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About Me

I'm changing. Slowly but surely.

( Zachary Rossman )

My Interests

screaming/ whispering/ dancing/ standing still/ lying still/ lying/ my jewness/ volume/ silence/ having friends I won't meet/ having new friends/ darkness/ daylight/ the girlfriend/ scrabble/ scarves/ bicycles/ coffee/ pedways/ bass rumbles/ drum lines/ guitar wailing/ politics/ fellow members of the dead dad club/ poster art/ promoting/ introspection/ extroversion/ not being sick/ ytmnd.com/ radio production/ tofu/ godzilla/

I'd like to meet:

NO MORE BANDS.

Music:

I.D.J.: Sometimes, some places. (also: art openings, weddings, bar mitzvahs. holla!) -------Currently: Lou Reed. Converge. Copy. Hu Vibrational. The Golden Dogs. Vex'd (and all things dubstep). Various. Arveene. The Monochrome Set. I love it all. Records will be the death of me.

Movies:

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Day of the Jackal. Amelie. current fixation: nothing good.

Television:

LOSTLOSTLOSTLOSTLOSTLOSTLOST (and only Lost) (oh, and Colbert/Stewart) (shit, and Kenny VS. Spenny)

Books:

Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski, Jeff Noon, Kurt Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout. Reading: Breakfast of Champions.

Heroes:

my dad. yeah, really.

My Blog

I broke my retro-encabulator.

yeah, what he said....
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:24:00 PST

Straight out tha trunk

The EP is an interesting format. Between releases, it's a teaser, leading fans along an audible path of the attention span of the artist. As a debut, it's but a taste, or a test. Like perfume samples ...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:38:00 PST

The top 30: part 2

Before I dig into the second half of my list - allow me to respond to some...responses to my first. Why didn't Clipse make it? Because I haven't heard the record, nor have I tried to. What I did hear ...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:43:00 PST

Top 30 of 2006: Part One

I tried, I really did, to cram this into a top 10. It just didn't happen. As I did last year, I've broken this into electronic and pop/rock/heavy/whatever. I'll work on the latter soon. This took me a...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 02:05:00 PST

the NYC phlog

So exhausted, trying to look Laguardia-level-excited.Helen assumed the position called "The Blackberry", and didn't break the pose for 5 days. I was impressed.Skylines. Skyscrapes.Andre the Giant has ...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:08:00 PST

I heart the internet

We saw this sign in NYC and now the Shout Outs call me "Burgerklein". I'm OK with that. We didn't get our own picture, so I stole..ahem, FOUND this one.The internet is rad. More NYC musings over at th...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:59:00 PST

cat, minus bag.

This is reposted from my other blog, but I have news so nice I'll say it twice. Drum roll, please.I'm moving to Toronto.With Leah.I've been offered, and have accepted a job at Six Shooter Records & Ma...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:20:00 PST

dogma chasing karma

OK Friends, I have a question for you.I don't have many enemies, but I admit I have a few here and there. I don't really remember what I did to earn them, but they exist. One in particular tries his h...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:08:00 PST

Armchair Activism

I'll keep this short and sweet.Sending out bulletins about THE CRISIS IN DARFUR or THE PRICE OF GAS or EMERGENCY IN WHEREVER is fucking LAZY and PATHETIC. I'm sorry, but internet petitions DO NOTHING....
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Wed, 31 May 2006 12:29:00 PST

Oh.Holy.Crap! 4 Records destroying my life...

ok ok...so I claim to NEVER blog here. But as long as I have subscribers...I'm gonna keep them interested.I'm here to tell you about 4 albums/artists that are currently tearing my head apart. These ar...
Posted by Eli Ben K. on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:57:00 PST