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Electricloseyland

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About Me

Hack writer by day (that is, a scribbler who has sold out to the man as soon as I could, not one of those damned computer geeks). The rest of the time, I'm a half-assed guitar player whose real skill lies in riding the coattails of more successful friends.52%

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Colbert...and I have! Now I have to find a new celebrity to stalk.

Music:

White Stripes, Muddy Waters, Postal Service, Pixies, Old Crow Medicine Show, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Death Cab for Cutie, The Alphabetical Order, The Brakemen, Valient Thorr, Lo-Fi Conspiracy, King Monkey Deluxe, Wilco, Old 97s, Bob Dylan, Howlin Wolf, The Who, The Band, Black Keys, Beck, Iggy Pop

Movies:

Dr. Strangelove, GoodFellas, Godfather I and II, Lord of the Rings, Spinal Tap, Napoleon Dynamite, Shaun of the Dead, Garden State, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, LA Confidential, Chinatown, The Blues Brothers, The Big Lebowski, Bad Santa, Batman Begins, Hard Days Night, Blazing Saddles, Brazil, Don't Look Back, Ed Wood, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, O Brother Where Art Thou, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Raging Bull, Great Escape, Indiana Jones, Last of the Mohicans, Last Waltz, Lawrence of Arabia, Manchurian Candidate, The Right Stuff, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, School of Rock, Bubba Ho Tep, Casablanca, Do The Right Thing, Shattered Glass, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Three Kings, Trainspotting, 25th Hour, Wonder Boys

Television:

Arrested Development, Daily Show, 24, Band of Brothers, Sopranos, Deadwood, Colbert Report, Carnivale, Freaks and Geeks, Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Weeds

Heroes:

Daniel Pearl

My Blog

Bonnaroo 2007

Ellen posted her roundup of Bonnaroo here: http://www.onyah.com/#062507 And her collection of photos is here: http://onyah.shutterfly.com/action/?a=8AcM2jNw0ZuXZw  (If you only look at one photo,...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:57:00 PST

Poseur alert

Ah, pretentious rock writers...where would the New York Times be without you? http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/arts/music/11stoo.html?adx nnl=1&adxnnlx=1176314688-xXpahZuiCj/iskQxnZjYcg The phrase...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:12:00 PST

Resign, Steve Losey! part III

My number one fan is back. I decided to write him back and refute one of his claims, which was completely wrong: Mr. Johnson, You criticized my story for not mentioning that the firings are leg...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:13:00 PST

Resign, Steve Losey! part II

Boy, what a day for hate mail! This person wrote in response to a story I wrote about how Homeland Security is moving into an insane asylum. (This is true.) I'm not really sure what this guy's point i...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:05:00 PST

Resign, Steve Losey!

This the best e-mail I've ever received. It's in response to a story I wrote about the 8 US Attorneys fired, and how some people feel political reasons were behind their removals. I've never had some...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:58:00 PST

my triumphant return to the radio

I appeared on WFED radio today with my friend Aimee Curl to talk about Homeland Security issues. You can stream or download it here: http://www.federalnewsradio.com//index.php?nid=16 Look for the Jan....
Posted by Electricloseyland on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:18:00 PST

James Brown was AWESOME

When I die, this is how I want to go: "Mr. Brown's 24-karat-gold coffin was transferred into a white carriage drawn by two white Percheron horses with feather plumes on their heads. ... The crowd chan...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:27:00 PST

quote of the week

"Americans will always do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the alternatives." - Winston Churchill
Posted by Electricloseyland on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:31:00 PST

"The people have spoken, and apparently they're tired of freedom."

The last few days have been very interesting. First, my band, Masked Marvel, played an excellent show at the Firehouse Grill that went very well. Janet announced that we were there to make sure nobody...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:42:00 PST

Army Times: Fire Rumsfeld

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2333360.php This editorial (called "shabby" by White House press secretary Tony Snow) was prompted by Bush's statement last week that Defense secretary Do...
Posted by Electricloseyland on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:17:00 PST