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Tony

I am here for Friends

About Me

goin' up to harlem with a pistol in his jeans.

My Interests

Playing you songs. Getting dressed up for no reason. Trainwrecks. Semi's. Minor automobile repair. I do impressions of a handful of people really well. Making strange sounds with my mouth. Making strange sounds with anything. Museums. Opening doors, offering my help. Heyyyy, wait a minute...I am chivalrous. Augusto Cesar Sandino. Fedora's. hookers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Getting off my high horse. National Geographic. Adbusters. Jack Kerouac (we have the same birthday). 808 drums. I can fucking dance. Surfing Mike Boyle's truck (please?). Goddess dressing. Arthur Magazine. Tour Buses. RV's kick ass. Vice Guide to Travel. Fancy shoes, not so fancy shoes. Air rifles. Jamming with strangers. Trying to convince people who have obvious noticeable talent for anything across the artistic spectrum that they should quit their job. Vintage Guitars and effects pedals. elevendy. going to the ima and being really loud on accident. 16mm footage of african ceremonial dancing. blowing up a on steel whistle in a foriegn street parade. Finding instruments at thirft stores. 100 steel drums hitting major chords in 1-4-5 progression while drums made from tree trunks boom like they were supposed to. remembering the time when my friends took off their shirts and fought in the middle of the road for fun, "fuck it dude, this is fountain square, poh-lice aint gowna care." and they didn't. the end.

Music:

Dean Martin. THE CLASH (every album, any song). Johnny Cash. My own shit. FOUR TET. FOUR TET REMIXING MADVILLIAN! Muddy Waters. WOLFMOTHER!. Animal Collective. Oneida. The Who. Lou reed. Conway Twitty. The Pixies. The Breeders. Frank Black Francis. Buddy Holly. The Misfits. The refused. Howlin' Wolf. Lady Sovereign. MIA. Bo Diddley. Band of Bees. Curtis Mayfield. Rick James. Billy Childish. T Rex. Woody Guthrie. Wu-Tang Clan. Hank Williams Sr. PJ Harvey. The Game. Leadbelly. America owns the moon. Patsy Cline. Mirah. The New York Dolls. Stevie Wonder. Public Enemy. The Oblivians. Tribe Called Quest. Black Sheep. Bruce Springsteen. People under the stairs. Velvet Underground. Nico. the rapture. Ol' Dirty Bastard. Dr. Alimantado (the best dressed chicken in town, thank you Antonio). Radiohead. Regina Spektor. Ying Yang Twins. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Odetta. Tom Waits. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. The Cure. Big Audio Dynamite. The delfonics. Can. CCR. The Fall. Tom Petty. Lee Perry. Zero Boys. Dillinger. Leonard Cohen. Serge Gainsbourg. Kool Keith/Black Elvis/Dr. Octagon. World inferno friendship society. Motorhead. MC5. N.W.A. Bjork. Modern Lovers. Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy and his Rubber Band, and George Clinton solo. INXS. Interpol. The Sex Pistols. Murder on the Dancefloor. Outkast. J Clydes Trio. ELVIS COSTELLO. LCD Soundsystem. Rolling Stones. The Ronettes. Mahalia Jackson. Wes Montgomery. The Supremes. France Gall. OTIS REDDING. Stonelove Sound Clash. Almost any live sound clash from Jamaica. Jeff Buckley. Oingo Boingo. The Fall. David Bowie. U.N.K.L.E. Gang of Four. Ministry. Buju Banton. The Strokes. A lil' bit of Suicide (jus' lil bit). Whiskeytits. The Hives. Broken Social Scene. Afrika Bambatta and the SoulSonic Force. Desmond Dekker. The Specials. Joy Division. James Brown. Billy Joel. Led Zeppelin. Cut Copy. Del the funkee homosapien. Metric. The Bronx. MF Doom. The Cure. Wolf Parade. The Walkmen. Joanna Newsom. The Jackson 5. Wilson Pickett. Chuck Berry. Blackalicious. T.V. on the radio. Bauhaus (actually only Bela Lugosi's dead). I will add as I remember, or until the list is too long for reading.

Movies:

Gary Numan

Television:

Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job.

Books:

All the pretty horses and The Guide to Ayahuasca

Heroes:

Joe Strummer. alan Vega. John Lennon. Lee Scratch Perry. Kim Deal.Stephen Colbert.SISTER ROSETTA THARPE

My Blog

I messed with Texas

And I met Thurston Moore and Kim Deal, I got birthday pictures with both. I saw Lou Reed play walk on the wild side. Austin Rules. Danielle Rules for giving us a place to rest our sunnurnt h...
Posted by Tony on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:04:00 PST

Welling up with tears of rage/ New and STILL the same old bullshit from anywhere in the world

BRASÍLIA  The police jail at Abaetetuba could not be torn down soon enough for Márcia Soares, a lawyer and federal human rights official here. To her, the jail has come to symbolize everything that i...
Posted by Tony on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:00:00 PST

Ugh

Ugh
Posted by Tony on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:27:00 PST

And then there was Andre (I am trippin on this song)

Wetness all around me, true, but I'm no islandPeninsula maybe, makes no sense I know, crazyGive up all this pussy cat thats in my lap no lookin backSpaceships dont come equipped with rearview mirrorsT...
Posted by Tony on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:49:00 PST

When I need clarity, I listen to Big Boi.

Ask-ask Paul McCartney the lawyers gettin sloppySlaughter-slaughter of them pockets, had to tie her to a rocketSend her into outer space, I know he wish he couldCause he payin 20K a day, that bitch is...
Posted by Tony on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:07:00 PST

Sweat and Education

They asked about it, but it's padlocked. that taste in your mouth is called after-shock And so, you looked at me and screamed "fix this!" I handed you a ball and a biscuit Something's breaki...
Posted by Tony on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:50:00 PST

Transit of Venus, 2012

  The transit will be best viewed from the Pacific Ocean. North America will be able to see the start of the transit, while South Asia, the Middle East, and most of Europe will catch the end of i...
Posted by Tony on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:45:00 PST

I call this right here intensified (space echo)

It aint no crime to wanna change my mind (space echo)
Posted by Tony on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:18:00 PST

Raw talent makes quick move.

I am tried-tired, shhhIT. Woowee wow wow. Wowpants...wowski whoa woo. Mmmm, MMMMM.What did I do last yesterday? I saw art. The kind that you get excited about. For serious. Make it clownin’, and...
Posted by Tony on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:11:00 PST

Hard Elbow is gonna fall

someone is out there cleaning their canvas/hitting re-start 'n' such it must be nice to paint pretty pictures of yourself, I aint go no drawin' skills. well played, oscars for all.   someone is ...
Posted by Tony on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:10:00 PST