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About Me

If you're in some shitty band, I probably wont add you, so stop your pathetic pandering. If your songs are good enough, your audience will find you.

The Locust "A Film For Peace" (Bulbo TV)

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My Interests

beth, music, art, movies, books, words, bunny rabbit costumes, handgrenades, scrabble, punctuation, grammar, surfing.

I'd like to meet:

They spelled "meat" wrong.

Music:

GANG OF FOUR, THE STRANGLERS, THE FALL, WIRE, MINUTE MEN, SACCHARINE TRUST, MEAT PUPPETS, GONE, NIP DRIVERS, LAWNDALE, DC3, SAVAGE REPUBLIC, BRIAN ENO, SPARKS, CRASH WORSHIP, TELEVISION, LOCUST, BLACK KEYS, BOW WOW WOW, ABC, XTC, ELO, ADAM AND THE ANTS, HAIRCUT 100, ROMEO VOID, SUBURBAN LAWNS, DEVO, INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS, SUICIDE, BAUHAUS, DONOVAN, STOOGES, MC5, BLUE CHEER, CHRISTIAN DEATH, 45 GRAVE, BLACK FLAG, ZZ TOP, JOE WALSH, PAT TRAVERS, TED NUGENT, KING CRIMSON, OUTKAST, NWA, ICE CUBE, RUN DMC, MDC, DRI, SNFU, CRUCIFIX, THE BEASTIE BOYS, PUBLIC ENEMY, GODFLESH, JESU, APHEX TWIN, PAN SONIC, SQUARE PUSHER, AUTECHRE, LANQUIS, MATMOS, CHROME, COP SHOOT COP, NECROS, GBH, DISCHARGE, PETER AND THE TEST TUBE BABIES, ESTHER WILLAIMS, BROTHER JACK MCDUFFY, TRANE, DIZZY, BIRD, BAGS, MINGUS, MONK, SONNY ROLLINS, STAN GETZ, PHAROAH SANDERS, DAVE BRUBECK, ERIC DOLPHY, RAMSEY LEWIS, NINA SIMONE, CHARLIE HADEN, CHARLES BROWN, JIMMY SMITH, MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD, MONEY MARK, THROW RAG, JOHN LEE HOOKER, BRUJERIA, SLAYER, PIG DESTROYER, ANALCUNT, SWANS, BIG BLACK, SHELLAC, RAPEMAN, MINOR THREAT, 7-SECONDS, YOUTH BRIGADE, FU'S, SCREAM, BEEFEATER, DEERHOOF, MODEST MOUSE, BUILT TO SPILL, DAMIEN RICE, JEFF BUCKLEY, WILLIE NELSON, PRINCE, STEVIE WONDER, SLY AND ROBBIE, BAD BRAINS, CRASS, CHUMBAWAMBA, SUBHUMANS, RUDIMENTARY PENI, SKINHORSE, BEDLAM, RIG, 400 BLOWS, NO COMPRENDE, CZEEZ, DIG-IT, DEAD BOYS, JOHNNY THUNDERS, RICHARD HELL, SUICIDE, PINK FLOYD, MISFITS, CRIMSON CURSE, SPIRITUALIZED, SPACEMAN 3, FLIPPER, BUTHOLE SURFERS, THE JESUS LIZARD, AT THE DRIVE-IN, MARS VOLTA, SPARTA, DEFACTO, SONIC YOUTH, RUINS, ZENI GEVA, BATTLES, UNSANE, SLUG, FESTIVAL OF DEAD DEAR, HIMSA, SOUNDGARDEN, DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, EVERYTIME I DIE, APHEX TWIN, SQUARE PUSHER, SHIZUO, AUTECHRE, RADIOHEAD, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, ZAPPA/MOTHERS, KOOL KEITH, THRONES, HIGH ON FIRE, THE WHIP, BIG BUSINESS , (old) BAD RELIGION, CIRCLE JERKS, (old) SOCIAL DISTORTION, THE KINKS, THE WHO, AL GREEN, JAMES BROWN, CURTIS MAYFIELD, ARETHA FRANKLIN, JANIS JOPLIN, STAPLE SINGERS, THE BAND, WEEZER, PARLIMENT/FUNKADELIC, THE PLOT TO BLOW UP THE EIFFEL TOWER, WRANGLER BRUTES, THE FUSE, RED ONIONS, MEAN REDS, LOPEZ , ZOUNDZ, THE ADOLESCENTS, WASTED YOUTH, TSOL, ANGRY SAMOANS, SOCIAL UNREST, DEAD KENNEDYS, THE FLESHIES, WOLF EYES, PHANTOM LIMBS, THE BAR FEEDERS , SMOG, JOHN FRUSCIANTE, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, BOTTLES AND SKULLS, YEAR FUTURE , GERONIMO, SLEESTAK

Movies:

a face in the crowd, knife in the water, two men and a wardrobe, the tenant, repulsion, full metal jacket, les quatre cent coups, a clockwork orange, the shining, suspiria, pi, momento, donnie darko, lipstick, one flew over the koo koo's nest, secretary, punch drunk love, cable guy, double indemnity, chinatown, born yesterday, marty, grey gardens, the fugitive kind, swept away, seven beauties, love and anarchy, the cook the thief his wife and her lover, drowning by numbers, the pillow book, a woman under the influence, the killing of a chinese bookie, taxi driver, stranger than paradise, down by law, mystery train, deadman, M.A.S.H., a place in the sun, dancer in the dark, 5 obstructions (the perfect human), cabaret, eraserhead, blue velvet, cypher in the snow, lost in translation, magnolia, the warriors, harold and maude, taxi driver, raging bull, goodfellas, thx1138, smokey and the bandit, bladerunner, the power of salad, blind eye sees all, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, adaptation, jesus christ superstar, a woman under the inflluence, rosemary's baby, the last waltz, no direction home, don't look back, in a lonely place, tie me up tie me down, women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the swimmer, david and lisa, grey gardens, 12 angry men, head on, the squid and the whale, rock school, the inside man, the taking of pelham 123, shallow grave, even dwarfs started small, koyaanisqatsi, holy mountain, santa sangre, un chien andelou

Television:

Marquee Moon

Books:

Right now I'm reading Stumbling On Happiness. But, generally, I like history books; Guns, Germs and Steel, The Power of Myth, Overthrow (America's century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq), Assassination Vacation, The Selling Of The President. And other stuff too by the likes of: c. bukowski, d. sedaris, j. fante, hunter s. thompson, i. calvino, toa te ching, rumi, rilke, j. kerouac, k. kesey, j. cheever. And good children's stuff like The Pet Goat, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, etc. etc. etc. (pronounced eksederah)

Heroes:

Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Isabella Sofia Moreno

My Blog

broken eyelashes

while using the bathroom this morning, i glanced up at a pretty little ceramic bust that sits atop a low table in our bathroom. it's molded in the shape of a young woman's head and shoulders. it appea...
Posted by Clamsuit on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:08:00 PST

Whole Lotta Love

I just remembered a moment. You know those revelationary, epiphanic moments in your life? I remember being somewhere around 4 years old, lying down in the backseat of my dad's 1969 Camero. The upholst...
Posted by Clamsuit on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST

a gentle woman

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman.-John Cheever 1957
Posted by Clamsuit on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:55:00 PST

Mencken on Art

...the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom respectable. No virtuous man--that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense--has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a sympho...
Posted by Clamsuit on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:20:00 PST

The definition of gratitude

"They brake our legs and we say, 'Thank you' when they offer us crutches."-Chumbawamba
Posted by Clamsuit on Wed, 24 May 2006 01:22:00 PST

And here we thought we were so special

MySpace can do a lot of things. But one of the most profound things that I've noticed it can do is it can totally strip away any naive notions of unique individuality I may have harbored. I have never...
Posted by Clamsuit on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:52:00 PST

The past is finished.

We should have no regrets. The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know. -- Rebecca BeardThan...
Posted by Clamsuit on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:20:00 PST

How does one know if they are an artist?

"You must ask yourself in the stillest moment of your night, if it were denied you to create, would you die? And if the answer is "yes", then you have no choice. If your answer is "no", then please go...
Posted by Clamsuit on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Kant get it right

"Seek not the favor of the multitude, it is seldom got by honest means. But seek the testimony of the few. And number not the voices but weigh them." ...
Posted by Clamsuit on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST