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Julian

Urusai (????)???!!!!

About Me

I'm always busy

My Interests

Music (listening and playing), Cinema, Literature, Barbecue, Cooking,

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is interesting and wants to be friends.

Music:

Dave Cloud, Jandek, The Bunnies, Chatmonchy, Shiina Ringo, Yuki, The Carrie Nations, The Posies, Big Star, Edgard Varese, Pierre Boulez, The Who, The Triffids, Blackeyed Susans, Black Heart Procession, Jay Farrar, Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch, Charles Mingus, Dirty Three, Go-Betweens, Preston School of Industry, Gram Parsons, Beasts of Bourbon, You Am I, Byrds, Badfinger, John Coltrane, Ramones, Sonic Youth, Kelley Stoltz, Francoise Hardy, Velvet Underground, Ron Sexsmith, Ken Stringfellow, Jon Auer, Black Heart Procession, Brian Wilson, Sun Ra, Death Cab for Cutie, Brian Wilson, Lisa Miller, Son Volt, Tom Waits. The Residents, OOIOO, The Eastern Dark, Bob Log III, 50 Kaitenz and too many others to mention here.

Movies:

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Army of Darkness, Orphee, Peeping Tom, Ju-On:The Grudge, Phantom of the Paradise, Kwaidan, Yojimbo, Hidden Fortress, Lone Wolf and Cub, Seven Samurai, Get Carter, The Maltese Falcon, My Neighbour Totoro, Porco Rosso, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away,in fact pretty much anything by Hayao Miyazaki, Carnival of Souls, Spring Summer Winter Fall and Spring, Steamboy, RahXephon.

Television:

Don't have time to watch much TV, but prefer to watch shows on DVD or Video when I do have time.I like: Neon Genesis: Evangelion, Bubblegum Crisis:Tokyo 2040, RahXephon, Serial Experiments: Lain, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Night Stalker, Ultraviolet, The Simpsons, Futurama, That 70's Show, Firefly, Boogiepop Phantom, Elfen Lied.

Books:

Eightball - Dan Clowes, Kabuki - David Mack, The Harry Bosch books - Michael Connelly, Ross McDonald, Albert Camus, H.P. Lovecraft, James Ellroy, Phillip K Dick, Jorge Luis Borges,

My Blog

London Calling and a Barbecue in Belgium

Been pretty busy as of late. I sent this email to a few friends and figured it pretty much covers what I would write here, so here's the lates update.Well, I survived Amsterdam and arrived in London i...
Posted by Julian on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:13:00 PST

Well... We're all still alive.

Despite a lot of trepidation I can report that we survived last night's show in Hasselt. It was a slightly shambolic show in parts, but it seems that more things went right than wrong. It was a dream ...
Posted by Julian on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 07:06:00 PST

My new love!

Went for a walk through town today to check out the sights. Lots of bars so a pub crawl could go on for a very very long time. On the way to the venue my eye caught a 1972 thinline custom telecaster, ...
Posted by Julian on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:53:00 PST

Made it to Belgium

I'm here in Belgium, the weather is warm and the beer is cold. The Triffids have got their mojo back and it's all very exciting. I'm staying in this lovely art deco mansion in Hasselt and no one wants...
Posted by Julian on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:02:00 PST

Still going strong

As my dear friend Dave McComb once sang, "The Good Life Never Ends".Wednesday was The Raveonettes at the Hi-Fi Bar. Was plesantly surprised how much I enjoyed them. I have the two albums, but seeing t...
Posted by Julian on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 07:01:00 PST

Momentum

Another busy day. Went to work, then left at lunch time for a RocKwiz writers meeting. Went home and grabbed a late lunch and then on to Brightspace to pick up a picture I bought at a previous exhi...
Posted by Julian on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:33:00 PST