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Otto

Too young to know - too wild to care - too eager to say I will!

About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Adventures in sound and text

I'd like to meet:

That great gentleman, Nick Lowe

Music:

Cheap Trick, Raspberries, AC/DC, Tim Hardin, Don Varner, Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band, Bob Dylan, Richmond Fontaine, Flaming Groovies, James Carr, Nina Simone, Jan Johansson, Antony & The Johnsons, Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, This Mortal Coil, Blue Ash, Van Duren, Eric Matthews, Jason Falkner, Cotton Mather, Luke Haines, Joan "As Police Woman" Wasser, The Posies, early Elton, Doris Duke, Richard Thompson, Vashti Bunyan, Cal Tjader, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Neil Young, The Byrds, The Who, The Eyes, The Them, The Creation, Brian Auger, The Clash, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Style Council, Nick Lowe, The Kinks, Teenage Fanclub, Velvet Underground, Belle And Sebastian, David Poe, Nick Cave, Ray Charles, Jeff Buckley, Tim Buckley, Curt Boetcher, Billy Bragg, Wilco, Moondog, Gloria Jones, T-Rex, Golden Smog, The Jayhawks, Kinky Friedman, Merle Haggard, Dead Kennedys, Stooges, The Faces, Rod The Mod, Nick Drake, Bill Fay, Mellow Candle, Popol Vuh, Neu!, Pekka Streng, John Martyn, Thin Lizzy, The Smiths, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Disappointments, The Prisoners, Buff Medways, The Five Corners Quintet, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Dancer With a Bruised Knee, Attempted Moustache, Ivor Cutler, Loleatta Holloway, Larry Jon Wilson, Magnolia Electric Co., Big Star, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Okkervil River, The Band, Gram Parsons, Graham Parker & The Rumours, Lee Hazelwood, Gene Clark, Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt, Anne Briggs, Shirley Collins, Gil Scott Heron, John Hiatt, St. Etienne, Judee Sill, Turid, Shelagh MacDonald, The Trees, Dulcimer, Third Ear Band, Donovan, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Candy Staton, Sweet Chariots, Shirley Collins, The Rolling Stones, Morrissey, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Pentangle, Trader Horne, Jackie McAuley, Alexis Korner, Bill Evans, Rotary Connection, Gil Scott-Heron, Espers, Jack Rose, P. G. Six, Wynton Kelly, Charlie Mingus...

Movies:

Fargo, Amarcord, Withnail & I, Quadrophenia, Billion Dollar Brain, It's a Wonderful Life, Bronco Bullfrog, Alfie, Get Carter, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Holiday in Rome, Wicker Man, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Getaway, Bullit, Sonnenallee, The Party, Midnight Cowboy, Lenin Is Dead, Finisterre, Lost In Translation, The Big Lebowski, Knack, Rude Boy

Television:

Shooting Stars, Peep Show, Office, Simpsons, Rebus, Morse, HIGNFY, Cracker, Shameless, Deadwood, 24, Shield, Lost, Green Wing, Happiness, Frasier, State of Play, Wire, Extras, Sopranos, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Murphy's Law, Freaks and Geeks

Books:

Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Stewart Home, Peter Acroyd, Francis Wheen, Martin Amis, Ian Rankin, Joseph Brodsky, Wodehouse, Goscinny & Sempé, David Mitchell, Dirk Wittenborn, Brett Easton Ellis, Stephen Inwood, Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, P. J. O'Rourke, David Lodge, Michael Wolf, Waughs, Philip Larkin, Christopher Hitchens, Michael moorcock, Charles Bukowski, David Foster Wallace, Anthony Powell, Julian Maclaren-Ross and probably lots of others

Heroes:

Ferris Bueller

My Blog

The Killer

Jeez, what a night. I finally got to talk to the Killer, and frankly his years of serious self-medication show. He really isn't a talker. I spoke to him for about three minutes and he hardly said a wo...
Posted by Otto on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:39:00 PST

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Some notions on Tulsa (I'm here to interview Jerry Lee Lewis):Downtown Tulsa seems to be five skyscrapers in middle of a motorway and a railroad. The famous music district around Brady Theatre and Cai...
Posted by Otto on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:35:00 PST

Rocky, Arthur Alexander and arrival of summer

Hi whoever reads this,I have just discovered (while trying to avoid starting to work) that Arthur Alexander's later stuff on Warner (there's a comp called the Rainbow Road) is just about best music in...
Posted by Otto on Sun, 27 May 2007 11:57:00 PST

blaah

Hello people,I'm experiencing a whopper of a hangover (labour day celebration madness, big in Finland, like mämmi). It feels like I have been eaten whole by this hairy, bloated carcass, marinated in R...
Posted by Otto on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:15:00 PST

A proud record geek announcement

Dear chaps & chapettes,to make this MySpace thing more visually and intellectually stimulating I've created a small gallery of albums on my picture's background (larger one can be viewed at "pics") th...
Posted by Otto on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:21:00 PST

A major breakthrough - cd's finally in one place

Hiphei,I cleaned the flat today - well I sorted through bills and threw most of them out. Then I progressed to emptying a bookshelf of books (which I stacked very stylishly in the bedroom corner - loo...
Posted by Otto on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:06:00 PST

Ho ho ho, look at those Danes go!

Watching the news, there was a piece on the Danish riots. I watched a guy throw a molotov's cocktail through a police car's windscreen while there were people still in it. I think that's taking a clos...
Posted by Otto on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:46:00 PST

This is what I'm reduced to

Yup,I know what you're thinking - first there aren't any blogs for ages, and then two come along. Typical. You see, I just had write an other one. I felt that I had so much to give to people. Really. ...
Posted by Otto on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:50:00 PST

Climate change - are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

Dear friends outside Scandinavia (and those bastard Scandinavians who live on decent weather zones),I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken weather forecast, but let me complain about our climate ...
Posted by Otto on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:34:00 PST

Cowboys, bootboys and black box recorders - and myspace jungle

Dear Friends,I shall start with an apology for not blogging more (I assume you read tmy blogs because you're all desperately addicted to the inter web, not because they're brilliant. Always better to ...
Posted by Otto on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:02:00 PST