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About Me

My Blog: Black Box Miasma: art, culture, politics, f***ing off

I am nasty, hateful, petty trailer trash. I am an extroverted misanthrope who is emotionally stunted and completely self-contained (but if you donâ€™t call me back, Iâ€™ll get pissed off).

I grew up with cowboys, truckers, miners, and other stereotypes long past their prime in Goffs, Ca. (population 23), home of my parent's store, Goffs General Store - general store, gas station, bar, restaurant and square dance hall. I hated it, which is why I'm in NYC.

I was kicked out of the U.S. Army, a fraternity, a Christian cult, several jobs, a few relationships, a couple of art shows, several bars, many apartments and, finally, grad school. I socialize well, am a people person and a team player.

My Interests

lines of flight, hidden orders, secret beauty

I'd like to meet:

I always thought I'd get to meet Jane Jacobs, Will Eisner, and Gilles Deleuze, but that's never going to happen.

Music:

I used to be a music obsessive, but since my HD failed and I lost a decade's worth of music, I only really listen to WFMU. And Dan Deacon.

Movies:

I recently saw a bunch of Michael Haneke films. I love Cache, Time of the Wolf and Code: Unknown, and hate Funny Games (haven't seen the new version, tho').

Recently loved: the new version of Bladerunner, Hsiao-hsien Hou's Flight of the Red Balloon (an homage to the awesome kid's film The Red Balloon) and the awesomely ridiculous drug-ploitation film Blue Sunshine.

Books:

Been re-reading Foucault's Order of Things for some masochistic reason.

Recently loved: Philip Roth's Plot Against America. I've always avoided the big "dick swinging authors" of the 50s, but Roth's new book is a great "What If?" story where Charles Lindenberg wins the pre-WWII presidential race and causes the US to slide to hell. It's obviously about today; obviously about the current despair as we watch our country eviscerate itself.

Also, A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York which is a gripping yarn and an inadvertent slap against the libertarian screed of privatization.

Heroes:

Jane Jacobs, Lou Andreas-Salome, Dave Hickey, Jared Diamond, Valentino Achak Deng

My Blog

http://uberdionysus.livejournal.com/

I keep an extensive blog at http://uberdionysus.livejournal.com/ I update almost every day. Go check it out.
Posted by Troy on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:05:00 PST