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cullen stalin

Criticize everything, overthrow everything

About Me

for TaxLo & general booking inquiries, please email cullen @ maddecent.com
No More Songs
(Phil Ochs)
Hello hello hello, is there anybody home
I've only called to say I'm sorry
The drums are in the dawn
And all the voice was gone
And it seems that there are no more songs
Once I knew a girl, she was a flower in a flame
I loved her as the sea sings sadly
Now the ashes of the dream
can be found in the magazines
And it seems that there are no more songs
Once I knew a saint who sang upon a stage
He told about the world, his lover
A ghost without a name
Stands ragged in the rain
And it seems that there are no more songs
The rebels they were here they came beside the door
They told me that the moon was bleeding
Then all to my surprise
They took away my eyes
And it seems that there are no more songs
A scar is in the sky, it's time to say goodbye
He withers on the beat, he's dying
A white flag in my hand
And a white boat in the sand
And it seems that there are no more songs.
Hello hello hello, is there anybody home
I've only called to say I'm sorry
The drums are in the dawn
And all the voice was gone
And it seems that there are no more songs

My Interests

shackling the masses with drastic rap tactics, semiology, dancing, eating at diners, telepathic friends, council communism , the postmodern condition, the non-aligned movement, The 120 , militant entertainment, parecon , atheism, mass psychology, the Gordian Knot, Ockham's Razor, breaking their haughty power, revolutionary intercommunalism, the New Left, Young Hegelians, political cults, Zeno's Paradox , Islam, the criticism of weapons, Russell's Paradox, staying up farrr too late, stepping into the same river twice, busting at secret agents running up out the Days' Inn, cooking vegan food for a whole BUNCH of motherfuckers, all types of ill shit

I'd like to meet:

People who want to work towards a society where the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.

Music:


on repeat: tapp, holy ghost, dan deacon, glass candy, kinfolk kia shine, meat beat manifesto, marvelous & twikks, death set, hercules & love affair, spankrock, chavy boys of london, pryda, trouble n' bass, masters at work, italo disco singles, diplo re-edits, boys noize, dj eli remixes, flosstradamus, m.i.a., video hippos, santogold, chromeo, future islands, dance mania, david bowie. always showing love: swell maps, tragedy khadafi, au pairs, dark, napalm death (Mick Harris era), spacemen 3, kain, coil, a certain ratio, neptunes, celebration, faust, death in june, diamanda galas, cam'ron, mandrill, black sabbath, sunno))), nation of ulysses, kleenex, infest, boogie down productions, malaria, kw griff, immortal technique, led zeppelin, ras kass, teenage jesus and the jerks, betty davis, alice coltrane, prince, herbie hancock, the slits, void, rudimentary peni, comets on fire, can, dj screw, stereolab, bush tetras, esg, three 6 mafia, neu!, this heat, cajmere, diplo/low budget/the hollertronix fam, james chance, budgie, mf doom, metro area, godflesh, cymande, rakim, birthday party, james brown, ghostface, steely dan, flower travelling band, daft punk, sir ibu, music that lifts up our savior jesus christ

Movies:

The Aristocrats, Grin Without a Cat, The Corporation , Shock Corridor , They Live , Blow Out , Videodrome , La Chinoise , Vertigo , Viva Zapata! , King of New York , Dark City , Usual Suspects, the Spanish Prisoner , Glengarry Glenn Ross , Shoot It Black Shoot It Blue, the Final Comedown , The Wizard of Gore, The Confabulous Fantraption of Horatio Hufnagle

Television:

Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Wire, Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Great Job, Beanie and Cecil, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Family Guy, Justice League Unlimited, Sopranos, Boondocks, Xavier Renegade Angel... (i should own stock in the Cartoon Network)

Books:

currently reading: The Autobiography of a Sexually Liberated Communist Woman, A Savage War of Peace, The Soviets. my favorite joints: The Men Who Stare At Goats , Order of the Death's Head , Blue-Eyed Devil , Marx's Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts , Dialectic of Enlightenment , History and Class Consciousness , The Black Jacobins , The Book of the Five Percenters, By Any Means Necessary , Phenomenology of Spirit , Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , Watchmen, Rakim Told Me

Heroes:

All my heroes have died at least once in their life

John Brown . Oscar Wilde . Victor Serge . Fred Hampton . Alexandre Kollontai . W.E.B. DuBois

My Blog

Stop Snitchin (Decision 08 edition)

We don't want no (stool) pigeons!"She told me that I had the perfect 'look,'" recalls Carroll. "And that I had the perfect personalitythey kept saying I was friendly and personablefor what they were...
Posted by cullen stalin on Tue, 27 May 2008 10:13:00 PST

some May anniversaries

Aldo Moro assassinated by Red Brigades in Italy, 1978: 30 yearshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_MoroKidnapping_and_de athThe "May Events" in France, 1968: 40 yearshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968...
Posted by cullen stalin on Thu, 15 May 2008 01:58:00 PST

Crisis on Infinite Baltimores aka Wham Decent

Still a lot more TaxLo parties to go in May. Thanks to squidfire's Kevin Sherry for the amazing designs....
Posted by cullen stalin on Thu, 15 May 2008 01:07:00 PST

Slavoj Zizek on Democracy Now!

Slavoj Zizek on Democracy Now!Recorded preceding the (always awesome) Left Forum event in NY this March, aired today (5/12/08)....
Posted by cullen stalin on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:47:00 PST

SUPPRESSION (VA powerviolence) discography now available

When i was around 21 i was heavily involved in the noise tape-trading community. With a few other collaborators i made concrete and harsh noise, often under the alias Dyslexis Coup. One of my trading ...
Posted by cullen stalin on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:13:00 PST

College radio playlist from 10 years ago

I used to do a radio show on Amherst's WAMH college station during my years at Hampshire.You can see that my tastes have both changed and stayed the same.Feel free to make fun or give props....
Posted by cullen stalin on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:14:00 PST

March 5: "Adam Smith in Beijing" symposium at 2640

A symposium on Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing:Lineages of the 21st CenturyWednesday Mar 57PM @ 26402640 St Paul StBaltimoreThe American economy is in shambles, with a spiraling debt crisis, ...
Posted by cullen stalin on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:09:00 PST

Gotten any good mail recently?

You may think that postal mail is a lost art. Well, today, kids, i am here to dispell that exaggerated rumor of its demise. Following this piece in the Baltimore Sun, i received a letter at my home. I...
Posted by cullen stalin on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:07:00 PST

A.I.M. with M.I.A.

Right before i went up to NY for a deposition (see blog posts from 2 years ago for further details about why), i had this AIM convo with M.I.A. She said she was going to post it, but she is a slowwwww...
Posted by cullen stalin on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:58:00 PST

Michael Muhammad Knight & The Taqwacores

Expect a more 'personal' post about this as well, but i need to get this announcement out far and wide:Next week at Red Emma's i am hosting Michael Muhammad Knight, author of Blue-Eyed Devil, my favor...
Posted by cullen stalin on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:19:00 PST