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John

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About Me

I am an excellent cook. I am a terrible poker player. I would live in Istanbul if I could, with some trips to Paris now and again. I used to live in London, and immigration finally let me back in the country after 4 years. I am otherwise a nice if somewhat confused guy who resembles a baby. Hear my music here: Ichigatsu @ Myspace Music
My paintings are here: J B Artwork
The full Ichigatsu experience: Ichigatsu

My Interests

Books, Anti-capitalism, Anarchism, Linguistics, Music, Making Music, Drawing and Painting, Cooking, Collecting Odd Things, Buying CDs of Failed Performers, Bipolar Disorder, Islam, Turkey, Languages, Dead Languages, Non-Translated Languages (ie, Indus, Kush, etc.), Catholicism, All Asian Foods and Condiments.

I'd like to meet:

people who like talking about language, music, books, good food, bad cookbooks, Lifetime movies (to make fun of them), failed experiments, inventions and crazes, very dreamy, tingly cocteau-ish guitar sounds, Laurie Anderson, Balthus, Istanbul, Medieval European art, Early Christian painting, Late Roman sculpture, African sculpture and novelists, Artists, musicians, writers, non-conformists, anarchists, intelligent thinkers.

Music:

cocteau twins, guitar, bjork, dif juz, morrissey, the creatures, interpol, jesus and mary chain, yo la tengo, savinna yianatou, whale, tricky, blonde redhead, the hope blister, julee cruise, lutoslwaski, faye wong, my bloody valentine, sonic youth, pj harvey, orbital, bim sinclair, this mortal coil, lisa gerrard, dead can dance, pizzicato five, tricky, martina topley-bird, miranda sex garden, siouxsie and the banshees, the smiths, radiohead, sigur ros, massive attack, everything but the girl, psb, gus gus, harold budd, natasha atlas, dj cheb i sebbah, talk talk, plaid, yoshihiro hanno, two lone swordsmen, isan, the beatles, dusty springfield, sarah vaughn, jimi hendrix, robert fripp, it goes on...

Movies:

'Ran' directed by Akira Kurosawa, 'Persona' directed by Ingmar Bergman, 'Stalker' directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 'In Absentia' directed by The Brothers Quay, 'Blackboards' directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, 'Zerkalov' (Mirror) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Television:

Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Books:

'The Homestead Grays', 'The Lost Rebellion' and 'The Sign of Dawn' all by James Wylie, 'Petals of Blood' - wa Thiungo, 'Kitchen' - Banana Yoshimoto, 'The Brothers Karamazov' - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'War and Peace' - Leo Tolstoi, 'Orlando' - Virginia Woolf, 'The Palm Wine Drinkard' - Amos Tutuola, 'Nguru' - Flora Nwapa, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter' - Amy Tan, 'Collected Poems' - Marianne Moore, 'Demons' - Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'Nightwood' - Djuna Barnes, 'Collected Poems' - Anna Ahkmatova, 'The Stranger' - Albert Camus, 'The Theif's Journal' - Jean Genet, 'Waiting for Willa' - Dorothy Eden, 'La Curee' - Emile Zola, 'Therese Raquin' - Emile Zola, 'The House of Mirth' - Edith Wharton, 'Man's Fate' - Andre Malraux, 'The Old Curiosity Shop' - Charles Dickens.

Heroes:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Josephine Baker, Anna Akhmatova, and anyone who has suffered, remained alive, and remembered that life is not hell.

My Blog

HTML re-enabled

Hey All - I disabled html in comments for a while, and a few people complained, so I changed the setting again, and it's enabled.  Leave cool and interesting stuff, tks.
Posted by John on Thu, 17 May 2007 06:21:00 PST

off to France in six days

I have not posted to this blog in quite some time, but in any event.  Next Friday I'll evening I'll be en route to Paris (via Detroit - thanks to Northwest...) - returning will be even more odd, ...
Posted by John on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:47:00 PST