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m. van tryke

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About Me

[See next section below for FREE ART offer.] Neosurrreal artist - displayed at the legendary 23 Studio in NoDa from '92 to '02; have art in Paris, San Francisco, New York City, Asheville, Charlotte, Wilmington (NC); creative and technical writer; mushroom forager; Blue Rige Mtn. hiker; My keywords (in no particular order of importance):fog, mountains, mushrooms (most types), extra-spatial brownies, excursions, art, jazz, ambient, neosurreal, celestial, groove, wig-out, wonder, wander, cave, crevice, casket, cliff, balloon, waterfall, glade, grave, rill, thrill, spring, sproing, autumn, tulips, bicycling, hiking, pausing, co-existence, evanescence, sixty-nine, naptime, runaway, float-away, death, life, love, waxing, waning, rising, falling, yawning, laughing, fading, forgetting, remembering, craving, fasting, taoism, zentience, ripples, stillwater, quiet, dusk, twilight, stars, moon, overcast, smile, grin, sigh, and then the fog returns ... hey, where'd ya go? UPDATE: My art can now be seen in tangible reality at Parkview Cafe, 5821 Fairview Road, Charlotte, NC.

My Interests



Layout Graphics Weird Comment Images

Myspace Layouts Graphics TOP SITE
optical illusions (real and imagined; say, do you see the beans above waving like a flag? keep staring!), strange/bizarre art (you can see my art in my pics), Asheville junkets; old East Charlotte, cycling greenways, Pisgah & Uwharrie National Forests, Morrow Mtn., Crowders Mtn., Kings Mtn., Amsterdam in the spring, European train rides (TGV on THC), outer space, inner space, the American Southwest (deserts), the American Southeast (lush forests), San Francisco on weekdays, the Golden Gate Bridge at 5 PM as the fog rolls in, great grey days, kewl coffeehouses, cool-air hikes, lighthouses (would love to live in one), fungal fantasies

I'd like to meet:

People who are interested in getting my neosurreal ART for FREE. Here's how my FREE ART offer works:First, select a piece of ART from the pics and send a message to the artist, m. van tryke, stating which piece you want. Pickup or shipping details can be worked out via e-mail.Second, post this bulletin:title: FREE ART! text: I'm getting a piece of original neosurreal ART by m. van tryke for FREE! And you can, too! Just go to myspace.com/mvantryke and read the instructions in the "Who I'd Like to Meet" section of the profile.Thanks so much!

Music:

jazz, art rock, smart pop, psychedelic, soul, reggae, ethereal, Spaghetti Western film music (Morricone), incidental/instrumental, Rota, Lai, Durutti Column, Rain Parade, 10cc, Yes, C. Mayfield, M. Gaye, ELP, Pink Floyd, P. and M. Metheny, Lyle Mays, Rodby, K. Chahine, some ambient, some classical (Satie, Ravel, Mussorgsky, Chopin), some spacy music, even some dance music if intelligent (or is that an oxymoron?)

Movies:

Un Homme et une Femme, Crumb, Ghost World, Fantastic Planet, Cinema Paradiso, Brazil, Head, Last Tango in Paris, Amelie, Napolean Dynamite, A Fistfull of Dynamite and all the other Spaghetti Westerns for the most part, More (that Pink Floyd-soundtracked movie), Easy Rider, most Fellini flicks, especially 8.5; but really, I don't go out to see many first-run movies (I'm too cheap! ha-ha)

Television:

History Channel (so I can know what will be repeated), A&E documentaries, Adult Swim on Comedy Central (my son likes Family Guy), Real Time with Bill Maher and Real Sex (when I'm in an HBO zone), the Weather Channel (when I don't want to think, ha-ha), AMC (Film Noir), National Geographic Channel (the secret sex life of ants, lol), some ESPN (but not a jock), local public access channel in any town; moreover, I really don't watch sitcoms or weekly series unless I'm with someone who likes watching them. Then I tend to talk over them, and invent "better" dialogue for the characters. lol.

Books:

with maps! yes, love to stare at those maps for hours (spatially resigned, the soon-to-be-ex-wife would say.) Also most titles by Proust, Twain, Carroll, Vonnegut, Brautigan, Rand-McNally, Leary, Beckett, Huxley, Castaneda, Lilly, H. S. Thompson, LaForgue, Kesey, Ram Dass, Kerouac, Ferlinghetti, Bukowski, and other fringe authors. Hey, why isn't there an "Art" section?

Heroes:

no current politician

My Blog

Two crap lawyers

Two "bad news" attorneys in Charlotte : 1. Tamela "lying pays nicely" Wallace. Never could quite pass that ethics class. Got a degree-on-a-roll from the University of Charmin. 2. M...
Posted by m. van tryke on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:14:00 PST

gourmet pet food

American pets eat better than most of the humans on this oblate spheroid. (Nothing against pets - I’m a dog lover.)
Posted by m. van tryke on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:20:00 PST

economy

How to save the economy: 1. Keep buying unnecessary stuff; don't stop now. 2. Pay the minimum amounts on your credit card bills. 3. Drive 10%  more miles than you did last week. 4. Eat out a...
Posted by m. van tryke on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:39:00 PST

bumper sticker idea

I'm thinking of having a custom bumper sticker made to go on the back of my car. It will be black text on a white background for high contrast (easily legible). Here's what it will ask:   &n...
Posted by m. van tryke on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:13:00 PST

last name defined

What does my last name mean? Find out here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bozart See, your suspicions were right all along! lol.  ...
Posted by m. van tryke on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:07:00 PST

Pick-up line

You see a cute Asian barista at the coffee shop. You go up to her. You casually ask: "Do you come here often?" If she grins, you're in; if she pouts, you're out.  
Posted by m. van tryke on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:14:00 PST

This great Earth-life

The best thing about this physical life on Earth is that: __ a) It ends. __ b) It never ends. __ c) Both a & b __ d) Neither a nor b
Posted by m. van tryke on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:24:00 PST

asteroid - hoping

I keep hoping ... for a large asteroid.
Posted by m. van tryke on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:12:00 PST

Funny thing

A funny thing happened on the way to the morgue. This was the opening line ... and the closer. lol  
Posted by m. van tryke on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:43:00 PST

Fortune Cookies

Today's "fortune" from Panda Express (gosh, I love their kung pao chicken!) on South Blvd. @ Seneca Place: Don't be afraid to take that big step. I wrote under it: Just make sure the cliff is high e...
Posted by m. van tryke on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:25:00 PST