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Richydude

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About Me

I like Balkan Beat Box.

My Interests

Balkan Beat Box.

I'd like to meet:

Balkan Beat Box, people who like Balkan Beat Box, Ray Bradbury, Phil Liggett, the Ditty Bops, and some people who want to go on long bike rides.

Music:

Johnny Zoom Cheerlead Squad, Sigur Ros, Ratatat, Old African Rumba Rock, good shit, the Slackers, Stray Cats, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman, Steve Bartek, Adam Ant, Bow Wow Wow, The Police, Stewart Copeland, Andy Summers, Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, Thomas Dolby, Ramones, Generation X, Billy Idol, Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard, John Lee Hooker, Dick Dale and his Del-Tones, the Surfaris, the Big Bopper, the Cadillacs, Bill Haley and his Comets, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band of Gypsys, Robert Johnson, Wynnonie Harris, Louis Jordan, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Joe Turner, Reverend Horton Heat, Ike Turner, Victor Wooten, the Aquabats, Save Ferris, Reel Big Fish, Morrisey, the Smiths, the Cure, Led Zeppelin, the Clash, Prince, Dizzy Gillespie, Bo Diddley, Amazing Royal Crowns, Royal Crown Revue, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, old Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fishbone, the Living End, John Williams, Andres Segovia, Carlos Montoya, Mozart, Bach, Solliloquists of Sound, Public Enemy, Arrested Developement, Beastie Boys, Technotronic, Snap!, Flogging Molly, Anti-Flag, th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Slim Harpo, Raymond Scott, the Strokes, the White Stripes, A.W.K., the Mercury Program, DJ Shadow, Prodigy, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, the Skatalites, Don Drummond, very early Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, early Neil Diamond, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Reese Gray, Fats Waller, Scott Joplin, Sidney Bechet, Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Specials, the Beat, Joe Maphis, Roy Smeck, Andrew Bird, Bad Brains, Franco and OK Jazz, the Dempseys, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, Cigar Store Indians, Skinny McGee and his Mayhem Makers, early Gary U.S. Bonds, the Who, the Jam, the Kinks, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones w/ Brian Jones, Lindsay Buckingham, Queen, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Doug E. Fresh, STOMP, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Boswell Sisters, James Brown, The Champs, DEVO, Charlie Christian, the Hives, Iron Maiden, the Selecter, Bad Religion, the Suicide Machines, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Faint, the Dukes of Dixieland, Hugh Masekela, Cabaret Diosa, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Outkast, some Michael Jackson, Howlin' Wolf, Joe Houston, the Kingpins, the Raveonettes, the Pogues, the Republic of Safety, the Midways, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Planet Smashers, the Fugees, the Stone Roses, the Bloodhound Gang, Lo and the Magnetics, the (International) Noise Conspiracy, Hot Club of Cowtown, Mos Def, Bel Biv Devoe, Danko Jones, Dance Hall Crashers, OMD, Gyorgi Ligeti, Porno for Pyros, Orquesta Baobab, Bjork, the Killers, Cake, Matisyahu, the Libertines, Old Crow Medicine Show, Skarface, Gogol Bordello, Taraf de Haidouks, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Shantel, Pretty Boy Freud, Huey 'Piano' Smith, Fats Domino, Gary U.S. Bonds,

Movies:

Good ones.

Television:

Sure! Is there a hockey game on?/Late Night w/ Conan O' Brien

Books:

Any Ray Bradbury book is usually really good since his stories are usually only 5-30 pages long, but they are so imaginative. I especially like "The Golden Apples of the Sun" and "The Illustrated Man." "One Train Later" by Andy Summers

Heroes:

I guess you could say Brian Setzer is my hero. He dropped out of high school, moved out of his home with his brother (Runaway Boys), started playing in bars by himself with a beatbox, and then a band, and then spent every penny he had on a flight to England with the Stray Cats (then known as 'The Tomcats'), had no place to stay, and in two or three months Stray Cats was one of the top bands in Europe and had every major rock star in Britain attending their shows. Brian's musical direction, brilliance on guitar, and his hair have probably had the most influence on my life so far. Jimi Hendrix is also one of my favourite people as it was through his music that I first realized music could be a very spiritual, well, "thing". I'm not sure if any one has really been able communicate or send a message through an instrument and music as clear as Jimi was able to. Some of his songs are like watching a movie. I also admire people who embody the "renaissance man" mold. A few known examples would be Tom Jefferson and Leo DaVinci. Some modern examples that I like are Indiana Jones, Sam from Quantum Leap, MacGyver, Buckaroo Bonzai(perhaps the greatest of all renaissance men), and of course--my favorite--Marty McFly. He skateboards on the back of trucks to get to school, is a master at the hoverboard, absolutely rips at guitar, travels through time, saves the world, kicks ass at that shooting video game, well, what can't he do?