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Ben

He who chooses to sail the world in a ukulele soon finds his options limited by waterlogged catgut.

About Me

I read books, and so should you. Check out what I'm reading.

My Interests

redistribution of wealth, unusual forms of locomotion, solitude in crowds, surrealism, vegeterian chitlins, disrupting traffic on a bike, generating feedback, staring into the void, drawing pixels in colored pencil, djing electroclash & blip-hop, sundry things e-lectronical

I'd like to meet:

other sexy Myspace profiles. the faker the better.

Music:

Aphex Twin, Beta-Band, Cex, Digable Planets, Electric Mayhem, Pharcyde, Grandpas Ghost, Helmut, Interpol, Jackie O. Mother, Kelis, Le Tigre, Matmos, New Pornographers, Oingo Boingo, Potomac Accord, Qbert, DJ Rupture, Stetsasonic, Tomita, Ursula 1000, DJ Vadim, Whole Sick Crew, Add N to (X), Yona-Kit, Zuzu's Petals

Movies:

Fear of a Black Hat, Frankenhooker, Seconds, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Human Highway, Game of Death

Television:

adult swim appears to have a firm handhold on the idle minds of my ilk. they're evil, but yet still so smarmy and biting.

Books:

Letters from the Earth, Philosphy of Modern Music, Jilting of Granny Weatherall, Guerilla Television, Ode to an Oil Can

Heroes:

Leon Theremin, pioneer electronic musician from the 20s AND a Soviet spy! Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping. That dude who floated over LA in the 80s in a lawn chair outfitted with weather baloons. Mr. Floatie from www.poopvictoria.ca.

My Blog

Got Uranium?

This blog would be otherwise unspectacular, if it weren't for the image below.Yes, that is quite real.  United Nuclear, probably pronounced "Noo-cloo-yer," sells small samples of a variety of rad...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:32:00 PST

Tokelau, where domain names runneth over

I recently helped local the local Food Not Bombs chapter register for a free domain (http://www.stlfnb.tk/) with the miniscule Pacific island nation of Tokelau.  An actual website for FNB is stil...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:36:00 PST

Communicable disease...online!

Since Myspace wishes to replace your social life with a digitized, spam-filtered, Gmail-accessible variety, I would like to help them move on to the next step: contagious diseases...online. I recentl...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:24:00 PST

Behold the new Manna

How sweet it is, indeed. Check those amber waves of saccharin.
Posted by Ben on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:36:00 PST

in defense of intelligent design

it would appear the gods of caprice that permitted all this "intelligent design" silliness to enter public realm of debate have also allowed another, far more compelling alternative to the theory of e...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:54:00 PST

disco people?

i'm curious whatever became of the "disco people." bill? any word?
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST