Ned
Ned Raggett
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To the darkened skies once more/And ever onward
Male
38 years old
COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA
United States
Last Login: 11/10/2009
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| General | Oh, where to begin. Food, that's always good. Musings on life. Sarcasm. Squelchy emotion sometimes hidden by the sarcasm (and sometimes not). Long conversations about this, that and the other. Avoiding commercials. The list goes on... | | Music |
At one point I thought this -- http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/nedmain.html -- but that was in 1999 and only covered one decade, after all. If I still had to name an all-time favorite band, though, My Bloody Valentine. And after that, oh I dunno, there's the Walkabouts, the Chameleons, Prince, Depeche Mode, Orbital, Tool, the Cocteau Twins, Derrick May, Dizzee Rascal, Disco Inferno, Timbaland, the Veldt, P J Harvey, Ghost, Windy, Carl, Slowdive, (early) Michael Jackson, seventies Hall and Oates, Motorhead, Coil, Daft Punk, Laurie Anderson, the Fall, the Church, Swans, the Mountain Goats, Bauhaus, David Bowie, the Cure, the Pixies, Marc Almond, Crevice, Crispy Ambulance, Joy Division, the Smiths, the Pet Shop Boys, Galaxie 500, Suede, Echo and the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Cheap Trick, Charalambides, Acid Mothers Temple, Rocket From the Crypt, the Boredoms, Chrome, James Brown, Big, Rich, Parliament/Funkadelic, most early Sugar Hill records, similarly most early Tommy Boy records, most everything on Trax now that I think about it, Kompakt really has done a very nice job over these last years, Chris Knox, the International Telepaths, the Verlaines, Tugboat, the Avalanches, Jennifer Gentle, Circle, Roy Montgomery, the Gordons, Bless, No-Man, Porcupine Tree, Love, Rockets, Peter Murphy, Cranes, the Melvins, Mr. Bungle, Johnny Cash, the Buzzcocks, Wire, the Damned, Drive Like Jehu, Pinback, Odelia, the Adolescents, the Squirrels, early Christian Death, the Cult, Metallica up to a point but I suppose they're a great parody of themselves these days, all those Trojan 3 disc collections, Julian Cope, most everything Time-Lag puts out, related to that Six Organs of Admittance, Massive Attack, Portishead, all those Speed Limit comps that Moonshine put out back in the early nineties, same with those XL comps at around the same time, all the various Nuggets, Pebbles compilations, Spacemen 3, at least a good chunk of the Flaming Lips, New Order, there's no real order to this you realize I'm just going on here, the Dead Milkmen, Arvo Part, the Aphex Twin, Autechre, Smashing Pumpkins who really should be at the top of this list or near to it but again I'm just rambling, Radiohead should be up there too, Muslimgauze, Misery Loves Co. had something there especially that Cure cover, Carcass, Napalm Death, Dead Can Dance, Pulp, Roxy Music, the Undertones, Howard Shore, In the Nursery, Electrelane, Mogwai, the Rapture, Aterciopelados, Soda Stereo especially that one great shoegaze record they did, oh yeah of course Slowdive, Chapterhouse, Lush, Ride, all them, Kinski, the Frogs, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the Lollies, the Kissing Time, I haven't gone on too much have I?,...late winter 2008 update: well, not much of one right at the present time. Nothing from this year is completely exciting me yet, but it'll happen! | | Movies | The list matches the music one in lengths so I will spare you. For 2008 so far, enjoyed Cloverfield but really liked There Will Be Blood. | | Television | There are DVD sets for that sorta thing these days. Or file-sharing or the like. For many Lost is apparently the business and I will not rule it out of hand, but the more time goes on the less inclined I am to want to delve into it. At heart there's my beloved Mystery Science Theatre 3000... | | Books | Multiply the music and movie list lengths for something proper. I work in a library and I've got about fifty books piled up on the floor next to my desk that I really want to get around to reading soon. | | Heroes | Don't have any. It's friends whose worth and advice have become evident to me that I admire -- and that very much includes my family. |
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Bomp Action Team: Southern Calif., ilXor, Club Violaine, chillcast with anji bee, KUCI, Silber Media, The Hustle, ArthurFest
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Ned's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Coronado, California, more or less | | Body type: | 6' 0" / Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Agnostic | | Zodiac Sign: | Pisces | | Smoke / Drink: | No / Yes | | Children: | Undecided | | Education: | Grad / professional school | | Occupation: | Library assistant/writer | | Income: | $30,000 to $45,000 |
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Ned's Companies
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UC Irvine Langson Library
Irvine, California US
Langson Library Reserves All-Around Guy
LL Access Services
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January 1997 - present
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All Music Guide
Ann Arbor, Michigan US
Freelancer
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1999 - present
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About me:
Various tales and complaints at Ned Raggett Ponders It All. Various shameless photos -- well, not really shameless at all -- are at my Flickr site, while details of travel plans and dreams and more besides are to be seen over at 43 Places, though it's a touch out of date. Then there's the Facebook profile and the last.fm location and...
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Who I'd like to meet:
Do you have a brain and a sense of humor and are friendly but don't suffer fools gladly? If so, good, very good indeed. (That said -- and I feel goofy having to add this but it's come to this point -- please don't send me a friend request unless you actually drop me a line and introduce yourself first. I always do that for others and it's good etiquette.)
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