Favorite bands :
Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss, The Clash, Yo La Tengo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, Dylan, Soundgarden, NIN, Mudhoney, Velvet Underground, White Stripes, Dinosaur Jr, Neil Young, Nirvana, Joy Division, Nick Cave, The Kills, My Bloody Valentine
Favorite guitarists :
Jack White, Josh Homme, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Nick Zinner, Billy Corgan, Ron Asheton, J Mascis, Trent Reznor, Kim Thayil
Favorite bassists :
Nick Olivieri, Jesse.F.Keeler, Kim Gordon
Favorite books :
Eric Hobsbawm's "Age of ..." series.
Rip It Up and Start Again -Simon Reynolds.
White Heat 1963-70 - Dominic Sandbrook.
A History of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr.
I don't do fiction.
Favorite tv :
The Day Today, Brass Eye, The Thick Of It, Father Ted, Jam, Black Books
Favorite movies :
Some good ones, some bad ones, mostly bad ones.
These really irk me, how am I supposed to fill in a description of myself without sounding a) self-centred b) immature or c) self-centred and immature? I'll give it a go anyway.
I've been playing guitar for 5 years on and off, I rarely do actual practice and instead learn the odd song (badly) and play around scales (badly), so overall I'm pretty shocking. I recently got a bass and I'm equally bad at that. Fortunately the music I like doesn't require much in the way of technical ability so I can kind of disguise my lack of it.
I avoid "metal" threads like the plague, and only comment on guitar threads that I have some knowledge about. I could probably be described as a "pit dweller", normally looking at threads where someone has made a catastrophic failure on the subjects of history, politics or philosophy.
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