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Miles

The world is my fucking fuse.

About Me



"I'm an old man. My age has nothing to do with how much fun I have."
Mark Gonzales (Born 1968, skate legend, artist, author, original ripper).

WHAT D.C. HARDCORE BAND ARE YOU?
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You are MINOR THREAT! You are intelligent, energitic and DIY embodied. You don't take any crap from anybody, but are willing to accept anyone in the underground. You love to exchange new ideas and are well respected in the scene. People like you because you started it all, you are passionate and you are great at what you do. (And yes, thats me and Ian Mackaye!)

This sums up my entire life...

Straight Edge but not a straight edger.
Punk as fuck but not a punker.
All about the hardcore but not too hard.

"Say what's wrong with this way,
besides the fact it's not in the book you read?
You see, i've found a way and it works,
at least for me." Hot Water Music

XXX

My Interests

Music, vinyl, punk stuff, 80's stuff, tattoos, old skool skateboarding, Vans shoes, collecting Dischord and early Lookout! records, thee Billy Childish, Point Counter Point (RIP), talking about music, failing at most things, the usual...

I'd like to meet:

New friends. People who can introduce me to cool things. Punk rockers who aren't jaded yet. People who like to talk about old records, bands, old school skateboarding and the works of this guy...

Music:

Rites of Spring, Lungfish, Hoover, Fugazi, Blue Tip, Nation of Ulysses, Ignition, Slant 6, Dag Nasty, Bad Brains, Jawbox, Faith, Shudder To Think, Rain Like The Sound Of Trains, Severin, Soulside, Regulator Watts, Fireparty, Retisonic, Crownhate Ruin, French Toast, Make-Up, One Last Wish, 3, Antelope, etc... in fact most DC Hardcore.

Bob Mould - Solo, Husker Du, Sugar and Blowoff.

Also... Billy Childish, Nick Cave, Sunny Day Real Estate, Fire Theft, Buffalo Tom, Mission Of Burma, Lucero, Joy Division, Minutemen, Smiths, Morrissey, Afghan Whigs, Verbal Assault, Crass, Depeche Mode, Misfits, MTX, Split Lip, Chameleons, Ruts, Van Pelt, MBV, Braid, Cure, Lifetime, Zero Zero, Sonic Youth, Bis, Refused, Pale, Siouxsie, Wynona Riders, Curve, Please Inform The Captain This Is a Hijack, Bread and Circuits, Torches To Rome, Avengers, Gorilla Biscuits, Mineral, Judge, Christie Front Drive, Damned, Rumbleseat, Current, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Op Ivy, Turning Point, Killing Joke, Swarm, Bob Tilton, Ramones, Jimmy Eat World, Quicksand, SLF, Appleseed Cast, XTC, Farewell Bend, I Hate Myself, Kate Bush, Hot Water Music, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Billy Bragg, Reiziger, Robocop Kraus, Samiam, Cramps, Cap'n Jazz, Soft Cell, Marc Almond, Spitboy, Drive, Bowie, Jawbreaker, Starkweather, The 101, Firehose, Interpol, Promise Ring, Clash, Ashes, Sisters Of Mercy, Sex Pistols, Submission Hold, Jetplane Landing, Texas is the Reason, Elliot, Downcast, Suede, Born Against, Sunshine, Tragedy, None Left Standing, Seam, City Ghosts...
...and Younger Younger 28's - does anyone remember them?

Movies:

Big Lebowski, Grosse Pointe Blank, Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, 16 Candles, Joe Dirt, all the Kevin Smith films, Rear Window, Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation, Dazed and Confused, Amelie, Clueless, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Kes, Science of Sleep, Summer of Sam, Paris Texas, Fletch, Godfather, Taxi Driver, Rocket Science, Apocalypse Now, Blind's Video Days, Dogtown & Z-Boys, Lords Of Dogtown, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before X-mas, Purple Rain, Karate Kid Trilogy, 24 Hour Party People, New York Doll, L' Effronte, loads more...

Television:

Recently: My Name Is Earl, the Stories...

Always: Daria, Family Guy, Phoenix Nights, My So Called Life, Alan Partridge, The Office...

Books:

Strangers in Paradise, Lenore, Adrian Tomine, 25 Years of Thrasher Magazine, Dance of Days, Banned in DC, HeartattaCk, Englands Dreaming, Please Kill Me, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Rollins, Billy Childish, Eric Drooker, Eric Kroll, Eric Stanton, etc...

Heroes:

Fred Schneider
Tom Robinson
Marc Almond
Bob Mould
Jon Ginoli

My Blog

The last weeks worth of gigs...

Monday 19 May - New Amsterdams - CargoConsidering N.A.'s are fronted by an ex-Get Up Kid, have 6 albums on Vagrant and have been around 8 years this was something of a well kept secret, very minimal p...
Posted by Miles on Wed, 28 May 2008 01:56:00 PST

These days are so troubled, can’t plan ahead so far...

How many times will it take me - This gut-wrench of despair?Tell me how can I stop me from breaking? The fear of two steps back.I'm scared that I might speak the wrong words, saying 'home' when I mea...
Posted by Miles on Sat, 17 May 2008 05:22:00 PST

4 Gigs, 5 Days

In an attempt to keep busy and feel like i'm doing something fun with my life I decided to go to all the gigs this week that appealed to me. This essentially meant 4 punk shows over 5 nights as follo...
Posted by Miles on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:53:00 PST

This weekends great discoveries...

THE PHOTOS - The Photos were one of the great lost bands of the punk-era. They were touted as the British Blondie at the time but never quite got a big as they deserved to. I had heard good things a...
Posted by Miles on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:05:00 PST

No sinister blade will poison us

In summing up today's mood this comes close...I see your wishes on the wall, and that's all right with meI see you run to make a call, hoping that there's someone freeyour life and my life they don't ...
Posted by Miles on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:24:00 PST

Hearing this on a night bus...

...at 2AM when you’re almost passing out from mental and physical exhaustion can almost reduce a man to tears. From Carry You by the most underrated band of all time (The Fire Theft):I’m g...
Posted by Miles on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:22:00 PST

My generation is a ghost town

From "Everyone" by Supersystem:Do you feel a connection to people in the service? No not at all, not at allDo you feel a connection to people in the office? No not at all, not at allDo you feel a co...
Posted by Miles on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:21:00 PST

Strangely...

...These excepts from "Chemistry" by Jawbreaker seem to speak to me more than anything else right now, not sure quite why though, but it helps, Jawbreaker always does....My air guitar is out of tune.M...
Posted by Miles on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:40:00 PST

Buffalo Tom gig

Hmmm... I don't know if I liked that or not.The crowd seemed to be full of ideots who remember Buff Tom being a "grunge" band so they decided to jump around like loons, even to the really slow ones, s...
Posted by Miles on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:07:00 PST

Lost PCP footage unearthed

Check this - maybe the only existing footage of my last band Point Counter Point playing live, this was at the Q-bar in Margate opening for Rainydayfuckparade. Thats me on the right screaming and bash...
Posted by Miles on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:22:00 PST