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Graeme

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About Me

I suck at writing about myself. I always feel a bizarre combination of either selling myself short or talking myself up too much. But I’ll try and cover the basics here. I’m a big music fan, always going used cd shopping or to a concert it seems like. I’ve got a sarcastic and sometimes self-deprecating sense of humor. Let’s see other random facts – I smoke cigarettes. Yes I know bad habit. Naughty naughty me. Beer is also good. I’ve watched far too many episodes of the Simpsons and Arrested Development, so much so that I’m always looking for a way to drop in a quote or four in common conversation. See that interest column to your left for more info Ummm ummm words…ummm….more words…ummm….stuff. Yeah I ran out of steam here on this. If you want to know about me or chat feel free to add me as a friend or shoot me a message.

My Interests

Music, video games, hockey, movies, concerts

I'd like to meet:

I'm looking to meet new people to hang out with, go out to bars with, check out concerts, etc. Pirates or vikings would be fun to hang with too I suppose. Someone to blow my mind with their musical knowledge and collection of useless pop culture trivia. Anyone that owns a helper monkey or realizes that everyone should have one to do their bidding. People who send quizzes in their bulletins so I have something to do to kill time at work. Basically, just cool folks to chat with and who knows what else.

Music:

Right now -

A short list of favorites - Ween, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Radiohead, Deftones, Oasis, Pixies, Thursday, Autolux, Interpol, Muse, Secret Machines, Doves, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of the Stone Age, Kasabian, Editors, NOFX, Death Cab For Cutie, Andrew W.K., Ride, Glassjaw, Stone Roses, Primus, Razorlight, Snow Patrol, Faith No More, Idlewild, Jesus and Mary Chain, Spiritualized, Local H, Fear Factory, Dredg, Bloc Party, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Weezer, Nine Black Alps, At the Drive In, My Bloody Valentine, Auf Der Maur, Pop Will Eat Itself, American Analog Set, Far, Mastodon, Oceansize, Hope of the States, Mars Volta, High on Fire, nine inch nails, Placebo, Arcade Fire, Primal Scream, M83, Postal Service, Tool, Happy Mondays, Soundgarden, Bloodhound Gang, Mark Gardener, Calla, Pelican, Swervedriver, Foo Fighters and that's just the start of my evergrowing list.

For what I'm listening to currently see http://www.last.fm/user/_graeme_/

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, Shaun of the Dead, Clerks, Mallrats, Slapshot, Half Baked, Heat, Face/off, Better Off Dead, Dogma, American History X, Happy Gilmore, Se7en, Aliens, Anchorman, Usual Suspects, Sin City, The Big Lebowski, Strange Brew, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Cable Guy, New Jack City.

Television:

Arrested Development, Simpsons, Farscape, Family Guy, Lost, King of the Hill, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Shield, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, My Name Is Earl, Entourage, Stargate SG-1, 24, Deadwood, Futurama, Extras, Amazing Race, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Oz, Homicide, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Chappelle's Show, The Wire, The Office (US and UK), Prison Break, Kids In the Hall.

Books:

Some of my favorite authors are Simon R. Green, Chuck Palahniuk, Nick Hornby, Brian Lumley and Clive Barker. Pretty much any sci-fi, fantasy, or non-fiction music biographies.

My Blog

Lolla 2007 Recap

So it was a whirlwind weekend for me with Lollapalooza being in town again this year. Here is a quick recap of all three days FridayThe Fratellis  Due to line shenanigans did not get in right away s...
Posted by Graeme on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:39:00 PST

best interview ever

Check out this video: LIam Gallagher on TRL Add to My Profile | More VideosIt is an oldie but a goodie. Godlike!...
Posted by Graeme on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:20:00 PST

Two years of music

So I hit my 2 year anniversary on www.last.fm the other day. 85,000+ tracks. Interesting to see how it has all come up and how things have changed from last year for my top 40 -1) Muse 1,0002) Idlewil...
Posted by Graeme on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 07:41:00 PST

Top 20 of 2007. So far.

Since we are at the halfway point of the year I thought I would go through my cds and see what has been rockin and/or rollin me so far this year. Here is my top 20 in no particular order:Black Rebel M...
Posted by Graeme on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:30:00 PST

Lollapalooza Day 3 review

Today before we left our posse decided to stick to a thorough policy of walk as little as possible. This morning even the littlest walk causes hurty, but teh rawk stops for nothing, not even blisters...
Posted by Graeme on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:39:00 PST

Lollapalooza Day 2 review

Today started out a little bit more laid back. We didnt have a need to get there super early so just took our own sweet time, which was a nice reprieve from all the walking yesterday. At this point, ...
Posted by Graeme on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:59:00 PST

Lollapalooza Day 1 review

After a big breakfast at the diner, poured me a coke and hopped on the El with Mike and Sean for 10 hours of rock fun. Showed up at Grant Park at about 1215. First thought was Dear god this is so mu...
Posted by Graeme on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:28:00 PST

one year in music

So I've been using this website last.fm for a little over a year now to track what I listen to. Just got the recent update of tracks played and since it fell close to my annivesary I figured I would p...
Posted by Graeme on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:03:00 PST

Cave In + $3 pints of Bass Ale=

good times at the Beat Kitchen. Big gigantic riffs and tasty cheap GOOD beer, a great way to spend a Tuesday night. Cave In live is phenomenal, just wish they played a bit more of Antenna....
Posted by Graeme on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:42:00 PST

Tues. night fun in IHOP parking lot

So Im out and about around 8 last night running some errands. Was going to head home, but figured I would make one more stop. At a dead stop at a stop light waitin it for to change when WHAM&car that...
Posted by Graeme on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:27:00 PST