Ben profile picture

Ben

Sheikh Yabatty.

About Me

It's very hard to write about yourself on these sort of things without either sounding:
A) Self obsessed.
B) A bit scary and neurotic.
Or
C) Both.
I'll give it a go though.
My name's Ben, and I'm a 26 year old currently living in sunny Hackney. My main passion in life is music: making it, listening to it, Djing and writing about it. I write for two publications ( No Ripcord and Culture Deluxe ), DJ frequently in and around New Cross and Shoreditch (93ft East), and I generally love dicking about with music...
I also help to run a record label by the name of Culturedeluxe Records which is a lot of fun, as I get to work with some fucking brilliant bands that I love, and lot's of free gig tickets of course. That's the best bit...
I like doing things on the spur of the moment, and being creative. Sometimes I'm writing a book, sometimes I'm not, but the important thing is that I've started it.
I love my friends.
That's about it really. Bye.MySpace layout created at Hypergurl.

My Interests

Music, reading, football, music.

I'd like to meet:

Duncan Bannatyne and Nelson Mandela.

Music:

Northern Soul (Chess Records is a great label), Arctic Monkeys, The Crimea, The Open, Bob Dylan, The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Hefner, Madness, MGMT, My Morning Jacket, Justice, Kraftwerk, Charlie And The Ketamen, Marina And The Diamonds, Ali Love, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Chuck Berry YoungHusband, LCD Soundsystem, The Rakes, The Strokes and The Cribs, Blur, Pulp, The Housemartins, The Who, Bowie and The Smiths. You can't go wrong with a bit of dubstep and grime either.

Movies:

Napoleon Dymanite, the Back to The Future Trilogy, Ghostbusters, Live Forever, This Is England, Mallrats, Lost Boys.

Television:

Music videos and commercials.

Books:

Everything Is Illuminated, Headhunters, Please Kill Me, England's Dreaming, Morrissey And Marr: The Severed Alliance.
Anything by J.G. Ballard.

Heroes:

Morrissey, Marvin Gaye, Tony Benn, Matt Le Tissier, Micky Channon...

My Blog

Your spreadsheets and charts cannot harm me.

A door made out of Lego is still a door.  It still works, doesn't it? Feelings are pretty transient.  Sometimes feelings of joy and elation dance through my mind like mini Audrey Hepburns m...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:49:00 PST

Life is a snowglobe and I AM all shook up.

Silence is a snowball, perched at the top of the mountain.  The zip on my mouth is the hand that pushed it.  With the gentlest of nudges, the snowball started to roll down the frosty peak th...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:25:00 PST

For flotsam, read jetsam...

Hello all, It's been a few weeks I know, a combinations of a chest infection, great expectations and a lot of bad news roaming the planet. Things are well here with me and Tigger, going to be visiti...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:28:00 PST

Stockbrokalist vocalist.

Hello, Nine times out of ten life is the one thing that hijacks all of our best-laid plans, but since when has this been a bad thing? i'm on a slight break from Tigger at the moment, and having pinne...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 02:30:00 PST

Mr. A has a wonderful evening.

Dancing in the whites of Mr. A. Somebody's eyes this week was the news that he had waited to hear for a very long time. 'Wellness awaits' was the phrase spelt out by the one million stars in the brig...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:33:00 PST

Sigmund Freud didnt create Superman by tugging his forelock&

Hello all, Feeling a bit lighter in my boots today, to quote a certain young Oskar Schell. Lots of stars reside in the hollowed out candle on my desktop, and the music in my head is of the FM variety...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:16:00 PST

Jackson Smallpart Gets Stage Fright, Exits...

"The first step is to understand how anxiety works. Anxiety is a mixture of physical and mental symptoms. They are part of what psychologists call the 'fight or flight' response. When the body is unde...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:22:00 PST

Skanning My Head for Anything Other Than An Amperand Sandwiched Between Two Blanks.

Hello, It has been said by many people (some with pieces of paper, some holding pens, some even typing on a keyboard as I am now) that in society, the traits we most deplore in others are the traits t...
Posted by Ben on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:07:00 PST

Festive Spice For February.

Wow, Made a bit of a mess of things today. A friend of mine called me, and I was a bit silly about it. I've not been too good recently, and things have slightly ran away from me mentally, and now I'm...
Posted by Ben on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:17:00 PST

Slo-Mo Po-In-Mo Soc.

Hello, I'm Edmund Illery at the moment, much to the chagrin of my employers, the corner shop (two bottles of Diet Coke are currently sat in their lonely chiller, weeping as I type this), and anybody o...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:23:00 PST