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ben

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me



i walk, i talk, i say 'mama'.

Photography and some of my writings from abroad:
www.devo.com/bengranby

My Interests

dead-ending evolution.

ive made it my life mission to pee in the world's great rivers. so far i have checked off:
danube, mississippi, nile, euphrates, thames, seine, tigris, jordan, magdalena, and rappahannok.
and no, i dont work for Brita.

I'd like to meet:

the sociopath of least resistance.

jelly bellies.
b people
idi amin dada
girls who tickle and boys who squeal.

Music:

oh, long list. damn requisite personality indicators...

Brian Eno, Ladytron, Television Personalities, The Pixies, New Order, OMD, Bowie, Royskopp, The Residents, The Fall, 9353, The Cure, Grauzone, Adam Ant, Blonde Redhead, Cabaret Voltaire, The Cramps, Depeche Mode, Adult., Flipper, Esplendor Geometrico, Otomo Yoshide, Omoide Hatoba, Der Plan, OMD, Names, Love & Rockets, Tuxedo Moon, Polyphonic Size, Andreas Doreau, Arbeid Adelt!, The Mummies, Laibach, Boyd Rice, Ed Hall, Big Black, Shellac, Killdozer, Numbers, Holger Hiller, Adam Ant, Yello, Chicks on Speed, The Fitness, Psychic TV, Foetus, Melt Banana, Love and Rockets, Trin Tran, Numbers, The Ex, Nick Cave / Birthday Party, Einstruzende Neubauten, DAF, Gary Numan (Tubeway Army era), Roxy Music, Yello, Siouxsie Sioux, Buzzcocks, Crass, Fad Gadget, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Wire, Air, Joy Division, Magazine, The Stranglers, etc.

and of course, casio keyboard party music.
i have a large collection of amazing rare late 70's early keyboard/synth/minimal wave music that i cherish, but left in a storage locker in Wisconsin...

Movies:

even dwarves started small, marquis, dead alive, the reflecting skin, northfork, lepo sale lepa gore, underground, stranger than fiction, marat/sade, heathers, blue velvet, liquid sky, brazil, city of go, donnie darko, big lebowski, miller's crossing, repo man, time bandits, delicatessen, death race 2000, big lebowski, zentropa;

actually this would be much quicker if i just listed directors, no? at least i can look more pretentious that way.
jarmusch, cronenburg, gilliam, jardowoski, lynch, waters, brunel, cohen bros., anderson, solondz, herzog, wenders, etc.

Television:

dont have one. but adore: the young ones, adult swim, mr. show, kids in the hall, simpsons, documentaries. most things without laughtracks, save for Good Times.

Books:

my war gone by, i miss it so, pity the nation, shadow of the sun, dictionary of the vulgar tongue, emma's war, the zanzibar chest, marshall kim il sung is our father, arsenal: surrealist subversion, and my book - of course:

Heroes:

Heliogabalus, gravity, Baudriard, Bakunin, sdoft-white glow, Rodchenko, Ladislas Starevich, Gino Severini, Comte de Lautremont, two-ply tissues, and the guy on the Muppet show that ran about in a frock coat and threw fish at people.