Blank Stares And Cricketclaps

About Me

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My Interests

Trying to stop acting like an angry, confused Guerilla when operating my computer, the worst mac in the world. The Mac is wack.

I'd like to meet:

I Wouldn't.

Music:

Gene Clark. The Chambers Brothers. Captain Beefheart. The Monks. Big Joe Turner. Ike Turner. The Kinks. Tea & Toast Band. France Galle. Serge Gainsbourg. Dr.Teeth & The Electric Mayhem. Roky Erickson. The Left Banke. Clarence Beeks Salvage Company. R.L. Burnside. Tim Hardin. The Red Krayola. Lee Perry. Lyn Taitt. Sly Stone. Dinosaur Jr. Dennis Wilson. Brian Wilson. Carl Wilson. Charles Manson. Curtis Mayfield. Bob Dylan. Neil Young. Alex Chilton. The Clash. Little Willie John. Santo & Johnny. Suicide. Greg Dulli. Scott Walker. Astrud Gilberto. Pavement. Arthur Lee. Flying Burrito Brothers. 'I Get Lifted' by George McCrae. Prince. Jon Spencer. Butthole Surfers. Leonard Cohen. The Temptations. East River Pipe. Slag Rabbit. 'Rubber Biscuit' by The Chips. Silver Apples. Silver Jews. Funkadelic. Brian Eno. Brain Auger. The Congo's. Black Heart Procession. MC5. The Sonics. John Holt. Patience & Prudence. Dock Boggs. Blind Wille McTell. Pantera...that kind of thing.

Movies:

The Last Detail. Buffalo 66. Serpico. Eraserhead. Seventh Seal. Trading Places. Glengarry Glenross. Kingpin. Broken Flowers. Five Easy Pieces. Straight Story. Bad Santa. Its A Wonderful Life. Raging Bull. Death Race 2000. Big Boss. National Lampoons Vacation.

Television:

I don't have one. Send as many red letters as you want. Its the guy upstairs watching that crap, i swear.

Books:

Strictly The Old Testament. Occasionally Dosteovsky, Gregory Corso, Bukowski,Woody Guthrie's 'Bound For Glory',Nick Tosches 'Hellfire', Nick Kent-' Dark Stuff', The Fante's, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Debord, Lenny Bruce, Bruce Robinson, Lester Bangs, Walt Whitman, Kerouac,Charlie Brooker's TV reviews,Roger Mellie in Viz.

Heroes:

Oscar The Grouch. Groucho Marx & Daffy Duck. Your results:
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My Blog

In the grips of a small-scale freeze-out

Pretty cold in the shoe town tonight. Wrap the scarf in tighter.I'm in a room at the crest of the dip.The sports casual bow-legged kid in the street wants to steal my money. Even the landlord won't c...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:47:00 PST

The Banned Review! for Music For Squares, but unused. Pah!!!! :Stevie Jones

Stevie Jones The cul de sac of the derivative local singer-songwriter is a godless place. Drab & seemingly endless. The fact that there are probably half a dozen people in his pos...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:13:00 PST

Lost reports & scrapbook junk: Pipettes Interview

Pipettes-July 2006 (Note: this reads like i didn't say anything, but if i wrote what was actually said, it'd read 'Hello...Becky?' 'Hello...hello, oh hi' 'what's the matter...' 'oh, i'm a bit flustere...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:27:00 PST

Lost Reports & scrapbook junk: Pukkelpop 2005

PUKKELPOP In West Belgium farmland, Pukkelpop is celebrating its 20th year. The idea that Europeans are more intellectually advanced or sophisticated than Brits is degraded by this festiva...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:55:00 PST

Lost reports & scrapbook junk: Summer Sundae 2005

2005 SUMMER SUNDAE WEEKENDER The good people of De Montfort Hall would only let us in for the Saturday,so the plan was to do a couple of blitz interviews, bowl over the entire site with our wi...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:44:00 PST

BAD SANTA-£4.99 From Choices....

on Kettering Road., Northampton. Do something special for someone you love this Christmas, say- yourself, and watch Bad Santa. Despite its 251 'f##ks', and a drunken santa wetting himself in front of ...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:11:00 PST

The Remains interview, full transcribe.

This is the full interview replies from the original line-up (skipping Chip, the firecracker of a drummer) of The Remains, who i interviewed as part of an ultimately miniscule artivle for Blank Stare...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:52:00 PST

Is there any wood for the new issue?

I'm thinkin about putting a log on the fire. One more issue. Maybe. Just because no-one else is again, even if they are, too many laminated menu's!! Penguin dust!Yes, a new issue of Blank Stares & Cri...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:40:00 PST

Redemption: Interviews I pulled out of this year & why

The Futureheads- I phoned their tour manger on the day & he was rude, brash, & american, so i thought it best to not waste anybodys (my) time and didn't show up. I only said i'd do it co...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:43:00 PST

Blank Stares and Cricketclaps Issue .8

Well this all looks like some seedy nipple peep show to me, but I live in hope of hearing some hot new R n B combo's to champion in my rag, BSACC. Speaking of which, we're working like Heavily medicat...
Posted by Blank Stares And Cricketclaps on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:02:00 PST