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About Me

I'm a squid. And I love pretty or beautiful stuff. My most favorite works of art are my little boys. (His daddy helped, too, so I can't take full credit.)

My Interests

Britpop, Symbolist Art, Surrealism, Art Nouveau, Breastfeeding, Baking, Sea Creatures, Conservative Political Writings

I'd like to meet:

Number One

Music:

OLDER: Echo and the Bunnymen, Chameleons / Mark Burgess, Julian Cope / Teardrop Explodes, Bowie, Queen, T-Rex, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Smiths, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, The Church, Cure, Area / Moon Seven Times, Swans, Legendary Pink Dots, Bauhaus / Tones On Tail / Love and Rockets, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Wolfgang Press, Divine Comedy, Spacemen 3 / Spiritualized / Spectrum, Galaxie 500, Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, other Madchester bands... NEWER: Phofo, Strangelove / Patrick Duff, Puressence, Suede, Pulp, The Dears, Belle and Sebastian, Veils, The Open, Starsailor, Boxer Rebellion, Kasabian, Scissor Sisters, Zero 7, Air, Phoenix, Turin Brakes, Geneva, British Sea Power, Babybird, Astrid Williamson / Goya Dress, Delicatessen / Lodger (Neil Carlill), Auteurs / Luke Haines / Black Box Recorder .... and many more, like the bands in my "Friends" section!

Movies:

Eraserhead, Ghost World, Withnail and I, Undercover Brother, Bagdad Cafe, Gregory's Girl, Trainspotting, 24 Hour Party People

Television:

Rescue Me, The Shield, Malcolm In The Middle, Dead Like Me, The Prisoner, Twin Peaks

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, My Last Sigh (Luis Bunuel), Love in The Time of Cholera

Heroes:

Number 6

My Blog

Will I Forever Be the Needy One?

I've had this congestive heart failure thing for a couple months now and still ZERO improvement after all the dang meds I take every day. My chest hurts just picking up the baby or walking three feet....
Posted by Squiddy on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:38:00 PST

HEART FAILURE, OH NO!!!

Hey guess what, I've got congestive heart failure, yay!! I guess now I have an excuse for being so lethargic in all areas of life lately -- mothering, housekeeping, socializing, blogging... I'm done,...
Posted by Squiddy on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:05:00 PST

BIRTHING A SQUIDLET

Hey, I may be ignoring everyone on Myspace for a while... I'm going into the hospital for a c-section to give birth to our second son. Best to all, Squiddy ...
Posted by Squiddy on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:28:00 PST

Meeting Famous Bands Pt. 6 -- Love & Rockets

Okay, is there any band that is so definitively cool? Some bands are clever, rockin', catchy, outrageous, introspective, whatever... Love & Rockets are just plain COOL. Daniel Ash can wear li...
Posted by Squiddy on Thu, 31 May 2007 12:08:00 PST

Meeting Famous Musicians/Bands #5 -- Radiohead

Here's a band everyone has heard of! I was a student in Madrid from '97-'98 and was dirt poor, so I ended up using my Prozac money for concert tickets. Everyone good plays Madrid, pretty muc...
Posted by Squiddy on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:17:00 PST

Meeting Famous Musicians/Bands #4 -- Supergrass!

Now, if you ever went to a gig in Salt Lake City during the mid-nineties, you probably saw The Toast Guy. Man, did I hate him. The Toast Guy was a rather unattractive, lanky fellow with thin,&nbs...
Posted by Squiddy on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:58:00 PST

Meeting Famous Bands/Musicians Pt. 3 -- Ass Ponys

Okay, I just want to say that, nothing personal, the Ass Ponys just kinda really really sucked, a lot like their stupid and crude name. I had to interview them for RAD Cyberzine back in the mid-n...
Posted by Squiddy on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:15:00 PST

Meeting Famous Musicians/Bands #2 -- BJM and Ian Mac

Believe it or not, I was once a casual friend of Joel Gion from the Brian Jonestown Massacre. This was like 1989-91 when I was sowing some wild oats in San Francisco. (NO, not THAT kind of wild oats, ...
Posted by Squiddy on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:07:00 PST

Experiences Meeting Famous Musicians/Bands and What They Were Like

This will be an ongoing set of entries because there are just so dang many. Yeah, it may be a shallow topic, but I have some cherished memories. I was some sort of music ...
Posted by Squiddy on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:08:00 PST

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Posted by Squiddy on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:16:00 PST