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Benjamin

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About Me

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My Interests

cooking and eating, making music, listening to music, watching people perform music, thunderstorms, Wyoming, sashimi, spoonful of happiness from Koo, observing people, observing people observing people, movies, Lasagna at The Gold Mirror, photography, schiele, rothko, el greco, Oysters Bingo at the Buckeye, tokaj, bourbon, wines from Bordeaux, reading books that make me miss my stop by 20 blocks, road trips, drive-in theatres, bowling alleys, abandoned barns, cats and dogs, family, friends, crushes, hiking and breathing

I'd like to meet:

some sort of half deer, half owl thing. that would be cool

Music:

jay reatard, grizzly bear, bruno nicolai, kings of convenience, jack and the ripper, kurt weill, orlando di lasso, claudio monteverdi, the gris gris, the submarine races, telepop music, M. Ward, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Eno, NY Dolls, Beach Boys, Black Heart Procession, morton feldman, Air, Jobim, Bebel Gilberto, Benny Goodman, Cat Power, Henry Mancini, Bernard Herrmann, King Khan & BBQ Show, The Oblivians, Alex Chilton, Big Star,Gustav Mahler, Los Dandys, Bob Log III, Gino Washington, Elmore James, Jelly Roll Norton, early John Lee Hooker, Slim Harpo, The Gories, Dirtbombs, Cramps, Captain Beefheart, Bo Diddley, Jerry Byrd, Mississippi John Hurt, Country Teasers, Dead Boys, Keren Ann, Jacques Dutronc, Etienne Charry, Serge Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy, France Gall, Katerine, Elvis,Blondie, Buzzcocks, Kinks, Zombies, Animals, G & R, Charlie Feathers, Baden Powell, Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Morrissey, The Ponys, Brahms, Bach, Schubert, the ramones

Movies:

Wong Kar-Wai, Orson Welles, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Powell and Pressburger, Akira Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Suzuki, Melville, Croupier, Chinatown, Donnie Darko, Tattoo Life, Le Sammurai, Titus, The Third Man, Lost in Translation, Singing in the Rain, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Les Enfants Du Paradis, Kill Bill, Babel, Harlan County USA, Grey Gardens, School of the Holy Beast

Television:

Nat Geo, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Man Vs. Wild, Most Extreme, and UFC

Books:

Steinbeck, Salinger, Murakami, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Melville, Pynchon

Heroes:

Grandma and Grandpa