Married to: the Decemberists, the Beatles, Genesis (Gabriel), the Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, the Who, Oingo Boingo, the Long Winters, Queen, and yes, the Ramones.
Courting on the side: the Stone Roses, the Smiths, Death Cab for Cutie, the Rosebuds, of Montreal, Spoon, Architecture in Helsinki, Art Brut, the Arcade Fire, Leonard Cohen, Al Green, Engineers, Morrissey, the Velvet Underground, Tool, AFI, Simon and Garfunkel, Andrew Bird, Regina Spektor, Voxtrot, Muse, Explosions in the Sky, Au Revoir Simone, American Music Club, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Tool, the Postal Service, Frou Frou, Belle and Sebastian, the Cure, Stephen Malkmus, the Velvet Teen, the Dismemberment Plan, Feist, DeVotchKa, Apoptygma Berserk, Juliette and the Licks, Modest Mouse, Menomena, A Band of Bees, Billy Idol, Beck, Dntel, Interpol, The Replacements, TV on the Radio, LCD Soundsystem, the New Pornographers, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Tom Waits, Destroyer, Steve Burns, Dirty on Purpose, Yes, Elk City, Bjork, the Weakerthans, Duran Duran, the Dresden Dolls, Feist, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kraftwerk, the Long Blondes, the Hush Sound, Metric, The Mamas and the Papas, Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies, Billy Joel, Calla, Cooper Temple Clause, Final Fantasy, Journey, ELO, The Clientele, Nick Drake, Phoenix and the Turtles, Dead Letter Office, Depeche Mode, the Flaming Lips, and a few hundred others that take me out to supper sometimes.
Movies
Older horror films and trainwreck comedies. I'm also a big fan of the genre "cult classic," even though I'm not technically in a cult.
I also sometimes watch movies where people kiss.
Television
Not really.
Books
Her Name Titanic, Catch-22, The Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and all accompanying Adams brilliance), As I Lay Dying, Snow Falling on Cedars, Mrs. Dalloway, Loose Screws, Doctor Faustus, The Yellow Wallpaper, She's Come Undone, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Liars and Saints, A Family Daughter, the Harry Potter series, A Clockwork Orange, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary, Dust, Flying to Valhalla, the Xanth novels, the 33 1/3 series, Cathedral, and pretty much every novel from required reading in high school that most people hated. (Except Grapes of Wrath and Heart of Darkness, for which there are no excuses.) The list goes on. I'm usually reading something. Favourite author is Charles Pellegrino.
Currently attacking: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (aka Belt Down, Serious Shit Ahead) On the side: Nothing at the moment, which makes me want to cry.
Heroes
THE TOXIC AVENGER. And people who put propellers on kippots.
I write stuff. Sometimes I post it here when I feel sadomasochistic.
I'm in a band. We're currently in the tedious and frustrating process of making our first EP.
I am a wrecking ball before the building fell.
(In a nutshell: Walking contradiction. Needs a life.)
Who I'd like to meet: A huge, animate, embittered brussels sprout who will join me at my side during an epic battle of vegetables against the small children who shun them.
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Everyone I know thats on it pay in money and might make a tiny bit here and there but its worthless. sorry if im sounding cruel but ive heard the thing so many times now its not funny
I feel the need to point out, for no productive reason, that you wanted me to delete what is now your default picture from my camera. You dared question my skills as a photographer, and now...you don't anymore. So there?
And YAY I'm excited for the hardcore washboard-ness! I think that'll add just the right amount of Extra Sound to our already-established Awesome Sound. Thus, by algebraic rules, this would make it an Extra Awesome Sound. Major kudos to the washboard.
Okay. I applaud Pitchfork for being down-to-earth and un-snobbish enough to give two of the greatest albums ever made solid 10.0 ratings. I seriously love both of these albums; likewise, I seriously appreciate that the 'Fork isn't so far gone as to not give the records their due simply to prove their own Critical Importance. Or whatever.
I feel like listening to them again, now. And I want to see Control SO BADLY, but it's not playing here yet.
OMG I KNOW. 23 days. On Friday, it will be THREE WEEKS. Six and a half years vs. three weeks. dsfgdfgh
Fate's making me earn it, though, 'cause school's gonna be a BITCH between now and then (but, and providence smiles down upon me, not so far as I can tell during or around that weekend). So sez skool: "You want tests? Sure, I can give you a couple of those. Big ones, too! And papers? You wanna write PAPERS? Okay, I'll make room for a handful of those, too! And I'll make them all happen within two weeks of each other, bwahahahaha."
However, I think I will find that these not-so-little details will make that time go much, much faster. Which ... AFDSKJFSDH.
