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Ross

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About Me

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My Interests

CHILLING MIGHTILY, difficult fun, bitcrushers, random arpeggiators, dancing, Bento boxes, Weiffenbach shorts, playing guitar, drinking coffee, fuzz, old DC punk, revolution summer, thrifting, travel, Duvel,Moretti La Rossa, expressionism, Rickenbackers, old analog widgets, friendly animals, semi-obsolete technologies, BBD delay, the east building of the US National Gallery, roadtrips and outlines for hangout.

I'd like to meet:

..KIKKOMAN. Chatty music nerds. Mixtape pals. People to play music with and suchlike. Old friends

Music:

All Scars, Angry Angles, Articles of Faith, Artificial Peace, Avengers, Albert Ayler, B-Team, Basement 5, Big Boys, Big Flame, Billy Bao, Birthday Party, Biting Tongues, Black Eyes, Black Flag, Black Time, Blank Dogs, Bl'ast, Blight, Blurt, Bogshed, Born Against, Catatonics, Chalk Circle, Church Police, Circus Lupus, Clikatat Ikatowi, Crainium, Crass, Crucifix, Cupid Car Club, Daily Void, Danny & the Dressmakers, Delta 5, Dial, Die Kreuzen, the Door and the Window, Dot Dot Dot, Double O, Drunks With Guns, Edsel, Electric Eels, Empire, Et At It, the Ex, the Faith, the Fall, Fang, the Fix, Flipper, Fury, Gang of Four, Germs, Glaxo Babies, Government Issue, Happy Go Licky, Heresy, Heroin, Homosexuals, Honeywell, Huggy Bear, Ill Repute, Instant Automatons, Jackdaw with Crowbar, Jaks, Jerry's Kids, Joy Division, Fela Kuti, Landed, Legionaire's Disease, Malefice, Mannekin Piss, Media Disease, Meltdown, Metal Urbain, Metamatics, Middle Class, Mika Miko, Mission of Burma, Monorchid, Moving Targets, Mukilteo Fairies, Nation of Ulysses, Negative Approach, Nels Cline, Neos, the Next, No Trend, Nuclear Crayons, Numbers, Pink Section, Pissed Jeans, PragVEC, the Proletariat, the Raincoats, Really Red, Pharoah Sanders, Scientist, Scissor Girls, the Screamers, Sex/Vid, Shoplifting, Sin 34, Skinned Teen, Skull Kontrol, Slant 6, Slits, Sly Stone, Smart went Crazy, Sonny Sharrock, Wayne Shorter, Spacehorse, State, Stick Men With Ray Guns, Swiz, This Heat, Times New Viking, Trenchmouth, Trespassers W, Tyvek, Universal Order of Armageddon,Unrest,(old) Unwound, UT, Versus, Visible Targets, Visitors, VOID, Volume 11, Warmers, Wire, Wondertwins, Worst Case Scenario, Wrangler Brutes, X(the Aussie one and the Californians),Yah Mos, Year Future....

Movies:

Come and See, O.C. & Stiggs, Numero Deux, Mean Streets, French Connection, Midnight Cowboy, Big Lebowski, Donnie Brasco, Better off Dead, the ubiquitous John Hughes, Fast Times at Ridgemont High,Downfall, Nigerian voodoo movies (thanks Ade/Ola), Y tu Mama Tambien, Kids In the Hall- Brain Candy, It's Pat! Nice girls don't explode!

Television:

IN BED WITH CHRIS NEEDHAM! Mad Men, Peep Show, Alan Partridge, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lancelot Link Secret Chimp, Look Around You, Seinfeld, Sopranos, old and new Doctor Who (Troughton FTW!), Torchwood, any trashy cop show with former Sheriff John Bunnell or anything involving helicopters chasing scooters.

Books:

Frans Masereel's 'Story Without Words'& 'The Idea', Gunter Grass- the Tin Drum, Brecht, McLuhan, Banned in DC, Lexicon Devil.. I don't read as much as I'd like to these days, recommend me something decent.

Heroes:

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My Blog

What we do is secret?!

Germs Vans..  way to take a potentially cool shoe and fuck it up big time. These look like tacky Warped Tour merch. Darby cartwheels in his grave. If only they had used lots of small Germs circl...
Posted by Ross on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:22:00 PST

Ouch ouch ouch

In the canteen at work at lunchtime. The TV is on.Colleague who shall remain nameless:"Wow, there are a lot of black people at Glastonbury this year. Do you think it's because of Jay-Z?"Me:"That's not...
Posted by Ross on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:23:00 PST

Also- Chris Needham!

If you are in Nottingham please pick up a copy of the current issue of the free paper Left Lion which features a great interview with the legendary Chris Needham of "In bed with Chris Needham" fame/no...
Posted by Ross on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:31:00 PST

BB9 etc.

So the annual time of prurient entertainment returns. So far I'm liking it about eleventy times more than last year's. Favourites so far are blind deviant Michael (representing the West of Scotland, y...
Posted by Ross on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:07:00 PST

Carded!

Today at Sainsbury's, while exploiting one of their twofers on wine, I was asked for ID. I mean FFS. 
Posted by Ross on Wed, 28 May 2008 05:08:00 PST

Nineteen Nineties

Uncovered during preparations for my Italy trip: one suitcase of my 90s clothes, spanning approximately 1992-1997. Observations:>Everything still fits but the shirts are HUGE. Most of them are size sm...
Posted by Ross on Thu, 08 May 2008 05:41:00 PST

Ajvar

I have posted about this delicious stuff before. I've now got this recipe from a Bosniak friend. With thanks to Mirza:Ingredients-4kg red peppers1 kg aubergineslorryload of garlicsome vinegarBake the...
Posted by Ross on Mon, 05 May 2008 06:44:00 PST

Early May musings

+ Forest going up. Yes! This guitar being on its way to me:Sticking to my resolution to not wear denim. All "straight from work", all the time.Warsaw demos  CDPink Section 12"Mad Men (again, but ...
Posted by Ross on Sun, 04 May 2008 11:33:00 PST

Joe > Bernard

Well, I have to say that redeemed the US judges somewhat in my eyes. Despite Cortez allowing Hopkins to get away with holding to the end pretty much scot free, letting him feign injury, keep his head ...
Posted by Ross on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:46:00 PST

Danelectro announces Christina Billotte signature model guitar

OK, not really, but FUCK YES:
Posted by Ross on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:09:00 PST