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El Dorko

poxican

About Me

From Brisbane, living in London these days.I like films, music and getting messed up.I've got three tats and there are more in the pipeline. I've had my fair share of different jobs, at the moment I'm a Gardener/Maintenance/Handy-Man at the National Childrens Home.I intend to live for ever. Seriously."I ought to say that governments are repugnant to me. I am firmly convinced that there can not be good government.. Government is tyranny, because it curtails the individual's free initiative, and the sole purpose it serves is to uphold a social system which is unsuitable for the true development of human beings. Governments are the guardians of the interests of the rich and educated classes... I am a revolutionary and a revolutionary I shall remain until i draw my last breath." - Ricardo Magon, 1910.

My Interests

Music, film, anarchism, reading, drinking and the rest.

I'd like to meet:

a bag of crisps

Music:

I'm one of those music wankers who lists every band they like. Here I go: Classical to hardcore metal, jazz to grunge, wanky prog rock to hip hop. Some of my favourites are Tool, Mars Volta, System of a Down, A Perfect Circle, Led Zepplin, At The Drive In, Black Sabbath, Wolfmother, Black Keys, White Stripes, Dillinger Escape Plan, Venetian Snares, Beck, Radiohead, Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Michael Jackson, Charles Mingus, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, The Beatles, John Zorn's Masada Guitars stuff is pretty amazing. Muse, Greenday, and I'm liking what the Arctic Monkeys are doing.Anything Mike Patton has ever been involved with... the man is a fucking genius: Mr Bungle, Faith No More, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Lovage, his shit with Dillinger was fucking amazing, Peeping Tom, General Patton vs. The X-ecutioners, all awesome.I've discovered and been introduced to some excellent hip-hop in the past couple years too. I really like Dan the Automator and the collaborations he's done with various folk. The Handsome Boy Modelling School stuff was great, I especially like the collab they did with Cedric from the Mars Volta. Deltron3030 is a good listen too. Danger Mouse and Dr Doom are two great artists as well, the Danger Doom album was bitchin. Roots Manuva, Sage Francis, Streets,(International) Noise Conspiracy, Kyuss, Queens of the Stone, Propaghandi, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds Five, Blues Explosion, Blur, Butterfly Effect, Chemical Brothers, The Clash, The Doors, Flaming Lips, Frenzal Rhomb,King Crimson, Living End, Grinspoon, Mad Caddies, Mad Capsule Markets, Marilyn Manson, Metallica, Misfits, NOFX, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Queen, Chili Peppers, Refused, RJD2, Shihad, Silverchair, Stevie Wonder, Surfjan stevens, Tweaker, Xavier Rudd.

Movies:

I dig most of Tim Burton's stuff. I alwayslike the Depp/Burton collaborations. Sleepy Hollow is rad.Fight Club, Lock Stock and Snatch, King Kong (both versions.... lets just pretend the 70's version never happened). The Matrix (first one only) and Donnie Darko are good. I love the entire Evil Dead trilogy. And Romero's Dead quadrilogy is the shit; Night of the Dead is great in that it really spawned the whole Zombie genre and did so many new things that became generic conventions, Dawn of the Dead is a perfect survival horror film with a bit of humour, Day of the Dead is fucking brutal, and Land of the Dead was about as good as I think you could expect from Romero having been given so much money.

Television:

killed the radio star

Books:

Stephen King fan. Reading House of Leaves and Only Revolutions at the moment, both by Mark Z. Danielewski

Heroes:

Did you ever know that you're my hero?

My Blog

Carson: Chapter 2

Carson: Chapter Two 'Big Fat Lies'   Carson blinked against the light, a momentarily blinding contrast to the darkness outside. He heard a snicker, 'Aww, can't you see baby?' A large dark shape s...
Posted by El Dorko on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:36:00 PST

Small Boy (Short Story)

Wrote this in 2004 for a uni assignment... ----- Small Boy   There's a small boy sitting outside his family's house. He's sitting on the front step fiddling with a nail poking out of the old boar...
Posted by El Dorko on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:14:00 PST

Carson: A Serial

Carson: Chapter 1 "Rain, Panes and Automobiles"   Two pale disks of light glided across the glistening-wet street, followed shortly by the faded hood of an old Chrysler. Rain continued to pelt th...
Posted by El Dorko on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:50:00 PST

Leaving Home....

3 months ago I left my home in Brisbane, Australia and headed to England. This is my story so far....I left Brisbane on a hot day in February. The ninth day of that month in fact. Dressed in jeans and...
Posted by El Dorko on Thu, 18 May 2006 08:17:00 PST

Indeed

So i've been working at my pub almost 2 weeks now. Its called the Old Parr's Head, in Hammersmith. I've discovered that working in a pub is a bit shit. During the day it's fucking boring; Yesterday ...
Posted by El Dorko on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 07:25:00 PST