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Richard

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About Me



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i am a vegetarian. i have no pets (the idea of keeping animals for companionship seems to me a strange concept). although i physically resemble a human being i often feel i have nothing in common with them. my life is sweet.

My Interests

music (though some would argue that what i play, listen to or record is only music in it's most widest sense). gigs. films (the stranger the better). walking up mountains/hills and walking back down again. sleeping(can that be classed as an interest)? holsten. being the passenger.

I'd like to meet:

Derek Jarman, Kurt Vonnegut, Diamanda Galas, Holger Czukay, Asia Argento, Christian Vander, Carla Kihlstedt, Ivor Cutler, Andy Wood, although I'd need a time machine to meet 3 of them.

Music:

Fred Frith, Can, That Fucking Tank, Slint, EST, Melt Banana, Nervous Kid, Ruins, Magma, Lighting Bolt, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Push the Triangle, Mum, Robert Wyatt, Godspeed, Kayo Dot, Birthday Party, Godflesh, Sonic Youth, Highrise, The Fall, Sun Ra, Orion Arm, Boredoms, Wire, Elliott Sharp, Caspar Brotzmann, Naked City, Nurse with Wound, This Heat, Max Tundra, Mark Stewart, Faust, Massacre, Krakatau, Throbbing Gristle, Amon Duul II, Mouldy Peaches, Popol Vuh, Yeah,yeah,yeahs, Old Skool Mercury Rev, Slim Whitman, Young Gods, Comsat Angels, John Carpenter, Link Wray, Captain Beefheart, Henry Mancini, Martin Denny, Mark and the Maffia, Frank Zappa, Connie Stevens.

Movies:

Anything by Takashi Miike, Cassel Bellucci, David Cronenberg, George Romero, Derek Jarman, Troma or David Lynch. Asian horror. THX 1138. A Tale of Two Sisters, Amelie, Old Boy, Run Lola Run, Cache(hidden),Volva, Escape from New York, Das Experiment.

Television:

do away with it

Books:

mainly non fiction excepting Kurt Vonnegut, Phillip K Dick, Richard Brautigan and some others.

Heroes:

Captain Lights Out

My Blog

my marvellous career in mysic

are you with me here people. i was born and forced to play an instrument. i chose the piano. i could have chosen any instrument but thought my parents had neither the finances nor space to accommodate...
Posted by Richard on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:30:00 PST