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Stephen

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About Me

Daydream Believer

My Interests

"This filthy train, this filthy office, this rotten Gotham and this roaring rat race are not my real life. My real life is Culture." (T. Wolfe)

I'd like to meet:


"It can only be attributable to human error."
RIP Arthur C Clarke

Music:

don't let the record label take you out to lunch.

Movies:

Old horror movies; old kung fu where the dubbing doesn't match the facial movements; anything even remotely related to science fiction; artsy french flicks in b/w with little-to-no talking; trilogies - star wars, LOTR, the yojimbo series, and kevin smith's first 3 movies. Also, anything by: mel brooks, jan svankmajer, stanley kubrick, akira kurasawa, jeunet and/or caro, jean-luc godard, takashi miike, federico fellini, the brothers quay, the brothers coen, todd solondz, hiyao miyazaki, TROMA!, ian christian blanche, ingmar bergman, brunel, or terry gilliam.

Television:

"Turn off the idiot box,
It's a disease just like the chicken pox"

Books:

"Stap on your journalistic ovaries!"
Transmetropolitan (Ellis)

Set This House in Order (Ruff)
Opera as Drama (Kerman)

Heroes:

Zatoichi, Oscar Wilde, Spider Jerusalem, and of course:

My Blog

Unadulterated Joy

I told a friend of mine a few weeks ago that I was going to go see the (then) upcoming movie Iron Man. Based on what she knew of my normal moviegoing habits and her own lack of knowledge in current me...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:25:00 PST

It has begun

That's right friends, your friend and humble narrator has embarked on yet another chapter of ensuing silliness. The beard that began as a joke has now taken on epic proportions and could easily house ...
Posted by Stephen on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:07:00 PST

If you should need us

For all those concerned, this is the top o' the mark as far as future digs: http://groups.myspace.com/commandcenter I'm making the 'Venusian Vixins' room   What the Critics Have To Say: Later tha...
Posted by Stephen on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:33:00 PST

Missed Connections

You were walking your Siberian-American Husky through the park the other day, and you know how canines are; they like to sniff anything, including each other's butts! Then this guy came up to you and ...
Posted by Stephen on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:10:00 PST

rain-cooled hands

miho hatori is super-neat.
Posted by Stephen on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:04:00 PST

sickly sweet lamentations

saccharine sentiment on rampage. underlying mentalities show like patches on the sleeve. negative eddies permeate my cheeseburger and my mood. the constant aimless running just leads to...
Posted by Stephen on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:43:00 PST

whiskeyed knives

Eating all those catydids had given Celeste cramps. She knew not what to do, for that afternoon she was to meet the bonnie Prince. Billy, her infuriating little brother, was chanting in metric while&n...
Posted by Stephen on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:56:00 PST

Irrefutable proof of my mediocrity

Some day, though, I'll be writing about about Britney Spears' triumphant return to the limelight and then...Lookout World! http://www.performermag.com/wcperf_covr.php...
Posted by Stephen on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:43:00 PST

a marathon by any other name

the light at the end of my tunnel was a many-splendored thing, but it too has passed. Luckily, I like the dark, and have this fashionable spelunking helmet...It turns out Wagner's Ring Cycle is over ...
Posted by Stephen on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:39:00 PST

magic bus

Wake up late (noon),Go to Opera In the Park (1:30-4p) near Waller and StanyanHit up the SF Zinefest at 18th and Bryant (1p-5p)Sprinkle on some burritoes in Dolores ParkTop it off with the season premi...
Posted by Stephen on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:54:00 PST