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Mr.Pain

solid sia!

About Me

Designer, (ex)Nudie Suit, pillar of respectable society, all round tough guy. Those who do not learn from my past are doomed to repeat it.Get my sound up your ears here: http://www.myspace.com/painspeopleIn October '06 I moved to the equator, where i have learned to communicate using pictographic representations of my surroundings, rather than through the typical westerners harshly barked commands. Examples can be found HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterpain/
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My Interests

This and that.... makin pictures & music. Hear some of it here. http://www.myspace.com/painspeople

I'd like to meet:

...on an empty street, window shopping in the wee hours of the morning.

Music:

the George Shearing Quintet/Quartet... Andrew Williams... Don Drummond... The Originals... Johnny Cash... Suzi Quatro... the Band... Hawaii Calls (series)... the Residents... Bachelorette... Chuck Berry... Pere Ubu... the Carter Family... Wire... Phase Five... the Brunettes... Young Marble Giants... the Cramps... John Cale... T-Rex... Howlin' Wolf... Pepe Jamarillo... the Situations... Benjamin Britten... Lefty Frizzel... Cabaret Voltaire... Guided by Voices... Shaft... the Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra... Ryan Mcphun and the Ruby Suns... Sol Hoopi... Bernt Friedman... Lee 'Scratch Perry... John Barry...

Movies:

The Conversation (Coppola-1974)... Get Carter (Hodges-1971) M*A*S*H* / Nashville (Altman- 1969/1975)... the Tin Drum (Schlondorff-1979)... Munich (Spielberg-2006)... Vampyros Lesbos (Franco-1971)... Sunset Boulevard (Wilder-1950)... Plan 9 From Outer Space (Wood-1956)... Frankenstein (Whale-1931)

Books:

the Telephone Book-Avital Ronnel... I May Be Some Time-Francis Spufford... Glamorama-Bret Easton-Ellis... Gray's Anatomy-Henry Gray F.R.S. ... Krazy Kat-George Herriman... Fun With Reid Fleming-David Boswell... 20th Century Type Designers-Sebastian Cartwell... Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone-Zwonitzer/Hirshberg... the L.A Quartet-James Ellroy

Heroes:

Me... not smokin'!

My Blog

5 mo' sleeps....

...or thereabouts, until i head to Singapore for what looked like a 13 month contract of work, but might have just turned into 2 years worth. I'll be heading the layout dept. on an animated children's...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:05:00 PST

June the 9th, a Friday.....

The week after the Nudie Suits play at the Odeon Cafe with Rainy Daysand deejay Bob Cardy, i will be Spinnin' discs at this soiree.... ...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Fri, 26 May 2006 03:57:00 PST

get the basics....

Bobbin' about in a boat, fishin for 2 days...A little dinghy-access-only bach on the Whangaroa Harbour and a guide who sure knows his way around. Catch it, gut it, clean it, cook it.You know the rest....
Posted by Mr.Pain on Mon, 08 May 2006 09:15:00 PST

Peanuts! pistons!

Well well.. all hail New Zealand music month! For bands lucky enough to have managers with 'contacts' or some shit like that, its weekends playing at the Wintergarden, or tours with vanloads of lumina...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Thu, 04 May 2006 03:40:00 PST

Do i ever rant about anything i like? Only to my Mum....

C'mon... own up. Who actually likes Killing Joke? These ultimate bourgoise poser-punks have been licking the Queen's ass for so long they don't remember what a safety pin looks like. And they always l...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:48:00 PST

Keep on the sunny side....

Holy moley... not the ideal way to see Lil' Chief bands on page 2 of the Herald. My heart goes out to the Ruby Suns. If i was a religious man, i'd pray for 'em, and if i was a remotely well-off one, i...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:08:00 PST

Queen, Queensryche, Quiet Riot.....

Guess myspace just isn't the kinda place where people comment on blog-posts... wonder if'n they gets read? Home safe n' sound... little damage in the way of car-stir-craziness... word games instead of...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:24:00 PST

....time travelling excerpts from the drive to WGTN.

Are we there yet? Are we nearly there? QUIET IN THE BACK!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Mr.Pain on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:51:00 PST

the Misfats

Wow... Amazing! The Misfits are coming!Or should i say, the misfit. Yep, one crusty old punk rocker and a bunch of ring-ins... watch the 'alternative' crowd go into a MC5-style frenzy over what is ess...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:44:00 PST

I'm lookin' Brokeback Mountain... but feelin' Hamiltronian..'

  Doug from the Hawaaian Time Quartet left his folder of tunes behind at the K.A. Tavern last week. I tracked it down, and am holding it for him until his return from the South Island... which me...
Posted by Mr.Pain on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 01:49:00 PST