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Marrk

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About Me

Je suis une Personne de l'Importance Terrible

My Interests

playing the guitar (rock n roll) news partying arguing beat poetry lying in a sort of half asleep/half awake netherworld spending money (on disposable things) trying to (and failing) eat healthily and go running cricket...not the sport the concept drinking tea trying to live in london without going insane going to gigs the architecture of belgian leisure centres 1972-1974____________________________

Music:

The Thermals, Hot Chip, Tom Waits, Erlend Oye, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, The Futureheads, MF Doom, RJD2, Arcade Fire, Built To Spill, The Pixies, Pavement, David Bowie, Nirvana, Sufjan Stevens, Jens Lekman, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Velvet Underground, Joy Division, The Beatles, My Bloody Valentine, Beta Band, Radiohead, The Cure, Boards Of Canada, Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Mogwai, Slint, The Smiths, Cannibal Ox, Jurassic 5, Nick Drake, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Devendra Banhart, Be Your Own Pet, PJ Harvey, !!!, LCD Soundsystem, DJ Hell, DJ Shadow, Dan The Automator, The Rakes, King Tubby, Dismemberment Plan, Fugazi, Rufus Wainwright, Two Lone Swordsmen, The Microphones, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Kings Of Convenience, Dead Kennedys, Kool Keith, Portishead, Massive Attack, Gang of Four, Wire, Can, White Stripes, Ryan Adams, Jeff Buckley, Red House Painters, Pendulum...you get the general idea...

Movies:

The Goonies, Withnail and I, Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson films, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Neverending Story and all those other films that everyone knows are good so its not worth mentioning (like "half past dead" starring Steven Seagal)

Television:

Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Spaced, Neighbours, Family Guy, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Monty Python, Seinfeld, Louis Theroux.

Books:

Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, David Foster Wallace, Chuck Palahniuk, The Kill A Mockingbird, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Julian Barnes, DBC Pierre, Albert Camus, Noam Chomsky

Heroes:

Morrissey (noone can read that can they?)______________________________________________________ _____

My Blog

Comments overheard

"Oh my god, I never thought I would get a salad spinner until after I was married" "I'm going home to take off my lip gloss cos these flying ants are everywhere" "And I was like, 'You're a fucking est...
Posted by Marrk on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:25:00 PST

Biography of the band Mayhem

Formed around 1985 by Necrobutcher and guitarist Euronymous (born Oystein Aarseth), Mayhem was the first death metal band from Norway to make much of an impact in their homeland, which in the ear...
Posted by Marrk on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:40:00 PST