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Peter Nincompoop

drunkenbarjerk

About Me

People who speak of themselves in the third person really pisses Leonard off.

My Interests

Dioramas and horse-play.

I'd like to meet:

A glass of whiskey I didn't like...

Music:

And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead..., The Blood Brothers, The Futureheads, LCD Soundsystem, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Viktor Vaughn, Madvillain, The Arcade Fire, Matt Pond PA, Q and Not U, Sufjan Stevens, Sage Francis, Death From Above 1979, Wolf Parade, VHS or BETA, Pinback, TV on The Radio, Vietnam, The Detroit Cobras, The Go! Team, Max Richter, Black Lipstick, The Decemberists, The Harlem Shakes, Caribou, The Books, The Silversun Pickups, The National, Explosions In The Sky, British Sea Power, Broken Social Scene, Built To Spill, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Iron & Wine, Sons & Daughters, Superchunk, Texas Is The Reason (R.I.P.), The Make-Up, Mogwai, Seam, Art Brut, Johnny Cash (R.I.P.), Blood on the Wall, Most Secret Method, The Jazz June, Animal Collective, American Analog Set, American Football, The Microphones, Xiu Xiu, The Replacements, Yo La Tengo, The Damned, The Bon Savants, Boom Bip, The Clientele, The Most Serene Republic, Kiss Me Deadly, Tom Vek, The Oxford Collapse, the return of Gang of Four, Digable Planets, The Heartless Bastards, Maritime, Sam Prekop, The Black Angels, Beat Radio, Sunset Rubdown, JAPANTHER, Love is All, The Rapture, M. Ward, Snowden, Page France, Boogie Down Proudctions, Eric B. & Rakim, De La Soul, The Oohlahs, Love Is All, Band of Horses, Kings of Leon, Sebadoh, The Black Lips, The Teenagers, Panda Bear, Los Campesinos!, These United States, MURS, Brother Reade, The Big Sleep, Dan Deacon, Radical Face, Beirut, The Gossip, Menomena, Phoenix, Portastatic, Sea Wolf, Torches To Rome, Lupe Fiasco, Matt & Kim, Guided By Voices, Jose Gonzalez, Ghostface Killah, Bon Iver, The Shocking Pinks, Prinzhorn Dance School, Bear Hands, Thee More Shallows, The Sunparlour Players, Oh No! Oh My!, Pelican, Okkervil River, The Handsome Furs, The Psychedellic Furs, Burt Bacharach, The Twin Atlas, The Airbore Toxic Event, Aesop Rock, El-P, Devendra Banhart, Sonic Youth, +/-, Portastatic, Primal Scream, Kanye West, Rademacher, A Faulty Chromosome, Archers of Loaf, The Cave Singers, Rogue Wave, Dirty on Purpose, The Tiny Masers of Today ..

Movies:

Innerspace, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Highball, Kicking & Screaming, The Life Aquatic, The Man With The Golden Arm, The Great Escape, Gunner Palace, DIG!, Punk:Attitude, Lost In Translation, Adaptation, American Movie, Millions, A Very Long Engagement, The Outsiders, I Heart Huckabees, Top Secret!, Ed Wood, State of Grace, Memento, The Squid & The Whale, The Decline of Western Civilization: Part I, Children of Men, American Hardcore, Rocket Science, The Life Aquatic, The Road Warrior...and most part '2's of trilogies, the majority of Richard Pryor's filmic career.

Television:

Reno 911!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, STELLA, Arrested Development, The Office, 30 Rock, The Sarah Silveman Program, Flight of The Conchords.

Books:

The Hipster Handbook.

My Blog

Repeal(against booze) Day

This Wednesday, December 5th, 2007...everybody must get drunk. Don't be a crybaby. I know it's during the middle of the work week. But if you're a frequenter of drinking and bars, then you must pay...
Posted by Peter Nincompoop on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:00:00 PST

Sunset Junction 2007

Have you ever seen the opening scene in Scarface?  The Cuban refugee camp riot scene?  It was kind of like that...without the burning mattresses and crazed Cubans with switchblades.  Ot...
Posted by Peter Nincompoop on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:12:00 PST

Republicans, I have your answer!!!

So I keep seeing the profiles on here of the likes of Fred Thompson(The guy in Die Hard 2?), Tom Tancredo (who thinks we should bring back the Rebel Flag) and Mitt Romney (Mormons in the White House?&...
Posted by Peter Nincompoop on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:52:00 PST

The Silversun Pickups

Below is a message I found in my mailbox from 2005, from the Silversun Pickups.  It was after I saw them at Tangiers on Hillhurst Ave.  They played a very low key acoustic, "unplugged" set, ...
Posted by Peter Nincompoop on Thu, 31 May 2007 03:59:00 PST

Dear Hillary,

Dear Hillary,   Please reconsider plundering millions of dollars into this upcoming election campaign.  I have nothing against seeing the first female president of this country, actuall...
Posted by Peter Nincompoop on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:43:00 PST

I say we build a barbed wire fence around L.A.

I propose we build border fences around Los Angeles...I'm pretty bothered by the fact that we have the National Guard setting up border fences, and yet there are many parts of the Gulf Coast still in ...
Posted by Peter Nincompoop on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:09:00 PST