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NICO TELEVANDAL

It hasn't changed since the 70s - lightsabers are still awesome

About Me

bel1even o th in g
Question e ver y thing
Fight for your right to e xxxxxxx ist

My Interests

Guitar in one hand, synth in the other, laptop somewhere in the middle - TELEVANDALS, I write sounds that insinuate words. Sometimes there is a mic as well. Somewhere in the mix are planned world takeovers, dissimination of social dissent, Sweaty slutty dancing to synthesized beats, small shows by bands not yet corrupted by 360 deals, fashion trends that offend the general public, poignant writers and starving artists, misunderstood concepts and disillusioned citizens, hot nights at basement parties, random adventures that go to far, juvenile vandalism, public intoxication, screaming, destruction, corruption, genocide, racism, hatred, the CCCP in a new and more socially acceptable form, overarmed and undereducated populations, but maybe a little hope and just enough determination to change all of this.
AudioMGMT, Passion Pit, and DIOYY all the way
Worthwhile explorations and enlightenmentsAir
A Hero Next Door
Aloud
Anti-Flag
Aphex Twin
Architecture in Helsinki
Arctic Monkeys
Art Brut
Augustana
Bach (the original)
Beatles
Beck
Benni Benassi
Best Fwends
Bjork
Blake Miller
Blaqk Audio
Bloc Party
Blonde Redhead
Blue Man Group
Blur
Brian Eno
Brian Templeton
Chemical Brothers
Combichrist
Cosmo
CSS
Culture Club
Cut Chemist
Cyanide Valentine
Daft Punk
Damone
Dennis Brennan
Depeche Mode
Diesel Boy
Digitalism
DJ Hell
DJ Rap
DJ Shadow
DJ Volvox
Dredg
Drei
Dresden Dolls
Dropkick Murphys
Dwight and Nicole
Eminem
Esthero
Fischerspooner
Fly Upright Kite
Franz Ferdinand
Freezepop
Gang of Four
Gorrilaz
Head Automatica
Hooray for Earth
Hot Chip
Hot Hot Heat
Innerpartysystem
Interpol
Joy Division
Justice
Kidnapkin
Kill Hannah
Kraftwerk
Ladytron
Lannen Fall
LCD Soundsystem
Le Castle Vania
LFO
Lies In Disguise
Lost City Angels
Massive Attack
Matthew Dear
Medicated Kisses
Metric
MGMT
M.I.A.
Motor
Mount Sims
Mstrkrft
Muse
My Chemical Romance
New Order
Nightmares on Wax
Nitzer Ebb
Oasis
Of Montreal
Peaches
Peter Bjorn and John
Placebo
Prodigy
Protokoll
Psylab
Pulp
Queen
Radio4
Radiohead
Rancid
Regina Spektor
Rockethouse
Rock Kills Kid
Sepultura
She Wants Revenge
Shiny Toy Guns
Sneaker Pimps
Squarepusher
Straylight Run
STS9
Sugarcult
Talking Heads
The Arcade Fire
The Bloody Beetroots
The Clash
The Damnwells
The Editors
The Faint
The Futureheads
The Killers
The Knife
The Lashes
The New Pornographers
The Presets
The Ramones
The Shills
The Stills
The Strokes
The Toxic Avenger
The Unseen
The Used
The Velvet Underground
Timo Arthur
TV on the Radio
Umwelt
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Young Love
Support local music!

I'd like to meet:

The lost

Music:

Air A Hero Next Door Aloud Anti-Flag Aphex Twin Arctic Monkeys Art Brut Augustana Bach (the original) Beatles Best Fwends Bjork Bloc Party Blue Man Group Blur Brian Templeton Chemical Brothers CSS Cut Chemist Daft Punk Damone Dennis Brennan Diesel Boy Dropkick Murphys Dwight and Nicole Eminem Esthero Fischerspooner Fly Upright Kite Gorrilaz Hooray for Earth Hot Chip Justice Kill Hannah Kraftwerk Ladytron LCD Soundsystem Massive Attack Medicated Kisses Metric Motor Mount Sims Mstrkrft Oasis Peaches Peter Bjorn and John Prodigy Protokoll Pulp Radio4 Radiohead Rockethouse Shiny Toy Guns Sneaker Pimps Squarepusher STS9 Sugarcult The Clash The Damnwells The Faint The Killers The Knife The Lashes The New Pornographers The Ramones The Stills The Strokes Timo Arthur U2 Young Love nu-post-post-punkcore-screamo-acid-ambient-jazz-shoegaze-fus ion-rock (stick that in your genre bowl and smoke it).......burn in hell Paris Hilton. Support local music!

Movies:

Trainspotting, Silence of the Lambs, V for Vendetta, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Star Wars, Hard Candy, quite a bit of stuff on the IFC, Garden State, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, and about 1476 others. More to come......eventually.

Television:

No. Just no.

Books:

Harry Potter, always. Nietzsche, There are few things I won't read if I have time. But that's always the clincher.

Heroes:

I'm here right now. If you had anything at all to do with that, then you belong in this seciton.

My Blog

shooting heroin

I'm trying to hate this band - I really am. Pseudo-idealistic reminiscent synth pop has never been my cup of tea. But they're just......so fucking good. I can't help it.
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:36:00 PST

Hard To Explain

Don't ever let this end
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:21:00 PST

New Life

I've done this before, stood in my room looking around absently at everything surrounding me, suddenly feeling very alien amongst it. Feeling not out of place, but that everything else is out of place...
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:43:00 PST

Rebel without applause

Battle lines are being drawn. Further and more in depth research of certain sects of the conservative Christian movement (namely "Focus on the Family" and the "American Family Association") has left m...
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:10:00 PST

And I loved her, as the bombs came plummeting down

What do I want? I want the impossible. The lines are drawn, the battles have begun, the board is set and the pieces are moving......and other generic movie quotes. In the last century we have put a ma...
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:27:00 PST

Apocalypse now, apocalypse here, Apocalypse please!!!

What are we doing? So concerned in the petty existence of our day to day while the world crumbles. So desperately focused, so self-assured, so blindly confident, so dedicated to an ideal that may not ...
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:45:00 PST

Making the real world fake, one viewer at a time.

In light of my being broke and the absence of rehearsal today, I did something I have have not done in a long time, something I am not proud of doing and the consequnces of which I am still feeling an...
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:15:00 PST

The absence of the presence of God

It's only in the past couple of weeks that I have begun to return to my scientific roots. Thank you very much Carl Sagan for being able to enlighten us to the mysteries of the universe in such a way t...
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:36:00 PST

Pale Blue Dot

Fight for it:"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives...
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:56:00 PST

w00t!

Purgatory is over. NicomotherfuckinTelevandal is back!!!!!
Posted by NICO TELEVANDAL on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:49:00 PST