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Hangman Angman

Collector of fine tattoo art and experiences!

About Me

Collecting artistic tattoos by (in no particular order) Filip Leu, Bill Salmon, Shad, Jack Rudy, Claus Fuhrmann, Fred Corbin, Horiwaka, SuzAnne Fauser, Shotsie Gorman, Marty Holcomb, Jen Billig, Henry Goldfield, Dave Bobrick, and Dave Lum. Working on the suit... Collector of guitars, music, and experiences. Professor and occasional "shop bitch."
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My Interests

Tattooing and tattoo collecting, the body, art, culture, music, film, the intellectual endeavor! Diamond Club Family, Leu Family. Backyard Birdwatching. My Beloved Yanks.
You Are Surrealism
Dreamy and idealistic, you've created a world that is all your own.
It's very likely that you've either dabbled in drugs or are naturally trippy.
You are always trying to push beyond the boundaries of your culture and society.
You believe that art, love, and freedom can change the world. What Art Movement Are You?

I'd like to meet:

Other collectors, other people who like to think, other people who like living!

Music:

Jimi, Trane, Allman Brothers, early Santana, Gov't Mule, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Rory Gallagher, Wagnerian Opera, 20th Century "broken crockery" music (Schoenberg, Berg, you get the idea), Hot f*ckin' Tuna!, bluesy psychedelia, Tom Waits, really good acoustic guitar, Verdi, Puccini, Britten, most things dramatic... width="425" height="350" ....

Movies:

Woody Allen, Monty Python, Christopher Guest, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Peter Sellars Pink Panther movies, Godfather, Godfather II, Apocolypse Now, Killing Fields, Usual Suspects, Memento, Bond--James Bond (Connery, then Brosnan, then Moore), Hannibal Lector, Room with a View, Blow-em-up Real Good flix (early Dirty Harry, silly Ahnold movies, silly Sly movies, silly Bruce Willis movies, ...), Gary Oldman, Kenneth Branagh (especially his Shakespeare movies), Snakes on a M*therf*ckin' Plane!

Television:

Sopranos, Carnivale, Deadwood, Rome, Dead Like Me, Silly "Reality" TV (The Donald, Survivor), Rollergirls, Mystery! (especially Morse, Poirot, Prime Suspect), Daily Show, Colbert Report, CSI (Las Vegas or NY), stuff that makes ya think...

Books:

Harry F*ckin' Potter!, PD James, Electric Michaelangelo, Until I Find You (John Irving), The Grand Complication (Allen Kurzweil), Howard S. Becker, Clint Sanders, good ethnography, The Professor and the Madman, the ocasional biography (Electric Gypsy, Wheel's on Fire, Midnight Riders, Jaco), the occasional thriller (James Patterson, John Sanford), James Hynes

Heroes:

People who make other people's lives better, great tattoo artists, great composers, wicked guitarists, film makers who make you forget the world outside.

My Blog

Go easy, Sydney

Billii will doubtless give me shit for cutting and posting, but I don't have much to add to the obit from the NY Times. In time, I'm sure she'll forgive me.May 26, 2008Sydney Pollack, Film Director, ...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:37:00 PST

Keith Olberman on the evil one’s assassination comments

I know Billii is probably going to give me shit for cutting and pasting, but there's no way I could provide commentary on Keith Olberman's comments that would match the passion and emotional commitmen...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Sun, 25 May 2008 08:49:00 PST

Stalkers

I had a student a number of years ago who developed an unhealthy obsession with me. She hit on me one time in my office. She asked my colleagues for personal information about me, like where I lived...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Sat, 24 May 2008 12:49:00 PST

Happy Birthday, Dick!

Today is Richard Wagner's 195th birthday. Sirius satellite radio is celebrating with the entire 1975 Ring! So, I got up at 2:30 to attempt to listen to the whole 14+ hours. Dedication? Partly. En...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Thu, 22 May 2008 04:32:00 PST

YouTube

WTF is wrong with YouTube these days? First they take away all the good stuff that violates copyright and now their server runs too slowly to get through any video without it hanging up every 20 seco...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Wed, 21 May 2008 02:40:00 PST

Joe Morgan is a choad huffing crotch pheasant

He needs to look up the word "accountability" in the fucking dictionary. "Cahmferbul" is not a word. Insipid commentary about how leadoff walks are more damaging than two-out walks fill time, which ...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Mon, 19 May 2008 05:56:00 PST

Who’s the bigger badass?

Today is a dream day for Teutonic opera fans with Sirius subscriptions. Currently, we are getting a 1981 Salome with Gwyneth Jones in the title role and Colin Davis conducting. After that we get the...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Sun, 18 May 2008 10:24:00 PST

The First Emperor

So the last performance of my opera trip was on Saturday. I haven't written about it yet because I was traveling and then getting settled back in. Anyway, I'm writing about it now.The opera was Tan ...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Thu, 15 May 2008 06:55:00 PST

Malted Inspired Me!

Malted reminded me in my last blog that Warren Zevon's album Excitable Boy may very well be a perfect record. I haven't heard this record in probably a decade or more, which is a moral character flaw...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Thu, 15 May 2008 05:39:00 PST

Trampy inspired me...

I was surfing through the groups I care about about 3 minutes ago and when I opened up GGP, I heard the opening strains of one of those great Stevie Nicks songs from Fleetwood Mac's pop heydays. Was ...
Posted by Hangman Angman on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:07:00 PST