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marcel

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

drummer, coffee drinker, writer. usually very quiet, but once i've had a few drinks, i'm usually a bit less quiet. my last band was Seattle's Black Nite Crash... and I spent a few years playing weekly DJ at The Lava Lounge.... Was in Seattle for ten years, now i'm a recent arrival in Los Angeles - so i can be with my girl, Shelley. Hopefully soon I'll be making some music and noise down here.

My Interests

lessee: music, coffee, movies, alcohol, entertainment, comics, food, books ... not all of everything - i mean i'd rather read tank girl than like marmaduke or something and i'd rather eat a chocolate bar than a liver pudding, but generally speaking - those are my interests.

I'd like to meet:

interesting original creative people. i'd also like to meet tom waits, pj harvey, nick cave, and kid congo powers, but not all at the same time. ok... i've met kid congo... but i would love to meet him again.

Music:

so much... primal scream, BRMC, gun club, cure, american music club, godfathers, dandy warhols, swell, james chance, mercury rev, no trend, mick harvey, cramps, birthday party, ride, jesus & mary chain, radio 4, tv on the radio, spacemen 3, pixies, nick cave, dharma bums, pj harvey, tom waits, pavement, the kills, geraldine fibbers, dirty three, skywave, shesus, eighties matchbox b-line disaster, black heart procession, and on and on and on...

Movies:

the stuff, a matter of degrees, rubin & ed, near dark, tim burton, david lynch, wim wenders, jim jarmusch, allison anders, empire records, martin, lost in translation, hal hartley, breakfast club, pump up the volume, heathers, jawbreaker, kevin smith, doom generation, idle hands, hard core logo, highway 61, roadkill, hudson hawk, underworld, van helsing, hellraiser, dario argento, baseketball, meet the feebles, 24 hr party peoplle, the adventures of buckaroo banzai, and so many more...

Television:

supernatural! ah... family guy, dexter, ummm... is there anything else? lost, masters of horror, sometimes (not much good to say about the first season, but the 2nd is doing better). the office, reno 911... um... and some other stuff i think.

Books:

william gibson, jack kerouac, ws burroughs, douglas adams, jim carroll, rilke, kafka, jack kerouac, henry miller, richard brautigan, richard hell, harry crews, sartre, salinger, rimbaud, clive barker, and many others

Heroes:

kid congo powers

My Blog

the feldmar colbert connection

yes, it's true. i was on the colbert report last night - the story focused on my dad, but i got a brief little cameo, playing some sort of bongo poet or something. i think you can see the thing here: ...
Posted by marcel on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:24:00 PST

thee party playlist

so - it's tuesday, and there's a lot more words that should be showing up in these here blogspace pages soon, but i thought i'd just post the playlist from a very fun joint birthday party that shelley...
Posted by marcel on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:13:00 PST

just a perfect day (x2)

saturday.august.first:   so tonight we went for a bike ride along the Chandler bikeway between North Hollywood and Burbank- first time we did that - and it was lovely - 6 miles (3 miles one way...
Posted by marcel on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:32:00 PST

first show in ages

i haven't played live since oct. 2005 - seattle - and it had been awhile for the rest of the band too. - LA indie rock small gallery party festival. nobody showed up at the gallery until about 9pm - ...
Posted by marcel on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:08:00 PST

backtracking part 1

Ok  I know  I've left this alone for too long&. But maybe I've been busy. So there. I have, really& with working and going places and eating things and playing music& so, I don't really have time to...
Posted by marcel on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:36:00 PST

from martini's to morrissey, and a new dog too!

we left off at cupcakes in january, first month of the martini year 007.saturday the 13th - pinkberry, dinner at lana thai, and with amy's help, i got my drums to the practice space. my LA band - the ...
Posted by marcel on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 07:35:00 PST

Shaken, Not Stirred.

Well, here we are, in the year of 007... and hopefully it will be a good, bright, and shiny year for us all.slowly getting back into the swing of things after the holiday onslaught - happiness and has...
Posted by marcel on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:24:00 PST

in my ears this past year

so it's almost 2007, and i thought i'd just post a little year's end list of what i liked in music this year - i could go into more detail, but i don't want to bore anyone.so here you go:Top 50 Of 200...
Posted by marcel on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:48:00 PST

memories hit hardest when you get close to the future

so it's 2 weeks ago today that we lost truck. shelley's dog and friend and companion for 14 years, and my adopted dog and friend for the last 2. it's hard having him not here, but i think we are movin...
Posted by marcel on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:52:00 PST

December is colder in Canada, dontcha know.

Here we are, December 2nd, heading fast towards a new year. I've been living in los angeles for just over a year, and it'll be 2 years with shelley in just a couple of days. I made it through 11 month...
Posted by marcel on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:30:00 PST