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Ray Suburbia

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About Me

i was born in arlington heights, IL, then lived in mt. prospect, IL, moved to vernon hills, IL, then to libertyville, IL, then to chicago, IL, then to carbondale, IL, then to milwaukee, WI. i now live, specifically, at Nowhere Central (located at 1315 W. McKinley) - Milwaukee, WI - 53205.
im stuck in the middle, so i like to get letters.
i ride bikes and read books and make music and watch movies and high five and talk it out and take it easy mostly and use copy machines and enjoy stealing and have great ideas but only follow through on about 10% of them and start forgetting everything about 3 years later and enjoy telling people stuff i just learned so that they learn it too and try to be the best friend that i can.
Im in a band that i really like called Prohibition where i sing and play guitar. Im in another band called Spacebag UK where i play drums and have lots of fun. And then theres this third band i joined called (tenatively) The Butts where i pretend i know how to be a singer for a hardcore band. I like that one a lot too. Im also in a not so real band called Fuck The Statue Of Liberty that i like when it exists. (which is quite rarely, if ever). i put out a zine every two months called Love In The Time of Scabies.
Im pretty smart, but act pretty dumb sometimes.
And not only is The Cure my favorite band of all time, but i dont think thats weird. in fact, i think its pretty weird that theyre not yours.

My Interests

FACTS, music, zines, film, books, theory, knowledge, books, booze, things that are funny, friends, sing alongs, food.

I'd like to meet:

pen pals, fun kids who like to play games, old friends, queers, people who write zines but dont call themselves zinesters, supportive others, freaks, weirdos, rejects, passing strangers, a nice anyone to sit around and talk with.
now who wants to grab a space bag of blush, a jambox, some mixtapes, and go for a bike ride until the sun comes up?..<P.S. - NO COPS, NARCS, SUITS, BIG WIGS, BIGOTS, POSEURS, OR LANDLORDS!!!

Music:

currently: TACOCAT (!!!), Bangs, Joy Division, Subtonix, The Estranged, Echo & The Bunnymen, Magick Daggers, New Order, Four Tops, Leonard Cohen, Still Life, Fuzzbox, Marvin Gaye, Bikini Kill, The Soviettes
funny stuff: don rickles, foster brooks, tony clifton, steven wright, zach galifianakis, stella, bill hicks, sam kinison, andy kaufman, rodney dangerfield

Movies:

POINT BREAK, audition, band of outsiders, battle royale, bed and board, blue dahlia, the celebration, double indemnity, funny face, kiss me deadly, PCU, pretty in pink, psycho beach party, repo man, road house, roman holiday, slapshot, stolen kisses, strangers on a train, UHF, vertigo, wet hot american summer, wild zero

Television:

CHEATERS, the office, simpsons, curb your enthusiasm, jeopardy, sifl and olly, one on one, law and order, seinfeld, its always sunny in philadelphia, svengoolie

Books:

miranda july, hugleikur dagsson, chandler brossard, mo willems, don marquis, kelly shortandqueer, louis-ferdinand celine, edward lear, dashiell hammett, cristy road, neil gaiman, kobo abe, chynna clugston-major, shirley jackson, jonathan rosenbaum, jared diamond, pete jordan, frank miller, charles simic, ben weasel, michel foucalt, pete jordan, haruki murakami, sam dolgroff, maddy tightpants, roland barthes, james ellroy, paul verlaine, george tabb, stephane mallarme, ben snakepit, raymond chandler, aaron cometbus, ryu murakami, chris claremont, keith rosson, kenzaburo oe, isaac adamson, mickey spillane, cindy crabb, charles baudelaire, earl shorris, meredith acne, al burian, samuel beckett, joe meno, brian michael bendis, ludwig wittgenstein, martin amis, liz mason, george saunders, umberto eco, bryan charles, mykel board, richard brautigan, joe meno, italo calvino, lew houston, murray bookchin, jonathan carroll, and anything involving the spanish civil war.

Heroes:

Buenaventura Durruti, James Murray, Harvey Milk, Margaret Sanger, Huey P. Newton, James Jamerson, Caravaggio, my parents, my abuelos y abuelas, Roger the landlord of Lost Cross, Barbara Kruger, Dock Ellis, Raquel Cristina Martinez

My Blog

getting around to it.

im too busy expounding pretention over on my livejournal to bother with this blog. username - konamicode.
Posted by Ray Suburbia on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST