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Stephen

Tenent Confidentiam

About Me

Gibson Les Pauls, delay pedals. punk/post-punk/indie/new wave.
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My Interests

Rock music, playing guitar, bean burritos, sleeping, traveling, fresh brewed iced tea, beer, homestarrunner.com, hanging out, history and the origins of religion.

I'd like to meet:

Pittsburgh folk and people that share the same interests.
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Music:

Apollo Up!, Archers Of Loaf, At the Gates, Battles, The Beatles, Big Country, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blondie, British Sea Power, Bob Dylan, Burning Airlines, Channels, Chavez, The Clash, Creta Bourzia, Cursive, Darkest Hour, Don Caballero, Duran Duran, Drive Like Jehu, Engine Down, Faraquet, The Firebird Band, The Fixx, The Fucking Champs, Fugazi, Generation X, The Go-Go's, Hum, Hurl, The Jam, Jawbox, Jawbreaker, The Joggers, Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, The Kickass, Led Zeppelin, The Life And Times, Liquid Brick, Mary Celeste, John McLaughlin, Medications, Minus the Bear, Mission of Burma, Murder By Death, Muse, Mussels, My Chemical Romance, No Knife, Pikadori, Pilot to Gunner, The Pixies, The Police, Polvo, Pond, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Q and Not U, Radiohead, Rahim, Seaweed, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Six Horse, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Swervedriver, U2, Van Halen, Venetian Snares, The Ventures, Weezer

Movies:

American Beauty, Angel Heart, Another State of Mind, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Breaking Glass, Casino, Close Encounters, Doctor Zhivago, The Exorcist, E.T., Gangs of New York, Garden State, The Godfather, Good Fellas, The Goonies, Gummo, Help!, The Ice Storm, In the Name of the Father, Joe Strummer, Lawrence of Arabia, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lolita, My Kingdom, Napoleon Dynamite, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Omen, Once Upon Time in America, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pecker, Punch Drunk Love, Rebel Without a Cause, Run Lola Run, Scarface, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, SLC Punk, Snatch, The Song Remains The Same, Stand By Me, Star Wars

Television:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, Futurama, The History Channel, The Simpsons, South Park, The Young Ones

Books:

The Age of Reason, Anthem, The Catcher in the Rye, Holy Blood Holy Grail, The Jesus Papers, The Last Days of Socrates, Lolita, Nine Stories

Heroes:

Stuart Adamson, Chet Atkins, Vincent Bell, Billy Corgan, Rivers Cuomo, Gene Doyle, Jeff Ellsworth, Dave Evans, Robert Fripp, Johnny Greenwood, Jason Jouver, Les Paul, Jimmy Page, Lennon & McCartney, Bill Merante, J Robbins, Andy Summers, Paul Werkmeister, Jamie West-Oram, Ian Williams, Eddie Van Halen.

My Blog

New Press

http://www.spin.com/articles/life-in-bed SPIN.COM Buzzcatcher Catch the Buzz: Life in Bed This Pittsburgh, PA-based quartet are the latest under-the-radar act blasting from our offices. By William ...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:46:00 PST

Press

Pittsburgh City Paper.  Signal To Noise.  March 20, 2008.   R.E.M. Tribute Night at BrilloboxBY AARON JENTZEN Local "tribute" shows can be a bit weird. Sometimes the night’s act ...
Posted by Stephen on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:12:00 PST

To Dagobert II King and to Sion belongs this treasure and he is there dead

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Posted by Stephen on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 12:02:00 PST

If you could hear the dreams I've had, my dear, They would give you nightmares for a week.

The only thing to do is to perpetuate this cataclysmic cycle of calamity and catastrophe, with all it's misfortunes and melee. I woke up today, like many other days, with a bad headache.  I...
Posted by Stephen on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:35:00 PST

Et in Arcadia ego

I am compiling this list to better recall my past and reconstruct what can be salvaged.  It's about my memory and my lack of being a good archivist or chronologist. I'd like to change that, ...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 04:30:00 PST

Crushed

  I am pretty bummed. Sunday, May 29th, 2005.The Smiling Moose.1306 E. Carson Street.Pittsburgh, PA. 412-431-466810pm. 21 and over. No cover.Bosio(from Milwaukee, Wisconsin)and Irwin (Members of ...
Posted by Stephen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Valentine-less

This holiday gets you either way. At Oakland Cafe with Irwin. Friday, February 10th, 2006. Pittsburgh City Paper Music Previews ARCHIVES 3/2/2006Signal Writer: AARON JENTZEN Just in time for tax...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST

Someone stole my bike

So my bike got stolen today.  And I really can't think why someone would want to steal it.  Don't get me wrong, I loved that bike.  It was my transportation.  The frame was a 1980'...
Posted by Stephen on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:59:00 PST

Kid Dynamite reunion at CBGB's.

      Monday August 22nd, 2005.CBGB's.315 Bowery. NYC, NY.212-982-4052. 7pm. Sold Out!Benefit Show to Save CBGB's.Kid Dynamite (reunion), Grey Area,Voice In The Wire,Take My Chanc...
Posted by Stephen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Going to The Pixies

I am going to see The Pixies tonight.  Awesome!
Posted by Stephen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST