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Zeppo Ramone

tiger me arse.

About Me


Top 5 Songs at the Moment:

Where Were You? - The Mekons
Cole's Corner - Richard Hawley
Poor Girl - X
Kid - The Pretenders
The Night - Morphine

I've been described as a 'dashing bastard', with the emphasis likely on bastard.

I do musical things that require very little talent.

I'd like to spend a little more time outdoors.

I somewhat impulsively adopt kittens off of street corners in Brooklyn.

In the 10th grade, I convinced an idiot that Stalin was a clown who lurked in the sewers of Russia devouring small children.

Apparently, even deaf Texans think I'm an asshole.

Japanese tourists, however, love taking photos with me.

I've got a fair amount of growing up to do.

My Interests

kittens, my stoop, music, film, hot tea on a cold and rainy day, candlepin bowling, theatre, aviation, SET, radio, missing people, withdrawal, latch-hooking, bill hicks, richard pryor, brian michael bendis graphic novels, calvin & hobbes, wait, wait...don't tell me!, over-thinking simple scenarios, refusing to let things drop, lesbian karaoke, awkward pauses, security blankets and defensive posturing, no longer living with a man who attempted to claim part of california for the confederacy, living with a the best stage-presence-having motherfucker in boston (according to a couple of old people), walking by the water on castle island, the blackest of coffee, npr, bloom county, lenny bruce, record collecting, singing in the rain, shouting at the devil and deciphering mark e. smith.

I'd like to meet:

The dearly beloved, who are gathered somewhere to try and get through something called 'life'.
Whoever managed to convince these dudes that, frame by frame, this video was a good idea.

These guys.

Music:

husker du, the pogues, morphine, nick cave, the replacements/paul westerberg, swans/the angels of light, ad frank and the fast easy women, mission of burma, wild swans, the sound, francoise hardy, the mekons, big black/rapeman, kevin coyne, karen dalton, echo & the bunnymen, david bowie, pj harvey, new order, joy division, siouxsie and the banshees/the creatures, the dresden dolls, black lips, the emeralds, the cure, big star, the fall, the pipettes, wire, neil young, johnny cash, tom waits, the smiths, public enemy, devendra banhart, turbonegro, jesus lizard, serge gainsborg, some waterboys, liquid liquid, rev. horton heat, drive-by truckers, leonard cohen, the ramones, the clash, public image limited, X, the gun club, mirah, julian cope, portishead, jeff buckley, the ny dolls, calexico, the violent femmes, young heart attack, high on fire, neurosis, 1349, the johnny otis show, albert king, mogwai, celebration, gary numan, johnny thunders, elliott smith, t.rex, sam cooke, camper van beethoven, big bear, dirty three, otis redding, marving gaye, mazzy star, mastodon, calexico, spacemen 3, meat puppets, dead kennedys, ac/dc, richard hawley, scott walker, talk talk, rachels, ornette coleman, antony and the johnsons, faith no more, linton kwesi johnston, mahalia jackson, ex-girl, miles, eric dolphy, boris, the rolling stones (till 72), human sexual response, iron maiden, hank williams, neko case, elvis costello, the velvet underground, the zombies, jesus and mary chain, black mountain, the wipers, nin, frank zappa, neutral milk hotel, naked raygun, talking heads/david byrne, john zorn, slayer, mark lanegan, queens of the stone age, venom, the flaming lips, afghan whigs/twilight singers, pulp/jarvis, cocteau twins, dead can dance, motorhead, talking heads, cheap trick, brian eno, roxy music, ministry, the flamin' groovies, the saints and others...

Movies:

repo man, being there, 400 blows, gremlins 2: the new batch, wet hot american summer, brazil, pan's labyrinth, some kind of monster, heavy metal parking lot, wings of desire, raising arizona, dark city, the big lebowski, being john malkovich, blade runner, the shining and others...

Television:

mr. show, twin peaks, fishing with john, six feet under, rugby on fox sports world, arrested development, black books, the daily show, father ted, south park, buffy the vampire slayer & matchgame '74. i named a hampster after richard dawson, once. she was the love of my life.

Books:

rosencrantz & guildenstern are dead - tom stoppard, fear and loathing in las vegas - hunter thompson, catch 22 - joseph heller, holidays in hell - p.j. o'rourke, crime and punishment- dostoevsky, the long goodbye - raymond chandler, 27 short plays - christopher durang, beneath the underdog - charles minguscash - johnny cash, killing the buddha - peter manseau & jeff sharlet, american scream - cynthia true, largo desolato - vaclav havel, fortune and glory - brian michael bendis, easter rising - michael patrick mcdonald.

Heroes:


bill hicks - the only worthwhile person to come out of texas other than that guy who climbed the bell-tower at UT.

bill the cat - who would've climbed that bell-tower if he wasn't, y'know, a cartoon.

Tom always tips his hat to the ladies before garroting them.

terry gross - the sexiest public radio host there ever was.

johnny cash - who set fire to a large portion of the californian countryside and got beaten up by an ostrich.

and this guy.

My Blog

Brooklyn

Had a lovely weekend in Brooklyn.  Highlights included:*Watching a drunken, right-wing Irishman get tossed across a quasi-socialist bookstore by a cook who looks like a post-rehab Greg Dulli.*Bit...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:42:00 PST

Memorial Day 07

On May 27th, we enjoyed the company of a few friends at the 4th (or so) Annual Frank/Donohue/(Foster) Memorial Day BBQ.  This is just a smattering of memories intended to make those who either re...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:45:00 PST

Final Three Shows with Fenway

So, as I've mentioned to most of you at some point or another over the last two months, at the beginning of May, I'll be wrapping up a 2 year stint with Fenway Recordings.  I've had an amazing ti...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:08:00 PST

Wall Street Journal

I've been interviewed for a piece on digital music marketing ala MySpace for an upcoming Wall Street Journal article.  Huh...Hopefully won't sound like too much of a fool...I was interviewed for ...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:20:00 PST

to review...

i'm waiting for itunes to finish ripping some of the lesser synthpop and hip-hop in my collection onto my hard-drive so i can sell the cds...suppose now is as decent a time as ever to write a quick sy...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:39:00 PST

cohen's gift.

had to listen to jewel's latest a couple of days ago."i am a princess, trapped inside this stone tower of song. you won't help me get out. i'm just aching to belong."fuck jewel.
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:28:00 PST

Lesbians fail to set fire to the disco.

So I took Renee to Queeraoke last night for her 21st birthday.  She got carded and even (gasp!) had a drink.  While I was enjoying the atmosphere and loving the looks that the jackboot crowd...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:36:00 PST

Blink 182 deny the holocaust...

So, I'm sorry, but I find this really rather amusing - there's a pop-punk band consisting of guys (rather nice ones) that I went to High School with - their be-all, end-all influence seemed to be Blin...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:03:00 PST

YAHA!

So, if you haven't already heard - Dick Cheney just shot one of his hunting partners in the face with a shotgun...that's not so surprising. What is rather shocking is that someone over at Yahoo! ha...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:49:00 PST

Fuck iPods.

I was about to write a rather stirring, coming-of-age story about a boy and his iPod - a tale not unlike many others... - Boy recieves iPod - Although initially overwhelmed, boy has second thoughts ...
Posted by Zeppo Ramone on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:10:00 PST