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Hoichi the Earless

Haven't you heard? It's now hip to be ironic about the very concept of hip.

About Me

Aspiring screenwriter/director (heh heh heh), still doing the entry-level shuffle in the film industry.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: James
Birthday: 10/12/77
Birthplace: San Diego
Current Location: San Diego-- never left the hospital!
Eye Color: blue
Hair Color: blond
Height: 5 ft. 8 in.
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: Norwegian, Irish, British, Welsh
The Shoes You Wore Today: sneakers
Your Weakness: women
Your Fears: death, rejection, poisonous snakes, heights, plywood
Your Perfect Pizza: sausage, mushroom, pepperoni
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: write a screenplay and shop it around
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: haha
Thoughts First Waking Up: alone again... naturally
Your Best Physical Feature: hair, teeth
Your Bedtime: varies now between 1 and 5 AM-- gotta work on making it earlier
Your Most Missed Memory: if it's a missing memory, how can I know what it is to say it here?
Pepsi or Coke: Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: _Mc_Donald's
Single or Group Dates: Single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: not familiar with these brands
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: cappuchino
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: occasionally
Do you Sing: occasionally-- Spandau Ballet's "True" on the car radio always gets me
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes, unfortunately
Do you want to go to College: Done that already, and will _never_ go back for more
Do you want to get Married: who knows
Do you belive in yourself: yes, but unfortunately I'm the only one
Do you get Motion Sickness: on boats and while watching shaky-camera videos
Do you think you are Attractive: sure, but unfortunately I'm the only one
Are you a Health Freak: moderate
Do you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: if I'm safely indoors
Do you play an Instrument: a bit of bass and keyboard
In the past month have you Drank Piss: nope
In the past month have you Smoked: smokin' suckas wit' logic
In the past month have you been on Drugs: sure (including prescriptions)
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Hooker: no; next trip to Nevada
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no; tasty stuff but unhealthy
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: nuh
In the past month have you been on Stage: nee
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: NO
Ever been Drunk: no
Ever been called a Tease: No
Ever been Beaten up: not severely
Ever Shoplifted: unintentionally!
How do you want to Die: not ever
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I'm Up and I'm still trying to make films
What country would you most like to Visit: Morocco
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: blue
Favourite Hair Color: blond
Short or Long Hair: long
Height: I don't have precise height measurements! long as she's not a midget
Weight: not skin and bone, and not obese
Best Clothing Style: short skirt, tight sweater
Number of Drugs I have taken: Have we stopped talking "In a Boy/Girl" here and gone back to me?
Number of CDs I own: several hundred
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: more than a few
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My Interests

Horror and cult films, electronic music, experimental literature (William S. Burroughs and the like), philosophy, art films, psychology, counter-culture topics (sex, drugs, occultism, etc.), friendship, obsessions (romantic especially), survival, beauty, imagination/creation, the pursuit of truth, lesbianism, radical politics of any kind, guinea pigs, coelacanths; making life, not just art, surreal; making life, not just art, pre-Raphaelite.

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests and/or personalities. Eccentrics, intellectuals, anarchists/libertarians, introverts. Old schoolmates. Succubi. Attractive and intelligent women; it helps if you're willing to make the first move. And I'd love to converse with Whit Stillman and Quentin Tarantino. Fred Olen Ray, Jim Wynorski and David DeCoteau. Also Aimee Graham, wherever she may be. Heather Graham I wouldn't mind either.

Music:

Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Devo, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Japan, Joy Division, Donna Summer, Talking Heads, The Police, Peter Gabriel, ABBA, Rolling Stones, Pentangle, Can, Neu!, SPK, Cerrone, Comsat Angels, Psychic TV, Soft Cell, Wire, Giorgio Moroder, Gang of Four, Killing Joke, Gary Numan, Genesis, Snuff TV, David Bowie, Magazine, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Bill Haley and His Comets, Dead Can Dance, The JAMS/KLF, Velvet Underground, Popol Vuh, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, J.S. Bach, Bizet, Ravel, J. Strauss, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, NUGGETS compilations, STREET JAMS: ELECTRIC FUNK compilations, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Master Musicians of Jajouka

Movies:

Drugstore Cowboy, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Videodrome, Blue Velvet, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Shivers, The Evil Dead, Lolita (1962), Wild at Heart, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Contempt, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Mean Streets, Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead, Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Scorpio Rising, Lucifer Rising, Eaux d'Artifice, Un Chien Andalou, The Tingler, Suspiria, Inferno (1980), The Decline of Western Civilization, Jackie Brown, Heavy Metal, My Own Private Idaho, Easy Rider, The Trip, Nightmare Sisters, Halloween (1978), Halloween II, The Exorcist, Dimensions of Dialogue, The Tenant, Ms. 45, Dirty Harry, La Dolce Vita, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Tommy, Altered States, Boogie Nights, Phantasm, Fists of Fury, The Conformist, Barbarella, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, American Graffiti, Blood Simple, The Warriors, Massacre at Central High, Murmur of the Heart, Pretty Baby, Psycho (1960), Up in Smoke, Claire's Knee, River's Edge, Over the Edge, The Virgin Spring, Don't Look Now, Duck Soup, Five Easy Pieces, Fellini Satyricon, Towers Open Fire, The Cut Ups, Beau Pere, Hollywood Boulevard, Death in Venice, Bonnie and Clyde, The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Rabid, The Brood, Cries and Whispers, Sirens, Deliverance, The Wicker Man (1973), The Vampire Lovers, Desert Hearts, Maedchen in Uniform, Death Race 2000, Eating Raoul, The Big Doll House, Sweet Sugar, Pets, Terminal Island, Anarchism in America, Breathless (1960), Sweet Movie, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Night Tide, The Graduate, The Silent Partner, Meshes of the Afternoon, Devo and Peter Gabriel music videos

Television:

Twin Peaks, The L Word, SCTV, The Twilight Zone (original), The Young Ones, The Prisoner, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office (US; haven't seen British version yet), Mystery Science Theater 3000, Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers, Weeds, Arrested Development, Police Squad!, The Kids in the Hall, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Saturday Night Live (1970s), Tales from the Darkside, Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, The South Bank Show, Soul Train, Da Ali G Show

Books:

William S. Burroughs NAKED LUNCH; THE WILD BOYS, George Orwell 1984, Georges Bataille STORY OF THE EYE, Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford SLEAZOID EXPRESS; ANGER, John Waters SHOCK VALUE; CRACKPOT, Jack Gelber THE CONNECTION, Vladimir Nabokov LOLITA, Jean de Berg THE IMAGE, Mark Leyner MY COUSIN, MY GASTROENTEROLOGIST, Ayn Rand THE FOUNTAINHEAD, J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Ira H. Robbins THE TROUSER PRESS RECORD GUIDE, Kim Newman NIGHTMARE MOVIES, Mikhail Bakunin GOD AND THE STATE, Murray Rothbard EGALITARIANISM AS A REVOLT AGAINST NATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS, NOSTRIL magazine, Amos Vogel FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART, Charles Bukowski POST OFFICE, Aleister Crowley (or is it Aiwass?) THE BOOK OF THE LAW, Robert Anton Wilson COSMIC TRIGGER VOL. 1, Jean Genet FUNERAL RITES; THE BALCONY, Robert A. Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, Lars Ullerstam THE EROTIC MINORITIES, Danny Peary CULT MOVIES; CULT MOVIES 2; CULT MOVIES 3, RE/Search Publications INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILMS; WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS/BRION GYSIN/THROBBING GRISTLE; INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK; SEARCH AND DESTROY magazine reprints

Heroes:

Whatever happened to the heroes? Roland Pericles, Samuel Edward Konkin III, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Sokal, Stanley Kubrick, Wendy McElroy, Roger Corman, Voltairine de Cleyre, The Swedish Chef, Sailor and Lula, Timothy Leary, Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford, The Man with No Name, Susie Bright, Susan Sontag. Aside from that, no more heroes anymore.

My Blog

Guest Blogger Emma Goldman weighs in!

For Valentine's Day, I thought I'd have a posthumous guest blog by early 20th-century anarchist/socialist/feminist Emma Goldman, on jealousy, the dark side of "love" as it is practiced today (as well ...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:18:00 PST

The Devil Finds Work

Finally have my first regularly-paying gig, ever.  It's at Perelandra College in Lemon Grove; an online college that teaches counseling and creative writing with a Christian slant.  (I'm not...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:17:00 PST

Please leave, you are nauseating my fish

Today I found myself in rather amusing circumstances: I had rented Entrails of a Virgin (I've been watching lots of "shocking" Japanese stuff lately), and found out that the DVD I was given was actual...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:51:00 PST

60 Days of Grindhouse at New Beverly Cinema Hollywood

If ya haven't heard, Quentin Tarantino (also Robert Rodriguez, some sources say) is putting on a two-month festival of grindhouse classics at the New Beverly Cinema in Hollywood.  That's a 2-3 ho...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:57:00 PST

Covered in larvae for the last 5 hours

Looks like I'm not the first to come up with the "romantically privileged/romantic underclass" concept.  Found this quote in the February RE/Search Publications newsletter: "In societies like our...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:02:00 PST

Link to my movie reviews

I think this is the only MySpace place where I'm sure how to post links, so I'll post one: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0243282/comments This one is to the movie reviews I've put up at IMDB.  I'll...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:11:00 PST

All right, damn it, I'll _take_ the kids ice skating! But you _owe_ me!

Heard a few songs recently that set my brain off on the topic of relations between the sexes, but you readers know that topic's never far from my mind anyway.  (Not the first time I've heard thes...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:12:00 PST

He makes every cab driver his bitch

Got invited to be a "groomsman" at my cousin's wedding in July.  Kind of a weird task for me, given my current cynicism and despair about romance.  My cousin was a close friend of mine until...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 02:07:00 PST

The occasions when our favorite nuns stop levitating

Time for some light diversion.  I am a compulsive list-maker, and I thought I'd share one of my many lists: my top 10 favorite films from the year of my birth, 1977.  Fellow children of...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:10:00 PST

Lesbian Disco Orgy Impassively Observed by Mechanical Tweetybirds

A quote from Camille Paglia on female sexuality, which I read back in 1997 and still never strays far from my mind: "A major failing of most feminist ideology is its dumb, ungenerous stereotyping of m...
Posted by Hoichi the Earless on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:31:00 PST