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Charles Stewart

Hey.

About Me

The sound of a phone ringing drives me crazy.

My Interests

music, reading, lolcats, youtube, wine, comedy, mankato, places outside mankato, coffee, puns, dogs, etc.

Music:

The Fall, Islaja, Lightnin' Hopkins, Brainbombs, Guy Clark, James Blood Ulmer, Drive By Truckers, Gabriel Faure, Roy Montgomery, Flying Saucer Attack, Geto Boys, Stick Men With Rayguns, Wu- Tang Clan, The KLF even though I'm not sure I quite get it, Bathory, Royal Trux, The Dead C, Nuggets n' stuff, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, The Divine Comedy, Phil Ochs, Waylon Jennings, Wayne Hancock, Steve Earle, Chrome, Ghostface Killah, Guy Clark, Waylon Jennings, Monoshock, Gravitar, The Reatards, Jay Reatard, The Stooges, Circle, Sonny Rollins, Algernas Tradgard, Trad Gras och Stenar, Django Reinhardt, Dissection, Justin Broadrick stuff, The Dead Boys, Japan, Talk Talk, Agalloch, Emperor, Last Exit, Scratch Acid, The Jesus Lizard, The Mummies, To Live and Shave in LA, Camera Obscura(the Scottish one), Derek Bailey, Karen Dalton, Glenn Branca, Dead Moon, Pere Ubu, Momus, The Silver Jews, Townes Van Zandt, The Dirty Three, The Gun Club, The Cure, Lisa Germano, Pet Shop Boys, Darkthrone, the Replacements, Black Sabbath, Bardo Pond, Billy Childish, Fushitsusha, Throbbing Gristle, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Manowar, Boredoms, Low, Scott Walker, Current 93, Kraftwerk, The Germs, Mountain Goats, Pulp, Lifter Puller, The Hold Steady, Sonic Youth, Destroyer, Coil, Bill Frisell, Swans, Go- Betweens, Sonny Sharrock, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, and a bunch of other stuff like that. And I pretty much love power metal indiscriminately (it's all Lost Horizon and Virgin Steele at the moment, though). I think that almost all music is at least kinda good.

Movies:

funny ones, mostly

Television:

The Young Ones, Arrested Development, Peep Show, 12 oz. Mouse(fuck the haters), Father Ted, Black Books, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Good Job, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Seinfeld, Home Movies, Fishing With John, The Boondocks, Knowing Me Knowing You w/ Alan Partridge, I'm Alan Partridge, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Critic, Wondershowzen, Upright Citizens Brigade, Da Ali G Show, Ranma 1/2, Escaflowne, Freaks and Geeks, Ren and Stimpy, Undeclared, Southpark, The Office, Beavis and Butthead, Simpsons, Futurama, Stella, Twin Peaks, Kids In the Hall, Mr. Show, etc.

Books:

Raymond Carver, Margaret Atwood, Kathy Acker, The End of the Affair (Graham Greene), Saul Bellow, Out of the Silent Planet (CS Lewis), Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin), William Gibson, Vladimir Nabakov, Shadow of the Torturer (Gene Wolfe), Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson), Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion), The Woman in the Dunes (Kobo Abe), Our Band Could Be Your Life (Michael Azzerad), A Personal Matter (Kenzaburo Oe),Jonathan Lethem, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), Snow Country (Yasanuri Kawabata), Octavia E. Butler, Dan Simmons, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Please Kill Me, Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Ligotti, Philip K. Dick, Herman Hesse, Haruki Murakami, HP Lovecraft, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, some other stuff, etc. Comics: Watchmen, The Invisbles, Sin City, Sandman, Bone, Preacher, Dan Clowes stuff, probably a few others.

Heroes:

Most people I know.