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Nigelistics

These go to eleven

About Me


Ya know Myspace, it's starting to feel like the beginning of the end...I had to say the same thing to Friendster too, but this, this was more tangible, you let me do things to you Friendster would have never let me done. Maybe this wasn't ever real either, maybe you were just about the money the whole time, i don't know. Thing is, like most things, we'll still be together until something better comes along, who the hell ever makes a clean break?
But also, fuck a facebook
idea farmer. breakbeat scholar. bullshit barber. graffiti anthropologist. visual journalist. part time disc jockey of all things syncopated. full time bicyclist. doctor of the paradox. amateur sociologist. guerilla health educator. media collector and archiver. disciple of duchamp. quaker. freelancer by trade. professional when it suits me. connoiseur of funk in all of the five senses. if i can't find it, i make it. and if i can't make it, i find someone who can. sometimes i crave orange soda and tend to dance to music when there's none playing, but hate getting down in crowded clubs and i can't stand whole tomatoes. believer in women who taste like peaches and peaches that feel like fur. i dumpster dive, my favorite foods are breakfast and sandwiches, and i usually procrastinate, but i'll get to it later.
...ya know, i tried to write this thing straight up, and i think i sound like an asshole, so blah blah blah, movin' on....

My Interests

creating, making messes, making music, meeting muses, foods that end in "ito", making t-shirts, hurtling cross country in a 2 ton death machine, djing, d.i.y., pretending to be a hacker, british idiocy, each one teach one, random acts of decisiveness, revolution through resolution, standing by principles, shenanigans, getting my hands dirty, laughing at absurdities

www.Groundsound.net

I'd like to meet:

you know the anthem, now get your damn hands up.

Music:



all-time: black star, the roots, dj shadow, r.a.w., dj soulslinger, the doors, jimi hendrix, outkast, rage against the machine, boot camp clik, explosions in the sky, a tribe called quest, dj db, the afghan whigs, kim deal, built to spill, godspeed! you black emperor, gravediggaz, haul & mason, bjork, the white stripes, de la soul, general malice, sixtoo, early weezer, madlib, enduser, d'angelo, boss hog, breakbeat era, radiohead, dead prez, prefuse 73, eric b & rakim, ming & fs, morphine, rjd2, common, soul coughing, stooges, sublime, wu-tang, tv on the radio, queens of the stone age, the coup, shitmat, exile in guyville, you'd prefer an astronaut, labor days, sea change, let us play!, pick a bigger weapon, no wow, a long hot summer, nevermind, maxinequaye, show your bones, exquisite corpse, deltron 3030, supreme clientele, devious methods, champion sound, pixel revolt, physical graffiti, live @ stubbs, dead man sdtk, she's the one sdtk, ready to die, wish you were here

currently: gimmie shelter, ghosts and vodka,

Movies:

Stranger Than Fiction, The Corporation, Solaris, Strange Days, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Rounders, City of God, 25th Hour, Tarentino movies, Unbreakable, True Romance, Fight Club, Dirty Pretty Things, Leaving Las Vegas, Eternal Sunshine, Office Space, Anchorman, Bottle Rocket, Hackers, Elephant, Election, the Last Seduction, Pootie Tang, Ghost Dog, the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, L.A. Story, Dead Presidents, Tombstone, the Big Lebowski, Wave Twisters, What About Bob?, Groundhog Day, Fifth Element, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Duck Soup, 2001, Totoro, High Fidelity, Slam, Shaun of the Dead, Story of Ricky, Harold & Kumar, Dark Days, Primer, Dead Man, Three Kings, Koyaanisqatsi, The Goonies, Brick, P.C.U., Howard the Duck, and anyone who hates on john waters' films can piss off.

Television:

good storytelling, funny shit that barely makes sense, animated things, and comedic news shows which give you more information than the mainstream media

ya know, why can't we get some real categories up here? favorite artist, superpower you'd like to have, turn-ons, turn-offs, let's just make this official right?

Books:


Does the internet count as a book?

Upski Wimsatt, Kerouac, Tom Robbins, Bowles, Baldwin, Kuper, House of Leaves, Lamb, Culture Jam, Neuromancer, Nufonia Must Fall, well drawn comic books with decent storylines, Siddhartha, Good Omens

Heroes:

yep.

My Blog

Dear people of Los Angeles....

please learn how to drive when there are bicycles on the road, especially when there are cars parked on the side. there are lots of us now, you should be able to have ample practice. You don't need to...
Posted by Nigelistics on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:56:00 PST

Live Earth

i didn't bother with Live Earth, didn't really care about the line-up, and that was only after i heard about it somewhere during the middle of the broadcast.But i LURVE this scacthing review written b...
Posted by Nigelistics on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:55:00 PST

Libby is not short for "Liberty"

I gotta write about this somewhere, might as well be on the Republican-owned site, right?Admittedly, Scooter Libby was a fall guy for Cheney, Rove, and the rest, and if anyone should have been indicte...
Posted by Nigelistics on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:45:00 PST

shared items

in the interest of....idunno, nothing much really, i give you my shared items page, from google reader....wanna know what i'm geeking on or reading today? what i find interesting or just plan insipid?...
Posted by Nigelistics on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:36:00 PST

marginal madrigals

-cassette tape dj...no seriously (i know it's from 2005, but i just heard about it, so that means it's new)-i guess tape nostalgia was SOOO 2005....sonicfabric-lolcats, lolbots, lol80's...i still love...
Posted by Nigelistics on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:10:00 PST

there is more to life than this

wow, the homepage when you log into LJ is in full defense mode, complete with courier typeface and all. that along with the decision yesterday to uphold national tv networks right to fleeting expletiv...
Posted by Nigelistics on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:59:00 PST

i'm maditating AKA i want to go Bah-jah Fresh

i say a lot of things are my favorite things EVAR, but this might take the cake. you paint on screen, and that paint corresponds to musical instruments, which play. you make visual music, or auditory ...
Posted by Nigelistics on Mon, 21 May 2007 11:52:00 PST

helmet or no helmet

Strange but True: Helmets Attract Cars to Cyclistsvs. Bike helmet crushed, but head finei'm not even gonna open this up for debate, because i know what ya'll are gonna say.But really, ...
Posted by Nigelistics on Tue, 15 May 2007 10:04:00 PST

"bet ya from a diddle-eyed-joe to a damned-if-i-know..."

Direct democracy? Term Limits? Been against the war from the beginning? Helped end the Vietnam War draft? I'm with it. Obama is nice and slick, stands for a lot, but I'm warming up to Mike Gravel, a r...
Posted by Nigelistics on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:51:00 PST

an update of sorts

i stayed home from school today to watch basketball....call me awesome, i already know it. maryland already won, so i'm happy. any of you who know me know that i like sports, like a lot, which for som...
Posted by Nigelistics on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:35:00 PST