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twisted fifties!

keep it twisted!

About Me

im ben, i draw, im ben the illustrator.This is my world of Twisted Fifties Ladies, please do take a look at some of my pictures in the gallery, or take a look at my twisted Fifties website.
Click here to go to www.Twisted-Fifties.com
... or click here and go and enjoy my 'regular' website
i have a little buddy that i would love you to meet, his name is Speakerdog and you can check him out here...
Speakerdog's Myspace page!

My Interests

looking at pictures, being outside, walking, talking, listening, hearing, cheering, laughing and smiling.

Music:

13 & god, adam green, adem, the album leaf, alfie, architecture in helsinki, the arcade fire, beasties, beatles, beck, belle and sebastian, billie holiday, bjork, blur, bright eyes, broken social scene, buck 65, calexico, clap your hands say yeah! the chemical brothers, the clash, cocorosie, the concretes, deathcab for cutie, devendra banhart, doves, eels, elbow, elliott smith, emiliana torrini, flaming lips, the free design, the go! team, grandaddy, ian brown, iron and wine, jeffrey lewis, kimya dawson, kings of convenience, lambchop, lemon jelly, magic numbers, manu chau, m.i.a. the milk teeth, modest mouse, mogwai, the moldy peaches, mr.scruff, nina simone, non prophets, pavement, pixies, the polyphonic spree,the postal service, radiohead, raveonettes, richard hawley, rilo kiley, sage francis, saul williams, the shins, sigur ros, smoosh, the specials, super furries, tegan and sara, tenebrae, thorir, tortoise, ugly casanova, viva voce, weezer, why? wilco.

Movies:

requiem for a dream. amelie. goonies. harold and maude. star wars (because im a boy). thumbsucker. pi. 101 reykjavic. together. the muppet movie (the most colourful film you will ever see). chuck and buck. dancer in the dark (because she's in it). bully. kids. dark days. rushmore. the royal tenenbaums. the day trippers. best in show. city of god. ghost world. elephant. hedwig and the angry inch. delicatessen. spring, summer, autumn, winter... and spring. and others i cant think of right now.

Heroes:

painters and illustrators... top three... Keith Haring . Jean-Michel Basquiat . Takeshi Murakami .and the rest... Brian Cook . Andy Warhol . Roy Lichtenstein . Airside . d*face . Jeremy Fish . J Otto Seibold . Matt Sewell . Pete Fowler . Seth Fisher . Shynola . Yoshitomo Nara .