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KY

'The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.' ~Jean-Luc

About Me


______________________________________________________ "Poet-Scholar-Mighty Warrior-Shameless Exhibitionist"
Paraphrased from Lawrence of Arabia ______________________________________________________ "Little. Yellow. Different. Ky."
Arbitrarily made up by The Advertising Slogan Generator ... Really! ______________________________________________________ My name is pronounced "Key": meaning unusual. Leon claims, "Ky has an aura around him." I really dig Sacha's characterization of me as a "super swell bon vivante." (Thanks, love.) One night, Lisa Marie said I was an enigma.I recall Coby saying the same thing after sunrise one morning. Hmmm... ______________________________________________________ Life is art. Life is beautiful. Life is sweet. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. Expect the unexpected. Moderation is for lemmings (but who's to judge if they're happy). Procrastination has its privileges (and its price). Plot is for the proletariat. Video is the last temptation of Christ. (I may be succumbing, but I will always have the accomplishment of taking Kara to a press screening of "Shaolin Soccer," her first celluloid viewing in five years.) ______________________________________________________ To some degree, all of the Interests are arbitrary. Ca va. ______________________________________________________ Die Luft der Freiheit weht. (Let the winds of freedom blow.)

My Interests

rapture. illumination. la dolce vita. remembrance of things past. conversation. people. experiences. beauty. culture. style. house. design. art. film. photo. performance. dance. food (mangos, pho, chow fun, dim sum, tapas, burritos, seafood, buffets). technology. systems. chaos. linguistics. society. future. strategy. games. travel. Burning Man.

I'd like to meet:

Guides to enlightenment (but if I meet the buddha on the road, he's a dead man). Navigators through life's journey. Personal minstrels. Stress managers. Operations specialists. Constructive critics. The complimentary and the complementary. Sources and forces of positive energy... ______________________________________________________ Let's separate the wheat from the chaffe. Sometimes, you just can't get enough... but only of those who are absolutely fabulous...

Music:



Some call it house... We call it home. --3 Degrees Global. Variety Is the Spice of Life. Stormy Laughter. Nuvo Music. Nouvelle Vague. Marlene Dietrich. Faye Wong. Norah Jones. Frank Sinatra. Edith Piaf. Prince. Bob Marley. David Bowie. Simon and Garfunkel. The Beatles. Pink Floyd. Miles Davis. John Coltrane. New Order. The Cure. The Clash. Bollywood. Django Reindhardt. Nina Simone. Beethoven. Ennio Morricone. Zbigniew Preisner. oldies. 80s. Britpop. electronica. EDM. breaks. funk. downtempo. hip hop. bossa nova. opera. The Velvet Underground (and Nico: immortalized on film by Federico Fellini, Andy Warhol, and Jonas Mekas; played by the fiercely intelligent Tilda Swinton in David Mackenzie's upcoming biopic).

Movies:

Walden. Hero. Garden State. Code 46. Lawrence of Arabia. In the Mood for Love. Ashes of Time. Vertical Ray of the Sun. Blowup. Irma Vep. Chungking Express. Hard Boiled. Cyclo. Taxi Driver. Masculine-Feminine. Jules and Jim. Dogtown and Z-Boys. La Jetée. The Magnificent Ambersons. Cremaster Cycle. Pi. 007. 8½. 2001. 2046. What Time Is It There?

Television:

Dekalog. Berlin Alexanderplatz. Charlie Rose. My So Called Life. Seinfeld. Homicide. Picket Fences. St Elsewhere. Hill Street Blues. The Avengers. The Fugitive. Star Trek. The X-Files. NYPD Blue. ER. Law and Order. The Twilight Zone. South Park. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Pimp My Ride. Sex and the City. Firefly. Lost. Grey's Anatomy. Heroes. Journeyman.

Books:

Radical Evolution -- I'm quoted! The Tipping Point. Blink. The Elements of Style. On the Road. Reeling. The Prince. The Stranger. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Art of War. The Tale of Kieu. The Invisible Man. Things Fall Apart. Hamlet. Soul of a New Machine. Liar's Poker. Don Quixote. Othello. Catch-22. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

Heroes:

Mom.

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My Blog

COMING ATTRACTIONS TRAILER NIGHT (DC, May 14)

"COMING ATTRACTIONS TRAILER NIGHT, SUMMER 2008" BLOCKBUSTER PROGRAM: BRING YOUR REEL FRIENDS WASHINGTON, D.C.: It's time to roll out the BIG summer movies  BIG action, BIG comedy, BIG special effect...
Posted by KY on Tue, 13 May 2008 05:43:00 PST

Disorient presents: GLAMTECH, Fri. Mar. 14 (NYC)

Disorient presents: GLAMTECHhttp://wiki.disorient.info/index.php?title=Image:Dis orientGlamtech08_400x800.jpgFriday March 14, 2008 - 10PM-5AM@ Club Exit,147 Greenpoint Ave. Brooklyn, NY718-349-6969feat...
Posted by KY on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:41:00 PST

WATCH THE OSCARS WITH DC FILM SOCIETY AT "AND THE WINNER IS"

 WATCH THE OSCARS LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN WITH THE WASHINGTON, DC FILM SOCIETY AT "AND THE WINNER IS..." ON FEB. 24WASHINGTON, D.C.  Join the Washington, DC Film Society as we sit on pins and nee...
Posted by KY on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:08:00 PST

My Celebrity Look-alikes

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph...
Posted by KY on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:57:00 PST

Disorient presents: 8: THE OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY* OF NEW YEARS EVE (NYC)

Since I'm hosting this, I guess we'll end up here to finish up my first NYE in NYC. ~Kyhttp://wiki.disorient.info/index.php?title=PartiesDisorie nt_presents:_8:_THE_OFFICIAL_AFTERPARTY.2A_OF_NEW_YEAR.2...
Posted by KY on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:38:00 PST

W 11/14: COMING ATTRACTIONS TRAILER NIGHT (DC)

SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM HOLLYWOOD --"COMING ATTRACTIONS TRAILER NIGHT" IS COMING AT YOUWashington, D.C.: What do a murderous barber, a playboy congressman, two kids trying to survive war-torn Afghanis...
Posted by KY on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:24:00 PST

Disorient presents ESCAPE VELOCITY (NYC): Fri. 11/16

Disorient presents ESCAPE VELOCITY Break free from the dust with Disorient! L I N E U P___ JOHN DILL (Pickled House/Le Souk Sundays) - bumpin', pumpin' progressive house MORGAN STONER (WonderBrea...
Posted by KY on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:26:00 PST

Disorient Presents Compressor (NYC), July 27

Who's coming out? I'll be there... ~KY-------------------------------------------------Disorien t presents: COMPRESSORhttp://wiki.disorient.info/index.php?title=Image:C ompressor_D7.pngGet ready for the...
Posted by KY on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:20:00 PST

Disorient presents GLAMTECH - June 30 (NYC)

Disorient presents: GLAMTECHhttp://wiki.disorient.info/index.php?title=Image:Gla mtech_flyer.jpg (flyer)GLAMTECH is the style of Disorient.GLAMTECH is pink and orange and goes blink in the night.Take a...
Posted by KY on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:06:00 PST

California Dreamin'

I finally got around to buying my plane ticket. It took me a good part of a day. Ridiculous...
Posted by KY on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 03:09:00 PST