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Rick!

Music Makes The Man.

About Me



    I'm easy to get along with but I don't suffer fools well.

    I'm NOT a morning person.

    I'm grateful to be living in a blue state.


My Interests



Many interests, but music is a passion that borders on obsession.

Indie Films.

Live Music

Photography.

The Arts in General.

Urban Exploring.

Late Night Conversations.
(late night anything, really).

Sleeping In.



I'd like to meet:

    Anyone who appreciates the beauty of 'Exile on Main St.'

    People who are passionate about out-of-the-mainstream music and art.

    My friends for dinner.


People I don't want to meet:
    Anyone who voted for George Bush.

    "Born Again" Christians.

    Muslim Wackos.

    Raider Fans.

    People who think "sticking to your guns" is more important than being right.

Music:

Mostly KCRW or 'Jonesy's Jukebox' type stuff
...but there will always be a place in my heart for The Stones and Led Zeppelin .

The very incomplete list:

JON BRION

    Big Star New York Dolls The Velvet Underground The Greenhornes Guided By Voices! Bjork Black Rebel Motorcycle Club


DAVID SYLVIAN

    T.Rex Brian Eno Kings Of Leon My Bloody Valentine The Detroit Cobras


    Underworld Beck Wire Gram Parsons


    Johnny Thunders Howlin' Wolf Iggy Pop Massive Attack John Coltrane Roxy Music

TOM WAITS

    Gun Club Suicide Motörhead Chet Baker Elvis Costello Wilco


DAVID BOWIE!

    Old School Punk, Jazz, and Blues
    Ambient, Trance, and House.
    Baroque, Classical, and Motown.


Movies:


Anything directed by Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch or Paul Thomas Anderson. Any movie with Philip Seymour Hoffman.

FILMS I'VE SEEN RECENTLY:
 There Will Be Blood
No Country For Old Men

I WANT TO SEE:
Persepolis.
The Orphanage.

LOOKING FORWARD TO:
 The next P.T.Anderson film.


SOME ALL TIME FAVES:

    Spinal Tap Harold and Maude Rosemary's Baby Farinelli Pink Flamingos Trainspotting Blue Velvet


    Magnolia Mayor Of The Sunset Strip Orphée Rear Window The Royal Tenenbaums


    Crumb Waiting For Guffman The Moderns Gimme Shelter Clockwork Orange Monty Python and The Holy Grail Buena Vista Social Club


Television:


    Sopranos

    Entourage

    Six Feet Under

    The Office

    Most Haunted

    Best Week Ever



Books:



CURRENTLY READING:
'Already Dead' by Denis Johnson.

I love books and I love bookstores
but I don't do as much reading as I used to.

Heroes:



FUCK YOU AND YOUR HUMMER

My Blog

The Truth About Sarah Palin

"The scariest thing about John McCain's running mate isn't how unqualified she is - it's what her candidacy says about America."- Matt TaibbiFrom the latest issue of Rolling Stone; http://www.rollings...
Posted by Rick! on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:17:00 PST

The Other Loch Ness Monster

I've always been fascinated by the supernatural.Ghosts, and all that stuff. Love that shit!I found this online kinda recently. It's a British documentary about Aleister Crowley.It's pretty good. I lea...
Posted by Rick! on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:33:00 PST

When Average Isn’t Good Enough

This article was written by Sam Harris and appeared in today's L.A. Times. So let us ask the question that should be on the mind of every thinking person in the world at this moment: If John McCain be...
Posted by Rick! on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:24:00 PST

Nothing here now but the recordings - The Conet Project.

One of my favorite songs is 'Poor Places' by Wilco. It's on their 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' album.I especially love how the song builds from a quiet, almost acoustic number, to a glorious cacophony of sc...
Posted by Rick! on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:25:00 PST

Easy Rider

Dennis Hopper's 1969 directorial debut -- Easy Rider -- is one of my favorite movies of all time.This culturally significant motion picture has been described many ways over the last four decades, and...
Posted by Rick! on Sun, 11 May 2008 04:02:00 PST

Starfish

Good, now and forever, music reaches and awakens,Swimming in the shallow end, down, down, rememberA need, a gnawing longing for what?Shapes and faces come slowly into mindGlissando Australian insects ...
Posted by Rick! on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:06:00 PST

Sea Of Love

"There aint no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk"-Tom Waits.Three versions of 'Sea Of Love' are posted here for your perusal. I've never been particularly fond of the song myself (a bit too "syr...
Posted by Rick! on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:48:00 PST

Harpya

A short film directed by Raoul Servais. ...
Posted by Rick! on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:15:00 PST

Satellite Of Love

I've had this song stuck in my head all day. Well, not the entire song.Just the final minute or so. It's a brilliant song. Always has been.The arrangement is so subtle. So well done.But it's the last ...
Posted by Rick! on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:47:00 PST

The Funniest Six Minutes and Thirty Five Seconds EVER.

Pardon the weird subtitles in this video.There are numerous copies of this posted on youtube, but this one has the best sound and picture quality. ...
Posted by Rick! on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:30:00 PST