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Locus Solus

When they said i would be doing models in architecture school, i think i misunderstood them.

About Me

i am in the graduate school of architecture at unm | i compose music and am a listening fanatic, perhaps this is the one thing i cannot do without | i study aikido and iaido, both are japanese arts. the first is a body art aimed at furthering the development of one spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically - the merging of the left and right brain. the second is the way of drawing the sword and cutting your opponent | i was a paramedic for 5 years and worked for albuquerque ambulance. i am happy to have moved onwho am i?musician. architecture student. eclectic human being.i'm still figuring myself out...
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My Interests

music | architecture | design | aikido | iaido | movies | bungie

I'd like to meet:

there are scenes in movies that perhaps come close to describing who i want to meet. consider the musician who moves one to tears; the artist who can brilliantly abstract the reality they see into a timeless work; the fleeing princess; the ronin; the sincere...

Music:

the knife | trentemoller | new delhi fm | skinny puppy | download | bedside toxicology | coil | architect | dead can dance | boards of canada | autechre | doubting thomas | depeche mode | the cure | front 242 | nin | ministry | orbital | underworld | lusine icl | juno reactor | future sound of london | gridlock | a perfect circle | tool | aesop rock | outcast | tori amos | architect | clark | tonikom | echo.rausch | hecq | architect | haujobb | kobold | radiohead | thom yorke | charlie clouser | aphex twin | frontline assembly | doubting thomas | plateau | massive attack | tonikom | lusine | meg lee chin | orbital | smashing pumpkins | soundgarden | alice in chains | stone temple pilots

Movies:

ronin | ghost in the shell | babel | lost in translation | memoirs of a geisha | 3 extremes | infection | donnie darko | the big lebowski | baraka | i

Television:

it rots your mind

Books:

architecture books on: tadao ando | shin takamatsu | peter zumthor | will bruder | frank gehry | glenn murcutt | daniel libeskind | bernard tschumi | sustainable development | japanese carpentry and design | detailing | theory zen: zen flesh, zen bones noam chomsky: hegemony or survival | 9/11 | power and terror | propaganda and the public mind; neil gaiman: american gods | the sandman | anansi boys

Heroes:

buddha | basho | hakuin | morihei ueshiba | hayashizaki jinsuke shigenobu | tori amos | richard d. james | the subconscious crew | brendan perry and lisa gerrard | trent reznor

My Blog

The Universal Writing of Humanity

Frank Lloyd Wright once stated that architecture is the "universal writing of humanity." Architects across time have designed and constructed buildings that denote sacred and holy space. Whether it ...
Posted by Locus Solus on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:39:00 PST

The Disappearing Act

Where has everyone gone? Jesus. It's like people are dropping like flies...
Posted by Locus Solus on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:49:00 PST

albuquerque is an arid shithole

so, to make things EVEN better, my passenger window was shot out in front of the mechanics over the weekend. at this point i am laughing at it, but i can think of two countries where this shit wouldn...
Posted by Locus Solus on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:17:00 PST

Blue...

This is Blue:Blue just got a new water pump, fan clutch, thermostat, set of belts, power steering flush from Jim's Automotive - a place i would normally recommend. Well, while driving her home on Thu...
Posted by Locus Solus on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:35:00 PST

one of those feelings....

ugh. what an interesting night. the small world grows smaller and yet smaller again. i ache when i look into her eyes and i wonder if she knows it. i think she knows. i can't tell if the same sen...
Posted by Locus Solus on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:02:00 PST

fuckwit

just in case you were wondering, it's in the Apple OS X dictionary:
Posted by Locus Solus on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:06:00 PST

little girls...

...why must you parade around in big girls' skin?
Posted by Locus Solus on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:12:00 PST

Insanity.

They say you are insane if you try the same thing over and over and over again, each time expecting different results...I fear that i have allowed myself to lose my sanity at times.
Posted by Locus Solus on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:46:00 PST

the price...

i hate the feeling of something looming in the not so distant future. i especially hate not knowing if i must make a fateful decision regarding another sentient being's life in the not so distant fut...
Posted by Locus Solus on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:11:00 PST

far...far away

the clock is ticking away. this coming friday i leave in the early morning for japan. i will be spending 10 days there studying architecture. i am confident that it will be an amazing experience. ...
Posted by Locus Solus on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:27:00 PST