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Completely Lost...

About Me



"A Phonomancer is one who beileves music should be considered a "magical" force. It is someone who understands and manipulates this. "He [the Phonomancer] may spend much of their time making choice mix tapes to warp someone’s feelings in a way of their choosing."
"The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain... Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves." - Schopenhauer.
An Unstructured Explanation...
Right. Music Keeps Me Alive. That must be pretty obvious by now. When I say i'm addicted to music, I mean it, I'm seriously, chronically obsessed. When I was younger and had to watch the TV or a film with my parents, I'd pretend to pay a visit to the toilet so I could run into my bedroom and play a song i was craving... I spent many hours on that toilet, It's a wonder my parents never took me to a doctor...
I am a guitarist at heart, musician, songwriter. I like unusual chord patterns that progress to lower chords than one might expect. G and D are frightfully boring and over used chords which i try to avoid using at all costs, especially in succession. My band is my life. Ai Senshi is my soul, my guide, my saviour. Without music I fear I may have turned into an Easternders obsessed 20 stone mother.
I enjoy the journey more than the destination, I feel most at home on the move. The smell of deisel at a service station, the high-pitched squeal of engines and the penetrating rumble on a runway, the wind in your hair on top deck. This is Living. Truly.
I have a small circle of close and wonderful friends, the people that mean the world to me know exactly who they are. So thanks to all of you who keep me going!How people can appreciate music through mobile phone speakers is beyond me. Why people think that other people around them want to listen to their tinny SHITE phone music on the bus is beyond me. Why these people come and sit directly behind you on an empty bus is so far beyond me that I could scream....
Homer Simpson's wisest words: "Tattoos: they preserve the things you love!" STARLAND VOCAL BAND?!
Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Art, Language, Love and Music are the most fascinating things humans have discovered and created. Ironically, I can't read music very well and when I write songs I have to write things down like "That chord with the drop D finger up 2 frets like the 7th sus type thing.." I have a book full of stuff like that, at least people can't nick my songs when i die...
I do not tolerate any form of sexism, racism, homophobia and a generally and ignorant attitude to the people around you and the world we live in. It's 2008, we've had enough time to realise that racism etc.. is just ridiculous.
Mr Chris. He's me man, and he's wondeful for putting up with my musical madness ...and general oddities. I Love Yer!
Music is a way of life, and i don't know many at all who can understand this, I have completely devoted my life to music, as music decided to devote itself to me... Ah couldnee ask for anything better...
...the headphones NEVER come off...
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You'll Probably Find Me Listening To One Of The Following:
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These are the the soundtracks to my life. Of course there are many more, but these have that certain something that are just beyond explanation...
The Band!
Ai Senshi♦Listen to us Here

My Interests


A Series of events, with an awesome soundtrack...

-MUSIC. anything, everything, always and forever.-

I'd like to meet:

Nice genuine people.

Music:


MySpace Codes
Since You Asked, here's a select few... but before the asyndetic hell begins...
I generally love a bit of everything. if it's honest, emotional/meaningful or not "manufactured" shite that sounds like the music they play in the cinema when the lights go up, i'll probably like it. i don't have a main genre that i stick to. it's such a tired cliche, but i love music...more than anything...even more than you!
...sometimes a tiny guitar lick or drum paradiddle can paralyse me or make me feel physically sick its so good...is that just me being mental?! most likely....
(NOT IN ORDER!)
The Smiths Morrissey The Cure Daft Punk Pink Floyd Talking Heads Alan Braxe Saint Etienne ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 13 & God 65 Days Of Static Adam & The Ants AFX Aimee Mann Air Al Green Alucidnation Andrew Weatherall Antony & The Johnsons Alice In Chains Aphex Twin At The Drive-In The Avalanches Baby Bird Baz Luhrmann Beach Boys Beastie Boys Beck Beezewax Ben Folds Big Hard Excellent Fish Bjork Blink 182 Blur Boards Of Canada Bob Dylan Bob Marley /& Wailers Boomtown Rats Brian Eno Bright Eyes Broadcast Bruce Springsteen Bryan Ferry Can Carter Burwell Chemical Brothers China Crisis The Clash Coal Chamber Code 6 Cougar Crackout Cranberries Cyndi Lauper David Bowie David Gilmour Roger Waters De La Soul Death Cab For Cutie Deep Elem Deftones The Divine Comedy DJ Shadow DJ Yoda Doves Echo & The Bunnymen Editors Death From Above 1979 Eels Electric 6 Electronic Eminem Eva Cassidy Faust Fear Factory Flaming Lips Foo Fighters Frank Sinatra Frankie Knuckles Franz Ferdinand Freur Fun Lovin' Criminals Garbage The Go! Team Grandaddy Grandmaster Flash/&Melle Mel Green Day Groove Armada Guns 'N' Roses Gustavo Santaolalla Gwen Stefani Hall And Oates Handsome Boy Modelling School Human League Ian Dury Interpol Jackson & His Computer Band The Jam Jeff Buckley Jesus And Mary Chain Joan As Police Woman Joan Osborne John Legend John Lennon Johnny Cash Jose Gonzalez Joseph Arthur Josh Rouse Junior Boys Kate Bush Korn Kraftwerk Kris Drever Leftfield Leonard Cohen Less Than Jake Lloyd Cole & Commotions Low Lush M.I.A M83 Madonna Martika Massive Attack Maximo Park Metallica Mew Michael Andrews Moby Modest Mouse Mogwai Motorbass Mudvayne My Bloody Valentine Mylo Natalie Merchant Neil Young New Order Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Notwist Orb Ozomatli Pearl Jam Peter Gabriel Phoenix Pig Destroyer Pixies Portishead Postal Service Pretenders Pretty Girls Make Graves Primus Prince Prodigy Pulp Queen Queens Of The Stone Age R.E.M Radiohead Rage Against The Machine Ramones Razorlight Red House Painters Refused Replacements Roger Sanchez Rolling Stones Roots Manuva Royksopp Sense Field Shakedown Sigur Ros Silver Jews Smashing Pumpkins Sparklehorse Spiritualized Stardust Stars Styrofoam Suede Stone Roses Sugar Hill Gang Super Furry Animals Supersystem Supertramp System Of A Down Talk Talk Television Tears For Fears Thievery Corporation Throwing Muses Tool Two Lone Swordsmen U2 Ulrich Schnauss Van Morrison Velvet Underground Venetian Snares Wagon Christ Weezer White Town Willy Mason Yeah Yeah Yeahs Young Marble Giants A Tribe Called Quest Fred Falke Albania Arcade Fire Billy Idol Bola Brand New Roxy Music Cake Captain Sensible Chris Isaak cLOUDDEAD Coldplay Come Dandy Warhols Delgados Depeche Mode Malcolm McLaren Dire Straits Distillers Easy Star All Stars Elastica ELO Elton John Engineers Fairport Convention Faith No More Four Tet Gomez Grand National Grant Lee Buffalo Hashim Hole Hood House Of Love Idlewild Incubus InMe Jane's Addiction Jim White Jimmy Eat World Joni Mitchell Joy Division Kelis King Of Woolworths Lali Puna Les Rythm Digitales The Little Explorer Manic Street Preachers The Mars Volta Metallica Michael Jackson Michael Nyman Mint Royale Monaco Nada Surf Nicolai Dunger Nine Inch Nails Oasis Patti Smith Pet Shop Boys Pink Martini P J Harvey Plans And Apologies Public Enemy Rammstein Smashing Pumpkins Saint Etienne Scissor Sisters Sex Pistols Sikth Sleepy Jackson Soulwax Spacecraft Specials State River Widending Semi Finalists Sol Seppy Tiga The Knife Warren Zevon Freeform Five ABC Addictive pHilosophy Alfie Boer American Headcharge Angela Aki Arab Strap Arcadi Volods Arthur Rubenstein Beatles Beyonce Biffy Clyro Black Eyed Peas Blondie Bloodhound Gang Bonnie Prince Billy Brian Reitzell Butch Walker Bush Carmen Twille Cat Power Chicago The Church Cornelius Craig Armstrong CSS Dan Arborise Datsuns David Gray Dead Apprentice Dead Prez Deadsy Death In Vegas Decoder Ring Del Amitri Deus Dido Doris Day Dubstar ELO Engineers Eric Prydz Europe Evan Dando Eve Everything But The Girl Fatboy Slim Feeder Gang Starr Gene Genesis George Harrison Gnarles Barkley Gorilla Gorillaz Gossip Guillemots Gwen Stefani Hans Zimmer Hard-Fi Hitoshi Sakomoto Yuji Toriyama Hayato Matsuo Masaharu Iwata Hot Chip Huey Lewis And The News Hundred Reasons I'm Not A Gun Ian Dury & The Blockheads Ian Brown Ignatious Jones INXS The Jam Jennifer Lopez The Jesus And Mary Chain Jim White Jimi Hendrix John Legend John Lennon John Paul Young John Loeffler David Hirschfelder John Williams Jusk Jack Kasabian Justin Timberlake Kevin Sheilds Killswitch Engage Mudvayne King OF Woolworths Kinks Klaxons KLF Kool Keith Kula Shaker Peaches Ladytron Laid Lamb Of God Laurie Anderson Davey LCD Soundsystem Afrika Bambaataa Lenny Kravitz Levellers Less Than Jake Lily Allen Limp Bizkit Linkin Park Madness Mansun Marillion Marilyn Manson Princess Superstar White Zombie Men At Work Midlake Muse My Chemical Romance Nancy Wilson Nellee Hooper Nightmares On Wax Nirvana No Doubt Nobuo Uematsu OfTheDay Offspring OMD Orson Pantera Paradise Paul Hardcastle Paul Weller Pavement Philip Glass Sting And The Police Presidents Of The USA Sonic Youth Days Of The New Primus Prokofiev Handel Quindon Tarver Richard Hawley Rihanna Robbie Williams Rosie Thomas Thomas Newman Rufus Wainwright Ryan Adams Sade Samantha James Sparklehorse Sikth Simple Minds Smashing Pumpkins Slayer Sons And Daughters Soundgarden Spice Girls Stars Supertramp Talk Talk Television Thom Yorke Todd Rundgren Visage We Are Scientists Yoko Kano Sebastian Tellier......Phew.... i'm sure there's more i have forgotten...

Movies:


MySpace Codes

Casshern
Barton Fink
Princess Mononoke
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Shawshank Redemtion
Amelie
Lost In Translation
A Clockwork Orange
Disco Pigs
Holy Smoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
The Wall
Interstella 5555

Television:


MySpace Codes
The Drug Of The Nation. ...does it imitate us or do we imitate it?!Good Shows Though:
1. Sex And The City
2. The Simpsons
3. Futurama
4. Fraiser
5. Big Train
6. Monkey Dust
7. King Of The Hill
8. Family Guy

9. Air Crash Investigation!
10. Seconds From Disaster (When It's The Aircraft Ones)
11. BBC Learning Zone
12. The King Of Queens
12. Garth Merenghi
12. TOP GEAR!!
13. Fonejacker 14. Arrested Development

Books:


MySpace CodesMemoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

The Beach - Alex Garland
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
Man And Boy - Tony Parsons
The Dictionary
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
The English Language - David Crystal
The Thesaurus
A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking

Heroes:


MySpace CodesKate Bush
Because she is a living legend, her originality and oneness with music is something to behold. I cannot imagine the person i would be without her music so frequently playing in my ears as i live and travel through the world. The Hounds Of Love, The Sensual World, Aerial and The Red Shoes are four albums that could never be given written justice. The track "The Sensual World" is one of those songs that has been a major obsession for me. The lyric "And Our Arrows Of Desire Rewrite The Speech" taken from the song is now tattooed onto my left inner arm. How i can love her music so much, how i can love anything this much often freaks me out a bit...
Robert Smith
For having the talent to write lyrics with such a literal nature within story-telling, and yet from it, create a world that's so divinely dark and different. For the ability to make me feel like nothing or nobody else ever can. Another artist that, during my frequent moments of insanity, makes me feel glad to be human, whether life is wonderful or whether it's shit. Equally, the music with which he combines his phonomatic words moves me in such a way that sometimes i can't help but break down and cry from his portrayal of a heartbreaking tragedy or the uncanny relevance to what's happening in my own life. Disinegration and Wish have helped me immeasurably through the years in dealing with life and making me who i am. The Same Deep Water As You is a song that i've felt such a strong connection to, i now have those very words tattooed on my right inner arm. Smith's morose paradise is somewhere i could lose myself in forever...
Les Claypool
For his awe-inspiring originality with Primus, a band which i can only describe as experimental-funk-punk... A legendary bassist, with the ability to create songs where bass stands in the foregroud for the rest of the song to morph around. Brilliantly.
Hans Zimmer
Had i any decent technical knowledge of written music, his job would be a dream for me. He can write for any situation. Zimmer has written scores for such a diverse range of films with an absoulte, spot-on appropreate sound for the feature at hand. I find myself listening to the soundtracks of films i have never seen or films i would typically not watch. Burkhard Dallwitz, Craig Armstrong, Thomas Newman and Carter Burwell; also legendary film-score writers.
Nobuo Uemastu
Another genius of a man who writes OST, for games this time. His music may written for RPGs, classicly final fantasy, but his absolute solid gold ability to write and break your heart, make you laugh, or create such a sense of empathy that you're completely drawn into another world amazes me beyond belief. Moreso for the fact that he's written hundreds upon hundreds of tracks, and is still going strong. His compositions have become the soundtrack over many, many years and different periods of my own life.

My Blog

Really Interesting Stuff.. Or Not...

It's been a great week off. Normally I try to get out the city as much as possible and travel around in music world... But as much as I love doing this, a ghost walk last saturday night completel...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Fri, 30 May 2008 01:00:00 PST

A Temporary Blog, Probably...

Don't really know where this blog is going. I don't really have that long. I write much better than i talk. Which isn't always a good thing because it means i'm shit at arguing and good at rambling......
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:25:00 PST

Annoying...

when people moan about the brown bins derby now has...I know it's shit that they haven't been emptied for like 5 weeks, but i got so angry watching the news yesterday and even members of my own family...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:43:00 PST

First Floor vs Mosh

I was in Mosh a few months ago, and i vowed it was the last time i'd ever be going there. ..It was a Saturday, my friends and i were on the top floor, which on a Saturday is the metal/hardcore/rock fl...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:23:00 PST

-Top 120 Of The Year! 2007-

I just can't believe 2008 is here already! After a rough 2006, 2007 made up for it in an absolutely huge way. Wasn't all sunshine and smiles but i've learned from the rubbish times and the good h...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:33:00 PST

The Playlist Of Destiny

Without sounding like some kind of crazy Tenacious D creation, This is actually the playlist of destiny. Cowboys From Hell - PanteraFeed The Light - Joan As Police WomanBullet In The Head - Rage ...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:13:00 PST

When You Just Want To Break Down And Cry

  every time we do thisi fall for herwave after wave after waveit's all for her"i know this can't be wrong" i say(and i'll lie to keep her happy)"as long as i know that you knowthat today i belo...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:17:00 PST

A Brief History Of Time...

Never have i read a book so mind bogglingly, interestingly addictive... _______________ Space And Time  Another prediction of general relativity is that time should appear to run slower near a ma...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:50:00 PST

SUMMER MUSIC MADNESS LOVE PLANES DESIRE

Before i went away this summer, i made a 183 song playlist. I knew i'd only really end up listening to a handful of those songs over and over like some obsessive freak, but that's the beauty...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

The Canadian Diaries

So i was in Canada last week, and it truly was one of the best weeks i've had in ages for many, many reasons. One of them being my desire to travel being totally satiated (and then some) by...
Posted by AlinaRubicon on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:18:00 PST