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Peppy & The Firing Squad

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/03/2006
Band Website: http://web.mac.com/xnoybis1/
Band Members: Edward, unknown various.
Influences: synthesizers, bagpipes, gary numan, hollAnd, satellite grooves, cocteau twins, dominik eulberg, 8bit betty, saskrotch, ulrich schnauss, boards of canada.
Sounds Like: gary numan, hollAnd, satellite grooves, cocteau twins, dominik eulberg, my bloody valentine, 8bit betty, and saskrotch
Record Label: Openreel Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

coolo bonito

Since I last jotted something down ~3 weeks ago a couple things have happened."Alex and I went and engaged ourselves"Nico and Jeff were married"Alex and I spent a week in Santa Fe"My neighbor's apartm...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:16:00 GMT

bad baguettes

The farmers' market at DeKalb and Washington (Fort Green) is pathetic in size (perhaps larger mid-summer?), which is all the worse given the disparity in product quality. The apples (Tioga farms?) we...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:11:00 GMT

lentils

I'm sick of eating rocks. GOYA foods, the ubiquitous backbone to latin american food sections in grocery stores across the great north america, has cut my gums for the last time. Once upon a time, I...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 21:16:00 GMT

student loans

I like to talk about what I'm doing in school. But not with friends, family, or anyone else remotely close to me.Perhaps it's because I'm looking through my options for grants, fellowships, GA, and T...
Posted by on Fri, 18 May 2007 14:50:00 GMT

Brooklyn Uncorked

last night's Brooklyn Uncorked tasting was decent, but I found myself in a flattering mood only after intoxication, and no sooner. Old Field makes a decent dry rosé (why is America still so goddamn i...
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 14:06:00 GMT

tingling

I just finished a review of Michael Madison's "Blithe Tomato"Blithe TomatoMichael's essays challenge the tired mawkish and bucolic writing that so often seeks to capture the essence of farmers' market...
Posted by on Thu, 17 May 2007 00:16:00 GMT

Plain text complaint about 'rad girls'

Rad girls sucks. I'm sure slate and salon will be all over this one... suffice to say the 5/16/07 episode I happened across after several glasses of delicious long island chardonnay (and I hate chard...
Posted by on Wed, 16 May 2007 20:21:00 GMT

sure Boaz wasn't all that, but L. White is a nutter

RE: "I disagree with Edward completely about taxation of individuals v. corporations. The sad fiscal reality is that corporate taxes often trickle down to the consumer at much higher rates than direct...
Posted by on Thu, 11 May 2006 09:50:00 GMT

i'ze got nootrents

RE: "America has become a bastion of superfluous litigation. It has become acceptable to sue (and be awarded damages) for any ridiculous liability we can dream up. I think Americans need to take resp...
Posted by on Wed, 10 May 2006 12:31:00 GMT

malbec grapes and smoked chiles

Both Germany and Japan were emasculated by the end of World War II, the red thread resulting in Germany's Grundgesetz laws and Japans Article 9 under Macarthur's watchful eye. These laws remain been ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 May 2006 22:00:00 GMT