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Marco Collins

I'm right and wrong all at the same time

About Me


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"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
-Janis Joplin
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“The reasonable man adapts to his environment, the unreasonable man persists in trying to change his environment. Therefore, all progress relies on the unreasonable man.”
-George Bernard Shaw (from Man and Superman)
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“You are better off being homeless than being me.”
–Britney Spears, to a homeless man.
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"Enlightenment consists not in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible."
- Carl Jung (A Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the school of analytical psychology)
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"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us."
-Thich Nhat Hanh (infamous Zen Buddhist monk and peace activist)
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"I inhaled - that was the point."
-Barack Obama
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"I met Tony Blair and he said to me, 'I was in a band once, and I could never get the riff to Iron Man right.' I thought, Why are you telling me about Iron Man when there's a war going on?."
-Ozzy Osbourne recalls a meeting with the former Prime Minister. ____________________________________________________________

My obsession of the week:
Thomas... you're my hero.

My Interests


Staying Clean and Sober, Music, Downloading, Dreaming, Peanut Butter Captain Crunch, Howe, Volunteering, NME, Tattoos, Hiking, Radio, Adrenaline Rushes, Coffee, Massage, Gola, Hispanic Folklore, Robots, Whac-A-Mole, Netflix, Independent Film, Rollercoasters, Making lists, Going to movies by myself, Carne Asada Burritos, Traveling, Flirting, Sushi Pizza, Thai food, Brie, Loyalty, Not Selling Out, Cool Books (when I can focus... damn A.D.D.), TV, DVR, Namedropping, Soul Stealing, Selling Out...

I'd like to meet:


if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Music:



Movies:

Amelie, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Meet The Parents, My Life As A Dog, City Of God, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Dangerous Liasons, Goodfellas, Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage, From Dusk Till Dawn, Like Water For Chocolate, La Femme Nikita, My Own Private Idaho, Secrets And Lies, Shallow Grave, Sophie's Choice, Seven, Thelma And Louise, Blue (out of trilogy White, Red, Blue), Waiting For Guffman, Vanilla Sky, Harold and Maude, and No Country For Old Men, and I just saw this incredibly fucked up flick, Funny Games...

So twisted.

Television:


The Whitest Kids You Know, W.E.C., P.R.B., Weeds, The Office, Californication, hours and hours of Law and Order and C.S.I., Live From Abbey Road, E! News (I'm finding myself increasingly more obsessed with celebrity!), City Of Men, This American Life

Books:

Geek Love, Bomb The Suburbs, The Tipping Point, Sarah, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (anything my boi JT Leroy does is golden!), NME, Lexicon Devil (a killer history of Darby Crash and The Germs!!), World Famous Love Acts , On The Road, Naked Lunch, Master Of The Game.....

Heroes:


My Mom, Darby Crash, Exene Cervenka, Keith Dinnen, Diane Arbus, David Geffen, Thomas Bangalter, Curtis Johnson, Larry Hagman, Brett Gurewitz, Jed The Fish, Slim Moon, Johnny Lydon, Rodney Bingenheimer, Kevin Stapleford, Buddy Arnold, JT Leroy, Ian MacKaye, Lisa Worden, Speed Racer, Thurston Moore, Andy Warhol, Dana Hynes, Bill Silva, Joel Peter Witkin, Mike McCready, Mike Halloran, Pam Wolf, John Peel, Mike Tierney, Stuart Price (Les Rhythm Digitales), Matt Pinfield.

My Blog

Cobain & Madonnas Offspring...

Francis Bean Cobain & Lourdes LeonHoly crap... I am getting really fuckin old!
Posted by Marco Collins on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:00 PST

Arachnid!!

Every once and awhile, life throws you curve balls...I just got out of the emergency room with minor surgery on my stomach. I guess got bitten by a spider, and it turned into a staph infection and gr...
Posted by Marco Collins on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:00:00 PST

Life is about to get real interesting...

Things in my life are about to change real quick. I'm excited. But grounded.In the last week:1. I attended the most amazing charity event for an art collective! 2. I experienced some very comp...
Posted by Marco Collins on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:58:00 PST

An Evening with Saddle Creek...

My buddy, Gary, started Plexifilm years ago and the company has grown in leaps and bounds... He has put out quality independent films and has also focused on independent music as well! He recently h...
Posted by Marco Collins on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:23:00 PST

Streaming the new Sigur Ros CD!

New Sigur Ros will be out next week? It's called "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust"... ummm. yeah, that's what I said.Listen to it here!:...
Posted by Marco Collins on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:03:00 PST

ALRIGHT TOKYO!! ARRRE YOOOU READY?!

This is one of my favorite headlines from my insane life last year... Here's the new SCMX 2008 dates!__________________________May 17th, Atlanta, GA: (Against Me!, Ghostland Observatory, The Su...
Posted by Marco Collins on Tue, 06 May 2008 12:46:00 PST

Robot Rock!

BigDog: The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth!This is taken from the Boston Dynamics website: BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks,...
Posted by Marco Collins on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:42:00 PST

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter StoryI just rediscovered this cult classic on the web. For years, you couldn't get ahold of this video because it was banned. My roommate and I sat around the other ni...
Posted by Marco Collins on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:34:00 PST

Radio is becoming more irrelevant every day...

So, last night I went see Justice at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle and was shocked by the entire experience!I had seen the band in San Diego and was definitely underwhelmed... but last’s night&rsq...
Posted by Marco Collins on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:10:00 PST

Embarrassments: Rising above the grunge

Embarrassments: Rising above the grungeThere’s a 17-year-old boy out there who knows that more than 10 million people own a photo of him naked.Spencer Elden has the mixed blessing of being the N...
Posted by Marco Collins on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:27:00 PST