie, CSS, Creeper Lagoon, The Cult, The Cure, Daft Punk, Death Cab For Cutie, Delays, Dengue Fever, Dinosaur Jr, Dntel,Dragonforce, Dredg, Dressy Bessy, Dungen, Duran Duran, Editors, Envelopes, Ex-Lion Tamer, The Faint, The Farm, Fear, Feeder, Feist, Fiery Furnances, Final Fantasy, Flashlight Party, The Fray, Franz Ferdinand, French Kicks, Futureheads, Gorillaz, Hellacopters, Hello Saferide, Hot Chip, Human Television, Idlewild, Interpol, Islands, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Kings of Convenience, Kings of Leon, The Knife, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Lightning Seeds, Lovely Feathers, Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Matisyahu, Mates of State, M.Ward, Mclusky, Meligrove Band, Morphine, Morrissey, Mountain Goats, Mr. Lif, New Order, New Pornographers, Notwist, Nouvelle Vague, The Organ, Pixies, Phoenix, Pogues, Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Prince, Radiohead, Radio 4, Rainer Maria, Regina Spektor, Replacements, REM, Rilo Kiley, The Shins, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, The Smiths, The Sounds, Stars, Stereolab, Stone Roses, Tapes N Tapes, Weezer, Wilco, Wolf Parade, Wolfmother

Movies:

Triplets of Belleville, Goonies, Amadeus, Memento, Star Wars, Indiana Jones series, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Muppet Movie,In America, Nosferatu, Amelie, Pirates of the Caribbean. Serpent and The Rainbow, I am trying to break your heart, Kill Bill, Less Than Zero, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, The Mission, Club Dread, The Swimming Pool, Lion King, Baraka, About A Boy, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Finding Nemo, High Fidelity, Mean Girls, Harry Potter(s).

Television:

Anything from the continent. Cooking shows. Music documentaries

Books:

Professor and The Madman, History books, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The First Man, Road Atlases, A Brief History of Time. Running with Scissors, Story of the Eye, Middlesex, Kavalier and Clay, Nickel and Dimed,The Namesake, Fast Food Nation, The Historian, Trainspotting, Peoples History of the United States, Geek Love, Plot Against America, Kafka, Anything by David Sedaris,The Corrections, The Last Great Tycoon, The Curious incident of the dog in night-time, Unbearable Lightness of Being,Forever(Pete Hamil), Roald Dahl's collections, Sherlock Holmes, Winnie The Pooh, Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel, Ferdinand the Bull.

Heroes:

Harry Potter

My Blog

The Good Ole Days

Or "Youtube does it again."..>...
Posted by Lucas on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:14:00 PST

We're Not Gonna Take It

Everytime I flipped to VH1 Classic today, Twisted Sisters "We're Not Gonna Take It" was on. A sign? I think so. A sign of what? I have no idea.
Posted by Lucas on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:59:00 PST

Right Now

There is some asshole blasting Italian crooner music circa 1930 outside my window. He's sitting in a truck with the windows open cranking this shit. It's been about 45 minutes now and I'm wondering ho...
Posted by Lucas on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:53:00 PST

Back To The Bus

Everytime I swear I'm not going on the road, something comes along and I can't say no. I'm out on the road with Dinosaur Jr these days as their stage manager/drum tech. They were one of my favorite ba...
Posted by Lucas on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:46:00 PST

Finally

After kicking around and almost getting my ass kicked by the city, I finally got the job I wanted. My internship hired me full time yesterday. I am so excited to be starting over and starting my caree...
Posted by Lucas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sonic Goodness

I finally got all my ipod problems worked out and got my hands on one that works. Yaaaay me. I've been laying low and putting all kinds of killer music on it. Part of the fun this week has been going ...
Posted by Lucas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Smells of Brooklyn

Greenpoint smells like a garbage dump. Sometimes it smells like a toilet, but mostly like garbage. Today was particularly potent.
Posted by Lucas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I love free stuff

I snagged an ipod through work. Go me. It looks like I'll be uploading music for the next few weeks.The hardest part is deciding what to upload. Looks like I'll be raiding my bosses metal collection f...
Posted by Lucas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Obsession

I've become hooked on myspace games. I haven't been this hooked on a video games since Pitfall(spring of 1982). I spent a rocking Friday night watching my ipod on ebay and playing this. Send me a chal...
Posted by Lucas on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST