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My Darling the Cracked Emeralds

In The Bleakest and Darkest minutes of the night there are always flourescent whispers...

About Me


adopt your own virtual pet!PROS: I LOVE ALL THINGS ART & SUGAR....candy!!!!! Imagination & deconstructing your constructions, black balloons and breaking burnt bread over burnt bridges, cellos, sythesizers, kool-aid mustaches, snails in window sills, watching cartoons with my pet lion Arthur, stuffed animal petting zoos, the color spectrum, my iPod video, the intoxicating effect flowers have on me, paintings, making up stories, magic tricks, all the mountain lions in LA: I hope they eat everyone up, the stella 2600 emulator, Katamari Damacy, cake walks, the color BLUE, art mags, The Wire mag, OD'ing on chocolate (dark chocolate), the ocean, sunbleached curtains, insects, playing Hungry Hungry Hipples or Cootie Bugs, wind - rain - thunder & lightning, G5s loaded with software, organic foods, minimalism, vicodin ocassionally, drinking soy lattes & blueberry wine, eating FOOD: Indian, Lebanese, Japanese, and yummy yummy Ethiopian, peanut butter collard greens and pho, the educated or pursuit of, blood that runs true blue, Shopping at my favorite Records Stores: Neptune Records (royaloak) - RIP, Stormy Records (dearborn), FBC (eastlansing), Other Music (ny), Aquarius records (SF), & Soundscape Records (toronto), and Amoeba (LA) --------------------------------------------------CONS: broken hearts, apathy, american journalists and news agencies, Imperialists the world over, Born Agains and evangelicals...I like to keep an open mind to religion and respect theologians...but I loathe bible thumpers and the blind who lead the blind, any zombie that wants to eat me, plastic surgery, accidently stepping on smurfs, professional sports, violence, human trafficking, and all the crappy foods such as: sourcream, cheese, meat, cheap pasta sauce, delis and greasy spoon diners...ugh.

My Interests

Digital Media....Filmmaking.

I'd like to meet:

Some buccaneers to split atoms. I'm putting a ship together...I need scourge to plunder cotton candy and diamonds. Bring the ghost of Madhubala, green tea, and injera.

Music:

.. Some stuff I've liked over the years: !!!, 23 Skidoo, A Certain Ratio, Adem, Adult., Aeolian String Ensemble, Afrirampo, Agentss, Acid Mothers Temple, Add N to X, AFX, Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force, Air, AGF, Akufen, Albert Ayler, The Album Leaf, Alice Coltrane, Aluminum Group, Alog, Ellen Allien, Alva Noto, Oren Ambarchi, American Analog Set, Amon Duul II, Amp, Antenna, AntiPop Consortium, Animal Collective, Antony & the Johnsons, Apparat Organ Quartet, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, A Silver Mt. Zion, Arovane, Asa Chang & Junray, Atari Teenage Riot, Au Pairs, Autechre, David Axelrod, Kevin Ayers, Mitchell Akiyama, The Bad Brains, Bark Psychosis, Devendra Banhart, Basil Kirchin, Basic Channel, Josephine Baker, William Basinski, Battles, Derek Bailey, Beans, Beat Happening, The Beatles, Marcus Belgrave, Belle & Sebastian, Jonas Bering, Bern, Bibio, Birchville Cat Motel, Black Dice, Blackalicious, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, Black Heart Procession, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Bonnie Prince Billie, Boards of Canada, the Boredoms, The Books, Bows, The Breeders, Brighteyes, Broadcast, Brokeback, Broken Social Scene, Harold Budd, Don Byron, Daedelus, David Bowie, Glenn Branca, Bright Black, Thomas Brinkmann, Broadcast, Brokeback, Boom Bip, Bjork, Vashti Bunyan, the Buzzcocks, Clientele, Comets on Fire, Current 93, Coil, Colleen, Dafeldecker-Kurzmann-Fennesz, Dethprod, DoMe, Dopplereffekt, the Double, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Dungen, Dykehouse, Dylan Group, Earth, Ectomorph, Hans Edler, Eddie Gale, Einsterzende Neubauten, Ekkhard Ehlers, Eluvium, Brian Eno, Essential Logic, Cabaret Voltaire, Can, Capitol K, Cat Power, Cex, Chain Reaction artists, The Chap, Charles De Goal, Don Cherry, Chrome, Chris Clark, Circle, Clinic, cLOUDDEAD, Cluster and Kluster, James Chance, Coachwhips, Cocorosie, Colleen, Cornelius, Donnnacha Costello, Gal Costa & Caetano Veloso, The Cramps, Crass, Crescent, Cristina, DACM, Keren Dalton, DAT Politics, Matthew Dear, Dead Voices On Air, Der Plan, Death Comet Crew, De La Soul, Deerhoof, Destroyer, Destructo Swarmbots, Detachment Kit, Detroit Escalator Co., Dettinger, Dirty Three, Disco Inferno, DJ/Rupture, DJ Shadow, DMX Krew, Dntel, Do Make Say Think, Drexciya, Kevin Drumm, Durutti Column, Edan, Efterklang, Egyptian Lover, Electronicat, Electrelane, Alec Empire, Brian Eno, EPMD, ESG, Esquivel, Eyvind Kang, Excepter, Fad Gadget, Fennesz, B. Fleischmann, Gang of Four, FAD GADGET, Farben, Faust, Fela Kuti, Thomas Fehlmann, Jad Fair, Felt, Fenno'berg, Christian Fennesz, Fiery Furnaces, Fizzarum, Flaming Lips, Flanger, Flying Saucer Attack, Flying Luttenbachers, Brigitte Fontaine, Food, Four Color, Four Tet, Free Design, The Freed Unit, Fridge, Burnt Friedman, Robert Fripp, Front 242, FS Blumm, The Fucking Am, Fym, Eddie Gale, Galaxy 500, Gang of Four, Gang Gang Dance, GD Luxxe, Morgan Geist, Astrud Gilberto, Gina X Performance, Gleittzeit, Godspeedyoublackemporer, Goldmund, the Gories, Global Communication, The Go! Team, Goodiepal. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, David Grubbs, Mats Gustafsson, The Hacker, Half Japanese, Francoise Hardy, George Harrison, Harmonia, Harmonic 33, Tim Hecker, Herbie Hancock, Hella, Arve Henriksen, Herman & Kleine, His Name Is Alive, Him, Hood, The Homosexuals, Howling Hex, Hrvatski, The Human League, Half Japanese, Hu Vibrational, Arve Henricksen, Tim Hecker, Kim Hiorthoy, Idaho, Iggy & the Stooges, Ryoji Ikeda, Mike Ink, The Incredible String Band, In The Country, Jackie O MotherFucker, Jackie Mittoo, Jaga Jazzist, Philip Jeck, Jesu, Jesus and Mary Chain, Johnny Headband, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Joy Division, Junior Boys, Kammerflimmer Kollektief, The Kit Builders, Kintopp, Kas Product, Kiila, King Geedorah, Basil Kirchin, Richard H. Kirk, Klimek, Justus Kohncke, Kpt. Michigan, Kilo, FELA Kuti, Felix Kubin, Landing, Languis, Latryx, Le Car, L'altra, Love, Legendary Pink Dots, LCD Soundsystem, Liebe Ist Cool, Lightning Bolt, Loose Fur, Low, The Legendary Pink Dots, The Love Joys, Liquid Liquid, Lithops, Alvin Lucier, M83, MadVillain, the Magnetic Fields, Stephen Malkmus, Charles Manier, Derek May, Kurtis Mantronix, Stefan Mathieu, Matmos, Michael Mayer, Microstoria, Melt Banana, Menomena, The Mercury Rev, Merzbow, MF Doom, Michael Mayer, Charles Mingus, The Mice Parade, Joni Mitchell, Minit, Mirah, the Misfits, Jackie Mittoo, Mogwai, Mokira, Juana Molina, Motorpsycho with Jaga Jazzist Horns, Mouse on Mars, Mum, The Music Tapes, Murcof, Dorine Murialle, the Music Machine, My Bloody Valentine, The Newage Steppers, Neu!, Nick Drake, Arne Nordheim, Nils Okland, Nirvana, Nojiko Turiko, Klaus Nomi, Naum, Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, Nurse With Wound, Os Mutantes, Opto,Out Hud, Tara Jane O'neil, Jim O'Rourke, Man Parish, Main, Ikue Mori, Mountains, MIA, Mu, Palace Brothers, Palace Music, Pan American, The Pastels, Charlie Patton, Pelt, Linda Perhacs, Piano Magic, Pita, Phonophani, Pit-er-Pat, PJ Harvey, Plastikman, Pop Ambient series on Kompakt, Iggy Pop, The Pop Group, Pole, Prefuse 73, Sam Prekop, Bruno Pronsato, Puss, Radio Head, Radian, The Raincoats, Ratatat, Maja Ratke, The Red Krayola and the Red Crayola, Dean Roberts, The Rachels, Ride, ARTHUR RUSSELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Gruff Rhys, Savath & Savalas, Schneider TM, Seefeel, Six Organs of Admittance, Sonny & Linda Sharrock, Shuttle 358, Sigur Ros, The Skygreen Leopards, Slits, The Smiths, Elliot Smith, Smog, Soft Machine, The Sonics, Solvent, Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3, Soulwhirlingsomewhere, SoulJazz Records, Squarepusher, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, Subtitle, Supersilent 1-6, Sunroof!, Superpitcher, Janek Schaefer, Talking Heads, The Telescopes, The Sound of My Bossanova, Tangerine Dream...early stuff, John Tejada, The 6ths, The 13th Floor Elevators, Rafael Toral, Throbbing Gristle, Trans Am, Treacherous 3, TUBEWAY ARMY!!!!!!!, Triple R, Tristeza, Twine, The Television Personalities, The The, Two Lone Swordsmen...the last album, Triosk, TV on the Radio, Twilight 22, Sun Ra, Supersilent, Tamion 12 inch, This Mortal Coil, The Unicorns, The Raincoats, Ilpo Vaisanen, Luke Vibert, Daniel Wang, Warraw, Warsaw, Gary Wilson, Wolf Eyes, White Noise, The Wipers, Robert Wyatt, X-Ray Specs, Yamataka Eye & John Zorn, Y Pants, Otomo Yoshihide, Harald Sack Ziegler, Zolar X, Zoviet France, ZNR, The Zephyrs, and John Zorn.

Movies:

Happiness of the Katakuris, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, Youth of The Beast, Duck Season, Me You and Everyone We Know, 2046, Holy Mountain, Goodbye Lenin, A Very Long Engagement, A Dancer In The Dark, Alphaville, Amelie, Battle Royal, The Battleship Potempkin, Bjork Videos, Black Cat/White Cat, Blue Velvet, works of Buster Keaton, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Chris Cunningham's work, Spirited Away, Dreams, Melies work, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eraserhead, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask, Faust, FLCL dvds, Godzilla Vs MechaGodzilla, Helicopter, James and the Giant Peach, Kill Bill, Kung Foo Hustle, La Jetee, Lone Wolf and Cub, Ma Vie En Rose (Life In Pink), Masculine/Feminine, Metropolis, Nosferatu, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Punch Drunk Love, Salaam Bombay, the Seven Samurai, Six String Samurai, Paliindromes, Style Wars, Tampopo, Tokyo Drifter, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Wonderful Icecream suit, shorts by Maya Deren. Why can't I find Wayward Cloud?????

Television:

I do not own a television....though If I derive my personality from being the product of years of Fruity Pebble consumption and several episodes of the Muppets.

Books:

No One Belongs Here More Than You. Stories By Miranda July. Black Dice & Jason Frank Rothernberg: Gore

Heroes:

My Grandma Silva

My Blog

Favorite Records of 2006

Favorite Records of 2006The Goslings "Grandeur Of Hair"Circle "Miljard"V/A: "Fuzzy Felt Folk"Christine 23 Onna "Acid Eater"The Psychic Paramount "Origins and Primitives"Michael Mayer "Immer 2"Lindstro...
Posted by My Darling the Cracked Emeralds on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:59:00 PST

Favorite Records of 2007....so far...

Silmaril "Voyage Of Icarus" re-issueBlack Black "EP 2"His Name is Alive "Xmmer"Wooden Shjips "S/T"Monarch "Die Tonight y Dead Men Tell No Tales" re-issuesEroc "Eroc 1" re-issueAvery Tare & Kria Brekka...
Posted by My Darling the Cracked Emeralds on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:31:00 PST

Fav Albums of 2005

In No Particular Order.....Suishou No Fune "S/T"V/A: "Prog Is Not A Four Letter Word"Aavikko "Eve Of The Futer"Growing "His Return"Kites "Peace Trials"Jens Lekman "Oh you're so silent Jens"Fire Engin...
Posted by My Darling the Cracked Emeralds on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Favorite Albums of 2004

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Excepter "KA" Arve Henricksen "Chiaroscuro" Joanna Newsom "The Milk-Eyed Mender" VA: Shockout In the Fishtank: Psychomotor Jaga Jazzist horns Warraw: "Greenpot Bluepo...
Posted by My Darling the Cracked Emeralds on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST