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MILK

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About Me


I have something called Micropsia / Alice in Wonderland Syndrome . I am very clumsy, a bit confusing, a bit of a jinx.
I can't do things by halves. I'm abnormal enough to enjoy looking dull. I live for staying up all night talking. I need that. I live for some new tune. I keep everything in, until someone catches me out. And I love it when someone catches me out.
I LIKE MUSIC: LAST.FM
"It's so ugly, and yet it seems so frightened..."
My name is Milk and I like wearing odd socks and hoovering up boiled sweets. I sing too loud and play guitar too quietly. I don't want to be liked, or disliked because of my opinions, my taste in music, beer, wine, food, clothes, magazines, authors, movie directors or clubs. This is all just self-indulgent fun.
I am hard work and contradictory but I mean well. I love complex people. I adore people who aren't afraid to say what's really going on inside them. I have a great deal of respect for women that get angry and / or geeky, and men who don't try to be boys or lad-ish. I am intolerant of willful stupidity but a supporter of foolishness. Knowledge is really, realy over-rated. Compassion is really hard work.
"Say, I wonder what Milk's been listening to this week?"
I Emo'd up my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !

My Interests

Making music, G.I. Gurdjieff, Situationism, Punk / Post-Punk, singing, androgyny, trying to see the world in a way that isn't tainted by what passes for education and fact in this un-united queendom, unashamedly uncool people, trying to be good, and avoiding cliché. Hell, I wouldn't touch a cliché with a barge poll.

I'd like to meet:


People like me: people with scars and bruises; people who can't help but fail to fit in; Dickensian Punks, New Wave Supply Teachers, Tom Boys, Angry Girls and Boring Lesbian Boys; people who think that wigs, corsets, hats, fake moustaches and invert-fashions are worthy of obsessing over.

Music:

Anything Simple, obtuse, noisy but still pop,.. Curve, PiL, Kate Bush, Flame On, Al Neilson, Jo Stapleton, Grizzly Giant, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Magazine, The Chameleons, Wire, Ivor Cutler, Scott Walker, The Cocteau Twins, Tom Waits, Scorn, Jon Hassell, Tricky, This Mortal Coil, Nina Simone, Joy Division, Gang of Four, The Hafler Trio, Massive Attack, The Beat, Madonna, Ladytron, Laika, G.I. Gurdjieff, The Ink Spots, Alan Lamb, The Lines, The Company of Wolves OST, Coil, Solaris OST, Frank Sinatra, Underworld, Leffield, drums, drones, Crooners, Divas, the sounds from the street beneath my window on a good day, The sounds people make when they are doing OK.

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Meetings With Remarkable Men, Love is the Devil, Midnight Express, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Corrupt, David Lynch's Dune, The Return of the Living Dead, Minority Report, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Ninth Gate, Pitch Black, City of Lost Children, and almost anything with Christohper Walken or Angelina Jolie in it.

Television:

The Mighty Boosh, Aeon Flux, Black Books, Moonlighting, anything by Vic and Bob, Gilbert's Fridge, Sapphire and Steel, The Prisoner, and all this new Doctor Who stuff is actually really good fun too to my eyes and ears!? Sorry...

Books:

Biographies, Whitley Strieber's non-fiction stuff {The Key, and The Path}, books about G.I. Gurdjieff, works by P.D. Ouspensky, Michael Moorcock's Cornelius books plus the brilliant 'King of the City', Jeff Noon, William Patrick Patterson's 'Ladies of the Rope', Martin Millar, Margaret Anderson, Barry Yourgrau, Derek Jarman, Tank Girl, The Invisibles, Julian Cope's biogs, Jeanette Winterson's essays, P.K. Dick's Ubik, Terence Stamp's 'Double Feature', Grant Morrison / Lovely Biscuits, anything about Situationism.

Heroes:

Anyone that will meet me half way.

My Blog

Going Away

I should be packing but I'm not. I'm working on mixes. I am a naughty boy. But you can't be throwing books and music gear into boxes at 2 in the am can you? But you can sit here with headphones on and...
Posted by MILK on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:14:00 PST

IS NOT

So it's true. The Mekano Set are calling it a day. I'll write more when my hands have stopped shaking, but I can say that we will be playing the last of the live dates. "Say goodbye..."...
Posted by MILK on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:57:00 PST

4 AM REVERSE REVERB MICROPSIA

Hello.If you have a look at last.fm you can now listen and download Milk / Mekano Set tunes. There's also three gigs coming up. Anyone that's been waiting for CD's, I shipped off a fresh batch today s...
Posted by MILK on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:17:00 PST

Night and Day

I've realized that because of sleep patterns and work schedules, for the last few weeks I've virtually been getting two days and two nights out of 24 hours. Bargain.
Posted by MILK on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:24:00 PST

Ableton Live

So I am currently attempting to learn how to use Ableton Live (with the intention of using it to do the live sampling / sequencing). It looks pretty straight forward and it's easy on the eye. It's goo...
Posted by MILK on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:30:00 PST

Not in a good way

I once did two sides of a Rubik's Cube with my eyes shut. Just two sides, I know, I know. I was only eight. But I did keep my eyes shut the whole time. And there were witnesses. I should put that on m...
Posted by MILK on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:50:00 PST

Nuncle: a non-existant song by The Flesh Happening

I am in the kitchen of an unfamiliar house. There is a spider under the table with a body that is like a slice of pizza. Dad says it's dead, even though it's moving and it's upsetting the dog. Nuncle ...
Posted by MILK on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:17:00 PST

Please My Senses...

Rather pleasing results from typing in Please Make Sense into Flickr search... Well, mostly...
Posted by MILK on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:06:00 PST

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

It's 6 am. I should go to sleep now. I need sleep. But I also need to stay awake and do this stuff. I remind myself that I have feelings. I remind myself that I have needs. I check the fridge, like I ...
Posted by MILK on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:38:00 PST

I QUIT

I just realized I'm totally wasting my life and have decided to reinvent myself as some kind of roving adventuring detective journalist type person. Think Doctor Who meets that journalist who had a me...
Posted by MILK on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:08:00 PST