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Damien

No surrender

About Me


Ah look at me. So content. A brief pang of joy in my otherwise frustration filled life. Born 1980. Ireland.Not yet dead. Lived in a nice suburb of "war torn" Belfast for 22ish years. Its a very odd place. Then spent a yearish in Toronto cleaning. A yearish in New York drinking. Now in London working for the man.

Stalking:
The blog
The Flickr stream
The Last.fm stream
A delightful stream

My Interests

Searching for the young sould rebels. Reading other people's exhaustive lists of interests.

I'd like to meet:

L Ron Hubbard . People who will go and see weird bands on weeknights.

Music:

Currently in the throes of Swedish music binge:Bob Hund, Bergmand Rock, Sci-fi Skane and The Knife. And that book by Mikael Niemi....In no particular order, in the past I have enjoyed... The Village Klezmer Quartet,Chuck Berry, dEUS, The Divine Comedy, Trojan Records, The Ark, Regina Spector, DNTEL, Fountains of Wayne, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five,Nigo,Cornelius,Takako Minekawa,Francoise Hardy, Julian Cope, Mansun, The Polyphonic Spree, Mike Curb Congregation, Woody Guthrie, Magnus,Djivan Gasparyan, Ks Choice, Viva La Fete, Acid Mothers Temple, Bobby McFerrin, Henry Mancini, Martin Denny, Ananda Shankar, Brazzaville, The Handsome Family, Jean Michel Jarre, French with Michel Thomas, Art Ensemble of Chicago. Tegan and Sara. Shabba Ranks. And the Au Revoir Simone album and that one Gogol Bordello song.

Movies:

Battlefield Earth

Television:

The only program I've truly loved was Takashi's Castle.

Books:

Mainly textbooks. Currently: Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol.Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl (his kinky short stories for grown ups). Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis. Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. Previously:Catch 22. Kafka On The Shore.Secret Life Of Walter Mitty.The Dalkey Archive. Anyone else getting bored of Murakami's fiction? Mysterious man who likes whiskey has weird friendship with girl then finds magic portal leading to mysterious underworld. With cats. Mental.

Heroes:

The man don't give fuck...

My Blog

Ghost riding the whip

A bit early I know, but this story gets my nomination for stupid thing of 2007. From The Independent"It sounds like a sensationally bad idea, but so might smoking or base-jumping. This particular spor...
Posted by Damien on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:52:00 PST

Vague celeb spotting

At Kitchen Motor's night at Cargo. Jóhann Jóhannsson played most of IBM 1401:A Users Manual. It was excellent. 3 violins, 1 chello, 2 precussion knob twiddlers. Very, very good. In the totally silent,...
Posted by Damien on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:29:00 PST

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Better even than Staus Quo. Totally out there. Totally brilliant. Admittedly not a party album. Though this would depend on the type of parties you go to. If you happen to be going to a party where pe...
Posted by Damien on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:58:00 PST

Santacon - London - 16th December

Apparently.Santasuits are £2.99 in Elephant and Castle right now.So I'm told.
Posted by Damien on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:06:00 PST

The best limping album in the world...ever!

A startling discovery this morning. There is limping music. Namely Tom Waits ´Raindogs´. Its off kilter jangles perfectly complement the confused rhythms of the hobbler especially ´Tango Till They´re ...
Posted by Damien on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:05:00 PST

Digital cameras have made photography redundant

Some mental hoops to jump through I'll admit but other than photographing friends drunk, homemade porn or making fake IDs what use are they? Want photographs of the London eye? Some rinky old Church i...
Posted by Damien on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:28:00 PST

Be cool.

Deeds of total, infallible, complete coolness are as rare as alien sightings. So rare its hard to even describe what I mean. You'll know it when you see one.Jubillee line during evening rush hour. Tho...
Posted by Damien on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 01:21:00 PST

Nightmare

Bought a Time-Out instead of a Drifter. They do look quite similar.
Posted by Damien on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:13:00 PST

I am a beautiful woman

Its good to find these things on the internet every now and then, just be reminded why computers will never take over.55% Jessica Biel. Who knew?...
Posted by Damien on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:06:00 PST

Road to hell is pathed with good intentions..

Or the my Top 8 function. Can of worms. Noting that my top 8 contained 3 people I had'nt spoken to in 4 months and 1 prime minister I thought a spring clean was in order. Out went some then the painfu...
Posted by Damien on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:15:00 PST