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Ben

I am a fetus...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Wim Wenders, Chris Benner

Music:

Wreckless Eric, Josh Rouse, Sonic Youth, Elvis Costello, Devo, Joy Division, Weston, Pointed Sticks, Naked Raygun, Subhumans, The Clash, Black Flag, Wire, Stevie Wonder, Gang Of Four, Jesus and Mary Chain, Euphone, Velvet Underground, Ramones, Mc5, Johnny Cash, Television, Tom Waits, John Lennon, The Damned, Sex Pistols, The Dickies, Public Enemy, Parliament, Gil-Scot Heron, Pretenders, Vibrators, Suicide, Husker Du, Descendents, Buzzcocks, Dead Kennedys, Elf Power, Greenhornes, D4, U.K. Subs, The Stranglers, !!!, The Cure, Stiff Little Fingers, Sugar, Glass Candy, Gen X, X, Pork Dukes, Flipper, The Jam, John Coltrane, The Beatles, The Who, Man or Astroman?, Russian Meatsquats, The Clap, Nostalgia Crisis, Richard Hell, The Diodes, Crass, D.O.A., M.I.A., 999, Stooges, The Diodes, Geza X,.....

Movies:

Scenes From a Marriage, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Au Hasard Balthazar, Children of Men, The Station Agent, The Devil, Probably; Paris, Texas; Lost In Translation, Boys From Brazil, Donnie Darko, The Ten, The Science Of Sleep, Broken Flowers, Down By Law, American Beauty, Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Being There, Blue Velvet, Mystery Train, The Elephant Man, Elephant, Wings Of Desire, The Third Man, The Vanishing Point (1971), Alphaville, L'Argent, Motorcycle Diaries, Wild At Heart, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Cheesesteak Madness, Paris Is Burning, Buffalo '66, A Man Escaped, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Society, Metropolis, Nights Of Cabiria, Battle Royale, The Bicycle Thief, Dead Man, City Of God, The Deer Hunter, Dial M for Murder, Dog Day Afternoon, Breathless, Drugstore Cowboy, Faraway, So Close! Goodbye, Lenin! The Goonies, Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner, Groundhog Day, The Filth and the Fury, Pi, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Pickpocket, Repo Man, The Royal Tenenbaums, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Being John Malkovich, Little Miss Sunshine, Taxi Driver, Walk the Line, Weekend, Half Nelson, Slapshot, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou, The Pillow Book, A ZED & Two Noughts...

Television:

Phila Flyers and Eagles; Twin Peaks (second season is finally on DVD!); Hell's Kitchen

Books:

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Light In August, The Stranger, Child of Our Time, The Gift, The Fall, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Flatland, The Image Factory, Pedagogy Of the Oppressed, Lost Japan, Dogs and Demons, Wrapping Culture, Rotten, Ishmael, 1984, Number Our Days, Utopia, Nightwork, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Exile and the Kingdom, Beyond Good and Evil, The Old Man and the Sea, The Grapes of Wrath

Heroes:

Mr. T

My Blog

old

32 is old, but not real old. What is old? Ok, now I must be old trying to rationalize my getting older.When I was a kid I always used to get money, toys, etc. on my birthday. Now I don't get much of t...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:38:00 PST

Clinton vs. Obama

Who’s getting stabbed?(ok, you only got that if you lived in Catasauqua and follow the news. there is no stabby)I’m voting for Nader.
Posted by Ben on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:42:00 PST

Twin Peaks revisited

Diane, I just finished watching the entire second season of Twin Peaks--all six DVDs, something like 20+ hours. At this point I feel that I am in the futurepast Bob black lodge. ? While it is not an o...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:54:00 PST

How to look someone in the eye if they only have one eye

Oddly enough I service not just one, but two accounts that have managers with only one ostensibly working eye. As part of my job in chip sales I frequently need to talk to the managers about adding di...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 19 May 2007 03:54:00 PST

Sometimes I have access to the internet

Since I now have access to the internet (sometimes) I shall update my profile more often, etc. Yet, I may just not bother much with it either. Keep checking back for more... Sorry, this was probably n...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:26:00 PST