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Basic Info| Name: | Say You've Been Threatened By Gangsters... |
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| Birthdate: | 09-03 |
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Website: | Xanga? (The Alternative) |
BioI live in a community in Chicago called Jesus People USA, or JPUSA (Jay-pooz-uh) for short. We do alot of various things like homeless shelters and food programs and most notably (obviously) to alot of underground and mainstream music fans, we're known for the annual Cornerstone Festivals.
Community life is hard at times but always fulfilling (my roommate is an avant garde communist coordinator who listens to Spooky Tooth records at odd hours of the night and wears pyramid shaped underwear...oh yeah, and he thinks he's the lost child of Arlo Guthrie and Bob Dylan...but man is he cute!). Living with 400 people in a 10 story building (Al Capone's former Chelsea Hotel actually) can be trying if you're a recluse...but you always have someone to talk to or pray with you when you need it. Some people want to spend all their lives working jobs so that they can buy big houses and gain wealth, I could care less about those things. What good is wealth if you're not having relationships? We go out to the lake (the lakefront stretches nearly the entire length of Chicago land), to record stores (like, every other night. Vinyl is an addiction worse then heroine), and have adventures exploring places.
In some ways our community is almost a vacuum compared to the outside world. When people get into fights, they resolve them. Friendships don't end at the drop of a hat over things. In alot of cases, people drop things to help others out without a moments notice and demand no return for it. This community is built on servanthood. Serving the outside world (and obviously the poor here in Uptown) and serving each other. Things are almost opposite within these walls. Where the outside world thrives on greed, anger and tormenting others who have wronged them, in here it's an attempt at grace and resolution. Some have come out of the community disillusioned by it, but that's only because they've allowed themselves to be jaded and forgot their reasons for being in community in the first place. Every person is human afterall.
Oh yeah...and I'm engaged to a very lovely girl named Melissa (or Mellie...whichever) and I love her with all my heart.
xxx
What kind of music am I into? Well...since I aspire to be Rob Gordon (or any music nerd along the lines of High Fidelity), I'll spell it out for you.
First Wave and Traditional Ska: The Skatalites, The Ethiopians, The Isrealites, Laurel Aitken, Prince Buster, Lee Scratch Perry, The Wailers, Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Maytals, Not For The Crowd, The Slackers, Hepcat, The Harry J Allstars, Peter Tosh, Desmond Dekker, Derrick Morgan, The Robustos, Symarip (Pyramids spelled backward, the Pyramids were Prince Buster's backing band in the UK) and basically anything else that was on Coxsone Dodd's Studio One, Prince Buster's Blue Beat or Duke Reid's Trojan Records.
Second Wave, British Reggae and 2 Tone Ska: The Beat, The Selecter, The Toasters, Bad Manners, The Uptones, The Specials, Maroon Town, The Body Snatchers, The Riffs, The Special A.K.A., Steel Pulse, The Untouchables, The Hotknives, The Papers and The Tigers
Third Wave and American Ska Punk: Big Dog Small Fence, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, No Doubt, Operation Ivy, early Squad Five O, The Suicide Machines, Five Iron Frenzy, Less Then Jake, The Skoidats, and Rancid
60's Soul and R & B (yep...alot of that first wave and trad ska and reggae wouldn't have existed without this stuff.): Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Gladys Knight and The Pips, The Marvelletes, Diana Ross and Supremes, The 4 Tops, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, pre 1975 Stevie Wonder and basically anything pre 1970 on Berry Gordy's Motown or Tamla record labels.
Punk Rock/Pre-Punk/Oi!/Horror Rock and Psycho/Rockabilly: Social Distortion, Headnoise, One 21, Blaster The Rocketman, X, early The Replacements, The Unseen, The Dingees, The Horrorpops, The Necromantix, The Meteors, Bikini Kill, Oi Polloi, The Ruts, The Distillers, F-Minus, The Deadlines, The Deal, The New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Fall, Elastica, Mercury Radio Theater, The Manhandlers, The Criminals, The Damned, The Adolescants and Generation X.
Pop Punk (yep suckers...it's OK to still like it.): Screeching Weasel, The Queers, The Huntingtons, The Ramones, The Lillingtons, The Muffs, The Go To Hells, The Starting Line, A New Found Glory, The Cootees, The Donnas, Electric Frankenstein and The Groovie Ghoulies
Hardcore: Unashamed, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Gorilla Biscuits, 7 Seconds, S.O.A., Black Flag, The Teen Idles, Bad Brains, The Comeback Kid, Stretch Armstrong, CIV, In My Eyes, Stand and Fight, Casey Jones, Slapshot, Born Blind, No Innocent Victim, Shai Halud, Most Precious Blood and Good Clean Fun.
Post Punk/Post Hardcore/REAL EMO: mewithoutYou, Shellac, Fugazi, The Warmers, The Rites of Spring, Embrace, The Nation of Ulysses, and basically any and everything on Dischord Records (except for the Capital City Dusters and Fire Party...I wasted 13 bucks total on those records dangit!).
Indie Rock: twothirtyeight, Morella's Forest, Brandtson, Weezer, Copeland, Further Seems Forever (mainly their first record), The Rocket Summer (yep...I'm a pansy), Say Anything.
Hip Hop: Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Kool Moe Dee and The Treacherous Three, Kurtis Blow, The Beastie Boys, Run DMC, N.W.A., Kanye West (he's from Chicago...it's obvious I HAVE to rep..or ... something), Atmosphere, Aesop Rock (and basically anything else on the Def Jux label), Jay Z, Outkast (even though Andre's side of that last double album of their's totally failed on the neo soul department) and The Sugarhill Gang.
Electroclash/Synth Pop/Dance Punk: The Gang of Four, !!!, Out Hud, Gary Numan, Ladytron, El Guapo, Le Tigre, Radio 4, Q and Not U, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Atom and His Package, New Order, The Cure, later Joy Electric, The Information Society, The Thompson Twins (that's right...I said it), Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, early Madonna (no seriously. Her first 2 LP's are brilliant. Laugh all you want, but atleast they're better written then all that crappy metalcore you listen to!) and basically anything with a half way decent synth line or bubblegum vocal melody in the chorus that came out in the 80's.
Thinking Person's Rock: Mike Knott, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello (and sometimes The Attractions...Get Happy was THE best Elvis Costello and The Attractions record ever made!) Bill Mallonee, Vigilantes of Love, later The Replacements, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and The Clash
oh yeah...and last but certainly not least, Mr. Chuck Berry.
xxx
I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward--to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. -Philippians 3:12-14
Community life is hard at times but always fulfilling (my roommate is an avant garde communist coordinator who listens to Spooky Tooth records at odd hours of the night and wears pyramid shaped underwear...oh yeah, and he thinks he's the lost child of Arlo Guthrie and Bob Dylan...but man is he cute!). Living with 400 people in a 10 story building (Al Capone's former Chelsea Hotel actually) can be trying if you're a recluse...but you always have someone to talk to or pray with you when you need it. Some people want to spend all their lives working jobs so that they can buy big houses and gain wealth, I could care less about those things. What good is wealth if you're not having relationships? We go out to the lake (the lakefront stretches nearly the entire length of Chicago land), to record stores (like, every other night. Vinyl is an addiction worse then heroine), and have adventures exploring places.
In some ways our community is almost a vacuum compared to the outside world. When people get into fights, they resolve them. Friendships don't end at the drop of a hat over things. In alot of cases, people drop things to help others out without a moments notice and demand no return for it. This community is built on servanthood. Serving the outside world (and obviously the poor here in Uptown) and serving each other. Things are almost opposite within these walls. Where the outside world thrives on greed, anger and tormenting others who have wronged them, in here it's an attempt at grace and resolution. Some have come out of the community disillusioned by it, but that's only because they've allowed themselves to be jaded and forgot their reasons for being in community in the first place. Every person is human afterall.
Oh yeah...and I'm engaged to a very lovely girl named Melissa (or Mellie...whichever) and I love her with all my heart.
What kind of music am I into? Well...since I aspire to be Rob Gordon (or any music nerd along the lines of High Fidelity), I'll spell it out for you.
First Wave and Traditional Ska: The Skatalites, The Ethiopians, The Isrealites, Laurel Aitken, Prince Buster, Lee Scratch Perry, The Wailers, Tommy McCook, Don Drummond, Jackie Mittoo, The Heptones, The Maytals, Not For The Crowd, The Slackers, Hepcat, The Harry J Allstars, Peter Tosh, Desmond Dekker, Derrick Morgan, The Robustos, Symarip (Pyramids spelled backward, the Pyramids were Prince Buster's backing band in the UK) and basically anything else that was on Coxsone Dodd's Studio One, Prince Buster's Blue Beat or Duke Reid's Trojan Records.
Second Wave, British Reggae and 2 Tone Ska: The Beat, The Selecter, The Toasters, Bad Manners, The Uptones, The Specials, Maroon Town, The Body Snatchers, The Riffs, The Special A.K.A., Steel Pulse, The Untouchables, The Hotknives, The Papers and The Tigers
Third Wave and American Ska Punk: Big Dog Small Fence, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, No Doubt, Operation Ivy, early Squad Five O, The Suicide Machines, Five Iron Frenzy, Less Then Jake, The Skoidats, and Rancid
60's Soul and R & B (yep...alot of that first wave and trad ska and reggae wouldn't have existed without this stuff.): Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas, Gladys Knight and The Pips, The Marvelletes, Diana Ross and Supremes, The 4 Tops, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, pre 1975 Stevie Wonder and basically anything pre 1970 on Berry Gordy's Motown or Tamla record labels.
Punk Rock/Pre-Punk/Oi!/Horror Rock and Psycho/Rockabilly: Social Distortion, Headnoise, One 21, Blaster The Rocketman, X, early The Replacements, The Unseen, The Dingees, The Horrorpops, The Necromantix, The Meteors, Bikini Kill, Oi Polloi, The Ruts, The Distillers, F-Minus, The Deadlines, The Deal, The New York Dolls, The Stooges, The Fall, Elastica, Mercury Radio Theater, The Manhandlers, The Criminals, The Damned, The Adolescants and Generation X.
Pop Punk (yep suckers...it's OK to still like it.): Screeching Weasel, The Queers, The Huntingtons, The Ramones, The Lillingtons, The Muffs, The Go To Hells, The Starting Line, A New Found Glory, The Cootees, The Donnas, Electric Frankenstein and The Groovie Ghoulies
Hardcore: Unashamed, Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Gorilla Biscuits, 7 Seconds, S.O.A., Black Flag, The Teen Idles, Bad Brains, The Comeback Kid, Stretch Armstrong, CIV, In My Eyes, Stand and Fight, Casey Jones, Slapshot, Born Blind, No Innocent Victim, Shai Halud, Most Precious Blood and Good Clean Fun.
Post Punk/Post Hardcore/REAL EMO: mewithoutYou, Shellac, Fugazi, The Warmers, The Rites of Spring, Embrace, The Nation of Ulysses, and basically any and everything on Dischord Records (except for the Capital City Dusters and Fire Party...I wasted 13 bucks total on those records dangit!).
Indie Rock: twothirtyeight, Morella's Forest, Brandtson, Weezer, Copeland, Further Seems Forever (mainly their first record), The Rocket Summer (yep...I'm a pansy), Say Anything.
Hip Hop: Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Kool Moe Dee and The Treacherous Three, Kurtis Blow, The Beastie Boys, Run DMC, N.W.A., Kanye West (he's from Chicago...it's obvious I HAVE to rep..or ... something), Atmosphere, Aesop Rock (and basically anything else on the Def Jux label), Jay Z, Outkast (even though Andre's side of that last double album of their's totally failed on the neo soul department) and The Sugarhill Gang.
Electroclash/Synth Pop/Dance Punk: The Gang of Four, !!!, Out Hud, Gary Numan, Ladytron, El Guapo, Le Tigre, Radio 4, Q and Not U, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Atom and His Package, New Order, The Cure, later Joy Electric, The Information Society, The Thompson Twins (that's right...I said it), Duran Duran, A Flock of Seagulls, early Madonna (no seriously. Her first 2 LP's are brilliant. Laugh all you want, but atleast they're better written then all that crappy metalcore you listen to!) and basically anything with a half way decent synth line or bubblegum vocal melody in the chorus that came out in the 80's.
Thinking Person's Rock: Mike Knott, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello (and sometimes The Attractions...Get Happy was THE best Elvis Costello and The Attractions record ever made!) Bill Mallonee, Vigilantes of Love, later The Replacements, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and The Clash
oh yeah...and last but certainly not least, Mr. Chuck Berry.
I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward--to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. -Philippians 3:12-14
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