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brighter side of insomnia

I'm a slave to the detail

About Me

I'm an insomniac. I stay up all hours of the night, thinking, watching, listening, creating, whathaveyou.....so anyone out there who's weird and has quite the comprehensive musical preference [music junkies like myself], please share.

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My Interests

music
film
photography
painting
sculpting
museums
writing
people-watching
window-gazing
live shows
red wine
health food
good company/conversation
intelligence
dark humor
mix tapes
small bookstores
tall ceilings
victorian homes
homemade haircuts
quantum physics
rogue waves
day sleep
night walks
thrift stores
cooking
obscurities
feeling alive

I'd like to meet:

i'm shy.

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Music:



air, broadcast, beirut, belle & sebastian, bjork, bauhaus, love + rockets, bowie, old cure, brian eno, boards of canada, smiths, morrissey, depeche mode, beat happening, radiohead, GBV, flaming lips, old NIN, crass, pixies, holden, pink mountaintops, wilderness, deerhoof, tricky, portishead, massive attack, orbital, komeda, viva voce, death by chocolate, interpol, sonic youth, sigur ros, mum, tv on the radio, yo la tengo, my bloody valentine, type o negative, bow wow wow, miaow, slowdive, ride, giant drag, pj harvey, magnetic fields, mazzy star, hood, django reinhardt, iggy pop, old goldfrapp, miss violetta beauregarde, devo, architecture in helsinki, TMBG, B-52s, leonard cohen, william shatner, blondie, tom waits, xiu xiu, shins, pigface, old U2, lemonheads, talking heads, clash, joy division, new order, echo + bunnymen, roxy music, jesus + mary chain, modern lovers, stereolab, apples in stereo, beck, sneaker pimps, husker du, yeah yeah yeahs, prince, polyphonic spree, unkle, nouvelle vague, old caetano veloso, deftones, team sleep, os mutantes, sunset rubdown, frog eyes, miles davis, coltrane, classical, french music, old punk-rock, old-school hip-hop, really old blues, trip-hop, 80s synth/new wave/goth, electronic, industrial, ambient, underground, white noises, NPR, old bellydancing vinyls, dataheaven.us, limbik frequencies, etc.

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Movies:

ingmar bergman. wes anderson. wack bollywood films. bill murray. amelie. lost in translation. magnolia. the conformist. edward scissorhands. eternal sunshine-. pump up the volume. godfather I & II. all the real girls. life is beautiful. spinal tap. big lebowski. basquiat. pretty in pink. less than zero. garden state. waiting for guffman. spartacus. secretary. killing zoe. hedwig & angry inch. tokyo fist. begotten. slaughter high. omen IV. waking life. heathers. my life without me. dancer in the dark. buffalo 66. the shining. radiohead films. old music video collections. music/band documentaries. pbs documentaries. bruce lee. foreign film. classics. anything obscure.

Television:

cowboy bebop
paranoia agent
samurai champloo
super milk chan
anthony bourdain
japanese iron chef
weather
Curb Your Enthusiam
project runway
independent lens

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Books:

Rimbaud, Bukowski, Alice in Wonderland, I am the Cheese, The Celestine Prophecy, Oscar Wilde, Poe, classic lit., various comics, medical reference books, lots of philosophy & art books, obscure coffee table books, FOUND magazine

Heroes:

my son

My Blog

night eating in your sleep

i'm empty.     i just don't know what to say anymore.
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Thu, 31 May 2007 02:19:00 PST

swallowed a fly, i don't know why

http://www.myheritage.com     fucking hilarious. i did two different pictures on this, and both times got kirk douglas. i also got johnny depp as 100% on another picture. perhaps i make...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:20:00 PST

crash crash bang bang

do you ever take a moment to look around and see each minute for what it is, then think to yourself, i can't picture myself here? yet it's so strange since in reality you are there, living your life, ...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:08:00 PST

silas in the dark

vitamins for youtake them in your handand make a fist vitamins for youthey'll make the world seem biggerbright light    brighterput them in your mouth     ...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:41:00 PST

calculate the motion of the land

every day is an exhausting continuation of the previous ,  and i mean that in most positiveway possbilehandful of unfinished hoursi sleep drastically more or less than i shouldalways apologizingp...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:15:00 PST

black-clad debutante

i got a veritable plague from a babyi was feverishswallowand ingest shards of glassit was not a good nightlike a black-clad debutanteget on some good medstake out their eyesand stomp on their headsup ...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:57:00 PST

tear the seams of the underdressed

i can curl up on the floorand prop a chair against the door,against the doorknob for protection, and sleep the night awaythe phone clings to the wall near the doori pronounce the numbers carefullyexag...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:05:00 PST

i am the cheese

chemistry homework or quiz? sure, why not.  Two Names You Go by1. britt2. b.Two Things That Scare You1. noah growing up2. losing people i loveTwo Everyday Essentials1. you2. musicTwo Things You A...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:48:00 PST

the suffix never ceases to end

saturated with infatuationcauses hallucinationno time for desperation[i only want conversation]but to my devastationall this frustrationlaced with separationled to deprivationjust stuck here with my i...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:44:00 PST

the darker side of sleep

she threw herself at me on top of me       but i did not carei let her do what she wantedor at least, what she thought she wantedtook off down the streettrying to catch m...
Posted by brighter side of insomnia on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:29:00 PST