MONTGOMERY'S FARMHOUSE CHEDDAR CHEESE, punk rock, facts, music, zines, film, books, etymology, fin de siècle, theory, knowledge, books, lexiconography, booze, this american life, basements, linguistics, things that are funny, sing alongs, food, friends, all things crucial.
Music
currently: Deep Sleep, Gut Reactions, Nighty Night, Rumspringer, Canadian Rifle, Libyans, No Slogan, Tweak Bird, and my roomates as-yet-named band.
funny stuff: don rickles, foster brooks, tony steven wright, zach galifianakis, stella, andy kaufman, rodney dangerfield
radio: this american life, the sound of young america, coast to coast, all things considered, BBC world news
or you could just look at this:
http://www.recordnerd.com/lists/raysuburbia
Movies
POINT BREAK, man on wire, audition, band of outsiders, battle royale, bed and board, blue dahlia, the celebration, double indemnity, funny face, kiss me deadly, PCU, pretty in pink, psycho beach party, repo man, road house, roman holiday, slapshot, stolen kisses, strangers on a train, UHF, vertigo, wet hot american summer, wild zero, me and you and everyone we know
Television
CHEATERS, the office, simpsons, curb your enthusiasm, jeopardy, sifl and olly, one on one, law and order, seinfeld, its always sunny in philadelphia, svengoolie, kenny vs spenny
Books
in my current reading stack: 'Division Street' - Studs Terkel, a Jonathan Lethem essay collection, some collected Beckett, and a rather lovely borrowed hardcover edition of Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveller."
SARAH VOWELL (!!!), jose saramago, miranda july, hugleikur dagsson, chandler brossard, mo willems, studs terkel, don marquis, kelly shortandqueer, aleksandar hemon, louis-ferdinand celine, edward lear, dashiell hammett, cristy road, neil gaiman, kobo abe, chynna clugston-major, shirley jackson, jonathan rosenbaum, heather blotto, jared diamond, pete jordan, frank miller, charles simic, ben weasel, michel foucalt, pete jordan, haruki murakami, sam dolgroff, maddy tightpants, roland barthes, james ellroy, paul verlaine, george tabb, stephane mallarme, henry hitchings, ben snakepit, raymond chandler, aaron cometbus, ryu murakami, chris claremont, keith rosson, kenzaburo oe, isaac adamson, mickey spillane, cindy crabb, charles baudelaire, earl shorris, meredith acne, al burian, samuel beckett, brian michael bendis, ludwig wittgenstein, martin amis, liz mason, george saunders, umberto eco, bryan charles, mykel board, richard brautigan, joe meno, italo calvino, lew houston, murray bookchin, jonathan carroll, and anything involving the spanish civil war.
Heroes
Buenaventura Durruti, James Murray, Harvey Milk, Margaret Sanger, Huey P. Newton, Freddy Prinze, James Jamerson, Caravaggio, my parents, mis abuelos y abuelas, Roger the landlord of Lost Cross, Barbara Kruger, Dock Ellis, Raquel Cristina Martinez, all the bands and people who paved the way.
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, ILLINOIS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Film/Pretension.
2000 to 2002
Libertyville High School
Libertyville, ILLINOIS
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: Graduating high school without killing anyone.
Clubs: band geek.
1998 to 2000
Carmel High School
Mundelein, ILLINOIS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Getting kicked out of catholic school.
1996 to 1998
Ray Suburbia's Companies
Lost Cross National Liberation Army Carbondale, IL US Subcomandante Insurgente. Public Relations / Propaganda
About me: i was born in the suburbs of chicago. lived there for a while. a long while. a dickensian long while. then chicago proper. then it was south to lovely carbondale, IL for a few years of living which could be somewhat recreated by drinking half a fifth of bourbon in a basement while 4 or so people scream at you through a PA for 3 continuous hours. after that jaunt it was north to the frozen tundra of wisconsin. where i spent 3 years, making music, eating cheese, riding bikes, travelling the country, falling in love, getting engaged, getting un-engaged, falling out of love, writing, putting out zines, and getting re-engaged, but this time in general mischief. Now it seems that the blackhole fantasy land of carbondale has me back in it clutches.
ive apparently made an unconscious habit of living in houses with names. that being said, i now live at Lost Cross (again)- 407 W. Elm - Carbondale, IL - 62901
im stuck in the middle, so i like to get letters.
i ride bikes and read books and make music and watch movies and high five and talk it out and take it easy mostly and flake out more often than i wish i did and use copy machines to do wonderful things and really enjoy stealing for more than i should and have great ideas but only follow through on about 20% of them and start forgetting everything about 3 years later and very much enjoy telling people stuff i just learned so that they learn it too and try to be the best friend that i can.
i currently have unrequited crushes on: Sarah Vowell, Miranda July, Jenna Fischer, the anthropomorphized version of the band Tacocat, Christine Darbon (ca. 1968), a Muncie girl named Amy Archer, Laura Silverman, and the girl whos voice i hear in my head when i write new backup vocals for old songs on the radio.
Im in a band that ive been in longer than most relationships ive had called It Burns. Theres also a new affair of a band im in called, Leaders. i sometimes put out a zine every now and then called Love In The Time of Scabies, but i contribute to High Carb Low Life zine regularly.
Im pretty smart, but act pretty dumb sometimes.
And not only is The Cure my favorite band of all time, but i dont think thats weird. in fact, i think its pretty weird that theyre not yours.
Who I'd like to meet: smart people, turophiles, pen pals, fun kids who like to play non-head games, old friends, people who write zines but dont call themselves zinesters, supportive others, minority punks, queer punks, lady punks, passing strangers, freaks, weirdos, rejects, a nice anyone to sit around and talk with.
now who wants to grab a space bag of blush, a jambox, some mixtapes, and go for a bike ride until the sun comes up?
...and i want to meet this dude and ask him why hes wasting his time learning a chinese telephones song.
P.S. - NO COPS, NARCS, SUITS, BIG WIGS, BIGOTS, POSERS, OR LANDLORDS!!!
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A nice homeless man walked me to work this morning and asked if I wanted to marry him.Without giving me time to answer,he then pulled out a digimon coloring book and ask if I wanted it. If I wasn’t late for work, I would’ve been on my honeymoon by now coloring “Togemon” every color besides green!
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