Tucson Mullarkey
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Male
90 years old
TUCSON, Arizona
United States
Last Login: 1/6/2010
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Tucson Mullarkey's Interests
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| General | Live rock, LP records, extreme karaoke, dancing (especially Thursdays/Saturdays at Club Congress and Mondays at Surly Wench, both of which sometimes let me DJ), hiking/camping, my bicycle, cactus and other desert flora, vegetarian eats, making cat noises, indie film, trains and the tracks that carry them, old buildings, maps, public transit, public art, public/pirate radio, meteorology, mini golf (I play), roller derby (I watch), environmental and civil/human rights activism, Olympia WA, other people's cats, having quirks, not growing up, not moving to Portland, being short, being a shy exhibitionist, Atari 2600/5200, and YOU! | | Music | The top forever: Husker Du, Jawbreaker, Rites of Spring, Embrace, Cringer/J Church. All the others, according to our alphabet: All Girl Summer Fun Band, American Analog Set, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Antelope, Archers of Loaf, At The Drive-In, Atom and His Package, Avail, Bad Brains (before HR turned out to be a homophobic, violent, drug-addled asshole), Bangs, Beat Happening, Bebe and Serge, Bikini Kill, Birthday Suits, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Blake Babies, The Blow, Bob Dylan, Bob Log III, Buzzcocks, Cap'n Jazz, Cheap Trick, Chester, Coachwhips, Crimpshrine, Dag Nasty, Descendents, Discount, Doo Rag, Engine Kid, Erase Errata, Farside, Fugazi, Galactic Federation of Love, Garden Variety, Gaunt, George Squier Orchestra, Glossines, Go Gos, Golden Boots, Gorilla Biscuits, Hank Williams, Health, Hobart, Hot Water Music, Robyn Hitchcock, Injections (CT), Joan of Arc, John Cash, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, Joy Division, Kid Dynamite, Knockout Pills, La Cerca, Last of the Juanitas, Lemon Drop Gang, Ted Leo, Les Georges Leningrad, Les Thugs, Le Tigre, Lifetime, Mad River Glen, Make Believe, Melvins, Mercyland, Mika Miko, Mineral, Minutemen, Misfits, Mondo Guano, Mr. Airplane Man, Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout, The Nerves, Nirvana, Octopus Project, Okmoniks, Old Time Relijun, Operation Ivy, Parts and Labor, Pixies, Pohgoh, Pork Torta, Portastatic/Superchunk, Primadonnas, Public Enemy, Ramones, Scrog, Seaweed, Sebadoh, 7 Seconds, Shark Pants, Shudder to Think, Sicko, Silver Scooter, Slant Six, Sleater-Kinney, Starfish, Stooges, Sugar, Sugarbush and related projects, The Cars, The Clash, The Cure, The Gossip, The Smiths, The Thermals, The Who, Thin Lizzy, Tiger Trap, Token Entry, Tomorrow, Tones on Tail, Ultra Maroon, Uncle Tupelo, Undertones, Unrest, Vaselines, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Weird Lovemakers, Wesley Willis, Winelord, X, XBXRX, Xiu Xiu, Neil Young | | Movies | Amelie, Bowling for Columbine, Empire Strikes Back, American Splendor, American Movie, Life of Brian, Edward Scissorhands, Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore, Taxi Driver, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, Bob Dylan Don't Look Back, The Straight Story, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, O.G. Night of the Living Dead (slow zombies forever!), Ghost World, Day the Earth Stood Still, Chasing Amy, All Over Me, Hands on a Hard Body (NOT a bodybuilding flick), Hard Day's Night, Rock n Roll High School, Bandwagon, We Jam Econo | | Television | Doctor Who, The Simpsons, Fawlty Towers, M*A*S*H*, The Weather Channel (in general), Square Pegs, The Muppet Show, The Prisoner, Avengers, All in the Family, O.G. Star Trek, Welcome Back Kotter, Good Times, Glenn Campbell's Good Time Hour, Twilight Zone, Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler, Facts of Life but first season ONLY, What's Happening, The Desert Speaks, Honeymooners, The Joy of Painting with my good friend Bob Ross, Yes Minister, CPO Sharkey (my dad's all-time favorite show, but he'll never be on MySpace so I have to list it for him), Battlestar Galactica--oh, I just found out there's a new one, but unless it has an actor who will later end up on the A-Team, and another actor who once starred on Bonanza, plus a robot dog even more ridiculous than Doctor Who's K9, then it cannot possibly hold a candle to the original. | | Books | Desert Solitaire--Abbey, Travels with Charley--Steinbeck, 1984--Orwell, King Leer--Shakespeare, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung--Lester Bangs, Johnny Get Your Gun--John Dudley Ball, The Elements of Style--Strunk and White, anything by David Foster Wallace (the more footnotes, the better--and may he rest in peace!), anything by Salinger not just the obvious Catcher in the what's its name, Hemmingway when I'm feeling manly, Bradbury when he's not wasting time getting on Michael Moore's case, and the inevitable Tolkien. I'm tending these days to prefer short stories and creative non-fiction to novels both as a reader and writer and am reconsidering my ideas of who my favorites are. | | Heroes | Awesome short people: my dad, my brother Matt, Jane Wiedlin, Iggy Pop, Prince, Michael Feldman, my congressman Raul Grijalva, and most importantly, Monika Jane Seitz!
One-person rockers: Bob Log III, Atom, Har Mar Superstar, NoBunny, Wesley Willis, The H-Girl (with shout out to the P-Man), I Hate You When You're Pregnant, Hawnay Troof, Tracy and the Plastics, Militant Children's Hour, Tender Forever.
And my overall favorite people in rock history: Bob Mould, Ian MacKaye, Guy Picciotto, Blake Schwarzenbach, Lance Hahn, Calvin Johnson, Kevin Seconds, Tim Kinsella. |
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Tucson FILM, Courtney's Friends and Friends of Friends, DANCE TEAM UNITED, 5ft2 ROCKS BALLS!!!, Classy Sober Dames' Association, The Daring Few, TuXXXson Sex Worker Arts Festival, El Camino Real studios
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Tucson Mullarkey's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Norwalk+New Haven CT/Tampa/Austin/San Diego/Tucson | | Body type: | 5' 4" / Body builder | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn | | Children: | Love kids, but not for me | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Writer/adventurer/karaoke extremist/career punk |
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Tucson Mullarkey's Schools
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University Of Tampa
Tampa, FLORIDA
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Creative Writing
Clubs: WUTZ 1075 AM: We Know You Hate Us
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Norwalk High School
Norwalk, CONNECTICUT
Graduated: 1991
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Who has a major in high school? Silly question.
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Tucson Mullarkey My band Monster Pussy are playing a FREE and ALL AGES show Monday, January 4, at Red Room! With Ssssss! Come by after Posted at 1:53 AM Jan 4
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About me:
The love of my life is the desert. Tucson is home, but so is the road. I hope to some day devote my life to road tripping and writing about it. I currently have a "real job," but I consider this a temporary obstruction.
I like two kinds of weather: sunny and hot! Okay, and thunderstorms, too.
I've discovered that everyone associates me primarily with karaoke. And I like karaoke...but I also like mini golf! I wouldn't want to be associated primarily with mini golf, either.
I no longer go on karaoke tours. Those were never the prime reason for my travels, but they were an exiting overlay upon my much broader adventures for a few summers. But there's no reason to go on karaoke tours when I now sing in a band that I adore, Monster Pussy! This band is my life, so please share it with me! myspace.com/monsterpussycat
When I wander the hiking trails and streets I take lots of pictures. In the cities, I'm interested in abandoned or decaying buildings, the contrast between old and new, before-and-after profiles of destruction a.k.a. progress (goodbye, sweet Greyhound, the first place where I set foot on Tucson ground), public art including quality graffiti, the way that the man-made interacts with geography, and silly things like the Kum & Go stores in Iowa. I'm hoping to start a website so I can show my pictures to people other than myself. I'm sure that won't happen till at least late 2008 I mean 2012, but I like to have long-term goals.
I used to live in the Armory Park historic 'hood in Downtown Tucson, AZ, Sonoran Desert. Bad management chased me out of the building that was my home for seven years, but I've found shelter in a beautiful duplex in West University. Someday, I'll move back to Armory Park, my home within my home.
I have a car for longer road trips, but I rarely use it to get around the city. Who needs to drive when you have a bike, two feet, and a substandard but cheap and aesthetically pleasing bus system?
Fun Facts: Call me "Mullarkey," not my boring first name which is not worth typing here. I come in a compact format, easy for storage and tossing round, but watch out, I have a bum back. Let me rephrase that for clarity: only girls are allowed to pick me up, because guys are too rough and are not as cute as girls. I don't know how to swim and I don't want you to teach me! I don't think I ever sleep. Usually tea (especially loose-leaf) not coffee, unless I'm in Paris, which I'm usually not. I most often get compared to Mark E. Smith from The Fall and the shy record store employee in High Fidelity.
I don't know why there isn't a category for favorite radio shows, but I'm going to use this extra space to tell you mine: Michael Feldman's What D'Ya Know?, Car Talk, This American Life, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Groove Tomb and Al Perry's Clambake (both at kxci.org), and lots of shows on Radio Limbo when it was on the air. Now, I'm a devoted listner to Free Radio Chukshon, Tucson's new micro-power radio station (freeradiochukshon.org). I especially enjoy The Meow Mix, Mondays 4 to 6!
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Who I'd like to meet:
Voters! Okay, and non-voters, too, but only if you're willing to change yourself into a voter.
Voting, of course, is only the beginning. We need to stay active to build the world that we want.
The majority of Americans want a public health insurance option, yet conservatives in Congress and crazy right-wing radio hosts are drowning us out. Make your voice heard!: http://americacantwait.com/
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