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Spike (aka lil $pikey)

i'm running to the end of the earth, and i'm swimming to the edge of the sea, and i'm laughing, i'm

About Me


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the lyrics from the coup's song, "laugh/love/fuck," sums it up for me: "i here to laugh, love, fuck, and drink liquor, and help the damn revolution come quicker."

but if you really need to know more, here it goes: devoted (and i mean DEVOTED!) indigo girls/amy ray fan since 1989... well over 150 live indigo girls and amy ray solo shows all over north america (will be at the big 200 soon), IG/AR makes up a huge chunk of my life... world travel addict (i've been all over western europe, japan, australia, russia, thailand, vietnam, greece, and an assortment of other countries... i can't list them all), live music junkie, (sometimes closet) japanese nationalist (NOT into anime/manga), queer, world cup-lovin', vegetarian, liberal, displaced southerner...
come find me on indigo vortex . i moderate the tour section and update the concert calendar (which has THE most up-to-date IG and ARay tour information!).
i have a web blog
and

my photos are on flickr!
and finally


pendulumswinger.com

My Interests

i took all of the concert photos on this page, including the background and everything on the slide show. feel free to use any my photos on my flickr , as long as you give proper credit. the slide show below links to my flickr and are all photos from the my indigo favorites collection. they were taken around the world at various shows.

ok, aside from the obvious (INDIGO GIRLS and AMY RAY), you know, the usual. super secret missions, and world domination. oh, and i enjoy doing anything in my power to bring down george w. bush. i honestly believe that he's not only the worst president in us history, but the biggest fuckwad as well. when i'm not occupied with the above, i quite enjoy 420, sabre (inside joke, though i do have to work with sabre at work), soccer/football (NOT american football!), drinking, watersports (i mean things like SCUBA and tubing. PERVS!!!), LIVE MUSIC, STARBUCKS (soy chai latte no water), WORLD CUP SOCCER (if japan could only win...), writing, activism, eating disorder support/recovery, TRAVELING, wine, women, PILATES, running, working out in general, PHOTOGRAPHY, going to the bar to get my drink on, BIKING, travel writing, chilling with my cats, photography, and going to see amy ray and/or the indigo girls (yes, i realize that falls into the "live music" catagory, but IG/AR are in a class by themselves...)
.. (i took that footage of my favorite song at mohegan sun casino in uncasville, ct (24 july 06). you can hear me singing!)

I'd like to meet:

i'm not going to add your shitty band if i've never heard your music. it's just not my nature to shamelessly promote anyone. i = picky. i'm not going to add your shitty band if i think your music sucks. again, i = picky. and if you're a band or a musician, i am not going to automatically add you if you claim you "sound like" amy ray or the indigo girls. same goes for "influenced by." aren't we all? i'm not here to hook up with you. ok? i probably won't add you if i don't know you or at least know of you. again, i don't see the point of having nine million myspace "friends."

Music:



The main ones:
Indigo Girls
(Amy Ray + Emily Saliers = indescribable!)
Amy Ray
(Her solo stuff! Amy's a rockstar in her own right too! I really love her with her band, the Volunteers!)
The others:THREE5HUMAN, Girlyman, Nineteen Forty-Five, Brandi Carlile, The Coup, Catherine Feeny, Snow Machine, Family Outing (I heart AL and Jody), Shawn Mullins, Three Finger Cowboy, Michelle Malone, Danielle Howle, Molly Bancroft, Brandi Carlile, Team Dresch, Azure Ray, The Shins, the Mota Litas, the New Mongrels, Group Sex, (old) U2, Lift, Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Weepies, the Great Unknowns, the Ackleys, Mary J. Blige, Athens Boys Choir (aka the ONLY spoken word I enjoy), the Clash, the Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, the Butchies, the Fray, Justin Timberlake (shutthefuckup peanut gallery), the Crafties, the Pixies, Cat Power, Missy Elliott, Tori Amos, the Ellen James Society, oh and of course myself (since i am SO talented!)
oh, and i've recently re-discovered my love for rap and hip hop music (yes, it's true): TOO $HORT, E-40, Traxamillion, Chamillionaire, Akon, COMMON, Talib Kweli, Jurassic 5, Kelis, DFB, Tupac (R.I.P...), Lupe Fiasco, Rick Ross, Chingy, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Yung Joc, Lil Jon, The Pack, and stuff like that.
i should probably also include what i DON'T LIKE as assumptions are often made. i can not stand melissa etheridge. i just can't. oh, and for the record, i think i'd be suicidal at the michigan womyn's music festival. not digging the cris williamson-esq music.
just for fun:
You Should Be In the Indigo Girls
Your all about expressing yourself through music Lyrics are your poetry - think Sylvia Plath meets guitar What Girl Group Should You Be In?

Movies:

documentaries... i love docs! wordplay, lost in translation, jesus camp, boys on the side, saved, little miss sunshine, philadelphia, the last supper (no, not the religious one), watershed, super size me, an inconvenient truth, better than chocolate, the devil wears prada, shall we dance (the original japanese one), tampopo, midnight express, high art, if it's tuesday this must be belgium, brokedown palace, watershed, super size me, boys don't cry, roger and me, deliverance, the atl, farenheit 9/11, american history x, fargo, to kill a mockingbird, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, dude where's my country, american beauty, higher learning, brokeback mountain, if these walls could talk, latter days, under the tuscan sun, anywhere but here, roger and me, and a few more...

Television:


six feet under has always been and will always be my favorite.aside from SFU: project runway, top chef, almost anything else on bravo, america's next top model, the amazing race, lonely planet on the travel channel, cnn, bbc, charlie rose, queer as folk, weeds, and soccer (especially in spanish). i miss the world cup... :(
japan's beautiful goal on brazil in the 2006 world cup:
..

Books:

harry potter. and how about authors? william ferguson, tania abei, virginia woolf, john krakauer, inga muscio, jenni schaefer, and all of the fine authors of lonely planet books - y'all help me find my way around the world.
and genres? in general, i really prefer non-fiction. nothing sucks me in like a good travel narrative. i also love to read travel guides in my spare time (occupational hazard, i guess). i tend to like to read books that fall into the "gender studies," and "ethnic studies" catagories. i am also constantly reading books about eating disorder support and recovery. really, i'll try anything as long as it expands my mind.

Heroes:


MY MOM... seriously. i call her st. barbara or st. MoS (mother of spike)
AMY RAY... she's such a strong activist. she inspires me to do more. and of course she's an amazing musician who really speaks to me.
Winona LaDuke... i've never seen someone so passionate about the environment and the welfare of people in general.
anyone who devotes their life to working for social justice and human rights.

My Blog

smarter than the tricks played on your heart

i had a few items of absolute weird shit happen to me this evening. i shall share.1. i was over at my friend's place. we were randomly flipping through the tv channels when we came across some rando...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:52:00 PST

"it’s alaska in the summertime"

yes the rumors are true. i'm in alaska following the indigo girls (three show) tour up here. setlists thus far are in my real blog. all of the photos are tagged "alaska." they're mostly show pics,...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:00:00 PST

sparks photos: take two

flickr is having some problems with their tagging system and i just found out that my tags are not bringing up all of my photos. i hope this is fixed soon.you can try viewing them as a set. click on...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:15:00 PST

THE BEST photos i have ever taken!

ok, these are seriously my favorite photos i have ever taken. i accidentlly left my camera in my hotel room. that turned into a huge blessing. instead, i got to play around with my friend's brand n...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:52:00 PST

yes, i'm THAT bored...

... that i'm blogging to myspace (and no, i wouldn't have to do this if myspace allowed me to import my blog. but they don't, and they suck).here's some fotofun for y'all:indigo girls in temecula, ca...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:20:00 PST

that wonderful pre-show feeling

(cross posted from my real blog.)i'm sitting in a park in palm desert, california jacking some free wifi. the venue is across the street, and, as always, i am early. that's ok. so far this park has...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:43:00 PST

long beach pride + tucson

cross posted all over the place:photos from long beach pride and tucson.this is just the beginning of summer tour. more coming soon... ;)...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Tue, 22 May 2007 08:14:00 PST

12 april is a very spechhhiaaaal day

it's 12 april in most of the world at this point.not only is 12 april amy ray's birthday, but my very very very very bestest friend bonnie also has a birthday today! y'all must go over to myspace and ...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

so cute!

i saw this on indigo vortex. then, this morning it was actually posted to cnn.com's off beat art. so yay for that.there's so much pollen in atlanta (it's the southland in the springtime!) that peopl...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:23:00 PST

Photos from our return to the Sun

mohegan sun 2007 was great times. i wish we were still there. i wish i had more mosun fun on my immediate radar. but sadly, the indigo girls march 2007 mohegan sun run is over. but my god, the pho...
Posted by Spike (aka lil $pikey) on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:55:00 PST