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Ross Soss

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About Me

Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

My Interests


absurdity, aerosol art, music in all it's forms, cats, retro European cars, eardrum ripping tube-amp driven rock and roll, whiskey drankin', political discourse, east coast hip-hop, 60s pop melodies, bagels, spontaneous conversation, beers, reading & literature, interesting foods, detuned guitars, dwemer artifacts, good friends, occasional introspection, urban exploration, failing to be upwardly motile, photography, and masturbating while eating corn chips... you know.

I'd like to meet:

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Music:

something like: Can, The Hair & Skin Trading Company, Tom Waits, Converge, Sleep, Dead Meadow, Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Opeth, Om, Faust, The Melvins, The Flaming Lips, Gong, Black Sabbath, Loop, Count Bass D, Spacemen 3, Kylesa, Quasimoto, MF DOOM, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Syd Barrett, Neurosis, Lush, Neu!, Beastie Boys, Fugazi, Mogwai, Hawkwind, Torche, Slowdive, Current 93, My Bloody Valentine, Butthole Surfers, Pelican, Tragedy, Municipal Waste, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Floor, Baroness, Refused, At the Drive In, Joy Division, Isis, (early) Pink Floyd, Earth, Bauhaus, Circle Takes the Square, Mono, Type O Negative, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Sunshine Fix, A Silver Mt. Zion, Explosions in the Sky, The Velvet Underground, The Incredible String Band, The Red Chord, Mordern Life is War, Fucked Up, Sun Ra, Noothgrush, Asschapel, Death, Slayer, Shipwreck, The Hope Conspiracy, Every Time I Die, Pg. 99, Miles Davis, G.W.A.R., Testament, Wu-Tang Clan (and all respective solo projects), Madlib, Cannibal Ox, MF Grimm, Bad Religion, Paint it Black, Cave In, Ceremony, Jedi Mind Tricks, Red Sparowes, Kraftwerk, Russian Circles, George Clinton, J. Dilla, Madvillain, Modest Mouse, Discharge, The Telescopes, The Suicide File, Gogol Bordello, Cursive, Neutral Milk Hotel, Suffocation, Jimi Hendrix, The Allman Brothers Band, The Zombies, Beck, David Bowie...I gotta stop.

Books:

William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, J.G. Ballard, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Chuck Palahniuk, Ayn Rand, James Joyce, many graphic novels/comic books. Just too many to list.

Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

Heroes:

"Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece."

My Blog

"take a walk!"

I thought taking a walk today would clear my head a little and even lift the hanging weight of concern and anxiety that seems to anchor me in this shitty quagmire of regret. Fresh air, a cool breeze, ...
Posted by Ross Soss on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:53:00 PST

How odd and frustrating...

I am writing this out of pure confusion and a slight tinge of dissapointment. I'm not sure if this sort of thing happens to people often, but it has certainly never happened to me before. This little ...
Posted by Ross Soss on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:12:00 PST

Fifty things I'd like to still do this summer. (A stolen idea, h3h)

I've crossed out the things I've already done, but that's only because summer has unfolded to quite a degree at this point. Hmm, but here's more. ...
Posted by Ross Soss on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:55:00 PST

[Two hours] in the city of lights and death.

"...a living metaphor for the decay of western civiilzation, and the carcass of it's culture"...
Posted by Ross Soss on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:06:00 PST

Oh right, the space cakes.

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Posted by Ross Soss on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:15:00 PST

Howl

1 I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burnin...
Posted by Ross Soss on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:21:00 PST