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le ross.

Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles.

About Me

Je suis un gentleman dans un âge des rogues.

My Interests



FILM, musique, Andy Warhol, The Factory, literature, underground/indie/weird/foreign/cult/art films, tea, vinyl, Norway, controversy, France, le cinéma, long & engaging conversations, les filles, art, travel, faded memories, pop culture, PHOTOGRAPHY.

old //new,weird america,,

I'd like to meet:

Une Anna Karina pour mon Godard;
une Edie pour mon Gerard.i'll stop the world and melt with you.

Music:

Strange sounds, weirds noises, walls of feedback, raw garage fuzz freak-outs, punk rawkers, angular art-rock, catchy indie/dream pop, brilliant electro and hazy, dreamy chillout electronica, shimmering shoegaze, freak-folk, ambient soundscapes, 60's girl groups, haunting melodies, glorious white noise, early psychedelia, freaky freakbeat, chic yé-yé, mash-ups and bastard pop, and experimental post-punk/no wave bleakness.....
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND , David Bowie, Brian ENO, BLOC PARTY, Mellow, Joy Division, New Order, Franz Ferdinand, The Postal Service, Aqueduct, AIR , THE STOOGES, Neon Blonde, Bright Eyes, The Go! Team, The Chemical Brothers, M.I.A., Annie, LOU REED , Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, John Cale, The Arcade Fire, My Bloody Valentine, CUT COPY , The Cure, Talking Heads, Röyksopp, Sébastien Tellier, The Knife, IGGY POP , Phoenix, Sonic Youth, Death From Above 1979, The Ramones, Cat Power, LCD Soundsystem, Screaming Lord Sutch, Depeche Mode, The Kills, THE BEATLES, Sex Pistols, The Fiery Furnaces, The Avalanches, New York Dolls, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mylo, The Fratellis, Blondie, The Presets, At The Drive-In, The Tuss, Funkadelic, The Cramps, The Mary Onettes, Cassius, THE STROKES , Tom Vek, The Sonics, Pop Levi, ELECTRA and The Experiments, Polygon Window, Can, Link Wray, Bow Wow Wow, of Montreal, Caustic Window, The Birthday Party, ? & the Mysterians, Boards of Canada, Julie Ruin, Heinz, The Fall, Fela Kuti, Beirut, Mothfight, Daniel Johnston, The Violets, Deerhunter, The Phantom Keys, Kate Nash, M83, Hot Chip, Squarepusher, Syd Barrett, Wire, Handsome Furs, Grinderman, Uffie, Joe Meek (producer), Death Cab for Cutie, Von Südenfed, !!!, Matt Gangi, Burial, Goblin, The Smiths, Charlotte Gainsbourg, THESE NEW PURITANS, ESG, Subtle, PJ Harvey, Andrew W.K., Wretched Replica, Les Georges Leningrad, The Libertines, Lucrate Milk, The Field, The Rapture, Brian Jonestown Masssacre, Bikini Kill, Head Wound City, APHEX TWIN, Kreeps, No Age, Gang Of Four, Suicide, Girl Talk, Jarvis Cocker, CSS, John Lennon, Neu!, Silver Apples, Architecture in Helsinki, Autechre, The Blood Brothers, Black Devil (Disco Club), The Staggers, Arctic Monkeys, White Hills, Shitdisco, 1990s, Silversun Pickups, Bauhaus, Patti Smith, Sufjan Stevens, The Zombies, Enter Shikari, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Lindstrøm, Klaxons, Dizzee Rascal, Jana Hunter, Faust, Creepy Crawl, The Yummy Fur, Islands, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Monks, Santogold, Burzum, Fujiya & Miyagi, Broken Social Scene, The Buzzcocks, Billie Holiday, Jaylib, J Dilla, Nico, Television, The Pipettes, The Band, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Rufus Wainwright, Thom Yorke, Kavinsky, GZA, Josef K, Tiny Masters of Today, Espers, Hot Club de Paris, Robert Johnson, Feist, CocoRosie, Lets Wrestle, Alice Coltrane, Matt & Kim, Dimitri From Paris, Patrick Wolf, Radiohead, Wu-Tang Clan, Fire Engines, The Ripping Dylans, the boy least likely to, Gogol Bordello, Beastie Boys, Portishead, George Harrison, Black Flag, Yann Tiersen, Voxtrot, Animal Collective, The Bronx, The Radio Dept., Tegan and Sara, Panda Bear, NEiLS CHiLDREN, Effi Briest, Massive Attack, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Queens of the Stone Age, Foals, The White Stripes, Gavin Bryars, Test Icicles, Gescom, Terrestrial Tones, Muse, The Clash, Serge Gainsbourg, Lightspeed Champion, Darkel, Spank Rock, Boris, Jane, Dandi Wind, The Crayon Fields, Sparklehorse, Merzbow, France Gall, Spoon, Late of the Pier, The New Sins, Junior Boys, Leonard Cohen, Ghostface Killah, Galaxie 500, White Williams, Battles, Jay Reatard, The Wombats, Metallic Falcons, July, Grizzly Bear, Erlend Øye, John Leyton, Theoretical Girl, THE HORRORS, Rilo Kiley, PULP , Dungen, Digitalism, Belle and Sebastian, Gary Numan, Ratatat, SebastiAn, TV on the Radio, AFX, Sebastien Grainger, múm, Dntel, Midnight Juggernauts, Themselves, Bob Dylan, Mickey Avalon, Wolf Parade, Kings Of Convenience, The Willowz, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Lars Horntveth, LIARS, Crystal Castles, Public Image Ltd., Black Dice, Peter Bjorn & John, Nick Drake, The Blow, Iron & Wine, Bonde do Rolê, cLOUDDEAD, Elle Milano, Vampire Weekend, High Places, Spacemen 3, HEALTH, The 13th Floor Elevators, Devendra Banhart, Zero 7, Spiritualized, Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom, The Vines, Black Kids, To My Boy, Black Lips, Ulrich Schnauss, Blonde Redhead, Albert Hammond, Jr., Goldfrapp, Dragons Of Zynth, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Shangri-Las, BoNO Must DIE, Gallows, Mr. Oizo, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Femme Fatale, Elliott Smith, Ipso Facto, The Moldy Peaches, Wilco, Josephine Foster, The Shop Assistants, Frank Zappa, Lavender Diamond, The Slits, Maxïmo Park, Your 33 Black Angels, John's Children, Crix Crax Crux, MSTRKRFT, Delia Derbyshire, Nouvelle Vague, Sondre Lerche, The Rotters, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Videohippos, The Unicorns, AIDS Wolf, New Young Pony Club, Diane Cluck, Boys of Brazil, Currituck Co., Datarock, Jus†ice, Grinderman, PRE, The Errorplains, Bird By Snow, Turbo Fruits, Roots Manuva, El Perro del Mar, DNA, Kings of Leon, T.Rex (Tyrannosaurus Rex), Project:KOMAKINO, Johnny Cash, The Lusty Piles, Clipse, Prinzhorn Dance School, Tappa Zukie, Magazine, Art Brut, Dirty Pretty Things, Example:, Van Morrison, Hadouken!, The Drips, Franking Privileges, Giant Drag, The Go-Betweens, Gavin Byars, The Crystals, Josef K, Deerhoof, Busy P, ¡All-Time Quarterback!, Tokyo Police Club, Orange Juice, Kate Bush, Strawberry Switchblade, Lifter Puller, Au Revior Simone, Them, The Phoenix Foundation, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Pale Young Gentlemen, White Rainbow, Steve Reich, Belle & Sebastian, Throbbing Gristle, Schoolyard Heroes, Valet, X-Ray Spex, Thomas Bangalter, The Karelia, Le Knight Club, OOIOO, The Teenagers, The Ronettes, Brightblack Morning Light, Quinn Walker, Modest Mouse, Noisettes, Spider And The Flies, MU, Hungry Ghosts, The KLF, The Chills, Trafalgar, Jaguar Love, The Ponys, The Hold Steady, The Flaming Lips, Jel, Regina Spektor, XX (Xerox) Teens, Damn Arms, White Magic, The Mars Volta, Travis, The Breeders, Scout Niblett, Thurston Moore, Dethklok, The French Kicks, Unit 3 with Venus, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Blood Red Shoes, Boredoms, Poney Poney, Afrikan Boy, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Viking Moses!, Knightlife, Bumblebeez, mewithoutYou, Pin Me Down, Friendly Fires, The Raveonettes, Little Wings, Matt Valentine, Bunker Hill, Muscles, Serena-Maneesh, Loo & Placido, Jack Rose, Jamie Lidell, Evangelicals, Dinosaur Jr., Antony and the Johnsons, Flight of the Conchords, Vashti Bunyan, Adam Green, The Cool Kids, Comets, Screaming Tea Party, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Vetiver, Black Cat #13, Missy Elliott, Bat For Lashes, Sunn O))), The Virgins, my!gay!husband!, Sleep, Beach House, Bang Lime, Six Organs of Admittance, Times New Viking, Pavement, Jens Lekman, Atlas Sound, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Party Ben, Asobi Seksu, Kimya Dawson, Dresden Dolls, Cousin Cole, Carbon/Silicon, Cyann & Ben, MGMT, Futurecop!, Duchess Says, S.C.U.M, The Futureheads, Babyshambles, The Cribs, Cassetteboy, be your own PET, Van She, The Streets, The Hives, Ship Tricks For Captains...

I also make strange sounds here:
Nights Out

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Virgin Suicides, Taxi Driver, Lost in Translation, Beauty No.2, Marie Antoinette, Tron, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, CQ, Requiem for a Dream, JFK, Ciao! Manhattan, The Science of Sleep, Pink Flamingos, Natural Born Killers, Irreversible, Fight Club, Withnail & I, Legend, Labyrinth, Blood Sucking Freaks, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Trainspotting, Blade Runner, The Killing, Elephant, Almost Famous, Shaun of the Dead, Grindhouse, Ratcatcher, The Fountain, Mona Lisa, Y Tu Mamá También, Evil Dead, Fanny and Alexander, Vinyl, The Neverending Story, The Dreamers, Punch-Drunk Love, Desperate Living, The Fountain, Female Trouble, The Tin Drum, This Is England, Rushmore, Flaming Creatures, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Shining, Scorpio Rising, The Darjeeling Limited, Buffalo '66, 9 Songs, La Haine, Dogville, I Am Curious: Yellow, Bad Taste, La Belle et la bête, Secret Honor, Modern Times, Suspiria, Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, Antonia and Jane, Chelsea Girls, UHF, anything by Alfred Hitchcock, Akira, 3-Iron, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Paranoid Park, The Descent, Persona, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Dazed and Confused, Old Joy, Polyester, Roger & Me, Children Of Men, Time Bandits, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, City of God, Sleepaway Camp, Russian Dolls, Super 8½ - A Cautionary Bio-Pic, Carandiru, United 93, No Country For Old Men, Sixteen Candles, Blood Feast, Persepolis, Be Kind Rewind, The Holy Mountain, Clerks., Bowling For Columbine, I Shot Andy Warhol, Breaking the Waves, Blue Velvet, L'Âge d'or, Living In Oblivion, Solaris (both versions), Spirited Away, À bout de souffle, Superbad, Multiple Maniacs, Penn & Teller Get Killed, Bande à Part, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wonderland (British), 24 Hour Party People, American Movie ...

Television:

TV is shite. But, I do like: The Office (UK), Airline, The Simpsons, Spaced, Skins, Wonder Showzen, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, The Wire, Gordon Ramsay, Tom Goes To The Mayor, Freaks & Geeks, Snow Dogs, BBC, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, The Mighty Boosh, PBS, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Extras, Peep Show, Da Ali G Show, Flight of the Conchords, Beavis and Butt-Head, Stella, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Disinformation (DisinfoTV), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Strangers With Candy, TV Nation, Brass Eye, The Colbert Report, Arrested Development, Futurama, That 70's Show, Metalocalypse, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Oz, Twin Peaks, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Awful Truth, Family Guy, Xavier: Renegade Angel, Jackass, Chappelle's Show, Seinfeld, Clerks, TIM AND ERIC AWESOME SHOW GREAT JOB! ...

Books:

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Factory Made: Andy Warhol and the Sixties by Steven Watson, JOE QUEENAN, Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi, A Clockwork Orange by Alexander Burgess, Edie: An American Girl by Jean Stein, Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger, Brassaï, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, No One Belongs Here More Than You. by Miranda July, Charles Bukowski, Edward Gorey, Palahniuk, Superstar and The Baby by Viva, John Waters, Tulsa by Larry Clark, Hunter S. Thompson, The Vice The DOs and DON'Ts Book, Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Civilization of the American Indian) by Vine Deloria, Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil, I Am American (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert; "Interview" and "VICE" magazines ...

Heroes:



My Blog

Best Albums of 2007

Here's the list of my favourite albums of 2007...It was a great year for music.Bloc Party - "A Weekend In The City"M.I.A. - "Kala"Deerhunter - "Cryptograms" and "Fluorescent Gray (EP)"The Horrors - "S...
Posted by le ross. on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:04:00 PST

Slight Update.

Salut!So, a slight update...I had basically "the final part" of this very long kidney-surgery-process done yesterday, and I need about 2 more months of rest left before I can be back to completely "no...
Posted by le ross. on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:56:00 PST

Summer 2007: So Far.

So far, this summer has been:Great, excellent, depressing, lovely, awful, shit, boring, amazing, exciting, lonely, weird, interesting, stupid, and nice.Cheersxoxo
Posted by le ross. on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:35:00 PST

T.V. Eye.

I know you've probably seen these, but I'm putting them all in one place.Who cares?Oh, and I'm turning 19 tomorrow (July 5th), so come to my party. It's at 6pm.cheersxoxo...
Posted by le ross. on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:49:00 PST

Oh kidneys.

Well...As most of you know, I've had a lot of kidney troubles recently.Stones.Surgeries.Stints.Intense pain.Etc.Anyway, I had another surgery today to remove the stints since they were causing such cr...
Posted by le ross. on Thu, 24 May 2007 03:26:00 PST

"Avril 14th" - a new short film I made.

This is the new short film I made today. It's somewhat similar to "Notes and Recollections" in that I took a piece of music and edited it to random footage I shot on my photo camera. The song is "Avri...
Posted by le ross. on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:52:00 PST

"PUNK"

I found this excellent, vintage "London Weekend Show" documentary from 1976 on YouTube.It's all about "punk" and it features the Sex Pistols and The Clash.It's in 7 parts. ...
Posted by le ross. on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:00:00 PST

Ross Is A Cunt.

Hey kids, look at the lovely rubber band bracelet that was made for me...
Posted by le ross. on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:42:00 PST

The Horrors lyrics.

Ok, so this blog is more for me then, er, you...I just wanted all the lyrics in one easy place.ThunderclapsWatch them speak in thunderclapsNo one more or much as JackIt's a knock 'em dead show: Pipes ...
Posted by le ross. on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:12:00 PST

"Notes and Recollections" - a short film I made.

Alright kidz, here's my new short film.It's called "Notes and Recollections"It's about 2 years of little snippets of footage shot from my photo camera edited together to Nico's "These Days".It's only ...
Posted by le ross. on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:14:00 PST