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buck

Escapism

About Me

I'm this dude. I write shit and take photos.If you want to read some things that I write occasionally on various esoterica, visit escape velocity .
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Well, I would like to meet underachievers, ritualistic hedonists and closet lesbians.

Music:

AC/DC, Aerosmit, Air, The Allman Brothers Band, The Apples in Stereo, The Arcade Fire, The Avalanches, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beaumont Hannant, Beck, Beethoven, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller, The Beta Band, Black Crowes, Black Mountain, Black Sabbath, Blind Faith, Blind Melon, Blind Willie McTell, Bloc Party, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Log III, Bob Seager, The Boy Least Likely To..., The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Buffalo, Built to Spill, Califone, Canned Heat, Charlie Mingus, The Chemical Brothers, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Colder, Coldplay, Counting Crows, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Daddy Cool, The Dandy Warhols, Datarock, David Bowie, Day I Die, The Dears, The Decemberists, Deep Dish, Deerhoof, The Deftones, Devendra Banhart, Devo, Dire Straits, DJ Shado, Donovan, The Doobie Brothers, The Doors, Doug Martsch, Downset, Dungen, The Dust Brothers, Edan, Edgar Winter Group, Edie Brickell, The Eels, Elliot Smith, Elton John, End of Fashion, Evan Dando, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Fiery Furnaces, Fiona Apple, The Flaming Lips, Fountains of Wayne, Francoiz Breut, Frank Sinatra, Franz Ferdinand, Fugazi, The Futureheads, G. Love & Special Sauce, Gary Jules, George Harrison, Gillian Welch, Glenn Miller, Gorillaz, Gotan Project, Grandaddy, The Grateful Dead, Groove Armada, The Guess Who, Guns 'n' Roses, Harry Nilsson, Holopaw, Hunters and Collectors, Iggy and the Stooges, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Jack Johnson, Jaga Jazzist, Jamiroquai, Jane's Addiction, Jay-Z, Jerry Garcia, Jethro Tull, Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Joan Baez, Joanna Newsom, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, The John Butler Trio, John Coltrane, John Lennon, John Mayer, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Jose Gonzales, Kaiser Chiefs...

Books:

Michel Houellebecq right now; Milan Kundera, Will Self, Martin Amis, William Least-Heat Moon, Richard Brautigan, Frederico Garcia Llorca, Pablo Neruda, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, Bruce Chatwin, Peter Matthieson, Robert Byron, Lester Bangs, Douglas Adams, Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Shulgin, Arthur Rimbaud...

My Blog

New Music Weekly

It's been a quiet weekend for the quiet American. Winter has landed in Melbourne with an audible thump - the temperature is about half today what it was a week ago, the local outdoor pool closed over...
Posted by buck on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:28:00 PST

Dirty Sex Sells

If you don't know my peculiar propensity for jaunts into human culture's dark underbelly, monthly visits to the elbow skin of anthropology and paid expeditions with the interestingly different, these...
Posted by buck on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:15:00 PST

This is the End

Dear readers, First entry should always be well-greased with verbal lubricant, and this one's going in with some difficulty. Something about writing without the hope of a cheque, it's a survival mecha...
Posted by buck on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:11:00 PST