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Sean

Sean left, And drove, And howled, And laughed, At himself. He felt he knew what that was.

About Me

I am a funny little person with odd little ideas and tastes, I listen to funny little music and read odd little books, I think you would like me.

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My Interests

'We are here to unlearn the teaching of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.' - Charles Bukowski

Music:

At the minute... Crystal Castles, Soft Pink Truth, SebastIan, Lots of SoulJazz stuffs, Dirty Three, Glass Candy, Clone Quartet, Errors, Patti Smith, Fujiya and Miyagi, Uffie/Feadz, ESG, Gang of Four, Sonic Youth...Generally: Bjork, Liars, Deerhoof, Les Georges Leningrad,Q and Not U, Boredoms, That Fucking Tank, Nation of Ulysses, ESG, Arab on Radar, Karate, Faith No More, Birthday Party, Gang of Four, Deerhoof, Murder City Devils, Against Me!, Don Cab, Quintron,Wolves, CSS, Drive Like Jehu, Lightening Bolt,Erase Errata, Chromatics, We Are Knives, Yo La Tengo, Red Sparrowes, These Arms Are Snakes, Pixie Saytar, Xiu Xiu, Tristeza, Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Crash Course in Science, Enon, Erase Errata, Swans, Black Eyes, Elliott Smith, Cat Power, Mogwai, Godspeed!, Sonic Youth, Contortions, Low, Bjork, (retards), Wolf Eyes, Y Pants Slint, Fugazi, Oxes, Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies, This Aint Vegas, Devo, Bossk, Les Savy Fav, The Knife, Glenn Branca, Dirty Three, Tracer AMC, Cat on Form, Hood, Wives, Stop It, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Nick Cave, Antony and the Johnsons, Bonnie Prince Billy, Feverdream, Colder, Minus the Bear, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Interpol, Owls, Rye Coalition....to name but a few.

Movies:

Few of my favourites: Ed Wood, Back to the Future, Requiem for a Dream, Dancer in the Dark, Spirited Away, Blade Runner The Lost Weekend, On the Waterfront, City of God...anything with John Cusack.

Books:

Now: Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami (Top 5) And the Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave His Dark Materials - Phillip Pullman House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (If you would like to read my final year dissertation focusing on this novel's place in the Beat movement click here: http://www.widerhorizons.info/filestore/publications/Beat_Di ssertation.pdfAlso: Bret Easton Ellis, Samuel Beckett, Louis Macneice, Chuck Palaniuk, Willam Burroughs, Franz Kafka, Beats: the usual suspects.

My Blog

Music Lovers' Worst Nightmare

As many of you know, I have just moved back to Ireland after teaching in England for the past year and a half.  Of course I had a lot of stuff to bring back with me but I got recommended a courie...
Posted by Sean on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:34:00 PST

Top 5 Albums of all Time

Top Five Albums of all Time? Hackneyed?  Unoriginal?  Obtuse?  Yeah, possibly but by the same token it isn't hurting anyone and I always got a kick out of reading other people's lists. ...
Posted by Sean on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:55:00 PST

Music Survey (I know you don't give a fuck, but...)

1.      Which bands/artist do you own the most albums by?Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Xiu Xiu.2. What was the last song you listened to?Devo  Girl You Want3. What's in your CD player...
Posted by Sean on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:53:00 PST

The Line

The Line its called.  A stretch of disused canal road with reeds and water and rats on the left side walking from the town and fields stretching  up to the backs of housing estate terraced b...
Posted by Sean on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:41:00 PST