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brendan o'blivion

head on straight, mask on crooked.

About Me


knights have no meaning in this game. it isn't a game for knights. but i'm trying goddamned hard to be a knight.

My Interests

sarcasm, seclusion, samurai, self-deprecation, burritos, baseball, basketball, celtic f.c., the english premier league, batman, dracula, frankenstein, rock 'n' roll, die weltmarke mit den drei streifen, my cat, vanishing, fender telecasters and jazz basses, blown-out bass amps, high life bottles, pbr cans, jameson, godzilla, horror, allergy medication, the living dead.

GUITAR FUCKING HERO!!!

I'd like to meet:


theda bara:

Music:

3rd bass, a wilhelm scream, a.f.i., alkaline trio, at the drive-in, at the gates, atmosphere, bad religion, bane, the beatles, bjork, the black dahlia murder, blur, buckethead, the clash, coheed and cambria, comeback kid, converge, dangermouse, dillinger escape plan, dj shadow, elvis costello, faith no more / mike patton, the get-up kids, honkeyball, hum, interpol, johnny cash, killswitch engage, the kinks, the mars volta, mf doom, minor threat, the misfits, the pixies, the police, portishead, radiohead, rammstein, ramones, sam black church, sheer terror / joe coffee, the smiths / moz, social d / mike ness, underoath, the who, wu-tang clan.

Movies:

always the original, never the remake.
28 days later, aguirre the wrath of god, audition, band of outsiders, the beyond, the big sleep, the black cat (1934), black sunday (bava, not the football one), blue velvet, brazil, brotherhood of the wolf, carnival of souls, dawn of the dead, day of the dead, deep red, dirty harry, dracula (1931), the enigma of kaspar hauser, enter the dragon, eraserhead, escape from new york, faces, fireworks, fitzcarraldo, frankenstein (1931), ghost dog: the way of the samurai, godzilla (all of 'em), halloween, house by the cemetery, kill bill (both of 'em), kwaidan, land of the dead, the last wave, leon the professional, martin, mean streets, miller's crossing, mr. arkadin, the mummy, night of the living dead, nosferatu (murnau and herzog), once upon a time in the west, peeping tom, phenomena, picnic at hanging rock, psycho, pulp fiction, rabid, reservoir dogs, ringu, rock 'n' roll high school, the royal tenenbaums, le samourai, seven samurai, shadow of the vampire, solaris, star wars (all of 'em, even ep. 1), suspiria, tenebre, the texas chainsaw massacre, throne of blood, tokyo drifter, vampyros lesbos, vertigo, videodrome, who's that knocking at my door, the wicker man, a woman under the influence, yojimbo, zombi 2.

Books:

american psycho, a clockwork orange, dracula, dubliners, the english patient, fear and loathing in las vegas, frankenstein, the hagakure, the haunting of hill house, high fidelity, i am legend, the inferno of dante, invisible man (ralph ellison), jude the obscure, kiss me deadly, lord of the rings, musashi, naked lunch, portrait of the artist as a young man, the secret agent, slaughterhouse five, stranger in a strange land, the turn of the screw, wuthering heights
poetry by elizabeth bishop, seamus heaney, robert lowell, and anne sexton
comics by garth ennis, jeph loeb, frank miller, alan moore, and grant morrison
everything by raymond chandler, dashiell hammett, h.p. lovecraft, edgar allan poe, oscar wilde, and bill shakespeare

Heroes:

boris karloff, bela lugosi, snape, musashi, john saxon, bruce lee, george romero, werner herzog.

whatcha got in the basement, herr klopek?!

My Blog

more bitching about the celtics

in spite of everything, i still have a deep affection for the celtics.  they're my number 1A, right behind the sox because i'm not a football fanatic and could care less about hockey.  but a...
Posted by when old ghosts meet new regrets on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:44:00 PST

29 years of shit, less emo edition

now that it's over and i feel a little bit better, maybe i can go about this without sounding like a pathetic crybaby. about a month ago, many people i know shared the same sentiment: thank god 2006 i...
Posted by when old ghosts meet new regrets on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:22:00 PST