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William Benton
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GenderMale
OccupationHospitality
LocationLouisville, Kentucky, United States
IntroductionI am originally from Oklahoma. I have been in Louisville since 1997 and I can't find a good enough reason to leave. My job is manageable but I only feel relevant when I am making music or writing. I have played in Lucky Pineapple for over five years and recently joined Phantom Family Halo. www.luckypineapple.com In most cases I like animals more than people. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't even try though. I don't care for cars, sports, or religion.
Interestsmusic, literature, travel, film, visual arts, dada, futurists, expressionists, cats, politics, punk rock, kraut rock, country music, jazz, free jazz, garage rock, bass, guitar, rest, silence, scenery, coffee mugs, space, WCCW, Memphis Wrestling, Andy Kaufman, Don Van Vliet, Peter Sellers, soul food, sexuality, sensuality, anti-theism, Amy Sedaris, coffee, beer, wine, hair care, vinyl, cities, older people, younger people, b movies, cult movies, Bejeezus, Key West, Oklahoma, Louisville, noisy things, smashing electronic equipment, shying away from the latest digital advances, cheap suits, Indian food, sushi, Ireland, Berlin, Spain, Portugal, France, Puerto Rico, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, R. Crumb
Favorite moviesWhen You Comin' Back Red Ryder?, Hoffman, Interiors, Being There, Opening Night, Eraserhead, Once Upon a Time in the West, Solaris, A Boy and His Dog, A Touch of Evil, Grindhouse, Jackie Brown, Annie Hall, Head, Forbidden Zone, Blue Velvet, Holy Mountain, The American Astronaut, Apocalypse Now, Mean Streets, Family Nest, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Benjamin Smoke, Love Streams, A Woman Under the Influence, The Blockhouse, Fargo, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, Manhattan, The Proposition, Off the Charts, Barbarella, Horror Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums, Henry Fool, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Beaver Trilogy, Norman Is That You?, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Modern Times, Abby, The King of Comedy, Crumb, Grey Gardens, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Hairspray, American Astronaut, Female Trouble, Heavenly Creatures, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Switchblade Sisters, I'm All Right Jack!, Old Joy, The Great Dictator, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, In the Company of Men, El Topo, Mr. Freedom, Weekend, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Mulholland Drive, The Man Who Wasn't There, City of Lost Children, Supervan, Dancing Outlaw, The Van, Coffy, Synecdoche New York, Doubt
Favorite musicDevo, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sun Ra, Smoke, Minutemen, The Slits, Scott Walker, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson, Talking Heads, Black Flag, Tony Williams' Lifetime, Broadcast, Yo La Tengo, John Frusciante, Mike Watt, fIREHOSE, Descendents, ALL, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, Elvis Costello & the Attractions, The Dirty Three, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Roky Erickson, Hank Williams, Saccharine Trust, The Birthday Party, Buck Owens, Sparklehorse, Fugazi, John Coltrane, The Flaming Lips, Earl Thomas Conley, Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman, The Monkees, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Prince, Unknown Instructors, Jesus Lizard, Shellac, The Notwist, Kraftwerk, Shannon Wright, Antony & the Johnsons, John Lennon, Big Youth, The Raincoats, Wire, Television, Can, Neu!, Faust, Grinderman, Man Man, Leonard Cohen, Waylon Jennings, Daniel Johnston, Jandek, Meat Puppets, The Pogues, Dinosaur Jr., Pavement, Pink Floyd, Joe Tex, Link Wray, Man...or Astroman?, Syd Barrett, The Monks, Gary Lucas, Devendra Banhart, George Harrison, David Bowie, Radar Brothers, Lee Harvey Oswald Band, Angelo Badalamenti, Bernard Herrmann, The Black Heart Procession, Cat Power, Charley Patton, Tom Watson, Cows, CocoRosie, Lucky Pineapple, Venus Trap, Conway Twitty, Entrance, Extra Golden, Tubeway Army, Debris', Jim White, Low, Konk, ESG, James Chance, Brian Eno, Wilco, Charlie Rich, Idris Muhammad, Rolling Stones, Ike & Tina Turner, Jackie Mittoo, Mazzy Star, Mirah, John Cale, Terry Riley, John Lee Hooker, Leadbelly, Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Rapeman, The Geraldine Fibbers, The Stooges, Carla Bozulich, Gong, Tommy James & the Shondelles, Unwound, Iggy Pop, Squeeze, Madness, Jimmy Smith, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, The Vaselines, Igor Stravinsky, Townes Van Zandt, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Karen Dalton, The Numero Group, Firewater, American Astronaut, Django Reinhardt, Chet Baker, Circle Jerks, Blonde Redhead, Mum, Johnny Dowd, Beat Happening, Skip James
Favorite booksHenry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Sam Lipsyte, Nelson Algren, Hunter S. Thompson, Mary Gaitskill, Charles Bukowski, Cormac McCarthy, William S. Burroughs, Flannery O'Connor, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Christopher Hitchens, Sylvia Plath, Will Self, John Fante, Anne Sexton, Jack Kerouac, David Sedaris, Oscar Wilde, Nick Cave, Cellini, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Chuck Palahniuk, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikos Kazantzakis, Sam Harris, Dylan Thomas, Mikhail Bulgakov, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Knut Hamsun, Leonard Cohen, Woody Allen, Gerald Stern, Dante, Cormac McCarthy
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