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Raskolnikova

An empty vessel that can't make contact

About Me

Music junkie...I love bands and want to run with them... literally run/walk briskly with them. I'm not much for fakes and phonies and people that go to concerts to get drunk and talk. Chances are very good that if you have a picture of yourself sucking in your cheeks and holding up a bottle of imported beer I'll pretend I'm sleepwalking.

My Interests

Music, Enchantee, film, literature, figure skating, politics, the Soviet Union, Marxism, the Libertines, stuffed animals, hockey, puppies, performing routine surgical procedures, dolphins, gossiping and gossip involving major and minor indie rockers, illnesses and disorders of the body and mind, studying and making fun of hipsters, Yop, after party after-parties, indie-rock schoolgirl crushes, intransigence, venom, contradictions and paradoxes.

I'd like to meet:

Music obsessives. Libertine-crazed indie-viduals. People who haven't gotten over Britpop's demise. People who like to discuss Nicky Wire's sexuality.

Music:

THE LIBERTINES, Bloc Party, My Chemical Romance, Dirty Pretty Things, Russian folk music, (International) Noise Conspiracy, Babyshambles, Idlewild, the Vines, Sex Pistols, Joao/Astrud Gilberto, the Clash, Manic Street Preachers, Pulp, the Coral, New Order, Menswe@r, Supergrass, the Specials, Travis, (early) Sloan, Elliott Smith, Gogol Bordello, Frank Sinatra, Razorlight, Placebo, the Jam, (early) PJ Harvey, Blur, David Bowie, Badly Drawn Boy, the Killers, Wolf Parade, Sondre Lerche, the Hives, (early) Suede, Daisy Chainsaw, the Cure, Marion, Radiohead, (early) White Stripes, the Veils, Queens of the Stone Age, Test Icicles, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Elvis, Lush, the Strokes, Iggy Pop, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saens, Sviridov, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Muse, the Smiths, Adam Green, New York Dolls, the Buzzcocks, Blondie, Ladytron, the Ramones, Klaxons.

Movies:

Annie Hall, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Buffalo '66, Roman Holiday, Suspicion, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Sunset Boulevard, Little Odessa, Rushmore, The Seven Year Itch, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Psycho, Summer of Sam, Zoolander, This is Spinal Tap, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Heavenly Creatures, Sweet Sixteen, Almost Famous, The Sword in the Stone (cartoon), Grosse Point Blank, All the Real Girls, Johns, Reservoir Dogs, The Pianist, Trainspotting, Kill Bill Vol.1, Nosferatu, The Philadelphia Story, Oscar and Lucinda, (F.W. Murnau's) Sunrise, Volver, Now,Voyager.

Television:

The Simpsons, Queer As Folk (US), The Office (UK),Project Runway, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, 30 Rock.

Books:

Just my favourite authors: Marx, Engels, Jean Genet, Kafka, Camus, Dostoevsky, Dennis Cooper.

Heroes:

Karl Marx, Rosa Luxembourg, Ho Chi Minh, Joan of Arc, Elvis, Che Guevara, Richey Edwards, Rock Hudson, Snoopy, Liz Taylor, Jean Genet, Cary Grant, Diane Keaton, Franz Kafka, Johnny Weir, Jeff Buttle (actually pretty much any figure skater), Marilyn Monroe.

Which member of the Libertines are you?


Carlos Barat
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My Blog

Not so latent homosexy in rock

It would appear to me that a rock band isn't a proper "rawk band" unless there's some weird, unresolved sexual tension between at least two members of the band who, more often than not, are the pretti...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:42:00 PST

Distressing as always

Looking at "friends" of "friend's" profiles, very often makes me feel sick to my stomach and heartily disappointed.  P'raps I shouldn't be on these things anymore......
Posted by Raskolnikova on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:11:00 PST

Tormented by a gang of goths

So last nite I dreamt I was being tormented by a gang of goths headed up by Trent Reznor (he wasn't the Trent Reznor in my dream...and he was younger) in university.  They didn't like the mu...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:04:00 PST

Observation

It's freaking me out how much Gerard is looking like Richey on the cover of this week's NME.  I bet Nicky Wire saw that and flipped!  That was insightful wasn't it!     P.S. ...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:24:00 PST

Strange goings-on in my dreamscape

Last night I dreamt that ?uestlove was helping me out with operating a sundae making machine.  I was the only person in this weird highschool cafeteria type deal that couldn't get it.  I did...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:02:00 PST

Kaiser Chiefs: It's on now!

Nick Hodgson, of post-rock experimental noiseniks Kaiser Chiefs, had this to say about the greatest band of the 21st century: "Look at the Libertines...If they were any good, they'd still be together ...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:30:00 PST

3 Count them THREE Pleasant Surprises!

1)  The Klaxon's album.  Jesus Christ, I never thought I'd like them.  Naturally I hadn't heard any of their music and was just going on the fact that a)  I hate anything associate...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 04:31:00 PST

Fear and Loathing in Edmonton

Gee, I sure love risking life and limb every time I go to the downtown library.  We have special bins for used syringes!  Not scary at all.  How's a girl supposed to do her e-mail ...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:28:00 PST

"Dead to Me: From Heroes to Zeros"

Over the years I have put a great deal of time, money, emotional energy and love into admiring/worshipping/stalking various individuals I found cool/weird/inspirational/awesome/beautiful, etc. on...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:50:00 PST

Fan Clubs for Jane Doe

I don't know if anyone else has picked up on this strange phenomenon but more and more people who aren't really famous/accomplished/interesting in any way are getting fanclubs devoted to the...
Posted by Raskolnikova on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:09:00 PST