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Badly Drawn Russell

Run! Christian, Run!

About Me


I'll sneak booze into bars.
I like driving barefoot.
Apparently, I wear the same shirt everyday.
I prefer Lennon, McCartney & Harrison solo records to any Beatles album.
I enjoy humor involving Abraham Lincoln.

My Interests

Hat FM, Johnnie Walker Black, spinning records, filmmaking, Denton, Silverlake, Los Feliz, KXLU, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, bon chic bon genre, political activism, getting booze on sale at Bev mo', baking, 1960's Grand Prix racing.

I'd like to meet:



Abraham Lincoln.

Music:

The Fall, The Smiths, T. Rex, Lift to Experience, Roxy Music, Bowie, Nico, Tom Waits, John Cale, Marianne Faithful, Public Image Ltd, Nick Cave, LCD Soundsystem, Talking Heads, Vini Reilly and Durutti Column, Magnetic Fields, Explosions in the Sky, The Supremes, The Ronettes, Phil Spector, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Fat Truckers, Lambchop, The The, Art Brut, Perry Blake, Spiritualized, Spacemen 3, Galaxie 500, Go Metric USA, Calla, Laptop, Suede, Arab Strap, Super Furry Animals, Iggy and the Stooges, Flying Burrito Brothers, Pleasant Grove, Ed Harcourt, Brian Eno, Carter Burwell, 13th Floor Elevators, Cornershop, Rollerskate Skinny, Catherine Wheel, Indian Jewelry, The Telescopes, My Bloody Valentine, The La's, Hefner, Sly and the Family Stone, The Libertines, Midnight Movies, Xiu Xiu, Centro-matic, Air, Bobby Womack, Unrest, Paul McCartney and Wings, Pulp, Scott Walker, Velvet Underground, Dustin O'Halloran, Kate Bush, New Order, Black Box Recorder, Mogwai, The Wilderness, The Kills, Boards of Canada, Elbow, Can, Neu!, Billy Preston, The Chameleons, Pink Mountaintops, Pavement, The Black Angels, The Sword, Voxtrot, The Turn-Ons, Colorforms, The Arm, The Cuts, Parts and Labor, Beirut, Tokyo Police Club, Deerhunter, Entrance, Black Lips, The Arcade Fire, The Teenagers (thanks George!).

Movies:

Splendour in the Grass, Nil by Mouth, Big Lebowski, All the Real Girls, Flirting, Obscure Object of Desire, Breathless, Weekend, Billy Liar, Repulsion, Robocop, Three Amigos, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Carry On..., Withnail and I, Pennies From Heaven, Roman and Sofia Coppola, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Wong Kar Wai, Lars Von Trier, Lynne Ramsay, Mike Leigh, Robert Altman, Pedro Almodovar, Roman Polanski, Michael Mann, Neil Jordan, Karel Reisz, Lindsay Anderson, Tony Richardson, John Schlesinger, pretty much anything with Albert Brooks in it.

Television:

TOP CHEF!!!!! Twin Peaks, Frontline, 60 Minutes, SCTV. And I admit it, I'm a 24 junkie. But really I'm more of a radio person: This American Life, The Majority Report, Le Show, McCallister's Hostile Makeover, Prarie Home Companion, Fresh Air, The Adventure Club, Little Radio,

Books:

JD Salinger, Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene, Cormac McCarthy, Don Delillo, Thomas Pynchon, Alan Warner, Barry Graham, Roald Dahl, Mishima, Joe Orton, Murakami, NY Times Sunday ed, MOJO, Uncut, Atlantic, Bust

My Blog

M83 @ The Echoplex

You can read my review here at MTV.com...
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:25:00 PST

Battle of the Farmer’s Markets pt. 2

Sunday morning at the Hollywood Farmer's Market.Your move Natrix....
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:54:00 PST

Lemonheads in studio

Met up with Josh over at 98.7 fm today.Missed Evan Dando performing, but got to meet him.Odd, The Lemonheads were one of my most favorite bands in high school. Shame About Ray is most of the most semi...
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:57:00 PST

Battle of the Farmer’s Market

And so begins... end gameMy good friend and former roommate, Nathan Nowack, just posted a blog with photos of the Torrance Farmer’s Market. So, I’m countering his blog with this blog.p.s. ...
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:09:00 PST

Atwater by night

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Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:38:00 PST

Thailand & Calamity Magnet @ Spaceland

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Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:41:00 PST

There was a carnival in my front yard

Last weekend the carnies came to town.This is what we did.This was the machine that made me almost barf.This is the one that was scarey. And then ok. And then scarey again. Then I was hungry.All those...
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:47:00 PST

Wired Nexfest

LA Convention CenterSome kind of toxic liquid being manipulated by a magnetic field (the non-Stephin Merritt variety).Space capsule bigger than my apartment.Laptop Orchestra Eco-friendly dwelling. Ubi...
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:21:00 PST

8-bit video from the other week

Been super busy. Meant to post these.A couple of weekends ago Tom shot a video for local band 8-Bit.I was on hand to help capture the magic.(Tom, Frederick, Patrick)(We shot it at the 6th Street Galle...
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

Sonic Youth @ Urban Outfitters in-store

You can read my bit about it here on the MTV2 blog.More photos below.ThanksR....
Posted by Badly Drawn Russell on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:36:00 PST