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Steven

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About Me



I can't remember a single detail, but I can see the rigorous succession of circumstances. I have crossed seas, I have left cities behind me, and I have plunged the course of rivers towards their source or else plunged into forests, always making for other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and I could never turn back, any more than a record could spin in reverse. And all that was leading me where? To this very moment, to this bench, in this bubble of light humming with music. -JPSartre-

Check out Send in the Clouds on Flickr for my photos.

My Interests

Travel, Photography, empty beaches at night, salt-water swimming pools, the smell of kerosene when boarding planes, Andalucia, Playing Music, Listening to Music, Film, Walking, Photoshop, Art, Books, Pool, Word 2007, Soulseek, Pitchforkmedia.com, planning future trips, evenings in the Centre Pompidou, Night-time taxis through the city, music-blogs, the smell of farms in the winter, museums, waking up in big unexplored cities, drinking coffee while watching someone's boat come in, the hills when they're alive with the sound of music, bottle caps, random words on walls, Mountains, Food, the Seine and a bottle of wine, Parks, pine trees, She who makes my heart beat faster, Early mornings singing, Badminton, Plaza Major de Madrid, Trains, Ferries, Piers, Nights, Paris, Decadence, Cheap hotel rooms with even cheaper paintings on the walls, Bubblegum and experimental music and nothing in between...

Music:

Afghan Wigs, And you will know us by the trail of dead, Ambulance Ltd, Arcade Fire, Architecture In Helsinki, Art Brut, Babyshambles, Devendra Banhart, Beatles, Belle & Sebastian , Lou Barlow, Beastie Boys, Beirut, Beat Happening, Beta Band, Bettie Serveert, Big Star, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blood Red Shoes, Blueboy, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bonnie Prince Billy, Breeders, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Buckley, Butterflies of Love, Bill Callahan, Camera Obscura, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Cardigans, Cat Power, Clap your hands say yeah, Clientele, Cocorosie, Leonard Cohen, Cure, Cut Copy, Daft Punk, Evan Dando, Dandy Warhols, Kimya Dawson, Death Cab for Cutie, dEUS, Dinosaur Jr, Doves, Elastica, Elf Power, ELO, Evil Superstars, Explosions in the Sky, Fischerspooner, Flare, !Forward Russia!, the Fall, Felt, Field Mice, Figurines, Franz Ferdinand, French Kicks, Fugazi, Future Bible Heroes, Futureheads, Gang of four, Girl Talk, Girls Vs Boys, Gonzales, Good Shoes , Gothic Archies, Grandaddy, Adam Green, Guided by Voices, Halo Benders, Ed Harcourt, Hidden Cameras, Hot Hot Heat, Horrors, Idlewild, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jam, Jesus & Mary Chain, Josef K, Joy Division , Joy Zipper, Killers, Kings of Leon, Kings of Convenience, Klaxons, the Knife, Kool Keith, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Jens Lekman, Jeru the Damaja, Lemonheads, Les Savy Fav, Liars, the Long Blondes, Lali Puna, Libertines, Love, Loveninjas, Low, Lucksmiths, M83, J Mascis, Magnetic Fields, Stephen Malkmus, Mary Onettes, Math and Physics Club, Matt and Kim, Maximo Park, Menomena, Mercury Rev, Microphones, Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Moldy Peaches, Jason Molina, Morrissey, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Nada Surf, Julian Nation, New Order, Notwist, Of Montreal, Oh No!Oh My!, Orange Juice, Organ, Page France, Pajo, Pastels, Pavement , Peaches, Peter Bjorn and John, Pet Shop Boys, Phoenix, Pixies, Postmarks, Elvis Presley, Pulp, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Radio Dept, Ramones, Raveonettes, Jonathan Richman, Rough Bunnies, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Sea and Cake, Sebadoh , Shangri-Las, Shins, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, Frank Sinatra, Elliott Smith, Smiths, Silver Jews, Slint, Smog, Snowden, Someone still loves you Boris Yeltsin, Songs: Ohia, Sonic Youth, Sparklehorse, Spiritualized, Stars, Stereolab, Stereo Total, Sufjan Stevens, Stooges, Strokes, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Suede, Swan Lake , Talk Talk, Tapes n'Tapes, Teenagers, Television, Television Personalities, Thermals, These New Puritans, Tilly and the Wall, Justin Timberlake, Tocotronic, Tokyo Police Club, Twilight Singers, TV on the Radio, Unicorns, Rufus Wainwright, Walkmen, Weezer, Kanye West, Wilco, Patrick Wolf, Wolf Parade, We are Scientists, Whirlwind Heat, White Stripes, Wu Tang Clan, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo La Tengo etc etc etc

Movies:

Mulholland Drive, Brazil, Magnolia, Fight Club, Boogie Nights, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Indiana Jones, Goodbye Lenin, Waking Life, Wizard of Oz, Pi, I heart Huckabees, Storytelling, Igby Goes Down, Amelie, Manchurian Candidate, Traffic, Crash, Raising Arizona, Punch-Drunk Love, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Abre Los Ojos, Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, Woody Allen, Garden State, Full Frontal, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, The man who wasn't there, 24hour party people, The Royal Tenenbaums (and everything else by Wes Anderson), Babel, and all the rest I've forgotten right now...seen in cinemas across the world, classrooms, trains, planes, and in dreams.

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peep Show, the Office (BBC and NBC), Ali G, Gilmore Girls, CSI, Six Feet Under, Family Guy, South Park, OC, X-Files, Lost.

Books:

The Magus - John Fowles, Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger, Glamorama - Bret Easton Ellis, Crime & Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson, The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles, All Families are Psychotic - Douglas Coupland, Choke, Survivor etc - Chuck Palahniuk, John Ashbery, Jean Baudrillard, JP Sartre, Albert Camus, Roald Dahl, A man in full - Tom Wolf, Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as political stuff, e.g. John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Rawls, Thomas Hobbes etc, and history books.

'Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.' Rousseau

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My Blog

The danger of sexuality, the inexorability of change, the certainty of death... A.R.C.R.T.A.M.*

The danger of sexuality, the inexorability of change, the certainty of death: *A Record Collection Reduced to a Mixtape, October 2007 Ok ok, let's call it a monthly thing. That works, right? Kind o...
Posted by Steven on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:22:00 PST

It all happened so fast

It all started as a bit of innocent flirtation. She looked good. I'd heard a lot about her, and my friends seemed to like her. 'Try it', they said. 'You'll like it'. I wasn't so sure. I really didn't...
Posted by Steven on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:33:00 PST

A Record Collection Reduced to a Mixtape 070907

Hello dear friends! The more astute of you may have noticed my relative absence recently, and the fact that I haven't posted a Songs of the Week for quite some time. Well, things have been pretty craz...
Posted by Steven on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:55:00 PST

Ive reached the end

"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no...
Posted by Steven on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:00:00 PST

Censorship, Riots and Police Brutality: Greece 2007

The process of intimidation and humiliation combined to create a climate, conducive to the oppression of one group by another. The Nazis were also known for the use of the brown shirted Sturmabteilu...
Posted by Steven on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:04:00 PST

Songs of the Week - June 15th 2007

As many of you might or might not know, it was my birthday last week. And I had the great idea to post a special birthday blog. The plan was to collect all my favourite songs from, well, forever. Age...
Posted by Steven on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:37:00 PST

Sgt Pepper must die!

Sgt Pepper must die!Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? It's meant to be a classic album, but all you can hear is a load of boring tripe ... we've all felt that way. And so have the musicians we...
Posted by Steven on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:52:00 PST

Songs of the Week 1st June 2007

Snow Patrol  I am an Astronaut The Barcelona Pavilion  Tidy Up Tidy Up!Both songs are taken from the rather brilliant Colours are Brighter charity compilation released late last year. Go out and ...
Posted by Steven on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:25:00 PST

Things get very much more ominous, Victor

I'm eating stale cookies. Cars parked outside have images of coffee cups and candy bars stuck to their sides. Sell sell sell the product. Some people at a nearby desk are sharing a giggle at something...
Posted by Steven on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:34:00 PST

Songs of the Week 25th May 2007

The Smiths  AsleepDedicated to Pokey Albert Hammond, Jr - Cartoon Music For Super Heroes Electrelane  Cut and RunWow... Wilco - Either WayOk, so they might have 'gone boring' but th...
Posted by Steven on Fri, 25 May 2007 04:53:00 PST