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Cosmonaut B

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About Me

Impetuous. Joycean. Intriguing. Drummer for Azure Down.

My Interests

Hitting inanimate objects with sticks, Laughing at the world while enjoying a polysyllabic coffee, Politics, Reading, Civil disobedience, Making forts out of sofa cushions, Media, Pop Culture, Green tea, Writing (although I don't do enough), The occasional kaiju movie, Rolling my eyes at inappropriate moments to bitterly prove a point, Philosophy

I'd like to meet:

Co-conspirator. Soulmate. Muse.

Music:

Air, Arcade Fire, Azure Down, Beatles, Beach Boys, Birthday Party, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blur, David Bowie, Jeff Buckley, The Butthole Surfers, Nick Cave Chemical Brothers, Harry Chapin, The Clash, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Elvis Costello, The Cramps, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Death Cab For Cutie, Dean & Britta, The Divine Comedy, Little Bobby Zimmerman, Earlimart, Echo & the Bunnymen, Brian Eno, The Flaming Lips Charlotte Gainsbourg, Galaxie 500, Marvin Gaye, Gorillaz, Green Day, PJ Harvey, The High Violets Hoodoo Gurus, Interpol, Jesus & Mary Chain, Elton John, Joy Division, early Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Luna, Madder Rose, Mazzy Star, Moby, Mogwai, The Monkees, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine New Order, Nirvana, Oasis, Sinead O'Connor, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Roy Orbison, Pavement, The Pixies, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, The Pogues, The Police, Primal Scream, Queen, Radiohead, The Raveonettes, Lou Reed, R.E.M., The Replacements Ride, Rilo Kiley, Run Run Run, Sexual Chocolate, Sigur Ros, Silversun Pickups, Simon & Garfunkel, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Stereolab, Yusef Islam, Stone Roses, The Stratford 4, Superdrag, Sully, Teenage Fanclub, Thievery Corporation, Throwing Muses, TV On The Radio, U2, Velvet Underground, The Verve, Voyager One, Rufus Wainwright, Paul Weller, The White Stripes, Barry White, The Who, Stevie Wonder, X, Pete Yorn, Neil Young, Chet Baker, Chas Mingus, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Gil Scott-Heron Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra, Wagner's The Ring, Ravel's Bolero, theme from What's Happening?

Movies:

About A Boy, All About My Mother, Amelie, Apocalypse Now, Barfly Barton Fink, Betty Blue, The Big Lebowski, Blow, Blue Velvet, Cinema Paradiso, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, The Committments, Ed Wood, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Female Trouble Fight Club, Ghost World, The Godfather, Godzilla (the uncut 1954 version), The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Goodfellas, Harold & Maude, High Fidelity, Lord Of The Rings, Lost In Translation, Man On The Moon, Mystery Men, Mystic River, Network, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, Punch Drunk Love, Quadrophenia, The Quiet Man, Rebel Without A Cause, Reservoir Dogs, The Royal Tenenbaums Rushmore, The Seven Samurai, Shaun Of The Dead, Sideways, Star Wars, The Tao Of Steve, This Is Spinal Tap, Trainspotting True Romance, 24 Hour Party People, The Usual Suspects, Waiting For Guffman, Where's Poppa?, Wings Of Desire, Y Tu Mama Tambien

Television:

Don't watch it anymore.

Books:

Money by Martin Amis The Gods Drink Whiskey by Stephen Asma, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, The Bronte Sisters, Charles Bukowski, The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Complete Field Guide To American Wildlife by Henry Hill Collins, Joe Conason, Underworld by Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides, William Faulkner The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, Stones From The River by Ursula Hegi, James Joyce, A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Jack Kerouac, Essential Buddhism by Jack Maguire, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, Peter Matthiessen, Collected Poems of Pablo Neruda, Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov, Flannery O'Connor 1984 by George Orwell, Greg Palast, E. Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon, Venus In Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, John Steinbeck, Ocean by Kenneth Tanaka, Hunter S. Thompson, The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana, Oscar Wilde

My Blog

Au revoir Vampira

I read the other day of the passing of Maila Nurmi.  For those of you who didn't know her (like I did), she created the character of Vampira, which was the precursor to Elvira, Mistress of the Da...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:11:00 PST

HMO manslaughter

HMO Manslaughter, nothing new& except this one made the news... Nataline Sarkisyan passed away waiting for a liver that CIGNA denied, then changed their mind when the public got wind and gave them hol...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:54:00 PST

Me as determined by science.

I took a test to see who "I" am.  Dig. The Idealist As an INFP, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fi...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:35:00 PST

The Vent

     I had a fucking splitting, alien embryo trying to escape through the skull, styled  headache the other day.  It's this job.  It's this life.  Neither ...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:19:00 PST

What I Miss, Volume 1

A completely lackadaisical and apartment locked Sunday produced this.   I miss Andy Kaufman. I miss My Bloody Valentine. I miss doing tequila shots with my old girlfriend Fernanda. I miss Los An...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:18:00 PST

A Reading From The Letter Of Spaceman B To The Corinthians

Spaceman Radio, found at  http://www.myspace.com/spacemanradio, reads a portion of a previously posted rant by yours truly. Go to the page, go to Episode 4, Segment 3, sit back, and listen....
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:54:00 PST

They Ask For 8 Hours Of Sleep

So, here I sit, the end of the first week of the year 2007, wondering if - just if - when I go to sleep if there's going to be a dream.  Haven't had one in a long time, like the old Smiths song d...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:59:00 PST

Obsessing About This Song

I will be the first to admit that I am not a big Bruce Springsteen fan.  It was never a case where I disliked him or his songs; it was a case where I never bothered listening.  I was never a...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:01:00 PST

Late Night / Early Morning Self-Portrait

A subliminally sentient being, akin to a larvae at the bottom of a bottle of mescal, periodically awakening from its comatosity to blindly flail with an imbecilic and impotent rage until a sheen of me...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:34:00 PST

Soundtrack To A Film From A Book Not Yet Written

When the inevitable movie version of the book I'm not even done with comes to be, here's the rough version of the soundtrack.  Any suggestions anyone can make is appreciated.  I wa...
Posted by Cosmonaut B on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:48:00 PST