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chris

irony's dump

About Me

i'm in a band, you can find us here and here .apart from that, i study history at sheffield postgrad music at newcastle where i normally clock up too many library fines...Comments
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My Interests

music, books, films, coffee, beer.that's the order that came to mind but frankly i'm suspect as to which ones are more important...

I'd like to meet:



Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (LIVE)

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Music:

my audioscrobblerand in alphabetical order; 13+god, american analog set, american football, amy milan, andrew bird, antony and the johnsons, beulah, boards of canada, bonnie prince billy, braid, bright eyes, broken social scene, buck 65, built to spill, calexico, casiotone for the painfully alone, damien rice, death cab for cutie, dinosaur jr, dntel, eels, efterklang, electric president, elliott smith, enon, film school, fog, folk implosion, four tet, futureheads, giant drag, giant sand, godspeed you! black emperor, gomez, guided by voices, guitar, i love you but i've chosen darkness, idlewild, interpol, iron & wine, islands, john vanderslice, johnny cash, lali puna, lambchop, leonard cohen, lou barlow, low, mazzy star, mclusky, menomena, mew, mice parade, modest mouse, mogwai, mojave 3, múm, my morning jacket, neutral milk hotel, nick drake, pavement, pedro the lion, postal service, radiohead, rem, red house painters, rogue wave, sebadoh, sigur rós, slowdive, stars, stephen malkmus, styrofoam, sun kil moon, tape, the album leaf, the decemberists, the get up kids, the magnetic fields, the microphones, the mountain goats, the national, the new pornographers, the notwist, the weakerthans, the wrens, tom waits, uncle tupelo, wilco, willard grant conspiracy, wolf parade, xiu xiu, yo la tengo

Movies:

reykjavik 101, to catch a virgin ghost, cock and bull story, 21 grams, the virgin suicides, rules of attraction, city of god, human nature, adaptation, dogtown and z-boys, swimming with sharks, vanilla sky/ as abre los ojos, beautiful girls, citizen cain, my life without me, garden state, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, lost in translation, i heart huckabees, it's a wonderful life, lost highway, rushmore, the fog of war, the woodsman, coffee and cigarettes, blue velvet, team america world police, wallace and gromit, corpse bride.

Television:

dawson's creek, the oc, arrested development, seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm.

Books:

his dark materials, franny and zooey, on the road, catcher in the rye, 100 years of soliture, lolita, great gatsby, rules of attraction, dispatches, mcsweeney's, metamorphosis, democracy in america, berlin.

My Blog

annoyance 47

the fact that the plumbing in our house seems to be imitating the death rattle of a small child...
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Mon, 29 May 2006 04:34:00 PST

annoyance 46

the nme this week they referred to '303 drum patterns' the tb303 is a bass synth numbnuts [that's just the latest in a long line of annoyances with the nme but it pretty much sealed the deal...]...
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Mon, 29 May 2006 04:00:00 PST

annoyance 45

when someone steals your brilliant idea for a book or film or you realise that it's already been done before. [case in question; adam sandler ] i don't care if hollywood tells me there are only ...
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Sun, 28 May 2006 05:01:00 PST

annoyance 44

girls that think they are, or model themselves on, holly golightly
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Sat, 27 May 2006 12:41:00 PST

annoyance 43

the fact that ebay says i've 'won' an auction i still wind up paying money for the bloody item
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Fri, 26 May 2006 03:10:00 PST

annoyance 42

the big issue seller outside tesco has got yet _another_ pair of shoes
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Fri, 26 May 2006 07:47:00 PST

annoyance 41

the fact that i frequently hear what i think is the best band i've ever heard only to find out that it's just the noise of roadworks or traffic in the distance :-/
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Tue, 23 May 2006 07:18:00 PST

annoyance 40

the fact that kids born in 1993 are now teenagers...
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Sun, 21 May 2006 01:56:00 PST

annoyance 39

people stealing my blog idea
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Sat, 20 May 2006 06:38:00 PST

annoyance 38

the fact that fearne cotton's blog on myspace is utter shite
Posted by i'm flattered by complex speech on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:12:00 PST