manmachine201
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Introduction | beginning on myspace as what was going to be a band/electro/fashion type collective which never got together, I hid inside the internet taking potshots at random targets, it evolved into Manmachine201, a tag given to me by Hotmail because Manmachine on its own had already been taken as a hotmail address. |
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| Interests | The general stuff, music, film, TV, debate, unusual angles, Greek Mythology and cock jokes, lots and lots of things interest me, the only thing that bores me is being bored, which is a rare occurence. |
| Favorite movies | adverts, generally things which can hold my attention span, which is about as long as it takes to read this section. |
| Favorite music | droney loud melodies that remind me of being inside my mothers womb, before the bad things happened. Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Air, Ellen Allien, Agoria, Adultnapper, Aphrodites Child, Bowie, Beatles, Battles, Burial, Broadcast, Bloc Party, Mr C, Can, Caribou, Cats Eyes,Matthew Dear, Death in Vegas, lots of the DJ's, Dubfire, FC kahuna, Fever Ray, the Field, Four Tet,Terrence Fixmer Flaming Lips, Fuck Buttons, Gui Borratto, Laurent Garnier, the Horrors, Hot Chip, Richie Hawtin Jesus & Mary Chain, Joy Formidable, Joy Division, Joy orbison, Knife, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Layo & Bushwacka, the Lonely Island, Manitoba, Mercury Rev, Miss Kittin, Moderat, Modeselektor, My Bloody Valentine, Phuture, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Planetary Assault Systems, Plastikman, Pop Levi, Polyphonic Spree, Portishead, Primal Scream, Radiohead, Royksopp, Rage Against The Machine, Sasha, Shonen Knife, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Suicide, Talking Heads, TV on the Radio, Vangelis, Velvet Underground, Tom Vek, Tom Waits, XX, Jamie XX Thom Yorke, the Now Compilations, all those other artists that I like but dont have on my ipod, Elton John, ELO, Led Zeppelin and all the beardy rock types that I have forgotten about. All those awesome grunge acts from the 90s that were not Pearl Jam or Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac and all the hits. |
| Favorite books | Ovid's Metamorhposes, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey Hesiod's Theogony the Greek Drama's, anything that might have initially been written on papyrus in Linear B. Dovstoesky's Crime and Punishment, Orwell's 1984, in fact all of the Orwell books are good. Huxley's Brave New World, most of the Iain Banks books I've read, in particular the Bridge, Persian Fire and the Rubicon by Tom Holland. various books about people that I like and lots of other books thatr I have forgotten about but will probably remember at a later. |
Your superpower is that you smell like dandelions whenever someone lies. How will you maintain your secret identity?
By creating a cynical online persona online to hide behind, thus keeping my powers secret... or one of those cheap groucho marx disguises readily available from joke shops.

