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chorch

people in death houses shouldn't throw bones

About Me



in the process of downsizing/outsourcing everything to wales.

My Interests

hiphoptrainspotting, nice big chords, joining other peoples bands and building new ones from the scraps, playing with food/words, i have loads of stuff that belongs to other people..

I'd like to meet:

steve strange

Music:

loud amplified rock

Movies:

inland empire 1991 the year punk broke planet of the apes 2001 space odyssey planet terror

Television:

space ghost coast to coast fonejacker
samizchat

Books:

society of the spectacle evasion days of war nights of love recipes for disaster homage to catalonia down and out in paris and london taschen art m'ment guides talking heads the band and their music the revolution of everyday life the psychic soviet

Heroes:

villains!

"The truth of the thoughts communicated here seems to me unassailable and definitive. I am, therefore, of the opinion that the problems have in essentials been finally solved. . . My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless."

"The Captain spoke several languages and slept on the floor with a huge pet snake; he was trained as a pharmacist, a pilot, a weapons expert, and who knows how many other skills; and yet he was the oddest combination of discipline, paranoia, and fool-hardiness I'd ever come across in one human being."

My Blog

The Problem With Music

The Problem With Musicby Steve Albini Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four fee...
Posted by chorch on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:41:00 PST

The Unabomber Manfesto: Industrial Society and its Future

Introduction 1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries,...
Posted by chorch on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:34:00 PST

Why the future doesn't need us.

  Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. By Bill Joy Fro...
Posted by chorch on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:18:00 PST

The Contents of Your Daily Life

The Contents of Your Daily Life   How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen? A computer screen? Behind an automobile windscreen? All three screens combined? What are you b...
Posted by chorch on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:19:00 PST