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Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose

Music is my boyfriend

About Me


My Interests

rock 'n' roll music (which is glaringly obvious, if you see the loooonnng band list below), cheesy reality TV (see below), dancing, going to gigs, fitness, Hello Kitty, making out, Pac-man, Pinkberry, puppets, reading (again, see below), sleeping late, traveling, unicorns, vintage clothes, writing, yoga, various weird pop-culture stuff

I'd like to meet:

The Beatles. Or The Feebles.

Music:

Abba, Air, Amy Winehouse, Apples In Stereo, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, The Ark, Art Brut, Ash, The Automatic, Badfinger, Band Of Horses, Bauhaus, Beach Boys, Beachwood Sparks, The Beatles, Big Star, Black Crowes, Bloc Party, Blondie, Blur, Boss Hog, The Bravery, Brian Jonestown Massacre, BRMC, Brendan Benson, Bright Eyes, Butch Walker, The Buzzcocks, Cajun Dance Party, Calvin Harris, The Cars, Catherine Wheel, The Chamber Strings, Charlatans UK, Cheap Trick, Chemical Brothers, Chester French, Chromeo, The Clash, Coldplay, Cooper Temple Clause, The Coral, Cosmic Rough Riders, The Cramps, The Creation, The Cribs, CSS, The Cure, Daft Punk, The Damned, Dandy Warhols, The Darkness, Datarock, David Bowie, The Dears, Def Leppard, Depeche Mode, Devo, Does It Offend You Yeah?, Dogs D'Amour, Doves, Duran Duran, Echo & The Bunnymen, Ed Harcourt, Editors, Elastica, Elbow, Elefant, Elliott Smith, ELO, Elvis Costello, The Enemy, Eugene Kelly, The Faces, The Faint, Faster Pussycat, The Feeling, Fischerspooner, The Flaming Lips, Flash Express, Flop, Foals, The Fratellis, Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads, Gang Of Four, Girl Talk, The Glove, Gnarls Barkley, Goldie Lookin Chain, Gorillaz, The Go, Gonzales, The Go! Team, The Gossip, Guided By Voices, Guns N' Roses, Hall & Oates, The Hang Ups, Hanoi Rocks, Hanson, Happy Mondays, Hard-Fi, Haven, Head Automatica, The Hives, Hope Of The States, The Horrors, Hot Hot Heat, I Am Kloot, Ima Robot, Interpol, The Jam, Jellyfish, Jesus & Mary Chain, JJ72, Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, Joe Jackson, Johnny Thunders, Jon Spencer, Joy Division, Junior Senior, Justice, Justin Timberlake, Kaiser Chiefs, Kanye West, Kasabian, Kate Nash, Katy Perry, Kenna, Kings Of Convenience, Kings Of Leon, The Kinks, Klaxons, The Kooks, Kraftwerk, Lady Sovereign, The Lashes, Late Of The Pier, LCD Soundsystem, The Libertines, Lily Allen, Little Man Tate, Living Things, The Long Blondes, Longview, Longwave, Low, Madonna, The Magic Numbers, Manic Street Preachers, Mark Ronson, Material Issue, McAlmont & Bulter, Melee, Melony, Men Women & Children, M.I.A., old-school Michael Jackson, Mika, Minibar, Missy Elliott, Moog Cookbook, Motley Crue, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, The National, Neil Diamond, Neil Finn, N.E.R.D., New York Dolls, New Young Pony Club, Nicole Atkins, Nightmare Of You, Nine Black Alps, The Noisettes, early Oasis, Office, Of Montreal, OK Go, Olivia Tremor Control, Operator Please, OutKast, Patrick Wolf, Peaches, Phantom Planet, Phoenix, Pigeon Detectives, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, The Plimsouls, The Police, Polyphonic Spree, Pop Will Eat Itself, The Posies, The Pretenders, Primal Scream, Prince, Psychedelic Furs, Pulp, The Pursuit Of Happiness, Queen, Queens Of The Stone Age, Radiohead, The Rapture, The Raspberries, The Raveonettes, Razorlight, Redd Kross, Remi Nicole, Reverend & The Makers, Ride, Rooney, Roxy Music, Royal Trux, Run-DMC, Ryan Adams, Scissor Sisters, Secret Machines, Sebadoh, Self, Sex Pistols, Shoes, Sigur Ros, Silverchair, Silver Sun, Simian Mobile Disco, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Sisters Of Mercy, Slade, Sloan, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Sondre Lerche, The Sounds, Soundtrack Of Our Lives, Spank Rock, Sparks, Spice Girls, Spiritualized, Spoon, Squeeze, Stone Roses, The Stooges, The Streets, The Strokes, The Subways, Suede, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, The Sweet, Tahiti 80, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, Teenage Fanclub, The Teenagers, Timbaland, Todd Rundgren, T. Rex, Tsar, Turbonegro, Turin Brakes, TV On The Radio, The Tyde, Under The Influence Of Giants, The Upper Crust, Urge Overkill, Velvet Crush, Velvet Underground, The Verve, The View, Voice Of The Beehive, The Walkmen, We Are Scientists, Webb Brothers, Ween, We've Got A Fuzzbox & We're Gonna Use It, The White Stripes, The Who, The Wildhearts, Wings, The Wombats, The Wonderstuff, XTC, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You Am I, Zoot Woman, Zumpano, The Zutons, 2 Many DJs, The 1990s...the list truly goes on and on and on...

Movies:

24 Hour Party People, Almost Famous, Better Off Dead, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bitter Moon, Boogie Nights, Breaking The Waves, Cabin Boy, Clerks, A Clockwork Orange, Control, Dazed & Confused, Decline Of Western Civilization Part 2, Dig!, Eddie & The Cruisers, Edward Scissorhands, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Fight Club, Foxes, Heathers, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, The Hunger, The Jerk, L.A. Confidential, Ladies & Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, The Last American Virgin, Meet The Feebles, Metroland, Muriel's Wedding, No Small Affair, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Performance, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Requiem For A Dream, Revenge Of The Nerds, Rock 'N' Roll High School, Rushmore, The Rutles, Say Anything, Seven, Sicko, Sid & Nancy, The Simpsons Movie, The South Park Movie, Spiceworld, The Spirit Of '76, Still Crazy, Tapeheads, Team America, This Is Spinal Tap, Trainspotting, Truly Madly Deeply, UHF, Wayne's World, The Who's Tommy, Wild At Heart, Valley Girl, Walk Hard, The Wiz, Young Einstein, Young Frankenstein, Zoolander, R. Kelly's Trapped In The Closet DVD, the fascinatingly awful and cocaine-fueled Sgt. Pepper movie...

Television:

Absolutely Fabulous, Adult Swim, Alf, Alan Partridge, American Dad, American Idol, Bands On The Run, Behind The Music, Best Week Ever, Blind Date, Breaking Bonaduce, Chapelle's Show, The Colbert Report, Conan O'Brien, Da Ali G Show, The Daily Show, Extras, Family Guy, Fernwood Tonight, Flavor Of Love, Freaks & Geeks, Get A Life, Greg The Bunny, High Spirits With Shirley Ghostman, Hit Me Baby, It's Your Move, Jools Holland, Kids In The Hall, Little Britain, The Monkees, Mr. Show, The Muppet Show, MV3, My So-Called Life, Nip/Tuck, The Office (U.K. and U.S.), Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Powerpuff Girls, Phoenix Nights, Ren & Stimpy, Rock Of Love, Schoolhouse Rock, SCTV, Sex & The City, Sifl & Olly, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, South Park, Square Pegs, That '70s Show, Three's Company, Wonder Showzen, The Young Ones, VH1 Classics on an endless loop, any episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Christopher Walken, anything with puppets in it, anything by Sid & Marty Krofft, pretty much any bad (good??) reality TV...

Books:

About A Boy, The Bitch In The House, Eats Shoots & Leaves (a must-read for anyone who cannot figure out the difference between "its" and "it's"), Fargo Rock City, Fast Food Nation, First Comes Love, Great Pop Things, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, High Fidelity, I'm With The Band, Killing Yourself To Live, Less Than Zero, Lolita, The Love You Make, Motley Crue's The Dirt, The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh, Patient, The Onion Anthology, Portnoy's Complaint, Running With Scissors, Sex Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, Too Weird For Ziggy, The Virgin Suicides, White Oleander, Wonderland Avenue, Trouser Press guides, pretty much anything by Charles Bukowski

Heroes:

Danny Noriega, Al Gore, Annie Lennox, Betsey Johnson, Bill Hicks, Chrissie Hynde, Chuck Klosterman, David Bowie, Deborah Harry, Dewey Cox, George Harrison, Jarvis Cocker, Jim Henson, John Peel, Karen O, Lester Bangs, Madonna, Marc Bolan, Matt Groening, Nick Hornby, Paul Weller, Robert Smith, Shirley Manson, Siouxsie Sioux, Suzi Quatro, Wayne Coyne, Weird Al, the chicks in Patrick Nagel's paintings

My Blog

I’m in style!

Redheads rock, especially in pairs. Check out some flaming Sunset Junction style here: http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/worn-out-sunset-junc tion-stree/...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:56:00 PST

Coachella: Operation Desert Storm Complete!

Coachella was amazing. And hot. And tiring.  Here are my blogs. I need to lie down and recover now: Thursday - http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/live/762/coachella-08-opera tion-desert-storm-begins...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:13:00 PST

American Idol madness is here!

I know it isn't cool that I'm so obsessed with reality TV, and with American Idol in particular. But you know what? I gave up worrying if people think I'm cool a long time ago. The point is, season...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:18:00 PST

Gettin’ The Led Out

Greetings from London. It's 4:30am here but I can't sleep, I'm so keyed up from tonight's Led Zeppelin show.Here's my report:http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/ledzeppelin/1113/the -concert-led-zeppelin-...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:57:00 PST

Welcome To The Flaming Lips Black Parade

Best Halloween Weekend Ever:   http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=61&title=welcome_ to_the_flaming_lips_black_parade&more=1&c=1&tb=1 &pb=1 ...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:56:00 PST

I’m Famous!

Yes, my 15 minutes just got a few seconds added to it. Check out this awesome report on my birthday party in the LA Weekly blog section:http://blogs.laweekly.com/style_council/little-boxes /Party ...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:25:00 PST

Deeee-touur

This past weekend's Detour Festival was once again an awesome experience. Couldn't make it? Or were you there but your memory of the event is, ahem, a bit hazy? Then check out my Detour blo...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 01:25:00 PST

In case you were wondering if I like the Hollywood Palladium...

This ought to clarify my stance on that issue: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=61&title=at_the_p alladium_there_is_a_light_that_f&more=1&c=1&tb=1 &pb=1...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:26:00 PST

you know you like my bloggy style

Hey kids! I've been blogging my azz off lately. Read about my latest gig-going exploits in my NME.com blog, "L.A. Woman": http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=61 And of course I had to sound off ...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:29:00 PST

Happy birthday, Liam Gallagher

Me & Liam share the same birthday. So do me and Nicole Richie and Faith Hill, but who cares about them? Anyway, I just had to pay tribute to Liam this weekend. If you feel like getting supersonic...
Posted by Parker Lyndsey Can't Lose on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:09:00 PST