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I am here for Friends

About Me

i rarely bathe, and i just found out that 90% of the things i do to amuse myself are illegal.

ask and you shall receive.

tell me where my namesake comes from, and you can have five dollars. be specific.

i frequently receive friend request from extremely attractive women that just want to meet people and enjoy chatting on their internet webcam devices. it must be the beard.

now playing:

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Girl Talk - Night Ripper

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Ratatat - Remixes, Vol. 1

Joe Walsh - But Seriously, Folks

My Interests

music
movies
going to shows
newspapering
parkour
journalism
surfing
super smash bros
being a ninja (under the cover of darkness)
detectives
clouds
seduction in all forms

I'd like to meet:

Thom Yorke, Elliott Smith, Derek Zoolander, Billy Zane, Jón Þór Birgisson, Björk, and the Cat in the Hat...all at once, please.

Beck was forced to apologise to Radiohead after his stage marionettes allegedly trashed the band's hotel room. Beck and his band have been joined onstage at recent shows by marionettes, each representing a band member, who copy the movements of their human counterparts. The marionettes also star in a film between the end of the performance and the encore. Beck holds the puppets responsible after Radiohead found their hotel rooms trashed following the V Festival in the UK last month (August 6th), where they both appeared. Beck says, "Yeah, we apologised to Radiohead for that. But, y'know - what can we do? They're puppets."

Music:

It's pretty much all about Radiohead, Sigur Ros, and Elliott Smith. The rest is as follows:

Ready? An asterisk means I've seen them in concert (one for every time I've seen them). Go.

!!!
...and you will know us by the trail of dead
13 & god*
310
a.f.i.
abandoned pools
aesop rock
arctic monkeys*
air*
the album leaf*
the aliens*
alien ant farm
ambulance ltd
the american analog set
the animal collective
andrew bird*
the anniversary
antony and the johnsons
aphex twin
the apples in stereo
the arcade fire**
architecture in helsinki
arlo*
art brut
ash
as tall as lions*
at the drive-in
au4
autechre
autolux*
band of horses
bang gang
battles***
be your own pet
the beach boys
the beatles
beck****
beethoven
beirut
belle & sebastian
ben folds
ben folds five
ben gibbard
ben kweller**
ben lee
the beta band
beulah
bjork*
the black keys
black rebel motorcycle club
bloc party*****
blonde redhead*
the blow*
blue-eyed son
blue oyster cult
blur
boards of canada
bonobo
booker t and the mg's
brand new
brian eno
bright eyes**
broken social scene
the buffalo coin
built to spill
cake
calexico*
califone*
camera obscura
camper van beethoven
caribou
cat power*
cat stevens
chevelle
christopher walla
chromeo
the clientele
clint mansell
coheed & cambria**
coldplay*
the color bars
the color turning*
cream
the cribs
criteria
cursive*
cut copy
daft punk*
damien rice*
the dandy warhols
danger doom
the darkness
dave brubeck
david bowie
de facto
death cab for cutie******
the decemberists*
depeche mode
devendra banhart
dirty vegas
the dissociatives
division day*
DJ mehdi*
dntel
the doors
dynamite hack
e.l.o.
eels
el perro del mar
elbow
electric president
elliott smith
emily haines & the soft skeleton
explosions in the sky
the faint***
fatboy slim
feist
fiction company
the firey furnaces*
final fantasy*
the fire theft
fischerspooner
fiona apple*
the flaming lips
flogging molly**
the foo fighters
four tet
franz ferdinand*
fridge
frou frou
fruit bats
fujiya & miyago
the future sound of london
george harrison
girl talk*
gnarls barkley
goblin cock
godspeed you! black emperor
gorillaz
grandaddy
great northern
grizzly bear*
gruff rhys
guster*
the good, the bad, & the queen
gruff rhys
GZA*
head automatica*
heart
hilmar orn hilmarsson
hot chip*
hot hot heat*
hybrid
idlewild
i'm from barcelona
ima robot*
incubus*
interpol**
iron & wine*
jack johnson
jamie lidell**
japandi
jarvis cocker*
jason falkner
jay-z
jem
jesus and mary chain*
jethro tull
jimi hendrix
jimmy eat world*
john coltrane
john lennon
jon brion*
jose gonzalez
junior boys*
junior senior
justice*
kaiser chiefs
kansas
kasabian
kavinsky*
keane
the killers**
kina grannis**
the kings of convenience
kings of leon
the kinks
the knife
the kooks
ladytron
laura veirs
LCD soundsystem
led zepplin
lemon jelly
the little ones
lush
lynyrd skynyrd
the magic numbers
manitoba
the mars volta*
martin youth auxiliary
marissa nadler
massive attack
mates of state
massive attack
matt costa
menomena**
mew
michael franti & spearhead*
metric
mice parade*
the microphones
miles davis
milosh
minus the bear
mirah
modest mouse
the monkees
morningwood*
moving units*
mozart
MSTRKRFT
mum
murcof
muse***
muso*
the mooney suzuki
my bloody valentine
my morning jacket
nada surf*
the national
neko case
neutral milk hotel
the new pornographers**
nick drake
nine inch nails
no knife
northern***
the notwist
oasis
of montreal**
ok go
okkervil river
os mutantes
ozma***
the parson redheads***
patrick wolf
paul mccartney
people in planes
persephone's bees
peter bjorn and john
phantom planet**
pinback***
pink floyd
placebo
the postal service
prefuse 73
queen
queens of the stone age**
r.e.m.
RADIOHEAD**
rage against the machine*
ratatat**
recover
red hot chili peppers
red house painters
the redwalls
remy zero
rhett miller*
rilo kiley*
RJD2
rob dougan
robin trower
rogue wave
rufus wainwright*
ryan adams
satisfaction*****
saybia
sean lennon
the secret machines
seu jorge
the shins***
sigur ros**
silverchair*
silversun pickups****
simon & garfunkel
the sleepy jackson
slings****(too many times to count)
sloan*
the smiths
sondre lerche***
sonic youth*
sparta*
spoon***
squarepusher
st. vincent
stars
steve miller band
the strokes
sufjan stevens
sun kil moon
super furry animals
t. rex
talib kweli
ted leo & the pharmacists*
tegan & sara*
telefon tel aviv
tenacious d
themselves
the thermals
thievery corporation
thom yorke
tokyo police club*
tool
tortoise
turin brakes
the twilight sad*
under byen*
unkle*
vanity kissed vanity*
the velvet teen
the verve
voxtrot*
the walkmen
ween
weezer*
the westminster abbey
the white stripes
the who
wilco
willy mason*
wings
wolfmother
yes*
yo la tengo
the zombies
zero 7

Movies:

wes anderson
christopher nolan
quentin tarantino
robrert rodriguez
rian johnson
martin scorsese
fellini
cuaron
inarritu

21 Grams
Anchorman
Brick
Boondock Saints
Borat
Casino Royale
City of God
Detroit Rock City
The Edukators
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
Kill Bill
Kung Fu Hustle
The Life Aquatic
Little Miss Sunshine
The Matrix
Meeting People Is Easy
Minority Report
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
The Rocketeer
The Royal Tennenbaums
Rushmore
Snakes on a Plane
Spider-Man (1, 2, & 3)
Team America: World Police
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks
Thumbsucker
Wallace and Gromit
Wet Hot American Summer

Television:

24
Prison Break

Heroes
The Office
Lost
House, MD
Nip/Tuck
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

Books:

Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Killing Yourself to Live
Dave Eggers
T.S. Eliot
e.e. cummings
Call of the Wild
A Wrinkle in Time
Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
Steinbeck
Cannery Row
The Death and Life of Superman
Hamlet
Macbeth
Invisible Man
A Time to Kill
Where the Red Fern Grows
Dave Eggers
The Taking
Stephen King
The Jungle

Currently Reading: Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Heroes:



also:
J.J. FIDDLER, THE FUNNIEST MOTHER FUCKER ALIVE!
MASTER, THE GOD OF NORMS
jon brion
wes anderson
sufjan stevens
elliott smith
thom yorke
quentin tarantino
tony hoffer
nigel godrich
ninjas (collectively)
Steve Irwin
House, MD
anyone that wears footsie pajamas

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