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17:01 / 04.09.02

You have a wonderful board here, and I am duly impressed with the range of topics and discussions containined herein. Kudos. In the interests of self-expression and introduction, I have taken it upon myself to compose an introductory mini self-survey. Feel free to add/make up your own as you see fit:

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

"Monkey Gone to Heaven", The Pixies.

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Cats, coffee, Call of Cthulhu, chocolate, "Cult Rapture", Chinese food, cinnamon, Cup-O'-Noodles, Cambodia, Crouching Tiger--Hidden Dragon, Crying Free Man, cilantro, caterpillars, calzones, curry, calliopes, Candide, cerveza, collage, cranberries, Cajun cooking, champagne, and Cynics (as in the Greek sort).

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

Arthur Lee & Love.

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Bugs Bunny, but it would have to be the older, pre-60's classic Bugs, the anarchistic one, not the shitty modern version.

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

The duck-bill platypus.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Its a toss-up between Max Ernst, Hieronymous Bosch, and Winsor McCay.

7.) Future travel destination:

Thailand, with a daytrip to Angkor Wat in the itinerary.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Alchemist.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

The Exorcist, though I haven't seen it since I was 8, so I may have to get back to you on that one.

10.) Currently listening to:

Lots of classic blues from 40's-60's (mainly Howlin' Wolf, Lighting Hopkins, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, etc.). Also vintage Patti Smith (Horses, Easter, Radio Ethiopia) & Tom Waits (Nighthawks at the Diner, Small Change, Foreign Affairs, Blue Valentine).

11.) Currently reading:

"The Crook Factory", by Dan Simmons.

OK. Your turn. (Remember, it only goes up to 11!)

17:21 / 04.09.02

I'm not exactly new, but hey, welcome and all that.

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

"Put Me Back In The Cage", James Chance.

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Ajax, Duckman's son.

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

bees.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Graverobbers.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Rosemary's Baby.

10.) Currently listening to:

Rufus Wainwright - "POSES"

11.) Currently reading:

"O Imbecil Coletivo", by Olavo de Carvalho.

17:31 / 04.09.02

1) The "Family Ties" theme. The "Sha na na naaa..." part at the end is guaranteed to reduce everyone to tears.

2) Cocks and cunts.

8) Rat catcher.

9) I'm not sure, but the Olsen twins are in it.

10) A bunch of professional assholes.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:44 / 04.09.02

I'm not new, but fuck it. Welcome all.

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

The last song on Modest Mouse's The Lonesome Crowed West.

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Cats, chocolate, Chinese food, Cup-O'-Noodles, cocaine

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

The Love Dogs

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

He-man

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Gotta go with bees.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Escher, or possibly various surrealists.

7.) Future travel destination:

My house, the day after tommorrow.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Wise man

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Event Horizon made me nearly wet myself. Although, the Fist of the Northstar movie was frightening as well (for different reasons. To use a David Spade joke: "My three year old nephew would have nightmares from this movie. He would wake up and scream 'Mommy, mommy, how did they get financing?'").

10.) Currently listening to:

Lots of pixies, and the radio.

11.) Currently reading:

Dancers at the End of Time, and whatever Buckaroo Banzai books I can get my hands on.

22:17 / 04.09.02

Hello all, I'm new too - big love...

Funeral music : Home of Fadeless Splendour - Cardiacs
Letter C : Um, Cardiacs I suppose.
Underrated Band : And once again......
Cartoon Character : Road Runner. He always wins.
Underrated animal : Spiders get far too much of a bum rap.
Favourite Artist : Dunno. One of the surrealists probably.
Future Travel Destination : Doesn't matter when but somewhere on High Ground. Can't be too careful y'know.
Occupation from Antiquity : The bloke who walked in front of the first cars with a big red flag.
Scariest Movie of All time : The Shining (or Forrest Gump depending on your viewpoint)
Currently Listening To : William D. Drake, Doves, Ben Folds Five, Tom Waits, Cardiacs & Radiohead.
Currently Reading : Jumping between a big pile of comics and the Castaneda books.

Tryphena Absent

02:22 / 05.09.02

I'm an insomniac survey sucker...

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral: I want something devilishly romantic by Liszt.
2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C": carnage, carnal lust.
4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be... Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls because she’s ‘HARDCORE’ and I love her.
5.) Most under-appreciated member of the animal kingdom: pelicans
6.) Favourite artist of all time: I couldn’t possibly choose between them all but today I’m going to say Rothko (in his burgundy period). 7.) Future travel destination: Minneapolis. Someday Japan.
9.) Scariest movie of all time? Ring, can’t watch a fuzzy screen anymore and nothing else ever effected me long term.
10.) Currently listening to: Satie, Stone Roses, Tori Amos, Snow Patrol
11.) Currently reading: Have His Carcase, Dorothy L. Sayers. Dervish is Digital, Pat Cadigan

12.) If you were going to paint your nails but only had enough for your fingers or toes then which would you choose to paint?

02:49 / 05.09.02

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral: The music from the end of the incredible hulk tv show
2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C": Canada
4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be... Twitch from South Park
5.) Most under-appreciated member of the animal kingdom: sloth, thy're not slow, they're just feeling the groove.
6.) Favourite artist of all time: Cant remember his name, but he was italian and SIster Wendy likes his paintings.
7.) Future travel destination: The Space Station to kill Lance Bass, because in space no one can hear NSync
9.) Scariest movie of all time? The Fog
10.) Currently listening to: Billy Holliday, Eva Cassidy
11.) Currently reading: Napoleon's Bastards: The Decline Of Reason In The West by John Raulston Saul

12:43 / 05.09.02

"Hello, my name's Grey Area and I'm a survey addict"

1. Babylon Zoo - Is Your Soul for Sale?
2. Coffee, Chocolate, Cookies, Canneloni, Chiang Mai, Coke (the drink, not the drug), Ciapatta, Cymbals and Change
3. Leningrad Cowboys
4. Bucky O'Hare
5. Two-toed sloth
6. Roy Liechtenstein
7. Vietnam (via Laos and Cambodia)
8. Stonemason
9. Alien
10. A lot of Ella Fitzgerald
11. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami

13:13 / 05.09.02

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Cassis, camels, construction sites, cardigans, corduroy, campers (the shoes, not the caravans. Although those, too.)

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

Not really a band, but... Joe Dassin (extremely cheesy French singer from the '70s)

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Space Invader Zim

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

The Ai-Ai! How could a marsupial that looks like Serge Gainsbourg be wrong?!

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Marcel Duchamp or Frieda Kahlo.

7.) Future travel destination:

Darkest Peru!

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Palanquin-bearer

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

They all scare me. Ethan Hawke's Hamlet wins the prize for making me feel as if my eyes were bleeding...

10.) Currently listening to:

Lots of hip-hop, and a Peruvian Ska band called Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.

11.) Currently reading:

The Lotus Sutra, The Dhammapada, Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

12.) If you were going to paint your nails but only had enough for your fingers or toes then which would you choose to paint?

Toes all the way! My fingernails are tiny and chewed.

solid~liquid onwards

19:44 / 05.09.02

im not really new, but i rarely leave the magick forum...

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

love hina theme ^_^ ...Nananana Na Naaannananananan!

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

cex, cits, cottom's chighs cegs

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

ummm...errr, pass

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

"vash the stampede" from trigun (dubbed version of course)

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

cyanobacteria

7.) Future travel destination:

anywhere but here

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

errrr...inquisitor!

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

perfect blue... well i was abit messed up when i watched it, which helped

10.) Currently listening to:

my 3000 mp3's in random play

11.) Currently reading:

the first carlos castaneda book...well i finished it yesterday, and im not sure what to go for next

20:25 / 05.09.02

1. Play Janis Joplin singing "Get It While You Can" at my funeral, and damn it, all you fucks better be crying.

2. I had a wet dream about being a prostitute and doing Drew Carey as my client. Sometimes I carpe the diem, and that's good. The cat is coiled up asleep in my black belt on the desk. She's cute when she's not destroying anything that isn't nailed down. And now I'm bored with reading the dictionary.

3. Most underrated band of all time: I don't understand "underrated" and "band."

4. If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be Roadrunner.

5. Crows are the most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom. They take no shit.

6. Favorite artist of this week: I just downloaded a bunch of JPGs of Jan Saudek's work as screen savers. Genderfucked fat women and manipulated imagery, what's not to like?

7. I'd do the road trip booty call to Portland next week with my best friend (she has a booty call in the same city I do), but it's not worth pissing off my beloved.

8. My favorite occupation from antiquity is shaman. The real kind.

9. "Moulin Rouge" is without doubt the scariest movie of all time. People who can watch the whole thing, much less enjoy it, are pretty scary, too.

10. Currently listening to the neighbor across the street digging a hole in his front yard. Don't worry, too wide and shallow for his wife.

11. Just finished reading The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, and before that The Carnal Prayer Mat by Li Yu. At the gym on the stationary bike, I'm reading The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade. At home I'll be starting next on The Heart of the Buddha's Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh. Or some smut.

jUne, a sunshiny month

08:21 / 06.09.02

yayyaaayyyyy, nutella !
platypus, hotdammit !

09:40 / 06.09.02

God Ilove answering pointless questions..

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

Never Understand - the Jesus & Mary Chain

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Cthulhu, Coffee, Cults, Cakes, Craziness, Captain Beefheart, Crisps, Cats, Comics

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

Drugstore or Urusei Yatsura

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Daria.

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Panda.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Dorothea Tanning.

7.) Future travel destination:

New York.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Witch Hunter.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

10.) Currently listening to:

13th Floor Elevators, The Birthday Party, Tortoise, Patti Smith, Husker Du, Jad Fair, Helen Love, McLusky, the Icarus Line, the Flaming Lips, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her, the Jesus & Mary Chain, Aqua Vista, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Moonkat, Bikini Kill, the Bellrays, Wire, Joy Division, Comet Gain, Herman Dune, El-P, Cex, Mogwai..

11.) Currently reading:

Slaughtermatic - Steve Aylett
Mind Invaders - Stewert Home (ed.)
The Hastur Cycle - various weirdoes

The Natural Way

13:02 / 06.09.02

Old as this place, but:

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

'Dance magic dance!' Bowie. Labyrinth. The eighties.

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Captain Beefheart and Comics (thanx for reminding me, Riz) and Czjcklensis and Cordelia (and everyone in Sunnydale! Hi!) and Cornelius and, yeah, Cthulhu and Chimeras (in fact all Grk mythical beasties) and Cave, Nick Cave and Cloud 9 (of Zenith fame) and....Channel Health. Only not Channel Health.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

Dase (three times)

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Woodstock

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Cephalopods, generally. People just don't appreciate how fucking horrible they are. Fish with beaks? Wrong. Just wrong.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Victorians drew nice pictures of fairies.

7.) Future travel destination:

A beach at night with my friends who I love.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Toss up: Don't Look Now, Ring, Fire Walk w/ Me....the tellyfilms of 'The Signalman' or 'The Woman in Black'....actually Blair Witch upset me quite a lot...

10.) Currently listening to:

Benny Goodman (actually, any swing I can get my mitts on), Angelo Badalamenti, Bobby Konders, The Buzzcocks, Buffy Musical Soundtrack, Rocky Horror Show Soundtrack and dirty old country records recorded round some mosquito infested campfire....and still The Other People Place's 'Moonlight Rendezvous' and Basic Channel.

11.) Currently reading:

Just finished (today): Underground - Haruki Murakami

Just started (today): Passage to India - E.M. Forster

14:06 / 06.09.02

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

"I'm Putting all my Eggs in One Basket" - Fred Astaire

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Cats, civil engineering, cathedrals, capuchin monkeys, cosmonauts, cabbage, clouds, civilisation (the state, not the computer game), common courtesy, comics, choo-choos, coasting, comfy cushions, chaise longues, cherries, cooling towers, cranes, cliffs, chairs, cable cars, charity shops, cheeky monkeys, chimneys, cheques (incoming, large), chests (wooden, treasure-filled), chisels, crazy golf, curves, caves, clarity, costumes, choirs, contact lenses, Cornwall, Cruikshank (Dan), conveyor belts, containers, concrete, cement, charcoal, camels' eyelashes, cold pillows, cycles (bi), creaky floorboards, castles, cubes, co-operatives and corners.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

Les Waters

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Rex the Runt

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

The humble tardigrade, a.k.a. the moss pig. The most resilient beast in the universe. It can survive prolonged boiling, freezing, even the vacuum of space.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Max Ernst

Yves Tanguy

Leonora Carrington

Roberto Matta

7.) Future travel destination:

Mars

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Boss monk

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Ring

10.) Currently listening to:

Big band, swing, butch 50s crime themes, swoony 30s tunes, 50s r'n'b, boogie and r'n'r, Erase Errata and The Liars.

11.) Currently reading:

"Three Men in a Boat", by Jerome K Jerome

14:39 / 06.09.02

I'm kinda newish
Fave C's: Chomsky, Chillis, Crowley, Caroom.
Song at Funeral: Instrumental of Spotieoppieddelicous (or whatever it's called by Outkast (off the Aquemini LP)
Under-rated band: Mr Illmatic's All New, All Nude Revue.
Cartoon character: Would like to be Muttley, but more like Droopy
Most unerrated animal: Most insects (vital to biospehre and dead gorgeous, you look at 'em right).
Fave Artist: Anish Kapoor (based on strongest response I've ever had to an exhibition)
Future Travel: Is the future not a destination ?(scrathes chin profoundly) ..erm .... Japan, then.
Scary movie: THe Vansihing
Ancient occupation: Old school graf writer (72-80, NY subway)
Reading: (Trying to) Goddess of the three Cities by Douglas Renfrew Brooks.
Listening: Cornelius, El-P, old hip hop mix tapes found in box in mum's attic, Tim Buckley
Scariest Movie: The Vanishing

17:08 / 06.09.02

1) funeral song: artist unknown - "The Rogues of Scotland"

2) letter 'c' likeables: chocolate (icing preferred), cats, chaos (part of nature...self-hate conflict of interests), candy, Certainly a large Collection of stuff...confusion?

3) underrated band: *smoke exists ears* that would require knowing others thoughts...i definately don't underrate who i like...dunno....

4) toonie: inu-yasha, for the time being.

5) underappreciated animal kingdom member: ants.

6) artist: nature.

7) travel destination: Oz.

8) favorite occupation from antiquity: shaman and ranger (for lack of better term)

9) scariest movie: Memento

10) Currently listening to: system of a down, pixies, dead can dance, rammstein, enya, and the other 300+ albums on harddisk....full shuffle play is nice.

11) currently reading: Robert Heinlein, "Moon is a Harsh Mistress"; Mark Danielowski, "House of Leaves"; several books in my dreams i haven't been able to check the titles of.

09:02 / 07.09.02

i am new. i would like to participate in this jovial quiz-behaviour.

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

Echo Beach by Martha & the Muffins

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Colloquialisms, Candles, Clothes, Cunnilingus, Coffee, Cake, the word 'Cunt', & Chilli.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

The Neurologists

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Aeon Flux

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Bats

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Ben Henry (www.eatpoo.com)

7.) Future travel destination:

Japan

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

God

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Scary Movie

10.) Currently listening to:

The Bangles, Aesop Rock, Donald Byrd, DJ Spindbad 'Rock the Casbah', Ram Records - Huggy Bear, Kate Bush, & Cut Chemist & Shadow 'Product Placement'.

11.) Currently reading:

Just finished The Wasp Factory. by Iain Banks. If you didn't already know that you should probably kill yourself.

09:47 / 07.09.02

Not new, but it's a good survey, so:

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

Misereri - Allegri

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

The Conversation, the word "cuntybollocks", card games, specifically canasta, Canestan, charity shops, carving, and I'm now bored of this list which may or may not be true.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

That I've found so far? Unbelievable Truth.

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Bender from Futurama. Or Fry at a pinch.

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Dodos, damnit!

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Not sure: Cartier-Bresson, Magritte, or Nicholas Charles Williams.

7.) Future travel destination:

Japan. Australia. The world.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Cooper.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Torn between: Ring, Don't Look Now (but only the first time), or maybe Bad Timing, which I haven't finished because I switched it off it was freaking me out so much.

10.) Currently listening to:

Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, Joy Division (going through shouty guitar revival), as well as Dub Come Save Me, Coldcut, DJ Shadow as ever, John Coltrane, and (of course), the Paleface demo CD.

11.) Currently reading:

Just finished lots. Torn between Lucky Jim, A Wild Sheep Chase, or the mountain of Sophocles/Aeschylus/Euripedes I need to read.

09:51 / 07.09.02

i too would say Ring 0 is one of the most succesful films i have seen with regards to the scare-factor (having trouble reducing things to a soundbite today). AND Don't Look Now, in fact.

10:14 / 07.09.02

what a gret survey - well done nutella. i'd fill it in myself, but i'm a secret.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:27 / 07.09.02

I'm a hasbeen rather than a wannabe, but here's my builder's dozen for ya:

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

All Tommorow's Parties

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Calumny, cruelty, and conniving.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

The one I'm going to form next summer. We'll have one hit, which all the DJ's will hate, then we'll vanish. At least one of us will join the Findhorn Community.

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Dangermouse.

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Dangermouse.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Toss up between Van Gogh and Bacon, with an honorable mention for Epstien.

7.) Future travel destination:

Given that I don't even know what country I'll be living in come November? Your guess is as good as mine.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Carding and spinning wool. I like dyeing too but if you use proper antipuity-y dyestuffs, it's smelly.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Bridget Jones' Diary.

10.) Currently listening to:

Sorrow by David Bowie.

11.) Currently reading:

Re-reading The Sea Road by Ursula Le Guin.

21:36 / 07.09.02

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

I used to want 'Treasure' by The Cure, but that was back when I took my life seriously. These days, I don't know what I'd want.

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Clique maintenance, clues, characters, circuses!, chaos, capturing the enemy, caps in yo' ass.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

The Residents.

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Toss up between Aeon Flux & Jane Lane [from Daria].

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Ladybugs.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Refuse to answer based on mercurial nature :>

7.) Future travel destination:

Back to Berlin for me.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Executioner.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Movies don't really scare me.

10.) Currently listening to:

All sorts of crazy shit.

11.) Currently reading:

House of Leaves. Again.

07:03 / 08.09.02

I'm not really so new, but my posts - no matter how I intend to be here more often - are few and far between. And I'm a survey junkie. So be it.

1. Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

"In Spite of Me" by Morphine or "Going to Georgia" by the Mountain Goats

2. Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

in no particular order: coffee, cats, cuddles, children (so long as they belong to someone else at the end of the day), conversation, chardonnay (but red wine's always better), Catatonia, computers, chairs, chimes, Chistery (a monkey in Gregory Maguire's 'Wicked'), 'Cryptonomicon', "Car" by Built to Spill, and so on and so forth.

3. Most underrated band of all time:

Just one? Today I am for some reason inclined to say the Afghan Whigs. Critically acclaimed, perhaps, but not highly rated enough.

4. If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

It's already been said, but Bubbles. She's hardcore. And she says absolutely nonsensical things quite often, which is something I excel at.

5. Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

The manatee.

6. Favourite artist of all time:

I really daren't show my ignorance by trying to answer this.

7. Future travel destination:

Australia, in (gulp) less than two weeks. Then Scotland. As soon as possible.

8. Favourite occupation from antiquity:

It seems like exciting things happen often in fiction to scribes.

9. Scariest movie of all time?

I'm an utter pansy; everything scary scares me. But I think I most recently most severely traumatized by 'Cube'.

10. Currently listening to:

The Descendants, Sparta, Mates of State, Crooked Fingers, Liz Phair, Bis, the Delgados, Jimmy Eat World, 764-HERO, Eminem, and the Van Pelt.

11. Currently reading:

Not by my own selection: that damn Dave Eggers book. Either Lethem's 'Motherless Brooklyn' or a book of Norse mythology is next.

14:07 / 08.09.02

I suppose I am both a newbie and a parasitic oldbie (oldbie?!?), as I am Mazarine's boyfriend. As such, I've second-handed quite a bit of this board. But she tells me I must have my own voice, and so voila, Boo is born!

You may all be suitably jealous that, at the end of the day, I get to kiss Mazzy goodnight.

And now, on to the questionaire!

1. Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

Hmm... for fun I'd say the chicken dance song, but in reality, I'd just prefer silence. I'm sure that whomever has to bury me won't be able to afford a band too.

2. Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

cookies, cabinets (in which there might be cookies), callendars, crisco (not to eat, just to watch), probably lots more but I'll spare you.

3. Most underrated band of all time:

Moxy Fruvous (and yes, there should be little dots over the u, but I am html-ignorant).

4. If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Tenchi. Cool sword. Tons of girls. All for doing absolutely nothing : )

5. Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Plankton. It probably counts for half of the Earth's usable O2 and almost all of the ocean's primary productivity, but nobody cares cuz it's small. (by the way, I'm a masters student in ecology, evolution and behavior.)

6. Favourite artist of all time:

God, if she exists.

7. Future travel destination:

Montreal, where it is apparently drizzling.

8. Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Messengers, like the pony express.

9. Scariest movie of all time?

I haven't been scared by a movie in a long time, so I'll have to go with 'The Neverending Story'. Scared the crap out of me as a kid.

10. Currently listening to:

Pain, Touched by an Uncle, the downstairs neighbors having a very loud breakfast.

11. Currently reading:

'Wet Work' by Phil Nutman. Freaky little tale about an assassin whose prey were slaughtered by the zombies which are already rising and killing thousands. Very odd book, but good.

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:18 / 08.09.02

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

'Into Your Arms' by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. Or possibly 'If I Should Die' by Jay-Z.

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

I can't believe people have already beaten me to *both* Chomsky and Catatonia - thanks for reminding me why I love Barbelith. I'll be the first to say Clipse and the word 'crunk', though.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

The Auteurs. But only because straylight beat me to The Afghan Whigs.

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Snoopy. "It's not the things that go bump in the dark I'm worried about, it's the things that go WAAAUURRRGGGHHH!"

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

The armadillo. Has anyone said that yet? Even if they have: the armadillo. Y'all are sleeping on the armadillo (which can't be comfy).

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Fave person ever who was an artist would be William Blake. But I'm tempted to say Philip Bond.

7.) Future travel destination:

Melbourne, Tokyo, San Franciso, Palestine, New York (again) - take your pick. And spot the one that would probably get me shot (clue - it's not NY).

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Consort.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

That bit in Pearl Harbour where Ben Affleck & co bomb the shit out of the Japs and the triumphant music plays and everyone cheers is pretty terrifying. Notting Hill also disturbs me.

10.) Currently listening to:

The Afghan Whigs - Black Love and 1965; a compilation of Neptunes-produced stuff with particular attention paid to 'Grindin' by Clipse, 'Nothin' by N.O.R.E. and 'Shake Ya Ass' by Mystikal; the self-titled Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP; Outkast's Stankonia; various Catatonia stuff.

11.) Currently reading:

World Orders, Old and New, by Noam Chomsky; The Edward Said Reader, by some guy. And I'm sort of reading Justine, the first volume of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, except it's like eating treacle, so I keep taking breaks from it. Most of my fiction needs are being served by comics these days, in particular Paul Pope's 100%, New X-Men, X-Statix, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Part 2, and constant re-readings of Kill Your Boyfriend, Channel Zero and Couscous Express.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

19:57 / 08.09.02

Not new, but what the hell...

1) Song for my funeral.
Nirvana- 'All Apologies', or perhaps, if I'd been more positive while organising it, The Chemical Brothers 'Test' and Massive Attack 'Protection'.

4) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be;
Henry's Cat. So I could look at my collar and find out what my name was.

5) Most under-appreciated member of the animal kingdom.
The scarab beetle. If it didn't push the sun up every day where would we be?

6) Favourite artist?
Banksy.

7) Future Travel Destination.
Maybe Vienna. I know travel is good for you but I just don't have the urge. Hell, visiting friends in the Midlands or on the coast is enough of a trauma...

8) Favourite occupation from antiquity.
Keeper of the vestal Virgins. Or maybe Pope. Back in the days where you could send entire countries out on pogroms. Ahhh, those were the days.

9) Scariest movie.
The Aliens movies. I have actually regressed now from the point where I could quite happily watch the first three to the point where I try not to think about them too much. Now I find the concept and the themes too disturbing. Strange.

10) Currently listening to.
Patti Smith, mainly the Land collection. Dandy Warhols. Boards of Canada. Brian Eno. Godspeed You Black Emperor! Sigur Ros.

11) Currently reading.
Just finished; 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' by Ken Kesey, currently reading 'use of Weapons' by Iain M. Banks, 'The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Protest' edited by MacArthur and 'The Lazy Crossdresser' by Charles Anders.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:25 / 08.09.02

Not incredibly new, but hey. I always join in.

1) Funeral song- the music from "Godzilla & the Invasion of the Astro-Monsters". Just the right level of bombast, matched by an equal level of silliness. People will laugh, then feel guilty for laughing at a funeral. And I will laugh at them from beyond.

2) Things I like starting with "C"- cheese, chess and crap '80s bands.

3) Most underrated band of all time- Strawberry Switchblade.

4) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be Invader Zim. All that intergalactic EEEVILLL, and a cute little robot doggy too!

5) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom- dogs. I know they're hardly ignored, but I don't think you can ever appreciate dogs enough. Oh, and badgers, too. (Anteaters or emus, if either/both of the above are disallowed).

6) Favourite artist of all time? I decline that question on the grounds of having the aesthetic sensibilities of a pencil.

7) Future travel destination? Cuba. While Castro's still alive. (Maybe Amis is right about us British lefties and our commie apologetics...)

8) Favourite occupation from antiquity? Explorer.

9) Scariest movie of all time? Hmm... "Audition" grossed me out, as did "Salo", but "The Shining" does it every time (it's those two kids...)

10) Currently listening to? Bobby Conn's "The Golden Age", David Byrne's "Look Into The Eyeball" and Alec Empire's "Intelligence and Sacrifice".

11) Currently reading? "Lullaby" by Chuck Palahniuk.

and
12) (or whatever the fuck we're up to)-
which is the crapper- Scrappy Doo or Godzookie?

20:52 / 08.09.02

I'm not going to preface this with a derivative of "Not really new...".

1. Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

"Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult or "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas.

2. Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

cybernetics, computers, cats, and crayons.

3. Most underrated band of all time:

I don't know. The Rugburns?

4. If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Dib. Someone has to stop aliens from invading Earth.

5. Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Spiders. They're really helpful, ya know? They don't deserve that whole, "Eww!! it's a spider! Kill it!! Kill it!!". Of course, if that doesn't count then, Squirrels. Nobody gives squirrels the respect they truly deserve.

6. Favourite artist of all time:

H.R. Giger or maybe Luis Royo. I don't know the names of many artists.

7. Future travel destination:
Arkansas, maybe? I'd love to attend classes here .

8. Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Swordsmith.

9. Scariest movie of all time?

Any of those made for TV movies starring the Olsen twins.

10. Currently listening to:

Beats the hell out of me. It's the local college station.

11. Currently reading:

Programming in Visual Basic.Net and When True Night Falls by C.S. Friedman.

00:31 / 09.09.02

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

Dress Sexy At My Funeral - Smog or DOn't Die On My Doorstep - Felt, because I'm not sure the family will be up for Disco Inferno or Hot Stuff.

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Cowboys (the singing, non-slaughtering variety), cartoons.

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

Lee fuckin' Hazlewood.

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Top Cat or Roobarb.

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Top Cat or Roobarb.

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

Brendan McCarthy.

7.) Future travel destination:

Japan. First stop Akihabara.

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Absolutely no idea.

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

The Haunting, Robert Wise original.

10.) Currently listening to:

Bright Eyes, Lee Hazlewood, Pernice Brothers, Future Pilot VS, Donna Summer, The For Carnation, Jim O'Rourke, The Auteurs, Curtis Mayfield, The Dirtbombs, Susumu Yokota, various Trojan Records collections.

11.) Currently reading:

Alastair Reynolds' Chasm City and still working my way through the collections of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu stories.

15:14 / 09.09.02

hi new here so seems the right place to chip in,
song at funeral;
favorite things by me too and the gimme gimmes
letter C - coffee, chocolate mousse cake, cod, cricket, columbo, cigerettes.
underatted band - The Barracudas (school aint no fun if you cant be in the sun)
cartoon character - apu, i always wanted to run a shop and life in america and have a ganesha shrine and sing and appear in the simpsons.
Underapreciated animal - sloth.
favorite artist of all time - Gaccometti
Future travel destination - my new house
occupation from antiquity - fool
Scarriest movie of all time? - return of the bodysnatchers - the one with donald sutherland.
Currently listening to - white noise
Currently reading - Left hand of Darkness - Ursela Le guin, Intro to Tantra -lama Yeshe, Hindu Philosophy - Richard King, Immediatism - Heykim Bey, Rogue states - William Blum

01:12 / 10.09.02

1.) Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeplin

2.) Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Cats, comics, cunnilingus(dispensing with), cash, canibus, cacti, California, Capitola, cubism

3.) Most underrated band of all time:

APB

4.) If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Otto

5.) Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

all of them

6.) Favourite artist of all time:

M.C. Escher or H.R. Geiger

7.) Future travel destination:

Europe or Cozumel

8.) Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Archer

9.) Scariest movie of all time?

Schindler's List or Blair Witch Project: Bootleg (it was scarier with film grain all the way through it, trust me.

10.) Currently listening to:

Deltron 3030

11.) Currently reading:

Splatterpunks II and The Firm

The Return Of Rothkoid

02:40 / 10.09.02

Ach, why the hell not?

"Everything's Fucked" or "Authentic Celestial Music" by Dirty Three.

Chocolate, chess, cheeks, chips, cooking, chapbooks, comestibles, carl cthulhu, crows, chaos, cathedrals, covers, crossings and C.

Crow. Or The Necks, perhaps.

Kif Kroker. Though I also feel a strange affinity to Johnny Bravo and that singing frog that only sings when hardly anybody's watching.

The sloth. Everyone takes the piss, man.

Probably Francis Bacon. But I have a thing for Joseph Cornell, Mark Rothko (duh) and Edward Hopper, too.

London. As soon as fucking possible.

Wastrel.

Possibly parts of Ring. But Angel Heart comes kinda close, too.

What's in my CD case today: Dirty Three Ocean Songs, Naked City Live Vol 1., Einsturzende Neubauten: Silence Is Sexy, Charles Mingus: Mingus At Antibes and The Clown, Crow: Li-Lo-Ing, John Zorn: Kristallnacht, Frenzal Rhomb: Meet The Family, Rammstein: Mutter, The Necks: Sex, Miles Davis: On The Corner and In A Silent Way, and Mr Bungle: Mr Bungle. But there's more going on at home.

Prime Chaos by Phil Hine. And whatever comes out of my boxes of books when I get home.

03:52 / 10.09.02

Blargh, why not, here goes, new here, etc. Blargh

1. Song I would most like to be played at my funeral:

"Heart of the Sunrise"/"Sweetness" by Yes, or perhaps the version of "Fly Me To The Moon" off of the You're a Good Man Charlie Brown soundtrack. It wails. Or maybe 'Love Gun' by Kiss, with my coffin shooting into the ground like a flaming sword. Maybe not.

2. Things I Like That Start With the Letter "C":

Comics, cartoons, chaos, crotches, the word 'cunt' as a friendly denominator, crushing things metaphorically, conundrums, cuddliness, the word 'cock'

3. Most underrated band of all time:

I'm sure I haven't heard them. Possibly OIngo Boing, since they're fucking amazing and few people outside of California pay them much mind.

4. If I could be a cartoon character, I'd be...

Meowth. Or Jesse. Or James. I just want to be Team Rocket, really.

5. Most underappreciated member of the animal kingdom:

Children.

6. Favourite artist of all time:

If I stick with the visual medium, Van Gogh, though only because I'm a tad uncultured and seeing a Van Gogh up close is an experience and a half. If I go 'artist in general' then I'm far too indecisive to say, really. Though I might say Grant Morrison or Alan Moore and seem like a heinous fanboy, were I given the chance.

7. Future travel destination:

The year 3000, where a number of hip=hop artists believe rap will take over the universe, apparently.

8. Favourite occupation from antiquity:

Travelling actor/storyteller. Persecution aside, I think that would kick ass.

9. Scariest movie of all time?

Films don't tend to scare me, though Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust is probably the finest, most mindfucking example of Trojan Horse evil in filmmaking I've ever encountered.

10. Currently listening to:

Handsome Boy Modelling School, Lovage - Music to Make Love To Your Old Lady By, Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister, the latest Flaming Lips, The Shins

11. Currently reading:

Magick Without Tears, The Book of Thoth, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman (over and over and over), Various Comics, The Barbelith Entity, Nietzche's The Birth of Tragedy, The Minds of the Unsuspecting

06:11 / 10.09.02

More old is the new new...

1. Funeral Song: If people want to try to be happy "Everybody loves the sunshine" Full Intention or "Little Fluffy Clouds" by the Orb.
If people want to be sad "Here's where the story ends" by whoever it is that sings that song (not the tintin out version).

2. C words

Comics, Cannabis, Chi gung, Cheese, Coke, colour, clouds, candy

3. Most underated band

Anthrax.

4. Cartoon character.

mmm... hard one... I really don't know... I was a bit like stimpy on the weekend, fat, stupid, full of snot and farts and semicoherant yabbering...

5. Underated animals

bears...

6. Fave artists

H.R. Giger, Ian Anderson of thedesignersrepublic, Bill Sienkiewicz

7. Future Travel

Japan

8. Favourite occupation from antiquity

temple prostitute

9. Scariest movie of all time

Eraserhead

10. Currently on rotation

Joey Negro presents Nite:life
Nude Dimensions 2 - Naked Music Comp
Herbert Remixes
Armand Van Helden - 2 Future 4 U

11. Currently reading
not much beside comics really.

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