live music shows, hiking/peakbagging, calf/quadracep development, trashtalkin' blacktop basketball, burrito connoisseurism (trust me, I know real Mexican food!), thrift-shop cherry-picking, roadtrips, my friend Todd's health, writing long emails
Music
Abe Vigoda, A Frames, Alan Milman Sect, Alarmist, Rashied Ali, GG Allin & the Jabbers, Amon Düül II, Anteenagers M.C., Antennas Erupt, Art Lessing & the Flower Vato, Baby 63, Bad Posture, Battleship, Beat Happening, Bench, the Better to See You With, Biting Tongues, Blank Dogs, Blood Feast, Blue (Philly), Blue Cheer, Blurt, Bomis Prendin, Boulder, Brainbombs, Burmese, Burning Witch, Business Lady, Cabaret Voltaire, Capitalist Casualties, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Caroliner, CeBe Barns Band, Channels 3 & 4, the Cherry Point, Cheveu, Child Molesters, Chino XL, Chrome, Todd Tamanend Clark, the Clean, Cock ESP, the Consumers, Kevin Corcoran, Corpse Fucks Corpse, Coughs, Country Teasers, Crash Normal, Crime, Crisis, Cro Magnon, Crucial Section, Curse of the Birthmark, Dadamah, Danava, Dan Melchior und das Menace, Dark Day, David Copperfuck, Davila 666, Dead/Bird, Dead Moon, Dead Raven Choir, Death Sentence: Panda!, Deathside, Debris', Designer, Detention, Dissimilars, Doormouse, Doppelganger Squid, Drunks With Guns, DS-13, Eat Skull, Eat the People, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Electric Eels, El Jesus de Magico, Emil Beaulieau, End Result, Esplendor Geometrico, Erase Errata, ExTxA, Ettrick, Euclid, Exclaim, Factums, the Fall, Fang, Fat Worm of Error, Faust, Faxed Head, Feedtime, the Feelers, Flying Luttenbachers, the Formless, 14 Iced Bears, Frustration, Fuck Off Records, Functional Blackouts, Fungus Brains, Fushitsusha, Gang Wizard, Gapeseed, Gaunt, Gauze, Genbaku Onanies, Get Hustle, Ghost Echoes, Gift of Goats, Girl Talk, Glass Candy, Glass Family, Gob (Reno), God's Gift, Grauzone, H-100's, Hair Police, Hampton Grease Band, Harry Pussy, Head (Seattle), Hearts of Darknesses, Heimat Los, Heist, Heldon, Hellnation, Henry Fiat's Open Sore, High Rise, Hijo Kaidan, Home Blitz, Honeymoon Killers, the Hospitals, Noah Howard, Hubble Bubble, Human Host, Hustler White, ICK, Icky Boyfriends, Inca Ore, Indian Bingo, Indian Jewelry, Inflatable Boy Clams, the Intelligence, I Refuse It!, Jaws, Jay Reatard, Jellyroll Rockheads, JFK Jr. Royal Air Force, Jonny X & the Groadies, Josef K, Joy Division, Karate Party, Karp, the Kids, Kill-a-Watts, Kill Me Tomorrow, Kill the Hippies, K.I.T., Kites, Klondike & York, KTMK, Labradford, Lack of Interest, Lake of Dracula, Lama, the Lamps, Leaders, Le Chevalier de Rinchy, Le Club des Chats, Le Flange du Mal, Lil Pocketknife, Lightning Bolt, Lip Cream, Liquorball, Little Claw, Loop, Los Huevos, Los Llamarada, Lost Sounds, Lovely Little Girls, Lubricated Goat, Lync, Mainliner, Malibu Falcon, Mammal, Manbot, Man Is the Bastard, Mattress, Mayyors, the Meanies, Meercaz, Dan Melchior und das Menace, Mens Recovery Project, Mercury 4°F, Metal Urbain, Mikaela's Fiend, Mika Miko, the Monitors, Monoshock, Roy Montgomery, Mr. & Mrs. Tribute to Ugliness, Multiplex, Mummies of the Insane, N.213, Nar, Negative FX, the Neos, Nervous Eaters, Nervous Gender, New Flesh, Night Kings, Night Wounds, No Doctors, Nothing People, No Trend, Numbers, Oaxacan, Okan, Orange Wedge, Riz Ortolani, John Oswald, Outo, the Outsiders (Dutch), Parts & Labor, Pay Toilets, Percy Faith & his Orchestra, Linda Perhacs, Pink Reason, Pink Section, Pissed Jeans, the Pizzas, Plants, Point Line Plane, Portion Control, Popular Shapes, Princess Sweepstakes, Psychedelic Horseshit, QEK Junior, Radiopuhelimet, Raxola, Really Red, the Reatards, Renaldo & the Loaf, Residual Echoes, Ripcord, Robedoor, Rubber (O) Cement, Rupture, Rusted Shut, Pierre Schaeffer, Schnauzer, Screamers, Septic Death, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Severed Heads, Sex With Girls (Is Rad), Sexy Prison, Shadow Ring, Jim Shepard, Sightings, Silentist, Silver Daggers, Sirius B, Sir Lord Baltimore, Ski Instructors, Skullflower, Slapping Bikini, Sleetmute Nightmute, Smegma, Smersh, Snake Apartment, SxOxB, Sockeye, Solitairen Effekten, the Sores, So So Many White White Tigers, Spider, Stickmen With Rayguns, Chad Stockdale Quartet, Stretchheads, Suppression, Swimmers, Sword Heaven, Billy Syndrome, Talbot Tagora, Tampax, Tapeworm, Teengenerate, Terveet Kadet, the Testors, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Times New Viking, Totalitär, Towel, Toxic Attitude, Tralphaz, Troya, Tunnels, Tuxedomoon, TWIN, Tyrades, Tyvek, Uncle Jim's Superstars of Greenwich Meantime, Uncurbed, Unholy Swill, Unnatural Helpers, the USA Is a Monster, U.S. Girls, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Venom P. Stinger, Vholtz, Voivod, Volt, Warm Streams, Weirdo/Begeirdo, Ruth White, the Wipers, Wire, Woman's Worth, Wooden Shjips, ...Worms, the Worst, X (the one from Australia), XBXRX, the Yahmos, die Yellow Swans, Michael Yonkers, YUKhONIC, Yuma Nora, Zebra Attack, Zero Boys
Movies
After Hours, American Heart, American Beauty, Better Off Dead, Brother From Another Planet, CB4, The Deer Hunter, The Delivery Boys, Fast Break, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, Office Space, Rad, Series 7, TV Carnage
Television
Cheaters, Upright Citizens Brigade, Cheap Seats
Books
City of Quartz, Secor's The High Sierra, Roughing It (especially the parts about Twain's time in Mono County), Range of Light, Places Rated Almanac, Boring Postcards, Fuzz Flaykes & Shakes, Slam magazine, Chunklet, Sincere Brutality
About me: A fountain of useless trivia specializing in geography, obscure music, automotive history, and the Old West, I take in an average of 2.5 live music shows per week, school a dozen or more fools on the blacktop per week, and usually get to the top of at least one mountain peak on the weekend. I'm very proud of my parallel parking expertise. One time, I got a round of applause from a group of people who had assembled on the sidewalk to see if I could actually wedge my way into this tiny spot. Money even changed hands as two dudes placed bets on whether I was gonna make it.
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My tee-shirts are arranged by color ROYGBIV-style with the black shirts starting after the "V" then followed by a greyscale that descends all the way to the white shirts. And they are all tri-folded so as to avoid creases down the middle. But I do not have OCD, I swear it!
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I host a weekly radio show called "Art for Spastics"... I play thee best in garage/scuzz-punk ineptitude, knuckledragging thug-rock of the lesser primates, high-falutin jackoffnoise, glitched-out electro booyar jamz, art-damaged skronkrawk, misappropriation of "Neo-No-Wave" & hella contrived subgenre names.... You just nod along & pretend to enjoy!
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Here's my "Art for Spastics" blog... http://artforspastics.blogspot.com/ ...which includes the links for listening or downloading the show, researching the bands or perhaps figuring out how to buy this stuff if the mood strikes you, and brief reviews of the material featured on the program.
Thanks for listening and/or reading...
Who I'd like to meet: Show-goers; record geeks; streetballers; hikers; art-damaged scuzz-punk bandmates; Jerry Reynolds and Gary Gerould.
IF YOU WANNA CONTACT ME ABOUT BOOKING A SHOW: DO NOT MESSAGE ME ON MYSPACE, PLEASE! I get too many messages. Please email me at... rickele (at) gmail (dot) com
First EP by Lyon's own The last rapes of mister Teach. "the blood of another man / I saw a cops b/w It's all over / Gypsy knight".
The 7" is a 300 copies silkscreened. France : 6 euro pp
Europe : 7 euro pp World : 8 euro pp disquessteak@gmail.com
If you haven't gone to a Viola Evolve show yet, come see what you have been missing out on..Its all going down TONIGHT! Catch a FREE full night of some live music..Not to mention FULL bar and cheap drinks..
This 14 track album by Dan Melchior is out now on the Topplers Record Label.
Dan Says... It's a good one I think, very loud and blasted out like the more 'punk' moments on 'Thankyou very much' , but with a good dose of mangled pop too.
Available from good independent dealers in the US and UK or direct from Topplers.
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