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Sean

Cogito sumere potum alterum

About Me



Autobiography 1: I was born in the industrial decline of Southwestern Pennsylvania, came of drinking age in Texas, married in Pittsburgh and divorced in San Francisco. My spiritual awakening came when I accepted coffee as my personal savior. Autobiography 2: I was born and now I live in San Francisco with a big orange bridge and cable cars that go 'clang clang' down the hill but I find there's room for all of us. Autobiography 3: Once I was born upon a time and it hasn't ended yet, happily. Full story:
SeanChiki.com
dadayama.com
Queen Anne's Revenge

My Interests

Comics,writing,music,beer,victorian novels,servals,the golden age of sail,taxidermy,books,yodeling,model railroads,putting things on top of other things,pookas,archetypal representations of hillbillies

I'd like to meet:

Someone strange enough for me to find interesting and for them to find me tolerable.

Music:

Liszt,John Paul George and Ringo,obnoxious prog rock and modern jazz,the stuff I write,anything that goes good with drugs,Chopin,Beethoven,Coltrane,black metal... um anything really.

Movies:

Scorsese,Lynch,Ken Russell,Kubrick,Bogart,film noir,anything with spaceships or lots of explosions,Tenant, Wicker Man,Chinatown,2001,Dr. Strangelove,anything by Fellini

Television:

Sopranos,Battlestar Galactica,Carnivale,Deadwood,Monty Python,pretty much anything HBO or the BBC puts out,adaptations of Jane Austen or Charles Dickens novels

Books:

Confederacy of Dunces, Kafka, PKD, 19th cent comedies of manners and picaresque melodramas, Joy of Painting by Bob Ross,Flashman,At Swim Two Birds... why are books next to last on this list anyway?

Heroes:

Batman mostly, Spectre, Golden-Age JSA... not much into the Marvel Universe I'm afraid.

My Blog

The Libertines

Chapter three- A Feast at MidnightO'Hare's cab arrived at Queenswood Street shortly after eight o'clock. He was escorted into the sitting room by the Langley's servant Nicholas and found the party all...
Posted by Sean on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 03:30:00 PST

The Libertines

Chapter Two- The Barrow & the Maze We leave the murky avenues of Carrick now and travel east a short distance along the river Clynthe to the Barrow district, to a shop under the sign of Mockby &...
Posted by Sean on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:17:00 PST

The Libertines

Chapter oneThe House on Queenswood Street Look if you will down this street. It is quite dark now. I fear that the murky cloak of night will do nothing to temper your trepidation as we venture forth....
Posted by Sean on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:15:00 PST

Secrets of Heaven and Hell

Interior, Gold Cane, front table facing window looking out on street. Haight Street. I'm still on Haight Street. Shit. Cut to ceiling fan spinning. Fade in sound cue of a chopper's propellers. ...
Posted by Sean on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:25:00 PST

Secrets of Heaven and Hell

T'other day my good friend D_____ accosted me by the elbow and said, "look here, old cock, why haven't you posted any amusing stories on your blog recently? Me and the other chappies from back at the...
Posted by Sean on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:19:00 PST

Secrets of Heaven and Hell

Today I was sworn into the Postal Service. I stood with thirty-some other prospects, all of us with our right hands raised, and took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States from evil-...
Posted by Sean on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:20:00 PST

Posts From the Black Iron Prison

Wednesday, June 6 To here or to there, to tomorrow or yesterday or the day after next but three, to a time when thoughts are pure and not corrupted by the grime of want and feeding frenzy, to a tim...
Posted by Sean on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:49:00 PST

Return of the Secrets of Heaven & Hell

I woke up this morning from strange dreams thinking, of all things, of the Bay City Rollers. You know how dreams can be. I remember the first time I saw the Bay City Rollers. It was the world premier...
Posted by Sean on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 04:55:00 PST

This Business of Death

I've been busy, furiously working on The Flying Duchess... yes furiously... to the neglect of everything else, but I feel the need to post something so here's a little bit of this and that previously ...
Posted by Sean on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:18:00 PST

The Secrets of Heaven & Hell - Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice

I wake up hung over for the second morning in a row. The implications disturb me but I decide it's better just to get on with the day rather than to lie in bed and think about it further. My mouth and...
Posted by Sean on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:13:00 PST