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About Me

please allow me to introduce myself, i'm a man of wealth and taste...

politics/communications student, wannabe rockstar, casio keyboard enthusiast, sometimes pelican writer

big ups: gin and gin based beverages, my rickenbacker copy guitar, cowboy clothes, green tea with honey
frowny faces: sweating, pointy guitars, rum, reality tv

i wonder what would happen if a spider took drugs?

My Interests

guitars, writing, obscure carbonated beverages, 100 years of sao biscuits, yams and box kites, casio keyboards, smoked turkey (pretty much the best food ever), typing without capital letters on purpose, lollies with beeswax in them (jungle chews etc.), maintaining a high standard of dental hygiene

question marks are on my blacklist

I'd like to meet:

pretty much anyone really, but especially anyone who is a drummer. double especially a jazz drummer who wants to be in an indie pop band
any non-drummers, come on and let's be friends anyway. you can find me on msn at [email protected] (no, nothing to do with the band)

Music:

art brut
beatles
black keys
clap your hands say yeah
dinosaur jr.
drones
ennio moriccone
franz ferdinand
gerling
howling bells
i heart hiroshima
interpol
j
k
lalo schifrin
maximo park
mountain goats
n
optiganally yours
pavement
pj harvey
queens of the stone age
radiohead
shins
sunny day real estate
tv on the radio
unicorns
u (of course i like you)
velvet underground
walkmen
white stripes
x
yeah yeah yeahs
z

know you the alphabet of bands i like
even though you probably don't... uh... care.

Movies:

spiderman
the life aquatic
star wars
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead
buckaroo banzai and his adventures through the eighth dimension
thankyou for smoking
dirty harry
children of men

Television:

harvey birdman
look around you
garth marenghi's darkplace
transformers
black books
rock kwiz

Books:

his dark materials
virtual light
idoru
all tomorrow's parties
memory, sorrow, thorn
otherland
war of the flowers
the crow road
excession
watchmen

Heroes:

the beatles (even paul. grrr i hate paul so much)
glenn mcgrath
richard dawkins

My Blog

my kitchen is in the garage

in the history of the world, there have been many things. none, however, compare to the horror of having to go in to the garage if you want to get something to eat or drink. it is the worst. i'd never...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:11:00 PST

five songs you haven't heard (that you should)

who am i to be telling you what songs you haven't heard but should? dammit you know the answer to this question. i tell everyone what they should and shouldn't listen to. i'm like the alan jones of mu...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:03:00 PST

tales of adventure: pineapple days

i love pineapple juice. love it. but the pineapple juice we've been buying has a lot of pulp in it, and i do not love pulp. french people, they love their pulp, which was why buying orange juice that ...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:13:00 PST

don't cry for me, paul wolfowitz, i'm already dead

schadenfreude time, dear readers, as reports filter in that former u.s. under-secretary of defence paul wolfowitz is going to lose his job as president of the world bankwolfowitz, best known for bein...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Sat, 19 May 2007 02:24:00 PST

gregor mendel and heritable characteristics

gregor mendel was a austrian monk who pretty much invented the whole field of genetics with his study of pea plants. by very carefully crossbreeding them he was able to chart the inheritance of chara...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Sun, 13 May 2007 11:44:00 PST

assorted miscellany: pt 3. fire engines, sexual politics and a duck

the other day i was walking to my car at uni when a fire engine drove past and the cool part was that the little kid in a nearby stroller saw it to and started going "EE ER EE ER EE ER", which is how...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:54:00 PST

the internet is for:

As promised, here are videos that prove how useful the internet is, embedded right in this blog (natch). Firstly: KITTENS (and puppies and ducklings) YAY i'm not sure if this is cute...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:23:00 PST

i'm in sydney, are you?

this is your roving reporter here, typing from a convience store across the street from my 25th floor penthouse. the last occupants of which were the veronicas. WOW.the wedding was last night and it w...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:33:00 PST

the pakistan kite festival... OF DOOM

every year, pakistan has a kite festival, where people fly lots of kites around, and every year, people die. how can a kite festival kill people, you ask?1. death by falling from rooftops: "WEEEE look...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:18:00 PST

academy awards 2007

and now for my impression of an academy awards voter: LET'S GIVE ALL OUR AWARDS TO ACTORS WHO PLAYED REAL PEOPLE AFTER ALL IF IT ISN'T A REAL PERSON, HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU TELL IF IT'S A GOOD PERFORMA...
Posted by a ben for all seasons on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST