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Francis Scott Key

There are two colours in my head

About Me

the Road is Life
presence
THIS TOO SHALL PASS
Silent Silence
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stranger ZERO to SIX ...

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:


Music:



Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Rilo Kiley, The Beatles, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams (& the Cardinals), Aesop Rock, The Anniversary, Antony and the Johnsons, Fiona Apple, The Appleseed Cast, Aqualung, The Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, The Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Better Than Ezra, Bjork, Bloc Party, Blonde Redhead, Blur, David Bowie, Jackson Browne, Cake, Camera Obscura, Can, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, Creedance Clearwater Revival, The Cure, Danielson (et al.), The Dandy Warhols, Miles Davis, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Delirious?, Ani Difranco, The Dodos, Nick Drake, The Dresden Dolls, Paul Duncan, Bob Dylan, Eisley, The Elected, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Faint, The Finger, Ben Folds (Five), Franz Ferdinand, John Frusciante, G Love and Special Sauce, Ghosty, Gin Blossoms, Goldfrapp, Gomez, José Gonzàlez, Gorillaz, Al Green, Green Day, Jonny Greenwood, The Guess Who, Guster, PJ Harvey, The Hollies, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Jamiroquai, Jars of Clay, Elton John, Joy Division, Junior Boys, Jurassic 5, Keane, Kelpie, The Killers, Kings of Convenience, Kings of Leon, Greg Laswell, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins, The Long Winters, Lucero, The Magnetic Fields, Gustav Mahler, Aimee Mann, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Mireille Mathieu, Steve Miller Band, Kylie Minogue, Mirah, Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, Muse, MxPx, My Brightest Diamond, My Chemical Romance, Nas, The National, N.E.R.D., Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Christopher O'Riley, Of Montreal, Oingo Boingo, OK Go, Old 97's, Beth Orton, Outkast, Gram Parsons, Pavement, Peter Bjorn and John, Edith Piaf, Pinback, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, Poe, The Police, The Postal Service, The Presidents of the United States of America, Prince, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rasputina, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lou Reed, Damien Rice, Jonathan Richman (and the Modern Lovers), Rilo Kiley, Josh Ritter, The Rolling Stones, She & Him, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Frank Sinatra, Sleater-Kinney, The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, Snow Patrol, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, The Stills, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Talking Heads, Tegan & Sara, Third Eye Blind, Justin Timberlake, Toadies, Travis, U2, Ugly Casanova, Unbelievable Truth, Radiohead, Stevie Ray Vaughan (and Double Trouble), Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Ween, Weezer, Whiskeytown, The White Stripes, Lucinda Williams, The Who, Stevie Wonder, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Thom Yorke (a.k.a. God), Pete Yorn, Radiohead

Movies:

ALMOST FAMOUS, Amelie, American Beauty, American History X, The Aristocrats, Back to the Futures, The Basketball Diaries, The Believer, The Boondock Saints, The Bourne Trilogy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Brick, Casablanca, Children of Men, The Constant Gardener, Crash, Dancer in the Dark, Dead Poets Society, The Departed, Dogville, Donnie Darko, Dumb and Dumber, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Finding Forrester, The Fountain, Frequency, Garden State, The Good Shepherd, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Half Nelson, Hard Candy, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A History of Violence, HOTEL RWANDA, Hot Fuzz, Hurricane, The Ice Storm, Imaginary Heroes, In America, An Inconvenient Truth, Into The Wild, Jesus Camp, Knocked Up, L.A. Confidential, The Last Temptation of Christ, Little Miss Sunshine, Little Otik, Lords of Dogtown, Love Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants), Manderlay, Manic, Matchpoint, Meeting People Is Easy, The Motorcycle Diaries, Mysterious Skin, No Country For Old Men, Ocean's Eleven Twelve & Thirteen, OCTOBER SKY, Office Space, Opportunity Knocks, Pan's Labyrinth, Roger Dodger, Rounders, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, Seven, The Shape of Things, Shaun of the Dead, Shawshank Redemption, Sherrybaby, Sideways, Sleepers, Spider-mans, The Squid and the Whale, Stranger Than Fiction, Super Size Me, Swingers, There Will Be Blood, Three Amigos, The United States of Leland, United 93, Unleashed, V for Vendetta, Velvet Goldmine, When Harry Met Sally..., Where the Buffalo Roam, White Men Can't Jump, 24 Hour Party People

Books:

The Great Gatsby, On The Road, Crime and Punishment, All But My Life, All Quiet On The Western Front, Arcadia, Bad Behavior, The Brothers K, The Brothers Karamazov, Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, Ender's Game, Endgame, Everything Bad Is Good For You, The First Man-made Man, Flowers For Algernon, Franny and Zooey, The Future of an Illusion, The Glass Menagerie, The Great Divorce, The Gun Seller, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Hemingway Vs. Fitzgerald, How To Be Good, I Lucifer, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Invisible Man, Is It A Choice?, Joseph's Bones, Letters From A Stoic, Lockpick Pornography, Lord of the Flies, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, Nickel and Dimed, Oh! The Glory Of It All, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, A Separate Peace, So Many Ways To Begin, The Subterraneans, A Sport and a Pastime, The Stranger, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Things They Carried, This Side of Paradise, To Kill A Mockingbird, Waiting For Godot, Wittgenstein's Poker, You Shall Know Our Velocity

My Blog

Memories of a Life with the Whore of Babylon

Memories of a Life with the Whore of BabylonIt was the critical reception of your failed masterpiece that sent you crawling into my bedThe notices in the paper made promises you couldn't keep and anal...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:24:00 PST

The American Century

The numbers make for cold calculations and lazy embracesI'm in your house, on your couch, beached like a whaleYou've been giving your kissing disease, againSpread your keys among the guests of your pa...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Sat, 24 May 2008 08:45:00 PST

Hows That Coffee Taste Now?

I can't cut my beard close enough to the chin to make my smile look authenticCongratulations on the life planMarried by 25Mother by 30Loved by a man who still has all his hairI'm only sorry I missed t...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Mon, 05 May 2008 11:57:00 PST

Such A Day

Such A DayWhen it came for your grandpa to dieSurely he paid the toll and wore clean underwearNot a word of it in the newspapersMore explosions in the Middle EastYour pretty cousin wearing a sleeveles...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Fri, 02 May 2008 08:05:00 PST

April, 2008

The answer for your glanceBrings me back from the deadI wanted to be the man, antagonistIn all of your poemsThe guy who said all the wrong linesSo you could make short, pithy repliesBlame your mother,...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:37:00 PST

Elton Johns

Naked women and the fifth drink of the nightI lean into your shoulder and say"You can have sex with any of themBut you'll be dreaming of me."Well, no, I don't say itBut I want toYou hold a five in the...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:07:00 PST

Eternal Life

"Why are you here?""Because I prayed.""Excuse me?""I prayed.""Yes.  Could you elaborate on that?""I prayed to God that I would live forever and he answered my prayer.""He did.""Yes.""And why wou...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:25:00 PST

The Day You Left

It makes like a virus in the blood of our veinsPassed between usYou across from me on vinylSpun like a record, strung like a lynching mobI hurt in my joints and eyesMy back pressed up against doors lo...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:20:00 PST

Miscarriage

I don’t care if she gets up earlyTakes the car to market or GlasgowLeaves flowers on her brother’s graveRemembers the rainI’m going to stay in bedRot my legs and face away from the s...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:28:00 PST

Grocery Stores of the Wild West

The wind blowing kiss of dawn to dayTumbling carts across cement frontiersSkinny black girl with a white girl's assJust stares out on the oil oasis of parking lotsGot the bones of her father ground in...
Posted by Francis Scott Key on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:26:00 PST