Vanity, alcohol, nicotine, power chords, drum tones, self loathing, imagined sexual deviance, other slacker things...
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Local H, Failure, Queens of the Stone Age, the Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Black Alps, Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Wire, Placebo, Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, Depeche Mode, Manic Street Preachers, Nine Inch Nails, Jawbreaker, Rocket from the Crypt, Stone Temple Pilots, Murder City Devils, Dead Low Tide, Big Business, the Melvins, Fugazi, Dresden Dolls, Elliott Smith, the Cure, the Stooges, Interpol, the Clash, At The Drive-In, Monster Magnet, Clutch, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Jesus Lizard, Fireball Ministry, Sonic Youth, Marilyn Manson, the Pixies, Nirvana, Tool, Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, Broadcaster, etc.
It distracts, it kills time, and I love it.
Anything dark usually works.
My heroes change hourly. Count on it.