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Forest

Beneath the paving stones: the beach.

About Me

slightly neurotic, work-a-holic, shut in. ..friend to most animals. some compulsive tendencies ( including but not limited to: list-making, see below)...bad speller. like dirt; like walking, eating, smelling hearing and looking. like words, punctuation, ideas, logic, concepts, sounds and sights. often nervous around people i don't know. try to be politically responsible, recognise much gey area. cherish ernesty, openness and compasion. creative temperament. like bugs and monkeys, and birds etc.. spend much time in kitchen.

My Interests

Dogs in t-shirts, French theory, power tools, Contemporary Art, Lawn Bowling, audio books, dialouge, response, things that go in the mail

I'd like to meet:

hermans' hermits

Music:

Pelican, Weakling, Climax Golden Twins, Evoken, Jesu, Sonic Youth, Jonathan Coleclough, Brian Eno, Isis, Explosions in the Sky, Francisco Lopez, Ken Ikeda, Ryoji Ikeda, Battles, Magnetic Fields, The Residents, Sun, Pavement, 31 Knots, Deerhoof, The Cars, Hawkwind, Sunn 0))), Godhead Silo, Hickey, FMTM, Small Sails, Ethan Rose, Dilute, Okay, June of 44, Thorns LTD., Carsten Nicolai, Minit, Brian Eno, Pimmon, Oren Ambarchi, The Red Scare, Iggy and the Stooges, Smog, Unsane, Unwound, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, The Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Mew, Pan American, Gary Numan, Maserati, Bob Log III, Cattle Decapatation, Swans, Orchid, Eric Satie, Kronos Quartet,

Movies:

Brick, Me and You and Everyone We Know, How to Draw a Bunny, Everything is Illuminated, Dead Man, The Big Lebowski, Brazil, 400 Blows, La Jetee, The Man Without a Past, The Seventh Seal

Television:

c-span, c-span 2, Battlestar Gallactica, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, Rome, Deadwood, The Wire

Books:

"Press Play: contemporary artists in conversation," Jonathan Safron Foer, Sherman Alexie, John Berger, Robert Baer, Mark Kurlansky, Jean Baudrillard- "Screened Out," Beneath the Underdog (Charles Mingus' autobiography), Plato's Republic, Guy Debord's society of the spectacle, SI Anthology, Deleuze, Guatari, Foucault, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder (the Museum of Jurasic Technology is truly one of my favorite places on earth), Cornell West, Zero by Charles Seife, Eric Schlosser's Reefer Madness and Fastfood Nation, Dave Berman's Actual Air, W.B. Yeats, Kafka, Phillip K. Dick, etc.

Heroes:

It isn't right that there is no section to list artists so i'm adding here a list of some of my favorites: Marcel Duchamp, Cai Guo-Qiang, Christian Marclay, Roman Signer, Yoko Ono, On Kawara, Tara Donovan, Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Gerhard Richter, Charles Ray, Robyn O'Niel, Amy Cutler, Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Yayoi Kusama, Yves Kline, Guy Debord, Felice Varini, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Francis Bacon, Gabriel Orozco, Kiki Smith, Jonathan Saffron Foer, Ann Hamilton, Roni Horn, Paul McCarthy, Charles Ray, Chris Ware, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, The Royal Art Lodge ( Marcel Dzama in particular, but they are all totally fucking brilliant!), Neck Face, Taylor McKimens, Kevin Christy, Matt Leines, Damien Hirst, Manuel Ocampo, James Ensor, Dieter Roth, etc......................................................... ..........................

My Blog

DON'T COME UP STAIRS

TO ALL WHO LIVE AT THE SACRAMENTO RANCH: DON'T COME UP STAIRS, I'M NAKED! IT'S HOT......SORRY!
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

sorry about .....

sorry about that last one, it was very late and i was very caffinated. i was also reading all this shit about the C.O.B.R.A. movement and situationist architecture, well, i get a little babbley after...
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

coffee babble from the mouth of the vagina dentada

automatism, a convienient word to explain some of my less gracious behavior. in philosophy it is "The theory that the body is a machine whose functions are accompanied but not controlled by consciousn...
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

coma

i have now painted for close to 40 hours straight. i'm going to go slip into a coma now. see you all in a few months.
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

sleeeeeeep!!!!!

WHY CAN"T I SLEEP!!!!! AT NIGHT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My ex is

fucking stalking me on line. isn't that creepy. she's a little psycho. like one time, she punched me in the throat......oh you already heard that story? I'm sorry, i always do that.
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

oh yeah,

i say oh alot.
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

bomp bomp, bump bump, i've got itch ass in my rump. oh, and i went to the metal store and got a mastadon record, and it is like wow. if anyone hasn't learned already that my journal thingy entries are...
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

shit!

I should be packing, I should be packing,I should be packing,I should be packing,I should be packing,I should be packing,I should be packing,I should be packing,I should be packing,I should be packing...
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Sleep, sleep, i am knee deep in sleep.
Posted by Forest on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST