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About Me

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One fifth of Fuzzy Lights

A third of the Magnificent Robe of Levitation.

Occasional foil to Haeti and C Joynes

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My Interests

Vinyl, Super 8, Apple Macs, Max/MSP, Finding furniture in the street, Bed

Music:

What I'm actually listening to at work at the moment... (because I know you all give a shit)

Movies:

The Wicker Man, Bladerunner, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Buffalo 66, The films of David Lynch, Don't Look Now, Donnie Darko, Night of the Living Dead, The films of Jan Svankmejer, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, The Shining, Angel Heart, Shaun of the Dead, This is Spinal Tap, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Wisconsin Death Trip

Television:

Twin Peaks, Peepshow, The Mighty Boosh, Spaced

Books:

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Been Down So Long It Seems Like Up To Me, Hawksmoor, My Idea Of Fun, The Outsider, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Magus, From Hell

Heroes:

Vincent Gallo, Bill Drummond, Steve Albini

My Blog

Self indulgence yeah

Oh, what's the point in having a blog if you don't get to show off now and again? This week I got an email from Bianca Casady. What, that ugly one off Eastenders? No you fools, that's Natalie Cassi...
Posted by chris on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:07:00 PST

Dance to the radio.

The iTrip is a device made by Griffin Technology that plugs into your iPod and allows you to broadcast the signal over a short range across the FM frequency band. They're actually illegal in the UK d...
Posted by chris on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:06:00 PST

When you go will you send back...

It's struck me this past couple of days... People who keep blogs, and I mean regular everyday this is what I've done, this is what I'm thinking, here, check this out type blogs as opposed to the occas...
Posted by chris on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:50:00 PST

Do you like Fuck Off Batman?

I see Brennuvargr's already beaten me to the post Primavera blog action, and frankly there's not too much I can add. How that boy kept going for a full 24 hours fueled solely by Estrella Damm and sun...
Posted by chris on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:08:00 PST

Number 4

Number 4 (1996)Nick Drake - Pink MoonI first heard Nick Drake very late at night on Radio 1. The soundtrack to my A-level revision sessions (ha!) was often Mark Radcliffe's shows on the BBC. I remem...
Posted by chris on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:00:00 PST

My Top 5 Most Influential Records (.1 & .2)

I'm a little distracted at work today, and because I'm one of those people who read High Fidelity and, y'know, identified with it, I thought I'd tackle that '5 most influential albums' thing that's cu...
Posted by chris on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:19:00 PST

Number 3

Number 3 (1991)Various Artists - Songs For Self Indulgent EveningsI'm not sure this really counts, as it was a homemade compilation tape rather than an actual album released by an actual record compan...
Posted by chris on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:24:00 PST

Jew car key

I need to come up with a name for my mine and Rob's new band within the next 48 hours else he's going to take an executive decision and we'll end up called Robe of Levitation, which is all a bit Gary ...
Posted by chris on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 06:17:00 PST

Hit Me, Provider

This weekend, frustrated at apparently having lost my 'original' Reason disks and stupidly enthused by the desire to liberate the 'so bad they're good' drum sounds from the constraints imposed by my o...
Posted by chris on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:43:00 PST