not having my car broken into. having more good than bad happen in my life. cashing in all this karma that should be built up. meeting people obsessed with phil spector. people who are moved by ronnie's voice. people who think bossa nova is the sexiest music ever. people who think jarvis is perhaps the best lyricist of all time. people who wear all white. people who think there is no reason to own any bass other than a rickenbaker 4001/4003. in black. but people who see no reason to own any bass other than a thunderbird would probably be neat as well (sunburst, naturally!). people who find purity and truth in rock and roll. people who think the flaming lips work before the soft bulletin was their best, specifically before ronald, but after they were a three piece the first time, yes i mean when jonathan donahue was in the band. people who know jonathan donahue was in the band. people who know who jonathan donahue is. people who think jonathan donahue's departure from harmony rockets should be considered a crime against humanity. people who cry when they hear jason do 'let it flow' live. people who think the cover of 'parallel lines' is the hottest album cover of all time. people who freely admit they like new order better than joy division even if its not the cool opinion to have. people who arent fooled by the wash of gang of four clones. people who know who the real green circles are. people who think the stones are way beyond the beatles, hell, even people who think the kinks, who, zombies, small faces, or the pink floyd sound are. people who can defend their opinions. people who respect mine. people who love jazzmasters. people who love rickenbakers. people who can discuss the difference between a DM-2 and an AD-9 and totally get into it. people who think pro tools is shit. people who think home recording has been both the best thing and the worst thing to ever happen to the music industry. people who understand its not worth supporting local music if local musicians arent supporting them. people who like sgt. pepper but think that petsounds is better, but think that piper at the gates is the true masterpiece. people who wish john had lived and paul had died. people who will leave my friends the fuck alone. oh yeah, old churches. i really want to record an album in an old church. the idea of playing at the tabernacle in atlanta is seducing. that would be brilliant. there is something about the music i love and make that seems so much like confession, it seems fitting, even with my well documented position on the church. yeah, i want to do it, and someday, hopefully i can.
and i should probably just say:
edie sedgwick.
did i mention:
ronnie spector?
what about:
debbie harry?
i did?
well, they are pretty damn high on my list of interests...
I'd like to meet:
You Are...My Bloody Valentine.
You tend to be a bit distant and reclusive. You are
a leader as opposed to being a follower. You
are a perfectionist and pay very close
attention to detail. You have the tendency to
be lazy, which sometimes get's in the way of
you achieving whatever it is you may be
trying to perfect. You don't really care
about what's typically looked upon as the
norm. You really don't care about what people
think about you at all, or at least so you
try and make it seem. You care most about
just being yourself.
what Creation Records band are you? (complete with text and images)
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"Kevin had a complete breakdown. He told me in great detail, " reveals McGee. "He lost the plot completely. Everybody became the enemy. He lost his friends and he lost the band. He just locked himself away in his big house. Then, finally, nobody wanted to get in. I went to the house once with Bobby [Gillespie] and there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages, about 20 of them, all over the room, with barbed wire everywhere. It was definitely meltdown."
i probably wont add your band, so dont ask. if you really want me to, go ask to be music|for_headphones friend. i'll add you there. the bands i choose to add here are either real life friends or bands i own records by and listen to. i.e., if i dig your music enough to actually buy it, then ill add you. but otherwise, please dont waste your time asking to be my friend and writting me messages about how you think ill dig yr music. seriously, i check out every profile who asks to be added to MFH, so i'll listen there. and if i super dig it, then ill ask to be yr friend on this profile. this may make no sense, but it is how i roll. however i realize writting this little paragraph will not slow down the influx of shitty bands asking to be my friend. i mean seriously, if they actually took the time to read the bands i like, see who's in my top eight and all that, then they would would be able to deduce whether or not to even bother asking.
in fact, let's make a deal: if i want to add your band, i'll come and find you. if you want to add my band, you come and find me. that way, we just leave each other alone if the other isnt interested. sound good? well, live with it.
Music:
music|for_headphones.
a ceartain ratio
alphastone
all the way down
american analog set
angels of light
arab strap
arcade fire
the asteroid 4
the bangles
the banshees
syd barret
bauhaus
bjork
black tambourine
blondie
brain donor
beach boys
beck
david bowie
brian jonestown massacre
can
captain audio
john cash
julian cope
creation records
the creatures
the crystals
the cure
d-generation
dandy warhols
darkside
death in vegas
the december sound
echo and the bunnymen
elf power
brian eno
esp allstars
factory records
faust
flaming lips
free heat
free love babies
fuxa
galaxie 500
gilberto
the glove
green circles
guided by voices
polly jean harvey
her space holiday
hovercraft
jefferson airplane
jesus and mary chain
jobim
joy division
king black acid and the wombstar orchestra
kula shaker
ladytron
lazycame
legendary pink dots
john lennon
love and rockets
luna
lush
madonna
manic street preachers
massive attack
mazzy star
MC5
mercury rev
miss kittin
my bloody valentine
new order
neu!
neutral milk hotel
nouvelle vague
oasis
olivia tremor control
pavement
pink floyd sound
portishead
primal scream
prince
pulp
rain parade
the ravonettes
ride
rolling stones
the ronnettes
secret machines
section 25
dj shadow
sisters of mercy
sing-sing
sister vanilla
sleater-kinney
sloan
slowdive
the smiths
sonic youth
the sound
spacemen 3
phil spector
spectrum
spiritualized
the stone roses
the stooges
suede
suicide
swans
tear drop explodes
the tears
that dog
tones on tail
tricky
velvet underground
the verve
voyager one
nicky wire
neil young
the zombies
Movies:
battle royale, fearless vampire hunters, scream (i, ii, iii), the Godfather(s), Goodfellas, Mean Streets, Carlito's Way, 24 hour party people, velvet goldmine, kill-bill(s), pulp fiction, american psycho, high fidelity, rules of attraction, grosse pointe blank, the great muppet caper, natural born killers, the shinning, the doors, fear and loathing, empire records, zero, run lola run, lolita, house of yes, fight club, ciao! manhattan, young guns II, spice world, wonderwall, josie and the pussycats, dawn of the dead, cabin fever, go, headwig
Television:
hey honey what you trying to say
as i stand here
don't you walk away
and the world comes tumbling down
hand in hand in a violent life
making love on the edge of a knife
and the world comes tumbling down
and it's hard
for me to say
and it's hard
for me to stay
i'm going down
to be by myself
i'm going back
for the good of my health
and there's one thing
i couldnt do
sacrifice myself to you
sacrifice
baby baby i just can't see
just what you mean to me
i take my aim and i fake my words
i'm just your long time curse
and if you walk away
i can't take it
but that's the way that you are
and that's the things that you say
but now you've gone too far
with all the things you say
get back to where you come from
Books:
tender is the night. picture of dorian gray. headon. cock and bull. everything (a book about the manic street preachers), chomsky, zinn, confusion is next, my magpie eyes, victor brockis, rotten, beautiful and the damned, high fidelity, about a boy
Heroes:
kell|ryan: the improbable equation, leader of the resistance, talker of the talk, walker of the walk, man of pomegrantes and uniform pantsfight the man! save pdx!
