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ben

making plans with far-reaching effects

About Me

i am who i am!

My Interests

pumping up the party, no credit, Brazil, Panama, Japan, Africa future, enjoyable living, sunshine, rain, hiking, biking, music and more music and blown-out art and music.

I'd like to meet:

more coolness

Music:

Radar Brothers, Vaz, Wrangler Brutes, Silver Jews, Lungfish, Karl Blau, Bruce Springsteen, Butterglory, Crack The Sky, Panoply Academy, Midnight Oil, Most Secret Method, The Wilderness, US Maple, Unwound, Abe Vigoda, The Delfonics, Mono Mono, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Fat Day, Tom Tom Club, B52's, Ghostface, Talking Heads, Leonard Cohen, This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb, Yound Marble Giants, Gang Of Four, Captain Beefheart, Johnny Cash, Uzeda, The Ramones, Mount Eerie, Tabukah X, Meat Puppets

Movies:

Thudercrack, Romance, Welcome to the Dollhouse, City of God, SuperTroopers, Werner Herzog, Alexandro Jodorowsky, Gaspar Noe, Czech New Wave, Dogma 95, Todd Solondz, oh wait, I'm getting redundant.

Television:

The Wire. The Sopranos. Arrested Development. Making fun of local news. Sometimes even sports, dude!

Books:

Danticat, Murakami, Kundera, Kingsolver, London, Wikipedia, The Economist. Lots of George Pelecanos lately. City of Quartz has some interesting parts. Is Kafka nuts?

Heroes:

Cornel West, Kwame Nkumrah, Bill Hooper, the proud native peoples of North America, My Grandmother.

My Blog

Biking Funeral

The illuminated war has come;i'm walking with a devil princess.love is talking,"let's head nowhere,"and obey the silver rules,a kit for a king!the brothers and sisters,surrounded by mountains of ice,u...
Posted by ben on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:42:00 PST

We Swift

Round the ball run the field,learn the bronze method,get over yourself to find it,a blinking eye in the frame,go down the hill.the city goose is a boat,the weed from the chamberscan't cut the cornerst...
Posted by ben on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:30:00 PST

Wreck Everything

We'll wreck everything,all the blank faces all around,you're so assured,these dirty hearts won't make itOh it's cherry trouble,you gotta know where to stand,no more beard giants roam the earthof your ...
Posted by ben on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:22:00 PST

Night Lovers

As the radar crows,I'm told the story of the labor man,can't see starsthrough the murky water,what a stiff trick to playfor the night's loverall these fat rachels everywhere,there is no travelling tod...
Posted by ben on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:21:00 PST

I Will Remember Your Name

I Will Remember Your Name,Captain Time, whatever time,the king of California, if you want,running and running,over and over, never gaining,young ants drawing nearer,a mouth of earth and a head of sand...
Posted by ben on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:20:00 PST

The Great Travel

Living wild into the untamed morning,radar blaring, stereo moving,quick, grab the host particles,let loose your skull cage,in a big black van,ass magic happens and bringsthe white apocalypse down"O Da...
Posted by ben on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:17:00 PST

down in flames

This weekend of world cup qualifying in CONACAF, the FIFA league subdivision for Central America, North America, and the Caribbean, saw some of my adopted favorite teams go down to especially heartbre...
Posted by ben on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:54:00 PST

some music

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Posted by ben on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:30:00 PST

Zebra Trucks

Yesterday I got the Young Marble Giants discography, "Colossal Youth & Collected Works." I had first heard them when I was 17 and working in a coffee shop in Baltimore and this cool girl who worked...
Posted by ben on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:36:00 PST

march moustache manifesto, 2K8

Let The Madness Begin! All across america, a long, blustery winter is coming to an end. People crawl out of their dens, collectively returning thousands of Netflix envelopes, putting away knitting pro...
Posted by ben on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:06:00 PST