Live music----Books----Writing----Making Music----Movies-----Argggh!!!! This sounds so banal!!! I'm secretly Speed's older brother!!! So I'm really only interested in racing cartoon cars behind Pops' back. Let's just say I've led an interesting life (in the Chinese proverbial curse kind of sense) and if I get to know you better I'll lie,lie,lie. I hope this turns out to be a better year!!!.. width="425" height="350" ..
Oh Gawd ---"Some really groovy and turned-on people, man". There, satisfied? Can I go now? No, really, I do want to meet you--yeah, you--Hey!!!Wait!!!--Don't log o---
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.. width="425" height="350" ..You know those old-timey jug bands? the ones blowing on the whiskey jars and scraping on washboards and strumming those washtub string basses? Well, I hate them. O.K., Here's just some random bands/styles/genres:Old Punk,Old Industrial,some of the newer electronica, Daft Punk, Ladytron, Drone, Shoe-Gazer, Goth,Necrotronic,(I just made that one up),Murder Ballads played on a musical saw,Wendy Carlos,anyone on my friends page-you should check them out,Sylvester and Sylvia, Neko Case, Happy Mondays, Old Crow Medicine Show, Nick Cave, Centro-Matic, Tindersticks, Modest Mouse, Kennedy, Young Gods, Dinosaur Jr., Red House Painters, Cocteau twins, Tarnation, Handsome Family, Flaming Groovies, Monomen, Pixies, the No Generation Sound, Laura Viers, off-beat 70's singer-songwriters like Laura Nyro or Patti Smith, Late 70's/early 80's punk hardcore(Stiff Little Fingers, Exploited, Tsol, Code of Honor, Black Flag, etc.),the Akron Sound, the 4AD groups,Detroit!Primitive Blues, ancient instrumental music (15-17th c.), Beethoven, Weill, Berg, Handel, Purcell, J.S. Bach, Palestrina, Charpentier, Prokofiev, Mozart, Vivaldi, Webern, Mahler, I worship at the altars of all the usual suspects of greatness in rock and jazz (or at least pay my respects), Zappa, anyone who collaborated with the Band (which was just about all the good musicians during the late 60's-70's), sorry, don't do the Deadhead trip, but you feel free to freak on. Wild Women who scream and moan and make delicious shivers run up and down my spine. Loud horrible noisy rawk. Primitives of the world. the sound of wind blowing through a dead world. The howls of an unknown predator on a moonless night. And oompah bands.
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The Briggs Weaver Machinery Catalog 1960---Really it's fascinating---I can't get enough of those screw pitch gages and pole straightening jacks. Right now, I'm reading Neil Stephenson, Patrick O'Brian, and Van Reid (for entertainment), Sarah Vowell (For commentary), and Dr. Robert K. Cooper (for health and well-being).Partial list--Discipline & Punish-the Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault.
Quicksilver by Neil Stephenson.
Invisible Republic by Greil Marcus.
How to Talk Dirty & Influence People by Lenny Bruce. World War Z by Max Brooks.
Bed time story for the kiddies-The Gashleycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey--put 'em right to sleep.
adopt your own virtual pet!
Whoever discovered Aspirin--ohhhh....