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Simon

A bit of claggy on the waggy.

About Me

Sarcastic, bawdy, dry, open, generous, tight-fisted, calm, drunken, secretive, serious, idiotic, hooligan of a gentleman. I like cheeky monkeys, and I'm a vinyl junkie.
I LOVE KATIE.
Bands & anyone else: READ!- Unless I already know you or know who you are, I am not going to just accept you as a friend if you are incapable of even saying "Hello" first.
"The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit."- Banksy.
"War is oblivion and the ghost of mankind" -Antisect.

My Interests

"Normal people do not listen to Hardcore, and we like it that way".- Vic Bondi, Articles Of Faith.

I'd like to meet:

People who don't bore me with their inane unoriginality.

Music:

Ramones, The Cramps, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Il Monstro, Black Sabbath, Flatt and Scruggs, Spike Jones, The Stalin, Spermbirds, Robert Johnson, Killing Joke, Heresy, Lee Dorsey, Cocksparrer, The Kids, Kraftwerk, Dayglo Abortions, Bauhaus, Discharge, Madness, Antisect, Pink Lady, Rudimentary Peni, Gang of Four, Orange Goblin, The Skatalites, Pagans, Mob 47, Gene Krupa, ZZ Top, The Vernon Girls, The Vibrators, Raw Power, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, Iggy And The Stooges, Minor Threat, Small Faces, The Ruts, Carla Bruni, Davie Allen and the Arrows, Dead Kennedys, The Vickers, Francoise Hardy, King Tubby, Stiff Little Fingers, Prince Buster, Fear, Louis Jordan, The Pogues, AC/DC, The Mentally Ill, Stray Cats, Left For Dead, Red Snapper, Agent Orange, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Go Bangs, Macka B, Laibach, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, Shades Apart, Peaches, Operation Ivy, The Surf Coasters, PP Arnold, Infest, Berurier Noir, Turbonegro, Chas'n'Dave, GG Allin, Alternative TV, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Xavier Cugat, The Accused, Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Dezerter, The Stone Roses, Government Issue, Violent Femmes, The Sonics, Smiley Culture, Big Black, The Slowmotions, Augustus Pablo, Richard Cheese, Pekinska Patka, Art Blakey, Iron Maiden, Coil, Irma Thomas, Dead Boys, Ill Repute, Ken Boothe, Bob McFadden and Dor; Confuse, The Who, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 7 Seconds, Alma Cogan, Angry Samoans, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Reno and Smiley, Wire, Flipper, Spade Cooley, The Ventures, Rites Of Spring, Suicide, The Leif Ericcson, Sex Pistols, Fearless Iranians From Hell, Barry Adamson, Kyuss, Devo, The Spencer Davis Group, Jacob Miller, Sparks, Rollings, Splodgenessabounds, Patsy Cline, The Genbaku Onanies, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, The Surfaris, Thea Gilmore, Melt Banana, Soft Cell, Crucifix, The Marvelettes, The Stranglers, Throbbing Gristle, Hank Snow, Greasy Hash, Sonny Boy Williamson, Career Suicide, Depeche Mode, The Lurkers, Adolescents, Bela Bartok, The Kinks, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Venom, Judge Dread, Peter Wyngarde, Fugs, Toussaint McCall, Deadline (UK), SPK, Gene Vincent, Wretched, The Shirelles, Iron Maiden, Crass, Dick Dale, Diamanda Galas, Judas Priest, Beastie Boys, Sex Gang Children, the 'tone, Weirdos, Ray Charles, Slayer, Jawbreaker, Nancy Sinatra, Joy Division, The Meters, Circle Jerks, Yellow Magic Orchestra, DOA, John Lee Hooker, Riistetyt, Kiss, Oi Skall Mates, Slime, The Ronettes, Motorhead, Poison Idea, The Meteors, Saint Saens, Shocking Blue, Articles Of Faith, Tito Puente, Neon Hearts, CCM, Love, Chaos UK, Paganini, Siw Malmkvist, Yellow Machine Gun, Lord Creator, Screamers, Kojima Mayumi, Feederz, Cab Calloway, Zero Boys, Thin Lizzy, ESG, The Gears, Tom Waits, Outo, The Bellrays, Minutemen, Hawkwind, Cobra, Boskops, ZZ en de Maskers, Kishidan, Icons Of Filth, Girlschool, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Goblin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Boskops, Kat Ugly, Martin Denny, Anadorei, The Specials, Geza X, Regulations, Saxon, The Electric Prunes, Billy No Mates, Flamin' Groovies, Claudine Longet, Marginal Man, Dead Can Dance, Black Flag, Snuff, Groundhogs, Paul Robeson, Gene Vincent, The Little Mirrors, DAF, The Kids of Widney High, Johnny Moped, Isley Brothers, Subhumans (UK and Canada), The Stanley Brothers, The Effigies, Celtic Frost, The Toasters, Nina Simone, The Andrews Sisters...

Movies:

The Tin Drum, Bedazzled, Das Boot, If...., The Wicker Man, The Invaders, Network, Quadrophenia, Porky's, Invasion Of The Astromonsters, Withnail And I, Party Party, Breathless, The Night Demon, School For Scoundrels, Before Sunrise, Bottle Rocket, The Blues Brothers, Mad Monster Party, Hana-Bi, Deathline, Breezy, This Is Spinal Tap, Apocalypse Now, Teenage Monster, Scum, Delicatessen, A Clockwork Orange, Kiki's Delivery Service, Over The Edge, Halloween, Being There, Ai No Corrida, The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser, Amazon Women On The Moon, Warriors, Supervixens, Themroc, Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid, The Oblong Box, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Get Carter, Onibaba, Made In Britain, Halloween, Repo Man, Conspirators Of Pleasure, And God Created... Woman, Tampopo, Eraserhead, The Big Lebowski, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Young Frankenstein, Wiseblood, Morgan- A Suitable Case for Treatment, Creature From The Black Lagoon, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, Hairspray, War Of The Roses, Two Lane Blacktop, The Thin Man, Delicatessen, The Party, Rat Pfink A Boo Boo, MASH, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Girlie, The Firm (w/ Gary Oldman), Amelie, Permanent Vacation, Bullitt, Two Men And A Wardrobe, Rock'n'Roll High School, Bad News, Chopper Chicks In Zombietown, Abigail's Party, Suburbia, Doggy Poo, Ghost World, The Italian Job, The Six-String Samurai, The Anniversary, Children of the Damned, This Island Earth, Princess Mononoke, The Last Of The Knucklemen, Uncle Buck, Best In Show, Spirited Away, O Lucky Man, Interstate 60, Napoleon Dynamite, The Incredibly Strange People Show, ...

Books:

about... Japan; Asia; Film Making; Music; Art; Photography; History; Culture; Travelogs; Biographies; Lists; Oxford English Dictionary; Roget's Thesaurus; The Bathroom Reader. M R James; Patrick Suskind; Spike Milligan, David Crystal; Saul Bellow; Michael Herr; Poe; Chandler; Baudelaire; Camus; Bukowski; Mishima; Alan Moore; Eightball/Daniel Clowes; Six Of One.

Heroes:

My Mother, My Grandparents, My Friends, and Nurses.

My Blog

ONGOING LIST No. 4: Bands With Places In Their Names

WARSAWLONDONBERLINNEW YORK DOLLSASIAHONG KONG KNIFEAMERICANY NIGGERSRED LONDONLONDON SSJAPANTOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRADETROIT SPINNERSDETROIT EMERALDSTHE DUBLINERSKOREA GIRLSF REDUCERSGOTEBORG SOUND...
Posted by Simon on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:04:00 PST

ONGOING LIST No.2: Bands with 'YOUTH' in their title...

Youth Of TodayCrucial YouthYouth BrigadeDept Of Youth ServicesYouth Defence LeagueSonic YouthCrippled YouthManson YouthMusical YouthUntamed YouthYouthanasiaYouthanasia PxEastern YouthReagan YouthYouth...
Posted by Simon on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST

ONGOING LIST No.3: Bands with 'DIS' in their title...

DISCHARGEDISORDERDISCLOSEDISCLAPTIESDISFEARDISCOUNTDISCIPLES DISTURBEDDISTURBANCEDISCIPLINEDISABILITYDISSENTIONDISSENTDIS PLACEDDISORDERLY CONDUCTDISEASEDISOLUCION SOCIALDISGRACEDISGUSTDISTORTIONDISARMD...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST

ONGOING LIST No.1: Bands with 'OF' in their title...

Youth Of TodayDept Of Youth ServicesBattle Of DisarmBattalion Of SaintsSick Of It AllSka Gal And The Hands Of RaPower Of IdeaFlux Of Pink IndiansSisters Of MercyTrue Sounds Of LibertyFuture Sound Of L...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:23:00 PST

Odd dream I had...

I was in spacious hotel room. It was quite spartan. I looked at my right hand. In the palm, there was a black dot, like it was from a marker pen. It started to move. I squeezed. It burst through the s...
Posted by Simon on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:28:00 PST

Married, I am

Yep. The ring is on my finger.
Posted by Simon on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:36:00 PST

Getting married

Yep! Getting married off in less than 24 hours. Katie will soon be Mrs. No Mates. Hahaha!
Posted by Simon on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:04:00 PST