Should be obvious by the look in my eyes and the smell of my hair.
I own all of it. Oh you think you own some, but you're wrong. I have it all. Seriously, go look at your collection. See all those CDs, LPs, whatever? They're a mirage. I have all of it at my little teeny living space. I will die a premature death because huge shelves full of Lps and CDs are going to crush me in a freak earthquake epicentered at State and Michigan. Still I should make a list so that when people search MySpace for who-likes-what-bands they might find me. First I'll plug the fact that I put out 7"EPs by Trenchmouth, Red Red Meat, Ed's Redeeming Qualities and The Doormats (not the Californian band, but the Chicago band of Eleven(th Dream Day) years ago). I still have copies of all but the RRM for sale. Now when I went searching for music weirdos I used the following: The Shop Assistants, Nick Nicely, John Cage, The Hushdrops, Bird Nest Roys, Lou Harrison... I like The Wedding Present, Loudon Wainwright III, Steve Reich, The Nightingales, The Who, The Kinks, The Beatles, James Brown, My Bloody Valentine, The Buzzcocks, 14 Iced Bears, The Clean, The Chills, The Able Tasmans, Toy Love, Tall Dwarfs, Chris Knox, Troubled Hubble, Yo La Tengo, Sebadoh, Stereolab, This Heat, Unrest, Tortoise, Slint, Gang Of Four, DJ Shadow, Harry Parch, Michael Nyman, John Adams, Gavan Bryars, Brian Eno, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Neil Innes, The Stranglers, The Ramones, The Television Personalities, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, Love, The Zombies, The Beach Boys, Cheer-Accident, The Slugs, Eleventh Dream Day, The Coctails, Edith Frost, Canasta, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Fats Waller, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Braid/Hey Mercedes/City On Film, Promise Ring/Maritime, Colin McPhee, Erik Satie, Yeah Yeah Noh, Wire, The Wrens, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Laurie Anderson, Pixies/Breeders, Nirvana, Cab Calloway, Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart, Flanders & Swann, John Coltrane, Flaming Lips, Philip Glass, Nick Drake, O.M.D., Syd Barrett/Pink Floyd, The Teardrop Explodes/ Julian Cope, Throwing Muses, Can, Kraftwerk, Neu, Funkadelic, Blake Babies, XTC, Half Man Half Biscuit, I Ludicrous, Husker Du, George Formby...check back later for more additions...
DAMN. It's like a effin video store 'round here! Do you have TCM? I'm DVing most of their broadcast library.
I wish I could watch it more. I like TV. I have boxes and boxes of tapes of TV. Not the crap you sit and watch because you've had a hard day and need to veg, but really good quality television. I tape all this stuff 'cause I'm too busy seeing concerts and improv to watch it. But I will watch it, someday, after both my legs are crushed in a freak earthquake....
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