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Jon-Richard Carroll

music is not a spectator sport

About Me


* I like having a beard
* I have an awesome, beautiful girlfriend
* I really hate small talk
* Comics, Music, Films and crappy jokes rule my life
* My friends are really important to me
* I've been rockin' out to this stuff lately:

My Interests

Music, Flims, Comics, Photography, Writing, Reading

I'd like to meet:

If you love talking music, films or just rambling in general then we'll probably get along just fine. I'm not interested in adding you if I'm gonna wind up being a number on yr profile. I'm here to find new friends and adventures...
People I Wanna Meet But Probably Never Will:
Spike Jonze/ Ian Mackaye/ Kevin Smith/ Kim Gordon/ Cat Power/ Frank Zappa/ Captain Beefheart/ Bill Hicks/ Richard Pryor/ Ed Wood

Music:

A glimpse into my record collection...

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Cohen Brothers films, Seven Samurai, House of 1000 Corpses, Godfather Trilogy, Ghost World, Ghost Dog, Planet of the Apes, American Splendor, Almost Famous, Lost In Translation, The Last Waltz, Fletch, Blue Collar, Last Temptaion of Christ, Kevin Smith films, Secretary, Werner Herzog films, Tron, Beat Takeshi films, those really cheesy films that Richard Prior made with Gene Wilder in the '80's

Television:

Mighty Boosh, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peep Show, Fawlty Towers, Porridge, Simpsons, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Aeon Flux, Avatar, Seinfeld

Books:

Jack Kerouac, Will Self, Phillip K Dick, Alan Moore, William Burroughs, William Gibson, J G Ballard, Tom Robbins, Charles Bukowski, James Ellroy. "The Ass Saw The Angel" by Nick Cave (one of the best books in the world)

Heroes:

The A-Team, Jerry Garcia, Frank Zappa, William Burroughs, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Charlie Kaufman, Keith Richards

My Blog

Ultra Beatoff

I'm sat in my dressing gown at a very agreeable 11:00 on this beautiful Sunday morning. I have the window open and the cool air feels fresh and clean. However, I am torturing myself slowly and precis...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:02:00 PST

Me + Exercise = Huh?

Friday tomorrow. Always a long day. Jen is having an admin day so the alarm can go off at 7 for a change. My head will hit the pillow again somewhere between 5 and 6 on Saturday morning. I'm not up f...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:30:00 PST

Jon Digital

Jon Digital is the name of my new podcast. It's a little rough around the edges but I'm hoping that I'll get better at them. Oz is in on this too and he should following my cast up with one of his ow...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:29:00 PST

Too Hot To Stop

It was real slow in work last week, like crazy slow, I didn't have anything to work on towards the end of the week and found myself down in the Accounts Department helping out with all the filing tha...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:16:00 PST

Another Weekend Down

Another weekend is hurtling towards the end and I'm kicking myself in the ass for all the things I never got round to doing. Again. Two days never seems to be enough. Maybe I'm just overdoing it on a...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:34:00 PST

This Modern Love 2

You were the bright sparkThat I never had the gutsto beor to chaseor to look into your eyesIt was safer in the shadowsWatch you work the roomSink with jealousyAlways a new guy on yr armA place in yr ...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:18:00 PST

This Modern Love

In the hazy twilightWe exchanged our body fluidsWrapped up in gratificationNo lingering guiltJust a lasting sense of self-hateText messagesBarely convey our emotionsWe communicateBut we never really ...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:29:00 PST

Half An Hour Between Baking

I'm making some paratha to go with dinner. I spent a good ten minutes punching the hell out the dough, always a good aggression relief. It's sat in a bowl now, rising. Will get back to it in half an ...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:56:00 PST

Farewell Black Moses

Glastonbury 2002 was a weird one for me. Sven had talked me into going and once we were there, it soon became apparent that we didn't really want to see any of the same bands. I was pretty happy to s...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:11:00 PST

Past Influences Are Null And Void

I've been listening to a whole bunch of 90's alternative music that completely missed me by the first time around; Lemonheads, Sebadoh, Built to Spill, Mudhoney. I kinda curse myself for missing all ...
Posted by Jon-Richard Carroll on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:53:00 PST