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johnnykowalski

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S Thompson, Joe Strummer, Iggy Pop, Vince Noir,Homer Simpson, Roger Rabbit's girlfriend, all my enemies one by one in a dark alley...............

Music:

I have often been called a music snob but this is not true - I just care about it more than I care about almost anything else in the world(sort of- I'm just an obssessive really).Bands/artists I like include - Lee Scratch Perry, Sublime, Outkast, Alice Cooper, Cracked Actors, Rancid, The Clash, Crass, New York Dolls, David Bowie, Godspeed You Black Emperor!,Aaron Spectre, The Who, The Pogues, The Slits, Dj Marky, Roots Manuva,Inner Terrestrials,PAIN, Intensive Care, Conflict, Aphex Twin, The Go! Team,Shitmat, David Holmes, Nick Cave, Flevans, Cupid Stunts, Wires, Chequered Footprints, James Brown, Pavement,The Cunts, Gas Huffer, Jose Gonzales, Rotting Tramp, DFA records shit, High Contrast, London Elektricity (big up the Hospital records massive), System Of A Down, Push Me Under n more...............

Movies:

I watched Scarface last night for the first time and enjoyed it immensely - I also like Trainspotting, Reservoir Dogs, Cheech and Chong films (they're better than you think), Supertroopers, ID, The Godfather, Madagascar, Sin City, Dazed and Confused, Fear And Loathing In Las Veagas,Sid And Nancy..........

Television:

Only if it makes me laugh - think The Simpsons, The Mighty Boosh, The League Of Gentlemen, Phoenix Nights, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace,Spaced, Spinal Tap(I know it's a film but I've only just remembered it)........you know, that kind of stuff

Books:

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Stone Junction, Not Fade Away(Jim Dodge)Wonderland Avenue(Danny Sugerman)Human Punk, Football Factory (John King) Trainspotting, Porno (Irvine Welsh)Querelle Of Brest (Jean Genet)Brass (Helen Walsh),Billie Morgan (Jools Denby), A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud) Anthologies - Generation Hex, Book Of Lies ( the Disinfo one) Lester Bangs

Heroes:

no more heroes anymore, no more heroes anymore................

My Blog

Compromise and conformity - boredom in the free world

"If you and I are here not to do, what you and I wanna do, and go forever crazy with it, why the hell are we even here?"              &n...
Posted by john on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:57:00 PST

television, the drug of absolutely everyone, and why youtube’s not all it’s cracked up to be

     Television is my most hated of mediums. I mean, culturally speaking, do we have anything worse? God, I really hate television. It's the complete lack of any form of actual eng...
Posted by john on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:46:00 PST

Drunken shouting in cleobury mortimer

     "Days like these, make it all worthwhile............"               Being in a band can mighty frustrating sometime...
Posted by john on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:02:00 PST

the insane ramblings of a fat headed middle class freak

        Right, I was going to write a proper structured blog with well thought out points and a clever introduction. However, my brains' not functioning properly at ...
Posted by john on Thu, 17 May 2007 04:48:00 PST

Adventures in ink: I made myself bleed for my art - or one of my proudest acheivements thus far

          So.....................I haven't been blogging much recently because I've been mostly doing the stuff I put on my "plans for 2007" blog, like making m...
Posted by john on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:10:00 PST

Plans for 2007

I would say "new year's resolutions" but there is a) something a bit crap about that because new year's resolutions are something boring people talk about on new year's eve at great length to just for...
Posted by john on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:10:00 PST

Johnny k's review of 2006........

   It was a bit shit, really. Well no, it wasn't really shit, it was disappointing at times, as well as occasionally difficult, as well as being funny, surprising, hard work, and down r...
Posted by john on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:37:00 PST

Dubrovnivk in Malvern and an encounter with a simpleton..........

    I had quite a good weekend last weekend. I went down the road to Malvern to see a band called Dubrovnik. For those of you that have never been to the place, Malvern is our local equ...
Posted by john on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:30:00 PST

Tattooing and the big evil looking bird on my leg (not the big evil bird on my arm, ha ha hah)

Okay, so those of you that are quite observant may have noticed that I added a photo a couple of months ago of my new tattoo, and that underneath it says "see blog". Well, this is that blog. I've had ...
Posted by john on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:38:00 PST

New tune featuring me now on myspace.......

       Greetings myspace cadets. I've been quite slack on the blogging front recently - that's cos I've been doing non internet related stuff, like trying to find &n...
Posted by john on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:47:00 PST