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Ben

doin' forever shit

About Me

2007 Mix Here! -- Live @ The Melody Inn 2007-04-17

2006 Mix Here! -- Mr. Utah

2005 Mix Here! -- Olde Tyme Trippin'

My First Proper Mix (2002) Available for Download! -- I Still Love Her



My Interests

I enjoy going to the movies, comics, regular books, taking walks, watching baseball, going to bars, DJing, hearing music live, eating good food, drinking tea, and meeting intelligently unique people.

Music:

Drum and Bass ... Jazz ... Hip Hop ... Brokenbeat/NeoFusion ?!? ... Funk/Soul ... Dub ... Rock and Roll ... Electronic ... plus anything that tickles my fancy at the local thrift shop

Movies:

Rushmore, Revenge of the Nerds, Punch Drunk Love, Raging Bull, Miller's Crossing, Young Frankenstein, LOTR Trilogy, OG Star Wars, Lost in Translation...

Television:

I don't have a TV.

Books:

Here's what's on my shelf waiting to be read ... "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon ... "Snobbery" by Joseph Epstein ... "The Light of Day" by Graham Swift ... "The Autograph Man" by Zadie Smith ... "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov ... "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon ... "Men of Tomorrow" by Gerard Jones ... "The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye" by Jonathan Lethem ... "As She Climbed Across the Table" by Jonathan Lethem ... "The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester ... "The Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeier ... "The Impressionist" by Hari Kunzru ... "No Country For Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy ... "Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville ... "Summerland" by Michael Chabon ... "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell ... "The Echo Maker" by Richard Powers ... "Adverbs" by Daniel Handler ... "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk ... "Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance" by Richard Powers ... "Galatea 2.2" by Richard Powers ... "The Life of Insects" by Victor Pelevin ... "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" By Dave Eggers ... "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers ... "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami ... David Mitchell's "Ghostwritten" ... Joyce Carol Oates' "Broke Heart Blues" ... "Somersault" by Kenzaburo Oe ... "Mao II" by Don DeLillo ... "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman" by Haruki Murakami ... "Little America" by Henry Bromell ... Rick Moody's "Demonology" ... "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell ..."Catch-22" by Joseph Heller ... and comics! Especially ones by uber-famous Brian K. Vaughan.

Heroes:

humans

My Blog

Check Out My Mixes!! [[Updated September 2007]]

Live @ Keepin' It Deep [3-22-2007]tag team w/ Sea Monkeyvery loose, but fun, mix of house / breaks / brokenbeatno tracklist as of yetLive @ The Melody Inn [4-17-2007] The Green Man  [Silence] Sou...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:41:00 PST

Tha R -- Know Your Fucking History, Sons...

'til the nine-ten......
Posted by Ben on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:35:00 PST

Time as Officially Ended

Today is the shadow of tomorrowToday is the present future of yesterdayYesterday is the shadow of todayThe darkness of the past is yesterdayAnd the light of the past is yesterdayThe days of yesterday ...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:29:00 PST

What Will Never Be...

I ain't carin' much to do things such as this no more.  Someone's loss...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:12:00 PST

so this is what this is all about, huh? donuts.

Tesha stills: look pos, we gotta talk.Pos: talk about what?Tesha: dont play stupid with me, you know what we gotta talk about.Pos: what?Tesha: about you becoming fully dedicated.Pos: so were about to ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 29 May 2006 11:05:00 PST

No Plans 'Cause of Fake Wangs...

Thought I'd throw together a bunch of random Achewood panels I found on my computer.  Enjoy the surrealness:...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 25 May 2006 08:42:00 PST

Fu@k You Fridays

Seriously, take it out for a spin today...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:56:00 PST

Thanks Dr Luscher!

So I guess this is me: an analysis...
Posted by Ben on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:42:00 PST

Zadie Smith

I have realized that Zadie Smith is the closest thing to womanly perfection:
Posted by Ben on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:46:00 PST