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THE APPLICATION
THE BASICS:
Name: Adam
Age: 17
Location: New Jersey
Gender: Male
MUSIC:
Favorite bands/singers: I'll keep it short and alphabetical... At the Drive-in, Belle and Sebastian, Bob Dylan, British Sea Power, Built to Spill, Captain Beefheart, David Bowie, Deltron 3030, Devo, Dinosaur Jr, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, Franz Ferdinand, Gang of Four, Happy Mondays, Iggy Pop, Interpol, Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Liars, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Orange Juice, Pavement, Pere Ubu, Pulp, Public Image Ltd., Radiohead, Robert Johnson, Scott Walker, Sigur Ros, Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Suede, Sufjan Stevens, Supergrass, Talking heads, Ted Leo, Television Personalities, The Beach Boys, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Clash, The Decemberists, The Fall, The Lounge Lizards, The Pixies, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, The Streets, The Velvet Underground, The Walkmen, The Wedding Present, The White Stripes, Tom Waits, Wilco, Xiu Xiu, XTC
Best show you’ve ever been to&why: The Slackers. It was my first show and was just a really good night.
One CD that you can’t live without [no more, no less]: Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division.
Do you play any instruments? If so, which one[s]? Guitar and bass.
Are you in a band? If so, any link[s] to your music? Yeah, but I haven't really recorded anything.
If the world could only hear one [yes.. one] song, and you had to pick it, what would it be? "Sister Ray" by the Velvet Underground.
MOVIES:
Favorite movies: Rushmore, Raging Bull, Clerks, Naked Lunch, Once Upon a Time in the West, Stranger Than Paradise, Goodfellas, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, Barry Lyndon, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Thing, Funny Games, Wild at Heart, Cannibal the Musical, DIG!, This Is Spinal Tap, Twenty Four Hour Party People, stuff by Kubrick, Jarmusch, Kurosawa, Cronenberg and Leone that I'm forgetting, and a helluva lot more that I'm forgetting.
Favorite actor or actress: Toshiro Mifune.
The last movie you watched: I think Shaun of the Dead on Halloween.
Do you go to the movies often? Kind of.
LITERATURE:
Favorite books: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, every book by Bret Easton Ellis, Junky and Naked Lunch by William Borroughs, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Survivor, Fight Club and Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, the collected works of Hunter S. Thompson, Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Lolita and Invitation to a Beheading by Vladmir Nabokov, the writings of Nietzsche, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Up Your Family by David Sedaris, political books by the likes of Bill Maher and Bernard Goldstein, Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonneguts, several interesting biographies and history books, Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski and several more that I am forgetting.
Favorite author: Bret Easton Ellis.
Favorite children’s book: I tend to confuse children's books with twee pop albums.
Do you write yourself? If so, what kind of writing? Yeah, novels and short stories. One novel completed and another one in progress... comprised of short stories.
BECAUSE WE EFFING CAN:
Hobbies: Driving around while listening to music, writing, making mixtapes, making pissant movies with my pissant friends, theology, collecting a bunch of DVDs I'll never watch, studying human nature, making music, acquiring as much music as humanly possible, getting four hours of sleep a night, making fun of scenesters and hipsters and memetics.
Define “indie” [it could be a dictionary-type definition, or just what it means to you]: To borrow from Mitch Clem...
How'd you get into indie music and movies? I got into indie movies after getting into the artier side of film with Kubrick and eventually going off into artier and indie movies. I got into indie rock when the NJ punk/ska scene fell apart, when I traded in my Agnostic Front albums for Smiths albums.
How’d you find us? Just general browsing.
It would be super nice if you could promote us in your userinfo or a community... super, super nice: If the spirit moves me.
If you had duct tape, a tree, allergy medicine and a penny, how would you save the world from a giant-monster-like-thing trying to eat it? [you must use all the items] If the giant monster like thing must feed, then he shall feed.
Fill in the blank: Tomorrow is ______________. The day after today, before the day after tomorrow.
Do you ever get told that you look like someone famous? Not really.
One thing about anything that you wish you could change: Give Palestine their land back.
What are your opinions on politics? I'm a moderate with liberal leanings.
Make us laugh:
Pictures [this is optional, we just kind of want to make sure you're not some really creepy old guy]:If I was a creepy old guy, I'd be trying to pick up underaged girls on Myspace, not livejournal.