I adore music, the music that I feel drawn to is something I find vital and inspirational, music brings so much to my life, I don't know what I would do without it. So many people I have encountered in my life seem merely content to let the radio, the media, and marketing companies dictate what they should listen to, I've never understood that kind of passive reaction to music. I'm constantly searching for new music to transcend the blandness of everyday existence. My drive for music is pretty fuckin' insatiable. I enjoy the ragggaaarrrrgggghhhh and the exquisitely pretty. Shimmery and spiky. Transcendent and nefarious.
Jaimz loves (In no particular order..) glassjAw, Strapping Young Lad + Devin Townshend solo stuff, Queen Adreena, Psydoll, Stolen Babies, Radiohead, Meg Lee Chin, New Way Home, deftones, tool, Primus, Second Theory, Mr. Bungle (and pretty much everything Mike Patton is / was involved in), Secret Chiefs 3, theSTART, Flatstick, Pzychobitch, Autechre, Failure, Daisy Chainsaw, Peaches, Squarepusher, Ladytron, Codeine Like Candy, Moloko, Big Black, Sugarcubes, Poison The Well, Team Sleep, Look What I Did, Kidney Thieves, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Jesus Lizard, Grim Faeries, Tapeworm, Oceansize, Mindless Self Indulgence, Opeth, Melt Banana, Johnny Hollow, Blood Brothers, Cripple Mr Onion, My Ruin, Vast, Cranes, Sad Music For Happy Humans, HORSE the Band, Eurythmics, A Perfect Circle, (the) Vanishing, Sikth, (Hed)pe, Pearl Jam (some of it), He Is Legend, Rasputina, Otep, The Pixies, Aphex Twin, Devo, Gorillaz, Schoolyard Heroes, Headless Chickens, Grotus, Carcass, Porcupine Tree, Estradasphere, Malenky Robot, Nine Inch Nails, Bat For Lashes, John Zorn, Sevendust, Botch, Jeff Buckley, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, The Residents, At The Drive-In, Danny Elfman, Puscifer, Boards Of Canada, Skinny Puppy, oldskool Fear Factory, Devil Driver, Animal Collective, Lamb Of God, Kate Bush, Atari Teenage Riot + Alec Empire / Hanin Elias / Nic Endo solo works, Gigglebox, Miss Kittin, Arcana, Dieselboy, Black Dice, The Birthday Massacre, Queen, Ophelia's Dream, Soundgarden, CocoRosie (cos their stuff is just so damned strange), The Mars Volta, Portishead, Jakob, Will Haven, John Frusciante solo stuff (it can clear rooms y'know.. put on his 1st 2 albums on at a party and watch the atmosphere get completely sucked out of the room. funfun!), Mudvayne (even though their new album sucks), American Headcharge (even though their latest album sucks also), Faith No More, Fever Lake, Lydia Lunch, Bjork, System Of A Down, Meshuggah, Norma Jean, Ulver, Mastadon, Keelhaul, Animal Alpha, Beth Gibbons, Red Sparrow, Boredoms, Bic Runga (her debut album is gorgeous), Ayria, Kyuss, refused, Pantera, Moesaboa, Fell Silent, Tesseract, muse, Grant Lee Buffalo, Day One, Jane's Addiction, Stone Temple Pilots, I could be here all day...
Stolen Babies: Miss Kittin:
Movies
Nightmare Before Christmas, Spirited Away, Suicide Club, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Donnie Darko, Aliens, The Exorcist, Being John Malkovich, Bad Santa, Ichi The Killer, Ghost World, Kill Bill 1&2, Matchstick Men, Akira, Layer Cake, Requiem For A Dream, Ultraviolet, Lord Of War, Fight Club, Battle Royale, Pirates Of The Carribean, True Romance, The original three StarWars films, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Heavenly Creatures, Cube, Bound, Sleepy Hollow, Sixth Sense, The Boondock Saints, Gremlins1 but especially Gremlins2, Lost Highway, Interview With The Vampire, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Beetlejuice, Dark City, The Big Lebowski, City Of Lost Children, Blade Runner, Sin City, Run Lola Run, Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow (visually, conceptually, but I'm not 100% sold on the actual plot of the thing. [and cos I kinda hate Jude Law >__O ]), BASEketball, The Blade movies, escpecially Blade Trinity, Pitch Black, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 2 - Apocoleeeepse (worth it for Milla's audio commentary alone), Sean Of The Dead, Lost Boys, Raising Arizona, Kafka, DieHard 1&2, The Doooooom Generation, Constantine, Heathers, Hellboy, Pulp Fiction, Collateral, and there's bound to be a couple of others that aren't springing to mind right at this moment...
Television
The Venture Bros., FLCL, Invader Zim, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy, Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokoro-Chan, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Full Metal Alchemist, Samurai Jack, Aeon Flux, Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends... but TV is generally a vile, vacuous medium.
Books
The books that I have enjoyed reading are many, here are two :Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk Comics Zeet + Chimney 25 by FSc Johnny The Homicidal Maniac + I Feel Sick by Jhonen Vasquez Ghost World + Eightball by Daniel Clowes Serenity Rose + Kimmie66 by Aaron A Grrl Scouts by Jim Mahfood Ranklechick & his Three Legged Cat by Rosearik Rikki Symons and Tavisha
Wolfgarth-Symons Bone by Jeff Smith Nightmares & Fairytales by Serena Valentino and FSc
Bear by Jamie Smart Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson Footrot Flats by Murray Ball Webcomics Red Town by Celina Hernandez & Mike Murphy Platinum Grit by Trudy Cooper, Danny Murphy and Doug Bayne Alone In A Crowd by Thomas D. Szewc Girls With Slingshots by Danielle Corsetto The God Machine by Chandra Free Shortpacked! + It's Walky! etc by David Willis Red Meat by Max Cannon
etcetera etcetera...
Too small to pursue his dream of becoming a closet monster, despite being rather adept at lurking and looming (for as we all know, lurking is loitering with intent), young Jimmy now spends his days sleeping and his nights drawing weird things.
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ahahah i laughed my ass of to some of those (like actual Lmao, not the lmao people put in their messages when something mildly amuses them) the star wars theatre quote about crying at the end of mygirl when macauly culkin dies with boba fett gazing over you... and that star trek urn haha omg that is tragic, that had me piss myself too.
i swear someone sent me a link to this site just yesterday about top ten politiclly incorrect dolls, not sure if it was this site, but im hooked now :p
as a matter of fact there is a recording and i do have a copy. it was an improv basement jam session done in 2004 haha, my flatmate and i cut the sessions into an 18 track cd, the dr who song being on there. unfortunatly my copies in NZ stored in an attic. i listened to it last year and actually liked it. see thing was my flatmate and i were involves in it for shits and giggles and i also did it to further my musical prowers/experience. he'd smoke pot and id down shots of absinthe and we'd dress up really stupid and dance around like idiots at these practices.
as for the dr who house, like yeah seriously, youd probably wanna take that stuff out of the house whilst taking real estate pics to sell it. the tackyness would devalue it haha
i had a side project once where i was playing bass and keyboard, slightly joy division/electro/improv,kinda thing you do when your musically frustrated. i and my flatmate who was also a singer in a band (played drums in this one) joined cos the main guy was seriously messed in the head and about 40 years old, used to approach us in the street stuttering with what appeared to be chalk on his face to whiten it, whilst dressed very much like David Bain (ironically he was from dunedin as well). there was no way i was passingup this opportunity. anyway whilst jamming i started playing the dr who theme on bass and the other 2 followed suit on their instruments, it was soo amazing haha. we played with famous welington Indie band "disasteradio" who invited me (as i was playing synths in most songs) to do a side project with him which i never got round to doing because candyscar was on the rise readying for 1st gig and an ep etc.. and eventually that guy ends up on C4 haha.
yes precisely, i looked them up when 1st got here actually to ee if they were still active and all that was there was 2 local shows in Portsmouth within a 3 month period at very small bars, and checked their istory and it seemed like theyd become jus a local band now, so when i saw the london gig i was quite excited. anf the pic comment? what on earth did you mean? haha
ahh no problem, im still deciding weather to go to cranes,i think i should go though, i mean fuck, The CRANES!. i hope they play starblood. thing is theres soo many concerts in London sometime i feel "oh theyll be back again" but the cranes have been in the wilderness for a while so im fuessign London shows are rare
Hey babe!!! Just a quick reminder about our awesome show
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ok ive read Part 2 of Aoet now also, i see what you mean by the quality of illustration. Bravo, ill get through them all soon :) i found out yesterday that Cranes are playing in London in November! :) soo happy as its been years since they played here (i had to stalk them to see if they were still gigging) oh i cant wait :)
after a very very long time of procastinating, i finally read AOET today. well issue 1 so far. and bravo i must say. i enjoyed it thoroughly, and will read the others soon. i totally dig the whole character development thingy too.
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