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benjAmin

Indie limey

About Me

I :heart: playing records to dance to, drag racing, bands, festivals, Glasto, wallpaper*, drinking, smoking, dancing, making mix tapes, classic German autos, Paris, Japanese kitch, all bed based activities, black pepper, MTV2, Firenze, kissing, car boot sales, Summer evenings, Amsterdam, acceleration, Politics, Wes Anderson films, the Narb, MOSH, Lost Vagueness, morning after breakfasts with friends, 60s psychedelia, indie Rock, beats, squigy noises, BMX, Banksy, limes, rye & dry, foreign cinema, The Mighty Boosh, Spaced, LOST, Cheddars(full size), vintage Sony, Jagermeister, architecture, furniture and interior design, cooking vegetarian food, installation art, putting paint on canvas...
I currently have a fondness for Revolte, Metric, Cocoon, Justice, Mr Oizo, sebastiAn, MSTRKRFT, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Arcade Fire, Gossip, Surkin, Vicarious Bliss, The Rakes, Death From Above 1979, The Rapture, Hot Chip, feadz, Rex the Dog, Mr Flash, Erol Alkan, Cassius, Mehdi, Callea, Tiga, Har Mar, U.N.K.L.E., Phones, Etienne De Crecy, Sean na na, Sebastian Tellier, Ralph Myerz & the Jack Herren Band, New Young Pony Club, Moloko, Klaxons, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hayseed Dixie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Daft Punk, Para One, Soulwax, Spectrum, The Roots, Black Keys, Basement Jaxx, Peter Bjorn & John, The Knife, Goose, MissOddKid, Fluokids, Sunshine Underground, Tiny Dancers and whatever else the young hipsters are listening to...
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My Interests


I'd like to meet:

Indie Cindy, with or without Lego haircut and polka-dot dress...

Usual shit disclaimer: If you're a band, I'll find you. I deny pretty much all band requests so if you know me and have a band profile, please message me first so that I don't automatically deny you...cheers

Also, if you're gonna send me a request and your profile is private, chances are I will deny you unless you message me first

Music:

Everything! but mainly Electronica - Indie - Breakbeat - Electro - Cosmic Synths - Afrobeat - Dirty House - Punk - 60s/70s Rock - Bluegrass - Hip-Hop - Northern Soul - Garage Rock - Freakbeat - Ska

Movies:

My favourite directors are Wes Anderson & Luc Besson so that should give you some idea but I'll watch pretty much anything

DVDs on my shelf --- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Spirited Away, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Red Violin, The Life Aquatic, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Spun, Go, Leon, The Big Lebowski, Nikita, Kids, Almost Famous, Dazed & Confused, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Cidade de Deus, Cidade dos Homens, Night on Earth, all the Harry Potter films, Getaway in Stolkholm, Peter Kay, Lost in Translation, Dazed & Confused, Black Hawk Down, blow, Hostel, SPACED, Baise Moi, La Haine...

Books:

I go through times of reading loads of novels and others of not picking up a book for months...I'm normally reading several at once and sometimes I finish one! I also have a weakness for coffee table books

Heroes:

John Peel 1939-2004 - RIP
DFA'79 RIP
Gene Berg RIP

Mark Herbert 1959 - 2006 RIP

Daryl Vittone

Howard Marks
ed rec crew
ED REC vol II
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My Blog

Volksworld readers...

...check page 27 of the new issue (Aug07) and you'll see a half page feature on my sixty six bug.I didn't write the letter btw, Jon at VWorld wrote it to sound like I sent a letter in when actually th...
Posted by benjAmin on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:20:00 PST

Knives are dangerous

why do I not have any plasters in my house?!?!?! God, I am such a dumbass sometimes! ... I get home from work and my veg box has arrived...like a twat, I hold up a net full of onions and take a swipe ...
Posted by benjAmin on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:17:00 PST

where it all went wrong...

OK last night I got a little sidetracked by an old diary I found while looking for a photo...I say diary, not the teenage girl pour your heart out type but rather a social engagement / contacts b...
Posted by benjAmin on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:03:00 PST