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Faust

Buy me a ticket to a sonic reduction.

About Me

I'm an English teacher living in Korea.

My Interests

music, books, films.

I'd like to meet:

Harry Dean Stanton

Music:

Genres--Post Punk, No Wave, Krautrock, Psychedelic, Jazz. Bands--Pere Ubu, Rocket from the Tombs, Home and Garden, Faust, Gang of Four, DNA, Can, Slayer, Big Black, The Fall, Butthole Surfers, Ornette Coleman, Kraftwerk, Syd Barrett, Flaming Lips, Wire, Captain Beefheart, Neu!, The Kinks, Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Curtis Mayfield, The Pixies, Bad Brains, Minutemen, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Bauhaus, ESG, Liquid Liquid, Silver Apples, Mouse on Mars, Ramones, MX80, Devo, Spacemen 3, Matmos, De La Soul, Spiritualized, John Coltrane, Borbetomagus, Jesus and Mary Chain, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, The Cramps, Thee Headcoats, Every Alice on Earth, Nowhere Squares, X Ray Spex, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Public Enemy, Massive Attack, Big Star, Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, Stevie Wonder, Television, Death from Above 1979, The Temptations, Small Faces, Yo La Tengo, Joy Division, The Chameleons UK, The Pop Group, Mad Professor, The Soft Boys, Funkadelic, The Creation, Sly and Robbie, Tribe Called Quest, The Beatles, Count Five, Last Poets, Plasticland, Love, Buzzcocks, Black Sabbath, Boards of Canada, 13th Floor Elevators, The Slits, Flesh Eaters, X, Galaxie 500, Pylon, Television Personalities, The Feelies, Half Japanese, Elliott Smith, Love and Rockets, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Husker Du, Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns, Public Image ltd, Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard, Lake of Dracula, Swans, Destroy All Monsters, Comets on Fire, Van Halen, Dead Boys, Suicide, Young Marble Giants, Gary Numan, Talking Heads, Madlib, MF Doom, Lee Perry, TV on the Radio, Adrian Sherwood, African Head Charge, Tackhead, Dub Syndicate, Beachwood Sparks, Grandaddy, The Stooges, The Embarrassment, Shellac, Slint, Lambchop, The Residents, Hawkwind, Kyuss, High on Fire, Monster Magnet, Killing Joke, Mastodon, Ghost, The Boredoms, Os Mutantes, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Napalm Death, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Blue Oyster Cult, Motorhead, Alice Cooper, early Genesis, Soft Machine, Van Der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, XTC, Aphex Twin, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Modest Mouse, Dinosaur Jr, Cabaret Voltaire, Guided by Voices, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Arthur Brown, Flipper, Raveonettes, Boris, Chrome, Helios Creed

Movies:

Ingmar Bergman, Marx Brothers, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Akira Kurasawa, Coen Brothers, Terry Gilliam, Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Sergio Leone, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Dawn of the Dead (original), Day of the Dead, Catch 22, Lost in Translation, Evil Dead series, Repo Man, Decline of Western Civilization, True Stories, Ed Wood, River's Edge, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Donnie Darko, Batman Begins, Hellboy, Fantastic Planet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Blade Runner,

Television:

The Prisoner, Twin Peaks, Lost, Sopranos, Curb your Enthusiasm, The Office (UK and US), Extras, Deadwood, Colbert Report, Daily Show, South Park, Simpsons, The Young Ones, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Alan Partridge, Carnivale, Trailer Park Boys, Big Love, Entourage, Arrested Development, Weeds, Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law, Boondocks, My Name is Earl, Heroes

Books:

Anything by--Haruki Murakami, John Irving, Tom Robbins, Philip K Dick, Charles Bukowski, William S Burroughs, Albert Camus, Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, Flannery O'conner, Graham Greene, Paul Auster, Raymond Carver, Spalding Gray, Walker Percy, Thomas Pynchon, Martin Amis, JG Ballard, Flann O'Brien, Robert Anton Wilson, Iain Sinclair, James Ellroy, Jim Thompson, William Gibson, Michael Azerrad, Lester Bangs, Simon Reynolds, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Frank Miller, Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, Jeph Loeb, Joss Whedon, Brian K Vaughan, Jim Starlin, Warren Ellis, Jack Kirby

Heroes:

Zippy the Pinhead, Truck Turner, Bud the Repo Man, Jack Kirby, Forrest J. Ackerman, George Plimpton

My Blog

2006 reissues/compilations.

I usually end up buying more compilations than regular release abums, but not this year. That isn't to say there haven't been any good compilations released in 2006, quite the contrary. The albums on ...
Posted by Faust on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:43:00 PST

My favorite albums of 2006

Well another year, another list. 2006 has been one of those years where not a lot of new bands really stepped up, but a lot of old ones released some amazing records. First up: TV On the Radio--Retur...
Posted by Faust on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:21:00 PST

Summer Sonic 2006, Osaka.

So the wife and I got back from our trip yesterday afternoon, more or less racing the typhoon back to Korea; we won. First of all, Summer Sonic 2006 was a blast, although it lacked the pleasant surpri...
Posted by Faust on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:31:00 PST

Summer Sonic 2006, Osaka.

So the wife and I got back from our trip yesterday afternoon, more or less racing the typhoon back to Korea; we won. First of all, Summer Sonic 2006 was a blast, although it lacked the pleasant surpri...
Posted by Faust on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:32:00 PST

Off to Osaka

The 'lil woman and I'll be heading to Osaka tomorrow to catch The Flaming Lips and others at the annual Summer Sonic festival. It'll be a week of great music, great food, awesome CD stores and probabl...
Posted by Faust on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:33:00 PST

Buy this album

and listen to it.
Posted by Faust on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 03:15:00 PST

And for my first post...

I really don't have anythng to say right now.
Posted by Faust on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 06:38:00 PST