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ben

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I really, really, really love music.
I'm an obsessive listmaker.
I do this website; splra.org. we're cool. and smashing pumpkins nerds. check us out.

My Interests

live music collecting, music, sex, literature, the human mind, people, photography

I'd like to meet:

anton newcombe, billy corgan, amanda palmer

Music:

some of the better albums of all time

Radiohead - Kid A
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Who - Quadrophenia
Slint - Spiderland
Godspeed! You Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Cure - Disintegration

Trip

Os Mutantes
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Secret Machines
The Velvet Underground
Portishead
Massive Attack

IN-D

Blonde Redhead
DeVotchKa
The Arcade Fire
Neutral Milk Hotel
Spoon
Yo La Tengo

Soft

Elliot Smith
John Frusciante
Fiona Apple
Jeffrey Lewis

Classical

Liszt
Sibelius
Mozart
Lygidi

Jam

Benevento-Russo Duo
Sound Tribe Sector 9
My Morning Jacket
Disco Biscuits

The Elderly

The Beatles
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Jimi Hendrix
Santana

Rock

Queens Of The Stone Age
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Hum
Jeff Buckley

Electric

The Avalanches
The Orb
M83
The KLF

Tanzmusik

CSS
Paul Van Dyk
Daft Punk
LCD Soundsystem

Jazz

John Coltrane
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Tony Williams Lifetime
Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
Charlie Christian

Dirt

Nirvana
Alice In Chains
Jane's Addiction
Dinosaur Jr

Wrap

Handsome Boy Modeling School
Jay-Z
Outkast
MIA
Saul Williams

Strange

Can
Amon Duul II
The Dresden Dolls
Silver Apples
Bauhaus

"Pop"

Bjork
Prince
The Smiths
The Cure

..m/

Nine Inch Nails
Black Sabbath
Metallica [1984-1988]
The Deftones
Rage Against The Machine

Punk is dead.

Gang Of Four
Television
Interpol
Joy Division

Rock is dead.

Godspeed! You Black Emperor
Sigur Ros
Mono
Mogwai

Prog

Frank Zappa
Mars Volta
King Crimson
Pink Floyd

Punk

At the Drive-In
be your own PET
Black Flag
The Clash
The Minutemen

Gaze

My Bloody Valentine
Swervedriver
Asobi Seksu
Ride
Silversun Pickups

Ska

Streetlight Manifesto
Suburban Legends
Sublime
Reel Big Fish

Local

Triple Whip
Elsinore
fireflies
Duke of Uke
The Chemicals

Noise

Lightning Bolt
Boredoms
Les Rallizes Dénudés
Melt-Banana
Sonic Youth

Movies:

office space, woodstock, the royal tennenbaums, the breakfast club, science of sleep, y tu mama tambien, big lebowski, rushmore, american history X, la dolce vita

Television:

south park, family guy, its always sunny in philadelphia, the colbert report, rescue me

Books:

dune series, the sun also rises, romeo and juliet, brave new world, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, restaurant at the end of the universe, the grapes of wrath

Heroes:

Anyone who goes through life not caring what people think about them.

My Blog

suicide’s easy

come on join the revolutionwhat will happen in the futurei need to move to the woods and fuck alotwhats the point of all this school and society shitthe world is falling apart anyways...
Posted by ben on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:58:00 PST

flailing, failing

girls are confusing
Posted by ben on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:51:00 PST

this house

fuck this house. i see no need to maintain this nuclear family facade. it isn't there for me. never was. but i suppose they might all be happy without me.
Posted by ben on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:04:00 PST

stealing victory

i was looking through some photos today of myelf and another person. feeling like shit in general. but i found a photo i like, and that makes me smile....
Posted by ben on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:32:00 PST

god have mercy on our dirty hearts

hey fucker. you made me drink again.did that seem like some fucking great moment to you? like something that only happens in movies.?well if the answer is no.i've done it again. collapsed in the face ...
Posted by ben on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:04:00 PST

the apple of my eye

letting go is shit.shit takes a long time to sink in.shit is sinking in.(time is relative)sinking, sinking, sinking.end.things should not end. life should be perpetual, frozen.urgh. this shit burns. i...
Posted by ben on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:20:00 PST

all things will surely have to end.

Two-headed boy, She is all you could need, She will feed you tomatoes and radio wire, And retire to sheets safe and clean, But don't hate her when she gets up to leave....
Posted by ben on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:15:00 PST

my family tree is losing all it’s leaves

god knows i'm a peaceable man.
Posted by ben on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:12:00 PST

power

power is the ability to hurt, and to gain the trust allowing that hurt. I thank you for yours. thank you for everything.in other news, I've really been digging the following recently:The Knife - Heart...
Posted by ben on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:31:00 PST

it's very cold here, by the window

it is a thursday i get up early it is a challenge i'm usually l...
Posted by ben on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:19:00 PST