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About Me


my name is neal zero. i am twenty six years old, and i fall at about a two on the kinsey scale. my hobbies include watching football, shaving my legs, and taking long walks on the beach. my favorite color is yellow. i hold a bachelor's degree in psychology, and am currently working towards a master's degree in cycle reinvention. i am a vegetarian, but not because i love animals, but rather because i really hate vegetables. i am from new jersey, and take absolutely no pride in this fact. i am of indian descent, but welcome the confusion of being construed as an arab. i voted for george bush twice, but only because i want to see the chinese take over this country. stupidity amuses me. lipstick irks me. my friends inspire me. my enemies motivate me. i play to win. and i always win. i do, however, have many weaknesses. for example, i have a reoccurring problem with scurvy, and i am susceptible to having vaginal cramps when inducing large quantities of ice cream. many say i am obnoxious. they are right. others say i am loving. they too are right.
by day i am an athlete's foot activist, but by night i am a multi-media artist. in the last five years, i have directed twelve short films, written five feature-length screenplays, published two books, and have recorded over fifty tracks of film scores and music for various projects. above you can hear tracks from my solo effort entitled "Vanity Matinée". in two thousand and three, i launched a low budget independent production company, onyx eye films, as a vehicle to explore the abstract and alternate modes of consciousness. however, onyx eye films is not just me but also the coalition of friends and artists who lend their talents to the cause of presenting honest art designed to provoke thought and inspire action. since then, my films have been screened at galleries and festivals in alaska, new jersey, new york, california, utah, and washington. my film "absolution" has also appeared on IFC (Independent Film Channel). currently, i am keeping busy on a myriad of creative endeavors. i am directing/writing the feature film "anthem", finishing up my first novella entitled "rage", and continuing to write/produce tracks for my solo electronic/experimental project and my acoustic project with mr. al qually, "10mg".
some of the statements you see written above are true. others are lies. find out what really matters at www.onyxeye.com , www.nealzero.com , www.tenmilligrams.com , www.myspace.com/tenmilligrams , www.cafepress.com/nealzero , and the remaining pages of this site. believe in yourself, especially when no one else does. and remember, life ain't no disco but no one said you had to stop dancing. alpha. beta. over and out.
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Member Since: 3/13/2005
Band Website: nealzero.com
Band Members: neal zero & the o.e. crew
Influences: paul thomas anderson, andrew wk, maya angelou, animal rights, fiona apple, bacteria, bhagavad gita, billy the kid, bjork, jack black, david blaine, stan brakhage, sylvia browne, doug buck, busta rhymes, candiria, capoeira, carbohydrates, dave chappelle, cigarettes, cirque de soleil, sacha baron cohen, sofia coppola, bill cosby, cosmic duality, the cranberries, cameron crowe, jack daniels, james dean, deftones, dna, nick drake, dredg, ralph waldo emerson, failures, the faint, fractals, friends/enemies, vincent gallo, glassjaw, godspeed you black emperor, hbo original series, mitch hedberg, bill hicks, philip seymour hoffman, hormones, spike jonze, maynard james keenan, jack kevorkian, kinetic energy, k-mart, krishnamurti, jonathan larson, led zeppelin, spike lee, lexapro, richard linklater, lovers/ex-lovers, the mars volta, michael mann, matisyahu, meditation, meshuggah, michael moore, mira nair, new jersey, mike nichols, conan o'brian, ovid, clive owen, chuck palahniuk, sean penn, joaquin phoenix, edgar allan poe, sidney poitier, portishead, natalie portman, prayer, ryan reynolds, david o. russell, gus van sant, sex, m. night shyamalan, sigur ros, silverchair, shel silverstein, slam poets, kevin smith, oliver stone, meryl streep, stella, soybeans, julie taymor, timbaland, technology, tool, vince vaughn, ultima vez, vivekananda, hype williams, malcom x, chet zar, the zodiac...
Sounds Like: vanity.
Record Label: onyx eye inc.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

the prince

four hundred thousand yearsuntil a bloodied and bitter endmother kali has raised her headthe time has passed to make amendswe've paved a wayfor the angry prince in blueto lift us up and ride awayleavi...
Posted by Neal Zero on Sat, 12 May 2007 02:28:00 PST

tentacles

when the curtains fall, comes the end of the show. but until that time comes, there is a story untold. the still of a scene. the elating burn of a standing ovation. three acts until its done. when t...
Posted by Neal Zero on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:11:00 PST

glucose & nicotine

i float past another fading memory of a desire unconquered. sipping cheap cognac out of a sippy cup and ashing my magic stick from a buy-two-get-one in a bowl constructed from the aluminum foil that h...
Posted by Neal Zero on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:39:00 PST

smile

he came to us as if in a dream.  decades of cognitive meanderings had finally brought us the vision.  was he a benevolent dictator or an angry god?  this we could not know.  the ti...
Posted by Neal Zero on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:26:00 PST

shiver

never will you shiver, my dear. not with me.                           not with me. i will s...
Posted by Neal Zero on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 07:15:00 PST

good girl

good girl, punish me. float me down the river and drown me. insist. resist all the trepidation laced within my grip. push me down. hold me there. make me plead for you to save me.my heart, hurt me. wi...
Posted by Neal Zero on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:37:00 PST

sick

sick. i am sick. with one glance, contortions move through me like violent melodies. a look, and i swell with nausea erupting from a core ordinarily dormant with surrender and quelled by the percieved...
Posted by Neal Zero on Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:29:00 PST

candy

City towers pierce through the sky.  The bustle of people litter the streets.  The dcor of trash illuminates the scene.  We loom over the shoulders of a darkly dressed woman, mysterious...
Posted by Neal Zero on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:33:00 PST

beautiful

. there are a million beautifully simple intricacies to the throbbing sensation of a broken heart   ~neal zero~     www.nealzero.com   copyright © 2005...
Posted by Neal Zero on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:13:00 PST

fetus

now that i am here ill try to smile and hope that i can make you proud.   and though i will laugh and cry with the same intensity i cant help but wish that i wasnt.   ~neal zero~   &nb...
Posted by Neal Zero on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:29:00 PST