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ATTL

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About Me

Hi. uhh... i talk too much. Generally about music. I really like music. Love it, in fact. To the point at which it kinda takes priority over other basic things: social skills, appearance, exercise. I'm a drummer first and foremost and after that i dabble in bass guitar, computer noise/ambience/wank, and the occasional metal vocals (mostly growls and pig torture noises).
I'm not particularly easily swayed to ideas/beliefs systems/facts i havent researched myself. guess you could say i'm a cynic. This gets interpreted as me being a narc/bitter prick/just not very smart, but i'd like to think otherwise.
I'm very tall, used to be rather scruffy but now i just look confused. i believe everyone in the world has or wants (or secretly wants) a beard.
I should probably get someone else to write this. They'd probably know more about me. And be less complimentary.
Peace.
SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC, ADD THESE BANDS:
Eleventh He Reaches London (epic metal/sophisticated screamo)
Angelsai (Brutal death)
Trash Candy And The Uteruses (furious jungle funk/stoner rock)
Arborcest (white noise and industrial)
Roger Tenderbone (big ol' reggae and dub)
Cease (stonertastic drone)
Bamodi (word fail to describe)
Abe Sada (Noise made by bass players)
A Bus Crash Decapitation (fat d00d grindcore)
Shiva Handlove (actually pretty shit)
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My Interests

Noises; Amplifier Worship; O))); Party houses; Death growls in public; Eating; Drumming to keep fit; The science of sound; Iceland; Red wine; Double Entendres; Online Collaboration; Grinding down my wit; Imagery and semantics; late-night riffage; sitting around staring at the ceiling at parties;tasteless jokes; Tony Hawks Pro Skater; Addiction; The Upmarkets; Not knowing when enough is enough; Spontaneous decisions and their subsequent regret; The Panoptic Society; Fremantle; Distress

I'd like to meet:

Musicians, Cool folk, metalheads who arent morons.

Music:

Falls into a few categories:

Cool Shit:
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Arcade Fire
Bjork
Blink 182
David Bowie
Jeff Buckley
The Cure
The Dandy Warhols
Faith No More
Flaming Lips
Foo Fighters
Goon Moon
Grandaddy
Led Zeppelin
Modest Mouse
Mr Bungle
Neutral Milk Hotel
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/The Birthday Party
A Perfect Circle
Pink Floyd
Placebo
Primus

Queens Of The Stone Age
Rage Against The Machine
Silversun Pickups
Smashing Pumpkins
Sonic Youth

Sufjan Stevens
The Tea Party
Tweaker
Tom Waits
Weezer
Zwan

Brutal Shit:
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
The Angelic Process
Battle Of Mice
Big Business
Boris
Botch
Burzum
Cave In
Cephalic Carnage
Clutch
Converge
Dark Tranquility
Deftones
Dillinger Escape Plan
Dimmu Borgir
Eleventh He Reaches London
Fantomas
Genghis Tron
Gojira
ISIS
Jerk
KMFDM
Kyuss
Lightning Bolt
Mastodon
Melvins
Meshuggah
Merzbow
Neurosis
Nine Inch Nails
Opeth
Pelican
Psyopus Refused
Russian Circles
Skullflower
Slayer
Sleep
Some Girls
Strapping Young Lad
Sunn O)))
Tool
Xasthur

Different Shit:
Aphex Twin
Autechre
William Basinski
Coil
Colditz Glider
Brian Eno
Einsturzende Neubauten
Explosions In The Sky
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hat
Hrsta
Jesu

Lustmord
Massive Attack
Mogwai
Red Sparowes
Sigur Ros
Slowdive
Throbbing gristle
Tortoise
John Zorn

Funky Shit:
Aesop Rock
Amon Tobin
Atmosphere
Beastie Boys
Boards Of Canada
Butterfingers
cLOUDDEAD
Danger Doom
Miles Davis
DJ Spooky
Duke Ellington
Gorrilaz
Jurassic Five
Charles Mingus
OutKast
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Max Roach
Sage Francis/Strange Famous/Non Prophets/Zaul Xan

Movies:

The Matrix, Lost Highway, Akira, Star Wars (fuck yeah), Ghost In The Shell, Fight Club, The Believer, The Interview, The Crow, Eraserhead, American History X.

Television:

Scrubs, The Simpsons, Futurama, House, a bit of other stuff here and there, funny shit on SBS, RAGE, Fly TV (Back When It Was On), Twin Peaks. Oldschool and Newschool degrassi. METALOCALYPSE.

Books:

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens; Machiavelli - Prince; Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness Of Being; Arthur Koestler - Darkness At Noon; Dante - Inferno;

Heroes:



My Blog

Do You Know...

You are a raging selfish dickhead. Your approach to your own relationships in irresponsible at best. That said, i enjoy your company and you have my respect.You are good natured, loving and optimistic...
Posted by ATTL on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:48:00 PST

shit needs representing

Whats up kids? i havent  blogged in a while, so i'm gonna rattle of some shit that i think is great that doesnt get enough love these days:Tony Hawk GamesI have literally spent hundreds of hours ...
Posted by ATTL on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:17:00 PST

music wank blog #943285383: These...

... are all fucking great albums:...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds ApartAgoraphobic Nosebleed - PCP TorpedoBattle Of Mice - A Day Of NightsBjork - PostBrian Eno - Music For Airport...
Posted by ATTL on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:25:00 PST

2007, huh?

We're 1/4 of the way over, so i figured i'd do a preliminary round-up on whats been good so far:Neurosis - Given To The Rising.Sweet merciful mother of christ. Best thing this year by a lot. Considera...
Posted by ATTL on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:21:00 PST

Moderate Rock

Moderate Rock will be the death of contemporary popular music. Moderate Rock is the regression of an otherwise perfectly forwards-thinking musical movement and the denial of our responsibility as musi...
Posted by ATTL on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:01:00 PST

2006 Awards: update.

My revised Best Of 2006 is thus:1. Jesu - Silver2. Tool - 10,000 Days3. Battle Of Mice - A Day Of Nights4. ISIS - In The Absence Of Truth5. Sunn O))) and Boris - Altar6. Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide7...
Posted by ATTL on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:38:00 PST

The 2006 Awards

ah fuck it, the years almost over. Nothing else awesome is going to come out. So here's the lowdown on Music in 2006, by category.Best Collaboration: Sunn O))) + Boris, Altar It was a pretty tough cal...
Posted by ATTL on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:20:00 PST

The Difference Between Intelligence And Wisdom

Is never saying (or writing) any more than is absolutely necessary.
Posted by ATTL on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:29:00 PST

somebody pour me a drink, i'm taking my pants off!

four hour circle of death marathon. fuck.
Posted by ATTL on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:50:00 PST

DOOF DOOF DOOF DOOF DOOF

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Posted by ATTL on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:24:00 PST