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Andy

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About Me

My blog .Punk rock, writing, travelling...

My Interests

Writing, punk rock, travel, activism.

Music:

Circle Jerks, Against Me! Alkaline Trio, Johnny Cash, dead Prez, Fishbone, Hank Williams I&III, Leftover Crack, Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, Attila the Stockbroker, Black 47, Pogues, Paris, Akir, Screeching Weasel, The Coup, Street Dogs, Immortal Technique, Drive-by Truckers, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, George Jones, Strike Anywhere, Sage Francis, Lenny & the Piss Poor Boys, Hot Water Music, Citizen Fish, Dropkick Murphys, Fear, Minor Threat, Fifteen, The Slackers, Vickers, and Darkbuster.

Movies:

Anything by John Waters, Happiness, Dead Alive, Brain Candy, The Corporation, No End in Sight...

Television:

Weeds, 30 Days, City of Men, LOST, Daily Show...

Books:

by Hunter S Thompson, Bukowski, Studs Terkel, John Fante, R Crumb, Ma Jian, Nick Hornby, Howard Zinn, Dave Suter, Cornel West, Norman Mailer, Harvey Pekar, Roddy Doyle, Joe Bageant, Patrick McCabe, George Orwell, William Blum, Noam Chomsky and Roald Dahl. As well as DMZ, Shooting Zone, Palestine, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, What's the Matter with Kansas,

Heroes:

Dr. Madd Vibe, John Waters, Hunter S. Thompson, R. Crumb, and Woody Guthrie.

My Blog

WWJE?

One time I was listening to Lars Larson filling in for Rush Limbaugh. He was inviting listeners to call in and explain why Jesus would have been a Republican. One caller said, "Of course he would have...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:56:00 PST

Scary fascists

SACCO AND VANZETTI is an 80-minute long documentary that tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, an...
Posted by Andy on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:13:00 PST

updates

They put me on the cover of POTS this week. How random...Meanwhile back here in Maine, the mercury shot down to 12 degrees yesterday and the price of heating oil is expected to climb up to an average ...
Posted by Andy on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:14:00 PST

Krazy Konsumerism

Sometimes when I'm sending out dozens of resumes or finding out or when I've just been rejected by yet another potential employer, I think of those carefree days in Taiwan when I hardly even had to at...
Posted by Andy on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:25:00 PST

Noam

This is a great documentary about Noam Chomsky. It features a good selection of speeches as well as interviews with his wife and colleagues. I particularly liked his comments about media control and t...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:07:00 PST

The Barter System

Not long after I read UKSUBS' latest entry about a young woman who contacted him online about trading sexual favors for his professional legal counsel, I was flipping through the Portland Phoenix and ...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:01:00 PST

Have you ever received this email forward?

One ugly side effect of the information age is that millions of email forwards spreading some of the nastiest propaganda and lies float around cyberspace and are accepted as the gospel by so many peop...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:02:00 PST

American Blackout

It's amazing how many excellent full length documentaries are available online. Cheers to Guerilla News Network for putting this up: ...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:40:00 PST

My MTV Submission

Well, this was my first attempt at making a video and editing it. Using an old version of i movie to edit is like trying to build an elaborate card house - it inevitably fucking crashes as soon as you...
Posted by Andy on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:37:00 PST

MOONBATS!

As anyone who has visited The Deported website recently knows, I am not our former-guitar player's favorite person right now. The intro page features my face on a giant cock with several other mini "A...
Posted by Andy on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:24:00 PST